Tag Archives: Methods of detecting extrasolar planets

NASA Unveils New Exoplanet Kepler-452b

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Has NASA found another earth? This question hounds space fans since early this week when NASA announced a media event to talk about new Kepler Space Telescope discoveries.The telescope's mission is...

Did NASA Find a New Earth?

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Update: NASA found Super Earth Kepler-452b.Has NASA found another earth? An announcement for a media event on Thursday contains hints to believe that.NASA will announce new discoveries of the Kepler...

Jupiter Twin Discovered Orbiting Sun Like Star in Solar Twin

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A bunch of astronomers have employed a special telescope to take images of a planet that resembles our own Jupiter. And the odd thing is that the star it is revolving around in an elliptical fashion...

Astronomers Find A Planet That Wobbles Like A Top

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Newly discovered planet Kepler-413b is about 2,300 light years from Earth. It circles its two suns – an orange and red dwarf – every 66 days. It’s a gas giant that’s larger than the planet Neptune It...

On The Hunt For The Very Closest Alien Earths

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Awash in a sea of long-lived stellar Red dwarfs, our own sun seems to be somewhat of a local anomaly. Until recently, detecting these faint M-spectral type stars — much less their potential...