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Earthlike Exoplanets Are All Around Us

February 6, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Artist’s impression of a rocky planet orbiting a red dwarf. Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA) We may literally be surrounded by potentially habitable exoplanets, according to new research by a team from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Using data gathered by NASA’s exoplanet-hunting [...]

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Closely-Orbiting Stellar Companions Surrounded by “Mystery Dust”

November 14, 2012

Artist’s concept showing a dust disk around a binary system containing a white dwarf and a less-massive M (red) dwarf companion. (P. Marenfeld and NOAO/AURA/NSF) Even though NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft — aka WISE — ran out of coolant in October 2010, bringing its infrared survey mission to an end, the data that it [...]

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Red Dwarf Discovery Changes Everything!

December 1, 2010

Its often said that the number of grains of sand on Earth equals the number of stars in the Universe. Well it looks like a recent study by astronomers working at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii have found that its more like three times the number of grains of sand on Earth! Working with some [...]

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Proxima Centauri

March 19, 2010

As the nearest star from our Solar System, Proxima Centauri is a prime candidate for future interstellar travel and space colonization missions. In the meantime, scientists are trying to determine whether this star has super Earths orbiting within its habitable zone. Habitable zones are regions around a star where planets are believed to receive just [...]

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