Extrasolar Planets
Carbon Dioxide Detected on Exoplanet HD 189733b
[/caption]The Hubble Space Telescope has detected carbon dioxide on a planet orbiting another star. The star in question is HD…
Students Find Exoplanet
[/caption] Three undergraduate students doing a research project discovered an extrasolar planet. The planet is about five times as massive…
Another Direct Image of an Exoplanet?
[/caption] Have the floodgates opened for imaging exoplanets?! A team of French astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have discovered…
Hubble Takes First Visible Light Image of Extrasolar Planet
[/caption] Persistence has paid off for astronomer Paul Kalas. After eight years and taking repeated photographs with the Hubble Space…
First Image of Another Multi-Planet Solar System
Here's what we've all been waiting for: for the first time, astronomers have taken pictures of a multi-planet solar system,…
Spock’s Solar System Looks Like Ours
[/caption] Back in 2000, astronomers discovered a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting the nearby star Epsilon Eridani. Since that star system is…
Hottest Ever Exoplanet Discovered: WASP-12b
[/caption] Planets approximately the size of Jupiter orbiting close to their star in other systems are often referred to as…
Dust Could Point Out Earth-like Exoplanets
[/caption] The current exoplanet count -- the number of planets astronomers have found orbiting other stars --stands at 312. That's…
Messages From Earth Beamed to Alien World
[/caption] The powerful opening scene of the movie "Contact" portrays radio and television signals from Earth heading out into space.…
Dusty Disk Evidence of Planetary Collision
[/caption] What astronomers had expected to be a run-of-the-mill protoplanetary disk turned out to be evidence of a much more…