Radial Velocity
Discovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet
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The Discovery A huge planet with a long name – IRAS 04125+2902 b – is really just a baby: only…
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Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’
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The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet,…
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Radial Velocity
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Orbiting planets cause stars to wobble in space, changing the color of the light astronomers observe.
Is Earth an Oddball?
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One of the strangest things in the cosmos might be – us. Among the thousands of planets confirmed to be…
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The Planet Hunter and the ‘Unseen Giant’
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It was March 1988, and astronomer David Latham was working into the night, puzzling over an odd result from an…
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