Extrasolar Planets
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…
First Picture of Likely Planet Around a Sun-Like Star
[/caption] Astronomers have unveiled what is likely the first picture of a planet around a normal star similar to the…
Oops, TW Hydrae b Isn’t a Planet; Just a Sunspot
[/caption] You gotta love this about science; someone is always checking your work. Early this year a new exoplanet discovery…
New Technique Expands View of Young Exo-Planetary Systems
Using a new technique with a near-infrared spectrograph attached to ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have been able to study…