Tag Archives: Extrasolar planet

Scientists Unlock Riddle Behind Kepler-34b Planet Orbiting Two Stars

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Over the past few years, astronomers have discovered several planets that are circumbinary. That is, they are planets that actually orbit two stars. Just like Tatooine in the Star Wars...

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...
    






ExoPlanet Covered With Clouds Detected in Outer Space

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Planets midway between the size of our home, Earth and Neptune, are ideal for supporting life (if it exists in outer space). This has been proved by transmission spectroscopy. The planet GJ1214b is a...
    






Kepler-62f and Kepler-62e Discovered the Most Earth-Like Alien Planet

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NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered about three exoplanets which will allow to sustain life, as well as at least one could very well be by far the most Earth-like alien world discovered up...