The hunt for habitable planets

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Bericht 05-12-'08, 20:22

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The hunt for habitable planets

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id...bitable_Planets


Here and now, a new suite of small telescopes are poised to look for Earthlike planets beyond the solar system


For years, planet hunters have been preoccupied with hot Jupiters—giant, gaseous planets that tightly hug their sunlike parent stars. These massive, close-in planets, not yet directly seen, are the easiest to find because they induce the largest wobble in the motion of the stars they orbit.
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