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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Telescopic Observations _ Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet in Archival Data

Posted by: lyford Apr 4 2009, 03:04 AM

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/15/

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In 19 years of observations, the Hubble Space Telescope has amassed a huge archive of data. That archive may contain the telltale glow of undiscovered extrasolar planets, says David Lafrenière of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His team found the outermost of three massive planets known to orbit the young star HR 8799, which is 130 light-years away.


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