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Third-closest star system discovered
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post Jan 30 2014, 08:22 PM
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QUOTE (john_s @ Jan 30 2014, 04:14 PM) *
I bet the north-south elongation of the features near the equator is just an artifact of the technique- they probably just can't discriminate latitudes near the equator.

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Yes, you can see the same effect when they use the method on simulated data of a planet with spots in the Supplementary Material.
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