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NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered more than 100 confirmed planets orbiting distant stars. Via Guillaume Decugis 
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A red giant star named BD+ 48 740, consumed a rocky world according to observations made by the 9.2 meter Hobby-Eberly Telescope. High amounts of lithium contained in the red giant tell this tale of planetary destruction.
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Kepler has discovered binary stars before, including four with their own single orbiting planet, but it's the first time a "circumbinary system" has been detected that contains two planets
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In a first, a NASA infrared telescope spotted light from the alien planet 55 Cancri e, which orbits a star 41 light-years from Earth. Articles about EXOPLANETS : http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=exoplanets
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Researchers say life-bearing planets may exist in vast numbers in the space between stars in the Milky Way. EXOPLANETS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=exoplanets
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Using ground and space-based telescopes, astronomers have measured infrared light emitted from the planet 55 Cancri e, which revolves around its parent star in the constellation Cancer some 40 light years away
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The two alien worlds have far-out orbits around the star Fomalhaut, begging the question as to how the heck they got there. ...
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An Earth-like planet in the 'Goldilocks zone', i.e. at the right distance from its star to support life, will likely be found in the next two years, say NASA scientists.
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Scientists now have evidence that Jupiter's core has been dissolving, and the implications stretch far outside of our solar system.
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Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have come up with a new class of planet, a waterworld enshrouded by a thick, steamy atmosphere. It’s smaller than Uranus but larger than Earth.
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Some otherwise habitable planets might have their water stripped away by gravity, scientists say.
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An international team of scientists led by Carnegie's Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Paul Butler has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star.
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When you look up at a starry sky, nearly every star you see has a planetary system, astronomers announced today.
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Astronomers have discovered a new super-Earth in the habitable zone, where liquid water and a stable atmosphere could reside, around the nearby star HD 40307. It is one of three new super-Earths found around the star that has three other low-mass planets orbiting it.
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Dubbed GJ676A, the system has two rocky planets orbiting close to its host star, and two gas giants orbiting far away. This means the system is arranged like our system—though in GJ676A, everything is much larger. For instance, the smallest rocky planet in GJ676A is at least four times the mass of Earth, while the largest gas giant is five times the size of Jupiter.
Other multiple-planet systems have been discovered, such as HD10180, which has been called the richest exoplanetary find ever because of the seven to nine planets orbiting its host star. Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald
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Astronomers will witness a transit of a distant Exo-planet around it's sun about the same time Venus transits our Sun. EXOPLANETS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=exoplanets
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The SuperWASP cameras are hunting distant exoplanets - planets orbiting distant stars.
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Robert Hunt, an imaging scientist at Spitzer Science Center, explains how the Spitzer Space Telescope captured the infrared light of an alien super-Earth. ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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Exo is a visualization tool for exploring the nearly 2,300 exoplanet candidates that have been so far identified by NASA's Kepler mission. http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669702/explore-the-galaxy-using-the-actual-minority-report-interface Articles about EXOPLANETS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=exoplanets
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New scientific research raises the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs — monstrous creatures with the intelligence and cunning of humans — may be the life forms that evolved on other planets in the universe.
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Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s HARPS telescope have studied over 100 nearby red dwarf stars over the last six years. 40 percent of these common stars were observed to wobble, a reaction caused by the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet. Based on this small sample, the astronomers crunched the numbers, and extrapolated the results to cover our entire Galaxy. In other words, instead of guessing, we can calculate that there are 10 billion potentially habitable planets in our Galaxy.
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An international team of researchers, with the participation of IAC astronomers, has discovered that the chemical structure of Earth-like planets can be very different from the bulk composition of the Earth.
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Kepler is the first NASA mission able to discover planets the size of Earth—and smaller—that are orbiting other stars. Kepler has discovered 11 solar systems and 26 planets, ranging from the size of Earth to larger than Jupiter.
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Trace elements in such stars may influence their habitable zones, where planets with life could dwell.
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Watch them orbit on scale and sort them by size: great job by the nytimes!
Nice interactive infographic, check it out an learn more...