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On August 24, 2016 an international team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé (Queen Mary University of London) announced the discovery of Proxima Centauri b – […]
While the flood of exoplanetary discoveries from NASA’s Kepler program has dominated headlines in recent years, there are a host of lesser known programs which have […]
The year 2017 has certainly been turning out to be a busy one for the discovery of extrasolar planets orbiting nearby stars. This should not be […]
Usually NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is associated with making observations of incredibly dim objects frequently hundreds of millions or even billions of light years away. […]
While stories of exoplanet discoveries made by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have dominated the media in recent years, there are many other surveys for extrasolar planets taking […]
In recent years, the media has been filled with news about the thousands of extrasolar planets found by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft as it monitors the brightness […]
While NASA’s recent announcement of the discovery of seven Earth-size exoplanets found orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star known as TRAPPIST-1 was exciting enough, the fact […]
When hearing claims about the potential habitability of newly discovered exoplanets, the old adage “if it seems too good to be true, it probably is not […]
Before the flood of discoveries resulting from NASA’s Kepler mission, the majority of extrasolar planets were found by analyzing precision radial velocity measurements of stars. Periodic […]
Announcements about the discovery of habitable extrasolar planets have regularly dominated the news from the astronomical community over the last several years. This naturally reflects the […]
The small red dwarf star Proxima Centauri has been in the news quite a bit because of the discovery of an Earth-size planet, designated Proxima Centauri […]
The nearby star system of α Centauri, with its pair of Sun-like stars 4.37 light years away and a distant red dwarf companion, for decades has […]
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