News About Extra Solar Planets 16-MAY-08 en-us Huntsville AL (SPX) May 12, 2008 - You know the planets of our solar system, each a unique world with its own distinctive appearance, size, and chemistry. Mars, with its bitter-cold, rusty red sands; Venus, a fiery world shrouded in thick clouds of sulfuric acid; sideways Uranus and its strange vertical rings. The variety is breathtaking.]]> ]]> Konstanz, Germany (SPX) May 09, 2008 - Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an ultrafast laser that offers a record combination of high speed, short pulses and high average power.]]> Paris, France (ESA) Apr 28, 2008 - An expert advisory team has been appointed by ESA with the purpose of advising the Agency on the best scientific and technological roadmap to pursue in order to address one of the most exciting goals in modern astrophysics: the characterization of terrestrial exo-planets (up to the possible detection of biomarkers).]]> Erie PA (SPX) Apr 25, 2008 - Astronomers are looking to identify Earth-like watery worlds circling distant stars from a glint of light seen through an optical space telescope and a mathematical method developed by researchers at Penn State and the University of Hawaii.]]> ]]> Paris, France (SPX) Apr 16, 2008 - By studying in great detail the 'ringing' of a planet-harbouring star, a team of astronomers using ESO's 3.6-m telescope have shown that it must have drifted away from the metal-rich Hyades cluster. This discovery has implications for theories of star and planet formation, and for the dynamics of our Milky Way.]]> London, UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2008 - Spanish and UCL (University College London) scientists have discovered a possible terrestrial-type planet orbiting a star in the constellation of Leo. The new planet, which lies at a distance of 30 light years from the Earth, has a mass five times that of our planet but is the smallest found to date. One full day on the new planet would be equivalent to three weeks on Earth.]]> Cambridge MA (SPX) Apr 08, 2008 - The leading method of finding planets orbiting distant stars spots mostly Jupiter-sized worlds. Technology limitations make it difficult to detect smaller planets. But that is about to change. A revolutionary laser technology being developed by scientists and engineers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), with colleagues at MIT, will enable scientists to spot Earth-sized worlds in Earth-like orbits.]]> ]]> Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2008 - An international team of astronomers has found 10 new "extra solar" planets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun. The team used a system of robotic cameras that yield a great deal of information about these other worlds, some of which are quite exotic. The system is expected to revolutionize scientific understanding of how planets form.]]> Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 27, 2008 - MIT scientists are designing a satellite-based observatory that they say could for the first time provide a sensitive survey of the entire sky to search for planets outside the solar system that appear to cross in front of bright stars. The system could rapidly discover hundreds of planets similar to the Earth.]]> Moffet Field CA (SPX) Mar 25, 2008 - In the past decade, astronomers have found more than 250 planets orbiting distant stars. Most of these have been giant planets, the size of Saturn or Jupiter, or larger. A few have been Neptune-size. No-one, however, has yet found the holy grail of extrasolar planets: an Earth-size planet with an Earth-like orbit around a sun-like star.]]> ]]> ]]> Paris (ESA) March 19, 2008 - Astronomers on Wednesday announced they had detected methane in the atmosphere of a planet 63 light years away, boosting prospects for identifying any life that exists beyond our Solar System.]]> Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 16, 2008 - Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered large amounts of simple organic gases and water vapor in a possible planet-forming region around an infant star, along with evidence that these molecules were created there. They've also found water in the same zone around two other young stars.]]> Rochester NY (SPX) Mar 13, 2008 - Astronomers at the University of Rochester, home to one of the world's largest groups of planetary nebulae specialists, have announced that low-mass stars and possibly even super-Jupiter-sized planets may be responsible for creating some of the most breathtaking objects in the sky.]]> Advertise in this newsletter or website click for advertising kit - PDF File

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