Hubble Finds Hidden Exoplanet in Archival Data

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 08:35 in Astronomy & Space

David Lafreniere of the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, has successfully demonstrated this new strategy for planet hunting by identifying an exoplanet that went undetected in Hubble images taken in 1998 with its Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).

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