A harvest of low-mass exoplanets discovered with HARPS
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 09:14
in Astronomy & Space
Today, at an international conference, a team of European astronomers announced a remarkable breakthrough in the field of extra-solar planets. Using the HARPS instrument at the ESO La Silla Observatory, they have found a triple system of super-Earths around the star HD 40307...
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