New technique could find water on Earth-like planets orbiting distant suns
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 - 07:49
in Astronomy & Space
Since the early 1990s astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting stars other than our sun, nearly all of them gas giants like Jupiter. Powerful space telescopes, such as the one that is central to NASA's recently launched Kepler Mission, will make it easier to spot much smaller rocky extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, more similar to Earth...
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