Towards Other Earths: 32 New Exoplanets Found
Monday, October 19, 2009 - 10:14
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers are reporting the incredible discovery of some 32 new exoplanets, using the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS -- the spectrograph of the European Southern Observatory's 3.6-meter telescope. The result increases the number of known low-mass planets by an impressive 30 percent.