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Scientists have recently discovered an exoplanet that is approximately 1,500 light years away. The exoplanet, though, will soon evaporate and turn into dust because it is orbiting quite close to its parent star.
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An international team of scientists has discovered a new super-earth located 22 light years away. The planet is a member of a triple-star system, consists of an orbital period of 28 days and has a minimum mass 4.5 times that of the Earth.
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Astronomers using a telescope in Chile have discovered the first planet that originated from outside our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a distant planet with a "warm spot in the wrong place".
The gas giant planet, named upsilon Andromedae b, orbits tightly around its star, with one face perpetually facing the star.
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In March, 2010, the first planet outside of our solar system with temperatures comparable to Earth was discovered. The planet, Corot-9b, is the satellite of a star in the constellation Serpens.
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The discovery of the lightest exoplanet – a planet beyond the solar system, orbiting a star other than the sun – has been announced by lead researcher Michel Mayor at the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Research carried out by a University of Edinburgh scientist estimates that there are at least 361 intelligent civilisations in our Galaxy with the possibility that there may be as many as 38,000.
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found that the hottest part of a distant planet, named upsilon Andromedae b, is not under the glare of its host star as might be expected.
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