Four new short-period giant planets discovered... (Phys.org)Astronomers have detected four new giant exoplanets as part of the Hungarian-made Automated Telescope Network-South (HATSouth) exoplanet survey. The newly found alien worlds are about the size of Jupiter, but less massive. They transit moderatel
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ceres on 2017-07-26 17:07 UTC, Edited: 2017-07-26 17:10 UTC
First discovery of an exoplanet with SPHERE/VLT... An international team of astronomers, including members of the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, discovered an exoplanet by direct imaging using SPHERE, an instrument designed and developed by a consortium of 12 European institutes on the Very La
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ceres on 2017-07-06 23:31 UTC