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HARPS finds a batch of 50+ new exoplanets

News: Exogenous Life    September 12, 2011
Punch up the numbers, add more than fifty planets to the count of those that potentially could harbor life, bringing the total almost to 700. These new exoplanets were discovered by the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The announcement, at the Extreme Solar System conference in [...]
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Another Earth? Will we even remember the planet GJ1214b?

News: Exogenous Life    December 17, 2009
We will (or should) remember the planet GJ1214b if it is, in fact, the first planet we have discovered outside of our solar system to definitely have water. Is it an ‘Earth-like’ planet? No, not really. It has been measured as 2.7 times the size of Earth and 6.5 times the mass. That makes it [...]
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