Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Scope finds planet orbiting sunlike star

September 16, 2008 - Honolulu Star Bulletin
For the first time ever, astronomers using the Gemini North Telescope on Mauna Kea have taken a picture of what likely is a planet circling a star similar to our sun.
Discovered by astronomers from the University of Toronto, the planet is nothing like Earth and only moderately like our solar system's Jupiter.
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