Thursday, July 1, 2010

A New Exoplanet — with Pictures to Prove It


June 30, 2010 - Time.com
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Its searing temperature is in fact the only reason astronomers could see the planet in the first place. It's also why they decided to point the giant Gemini telescope, located atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, at the Upper Scorpius Association. What sounds vaguely like a British football team is actually a nursery of young stars, and the scientists concentrated on 85 of the Upper Scorpius newborns...
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