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Kepler-16b
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Tatooine-Like Planet Discovered Although cold and gaseous rather than a desert world, the newfound planet Kepler-16b is still the closest astronomers have come to discovering Luke Skywalker's home world of Tatooine. Like Tatooine, Kepler-16b enjoys a double sunset as it circles a pair of stars...
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HD 168443
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SF State astronomers discover new planet in Pisces Constellation A team led by SF State astronomer Stephen Kane has discovered a new giant planet located in a star system within the Pisces constellation. The planet, perhaps twice the mass of Jupiter, could help researchers learn more about how ext...
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KOI-314c
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Newfound Planet is Earth-mass But Gassy An international team of astronomers has discovered the first Earth-mass planet that transits, or crosses in front of, its host star. KOI-314c is the lightest planet to have both its mass and physical size measured. Surprisingly, although the planet weigh...
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NN Serpentis
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University of Texas Students, Telescopes Help Discover Planets Around Elderly Binary Star An international consortium of astronomers, including undergraduate and graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin, have discovered a planetary system consisting of at least two massive Ju...
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MOA-2011-BLG-262
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Title: A Sub-Earth-Mass Moon Orbiting a Gas Giant Primary or a High Velocity Planetary System in the Galactic Bulge Author: D.P. Bennett, V. Batista, I.A. Bond, C.S. Bennett, D. Suzuki, J.-P. Beaulieu, A. Udalski, J. Donatowicz, F. Abe, C.S. Botzler, M. Freeman, D. Fukunaga, A. Fukui, Y. Itow, N. K...
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WASP-68 b, WASP-73 b and WASP-88 b
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Title: Transiting planets from WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-68 b, WASP-73 b and WASP-88 b, three hot Jupiters transiting evolved solar-type stars Author: L. Delrez, V. Van Grootel, D. R. Anderson, A. Collier-Cameron, A. P. Doyle, A. Fumel, M. Gillon, C. Hellier, E. Jehin, M. Lendl, M. Nev...
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Kepler 78b
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MIT team discovers an exoplanet that orbits its star in 8.5 hours Researchers at MIT have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet named Kepler 78b that whips around its host star in a mere 8.5 hours - one of the shortest orbital periods ever detected. The planet is extremely close to its star - its orbital...
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HD 40307 is an orange (K-type) main sequence star located approximately 42 light-years away in the constellation of Pictor (the Easel), taking its primary name from its Henry Draper Catalogue designation. It is calculated to be slightly less massive than the Sun. HD 40307 was observed during or be...
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KIC 11442793
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Seven-planet solar system found Astronomers may have identified one of the richest planetary systems yet. The discovery of a seventh planet around the dwarf star KIC 11442793 could be a record, according to two separate teams of researchers. The system bears some similarities to our own, but all s...
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Kepler-56
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Iowa State astronomer helps research team see misaligned planets in distant system Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their host star. Such tilted...
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MOA-2011-BLG-293Lb
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Title: MOA-2011-BLG-293Lb: A testbed for pure survey microlensing planet detections Authors: J. C. Yee, Y. Shvartzvald, A. Gal-Yam, I. A. Bond, A. Udalski, S. Kozlowski, C. Han, A. Gould, J. Skowron, D. Suzuki, the MOA Collaboration, the OGLE Collaboration, the MicroFUN Collaboration Microle...
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Kepler-7b
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Title: The high albedo of the hot Jupiter Kepler-7b Authors: Brice-Olivier Demory, Sara Seager, Nikku Madhusudhan, Hans Kjeldsen, Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Michael Gillon, Jason F. Rowe, William F. Welsh, Elisabeth R. Adams, Andrea Dupree, Don McCarthy, Craig Kulesa, William J. Boruc...
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Kepler-77b
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Title: Kepler-77b: a very low albedo, Saturn-mass transiting planet around a metal-rich solar-like star Authors: D. Gandolfi, H. Parviainen, M. Fridlund, A. P. Hatzes, H. J. Deeg, A. Frasca, A. F. Lanza, P. G. Prada Moroni, E. Tognelli, A. McQuillan, S. Aigrain, R. Alonso, V. Antoci, J. Cabrera,...
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GJ 504b
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Astronomers Image Lowest-mass Exoplanet Around a Sun-like Star Using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, an international team of astronomers has imaged a giant planet around the bright star GJ 504. Several times the mass of Jupiter and similar in size, the new world, dubbed GJ 504b...
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TMR-1C
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Title: A near-infrared variability campaign of TMR-1: New light on the nature of the candidate protoplanet TMR-1C Authors: B. Riaz, E. L. Martin, M. G. Petr-Gotzens, J.-L. Monin We present a near-infrared (NIR) photometric variability study of the candidate protoplanet, TMR-1C, located at a se...
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