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Exoplanet Snapshots

Exoplanet Snapshots

Exoplanets are planets in other solar systems. Though astronomers have detected over 300 exoplanets since 1995, we only have visible-light images of one of them.

 
Jennifer Skene

Post on Nov 14, 2008 by

Reporter's Notes: Exoplanets

Reporter's Notes: Exoplanets

Artistic rendition of exoplanet Gilese 436 b, created in Celestia In the past fifteen years, the search for other Earths– and possibly life– outside our own solar system has taken off. As of May 2008, 293 extrasolar planets have been confirmed. Most of these planets are big, gas giants like our own Jupiter but new [...]

 
Andrea Kissack

Post on May 30, 2008 by