Volunteers from the Planethunters.org website have discovered 15 new planet candidates orbiting in the habitable zones of other stars. The finding adds to the number of strange worlds in regions around stars that could potentially support life as we know it.
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Weather Patterns in a Brown Dwarf Topic: New Planets | 01/12/13 Astronomers have created the most detailed 'weather map' yet for a brown dwarf. The research could help scientists understand the atmospheres of extrasolar planets.
KOI-172.02: An excellent candidate for a "Venus-twin" Author:
S. Domagal-Goldman | 01/11/13
It seems that we have our latest "Earth twin candidate." This time, the planet is in orbit around a star very similar to our Sun. It's...
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