Fifty New Exoplanets Found
September 13, 2011
Astronomers using ESO’s leading exoplanet hunter HARPS have today announced more than fifty newly discovered planets around other stars. Among these are many rocky planets not much heavier than the Earth. One of them in particular seems to orbit in the habitable zone around its star. In this video news release we look at how astronomers discover these distant worlds and what the future may hold for finding rocky worlds like the Earth that may support life.
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ESO.
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Entertainment Culture, Exoplanetology, Astronomy, Planetary science, leading exoplanet hunter, Human Interest, New Worlds Mission, HD 40307, Habitable zone, High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, Space colonization, Terrestrial planet, Extrasolar planets, SETI, Planet
