32 New Extrasolar Planet
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, New Discoveries, Space, Video on 10 21st, 2009 | no responses
The European Space Agency has found 32 new planets orbiting around distant stars. And they did it not with a high-powered space telescope but with a very sensitive ground-based instrument located in South America.
Learn about how astronomers locate planets based on subtle wobbles in star movement.
Just goes to show that if you stare at the sky long enough something will turn up. This brings the new total of new planets outside the Solar System to 400.
Now to find one like Earth…
CBC’s science commentator Bob McDonald reports.
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