New exoplanet discovered (OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb) 26000 Lys from earth. Most similar to earth than any other previous exoplanet observed. Announced Jan 2006. Source/more info-
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting...
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Using the Hubble Space Telescope, for the first time, astronomers have observed the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet evaporating off into space. Much of this...
Astronomers have just produced the first map of a planet that is orbiting another star!
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Zoom into the Sagittarius area of the nighttime sky, where Hubble looked into our Milky Way galaxy for extrasolar planets. The camera then zooms all...