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Strange weather patterns on extraterrestrial planets
Outside our Earth there exist many planets with strange weather patterns that seem to be only in sci-fi films.
Extraterrestrial Planet
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Detecting the outer three planets about the size of the Earth
The planets were discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft, by tracking the obscured light of the host star as the planet passes through the star's bright region.
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NASA announces new discovery from spacecraft to hunt for life
NASA will share the latest discovery from the Kepler space telescope that specializes in hunting extrasolar planets that can contain life.
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Planet 'monsters' should not exist according to astronomical theory
The finding contrary to the astronomical hypothesis concludes that a star so small cannot create a planet too large.
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Observe the world of aliens
Princeton University's team of scientists and engineers has developed ground-based equipment and is considered a great step forward in the study of galactic exoplanets b…
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Method of weighing extraterrestrial planets
The method of weighing these planets not only shows the weight of the planet, but also can reveal how friendly they are to human life.
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Photographing the planet 300 light years from Earth
The European telescope has captured an image of an asteroid circling the central star 300 light-years from Earth, equivalent to 3.7 billion round-trips to the moon.
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The strange object disturbs the classification of extraterrestrial planets
The European COROT spacecraft has detected an object the size of a planet that orbits its star with close proximity.
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The first organic molecule on an extraterrestrial planet
The Hubble telescope first discovered the presence of organic molecules in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step in th…
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NASA is about to announce new discoveries about extraterrestrial life
NASA will reveal the most reliable analysis of Kepler's mission to life on distant planets in a press conference early next week.
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Determination of extraterrestrial mass by light spectrum
A group of researchers from the MIT Institute of Technology recently introduced a method to determine the masses of exoplanets.