For the first time, astronomers have taken a visual image of a multiple-planet solar system beyond our own.
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11/13/2008. This is the first time planets have been observed orbiting a distant star, as opposed to just photographed near such stars.
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The Jodcast was at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition exploring three ways that astronomers find planets around stars other than the Sun.
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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...
Professor John Webb describes a project to find planets around distant stars using the Automated Patrol Telescope at Siding Spring.
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