Subscribe ASTRONOMERS WITNESS SILHOUETTE OF PLANET CROSSING DISTANT STAR
Nov 7, 1999
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (November 7th, 1999) have witnessed for the first time a distant planet passing in front of its star, providing direct and independent confirmation of the existence of extrasolar planets that to date have been inferred only from the wobble of their star. “This is the first...
ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER SIX NEW PLANETS ORBITING NEARBY STARS
Nov 1, 1999
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (November 1st, 1999) Searching the night skies with the Keck I telescope, the world’s most prolific team of planet hunters has found six new planets orbiting nearby stars, bringing the total number of planets detected outside our solar system to 28. The researchers also found...
ASTRONOMERS TOUT GAMMA-RAY BURSTS AS PROBES INTO EARLY UNIVERSE
Oct 22, 1999
WAIMEA, Hawaii (October 22nd, 1999) Gamma-ray bursts and their X-ray and optical afterglows have surpassed quasars as the most distant probes of the early universe, according to new calculations performed by University of Chicago astronomers. Don Lamb Jr., a Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics...
LARGEST EXPLOSIONS IN UNIVERSE MAY COME FROM DEATH OF MASSIVE STARS
Sep 29, 1999
WAIMEA, Hawaii (September 29th, 1999) Cosmic gamma-ray bursts, the brightest known explosions in the universe, may come from the fiery deaths of very massive stars in supernova explosions, a team of astronomers said today. In a paper published Wednesday, Sept. 29, 1999, in the international...
