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First Earth-Sized, Rocky Exoplanet Found
October 30, 2013
Kamuela, Hawaii – A team of astronomers has found the first Earth-sized planet outside the solar system that has a rocky composition like that of Earth. This exoplanet, known as Kepler-78b,... Read more »
Astronomers Discover Most Distant Known Galaxy
October 23, 2013
Kamuela, Hawaii — University of Texas at Austin astronomer Steven Finkelstein has led a team that has discovered and measured the distance to the most distant galaxy ever found, using the W. M.... Read more »
Caltech Scientists Detects First Progenitor of Type 1b Supernova
October 18, 2013
Kamuela, Hawaii — Powerful new survey telescopes led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are being combined with the W. M. Keck Observatory to provide insight into rare, exotic... Read more »
Watery Asteroid Discovered in Dying Star Points to Habitable Exoplanets
October 10, 2013
Kamuela, HI -- Astronomers have found the shattered remains of an asteroid that contained huge amounts of water orbiting an exhausted star, or white dwarf. This suggests that the star GD 61 and its... Read more »
Telescopes Large and Small Team Up to Study Triple Asteroid
October 7, 2013
Kamuela, HI -- Combining observations from the world’s largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of scientists discovered that the large main-belt asteroid (87)... Read more »
Astronomers Observe Distant Galaxy Powered by Primordial Cosmic Fuel
October 2, 2013
Kamuela, HI -- Astronomers have detected cold streams of primordial hydrogen, vestigial matter left over from the Big Bang, fueling a distant star-forming galaxy in the early Universe. Profuse flows... Read more »
Evidence For Densest Galaxy In Nearby Universe
September 24, 2013
Kamuela, Hawaii -- The densest galaxy in the nearby Universe may have been found. Packed with an extraordinary number of stars, this unusual galaxy is providing astronomers with clues to its... Read more »
New Class of Star Cluster Discovered
July 31, 2013
Kamuela, Hawaii – Star clusters with properties not seen before have been discovered by an international team of astrophysicists, led by Swinburne University of Technology’s Professor Duncan... Read more »
Scientists Discover System with Three Planets in Habitable Zone
June 21, 2013
Kamuela, HI -- A team of scientists recently confirmed six, and possibly seven, planets orbiting a star system a mere 22 light-years from Earth. More importantly, three of those planets are... Read more »
UCI Scientists Size Up Universe’s Most Lightweight Dwarf Galaxy with Keck Observatory
June 7, 2013
Kamuela, Hawaii -- The least massive galaxy in the known universe has been measured by UC Irvine scientists, clocking in at just 1,000 or so stars with a bit of dark matter holding them together.The... Read more »
