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ASTRONOMERS WITNESS SILHOUETTE OF PLANET CROSSING DISTANT STAR
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 independent confirmation of a planet, and […]
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ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER SIX NEW PLANETS ORBITING NEARBY STARS
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 evidence suggesting that two previously discovered planets […]
Read More >ASTRONOMERS TOUT GAMMA-RAY BURSTS AS PROBES INTO EARLY UNIVERSE
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 at Chicago, will describe the cosmological implications of gamma-ray bursts at […]
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LARGEST EXPLOSIONS IN UNIVERSE MAY COME FROM DEATH OF MASSIVE STARS
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 science-journal Nature, an international team led by the California Institute […]
Read More >ASTRONOMERS FIND PLANET ORBITING NEARBY STAR
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (June 1st, 1998) Two teams of astronomers this week reported that one of the sun’s nearest neighbors—a star just 15 light-years from Earth—possesses a planet 1.6 times as massive as Jupiter. As with other planets recently discovered, this object was not imaged, but betrayed its presence through its gravitational tug on its […]
Read More >PLANET CONSTUCTION ZONE
WASHINGTON, D.C (April 1st, 1998) NASA astronomers using the new Keck II telescope in Hawaii have discovered what appears to be the clearest evidence yet of a budding solar system around a nearby star. At a press conference held in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, scientists released an image of the probable site of planet formation […]
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