The search for exoplanets
Astronomy Contributing Editor Ray Jayawardhana explains how astronomers hunt for worlds beyond our own.
Published:
September 22, 2008
| In "Are super-sized Earths the new frontier?" (November 2008), Contributing Editor Ray Jayawardhana discusses how recent exoplanet discoveries have uncovered worlds with masses only a few times more than that of Earth. He also explained how astronomers think these "super-Earths" could be more hosipitable to life than Earth itself if one of them orbits its parent star at the right distance. |
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