Monday, October 19, 2009

32 New Exoplanets


The discovery of exoplanets seems to be accelerating with technological advances.

There is something very humbling and simultaneously something that causes longing in these discoveries.

CNN: 32 planets discovered outside solar system
With the discovery, the tally of new exoplanets found by HARPS is now at 75, out of about 400 known exoplanets, the organization said, "cementing HARPS's position as the world's foremost exoplanet hunter." The 75 planets are in 30 planetary systems, the European Southern Observatory said.

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