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Astronomers Find 50 New Exoplanets: Richest Haul of Planets So Far Incl Astronomers find 50 new exoplanets: Richest haul of planets so far incl... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110912143536.htm News Articles Videos Images Books Health & Medicine Mind & Brain Plants & Animals Earth & Climate Space & Time Matter & Energy Computers & Math Fossils & Ruins Science News ... from universities, journals, and other research organizations Save Email Print Share Astronomers Find 50 New Exoplanets: Richest Haul of Planets So Far Just In: Fertilizers Incease Greenhouse Gases in Air Includes 16 New Super-Earths more breaking science news ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2011) — The HARPS enlarge Social Networks spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile is the world's most Recommend and share this story on Facebook, successful planet finder [1]. The HARPS team, led Twitter, and Google +1: by Michel Mayor (University of Geneva, Like Send 1,040 people like this. Be the first Switzerland), have announced the discovery of of your friends. more than 50 new exoplanets orbiting nearby Tweet 191 Follow @sciencedaily stars, including sixteen super-Earths [2]. This is the largest number of such planets ever +20 Recommend this on Google announced at one time [3]. The new findings are Other bookmarking and sharing tools: being presented at a conference on Extreme Solar Systems where 350 exoplanet experts are meeting This artist's impression shows the planet orbiting | 196 in Wyoming, USA. the Sun-like star HD 85512 in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sail). This planet is one Breaking News ... from NewsDaily.com "The harvest of discoveries from of sixteen super-Earths discovered by the HARPS See Also: HARPS has exceeded all instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La S.Africa, Australia in expectations and includes an Silla Observatory. This planet is about 3.6 times celestial spat for Space & Time exceptionally rich population of as massive as the Earth and lies at the edge of new telescope Extrasolar Planets super-Earths and Neptune-type the habitable zone around the star, where liquid Stars planets hosted by stars very similar water, and perhaps even life, could potentially "Speed of light" Astronomy to our Sun. And even better -- the exist. (Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser) experiment Space Telescopes new results show that the pace of professor resigns Kuiper Belt discovery is accelerating," says Studies show how pesticides make bees lose Pluto Mayor. Related Stories their way Maths and Olympics: How fast could Usain Bolt Reference In the eight years since it started Trio Of Super-Earths: Harvest Of run? Extrasolar planet surveying stars like the Sun using Low-Mass Exoplanets Discovered Red giant the radial velocity technique HARPS With HARPS (June 16, 2008) — Japan bees cook enemy in 'hot defensive bee Gas giant has been used to discover more European astronomers have ball' Supergiant than 150 new planets. About two announced a remarkable breakthrough in the field more science news thirds of all the known exoplanets of extra-solar planets. Using the HARPS instrument with masses less than that of at the ESO La Silla Observatory, they have found a In Other News ... Neptune [4] were discovered by HARPS. These exceptional triple system of ... > read more results are the fruit of several hundred nights of HARPS Apple's iPad tops Consumer Reports' list despite observations [5]. Towards Other Earths: 32 New heat issue Exoplanets Found (Oct. 19, 2009) Romney eyes primary knockout, Obama fight Working with HARPS observations of 376 Sun-like stars, — Astronomers are reporting the looms astronomers have now also much improved the estimate of incredible discovery of some 32 new "Multiple victims" reported in Oakland shooting how likely it is that a star like the Sun is host to low-mass exoplanets, using the High Accuracy Radial Velocity planets (as opposed to gaseous giants). They find that about Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS -- the Obama confident Supreme Court will uphold 40% of such stars have at least one planet less massive than spectrograph of the European ... > read more healthcare law Saturn. The majority of exoplanets of Neptune mass or less Fed's Bullard: U.S. inflation may reflect global appear to be in systems with multiple planets. Many Billions of Rocky Planets in growth Habitable Zones Around Red Dwarfs in With upgrades to both hardware and software systems in Milky Way (Mar. 28, 2012) — Rocky Manufacturing sector picks up in March: ISM progress, HARPS is being pushed to the next level of stability planets not much bigger than Earth are very Coty bids $10 billion for Avon and sensitivity to search for rocky planets that could support common in the habitable zones around faint red life. Ten nearby stars similar to the Sun were selected for a Euro zone unemployment reaches near 15-year stars, according to new research. The astronomers high new survey. These stars had already been observed by estimate that there are tens of billions of such ... HARPS and are known to be suitable for extremely precise > read more more top news radial velocity measurements. After two years of work, the team of astronomers has discovered five new planets with Lightest Exoplanet Yet Discovered masses less than five times that of Earth. (Apr. 21, 2009) — Exoplanet Copyright Reuters 2008. See Restrictions. researchers have discovered the "These planets will be among the best targets for future space lightest exoplanet found so far. The Free Subscriptions ... from ScienceDaily telescopes to look for signs of life in the planet's atmosphere planet, "e", in the famous system Gliese 581, is by looking for chemical signatures such as evidence of only about twice the mass of our Earth. The team Get the latest science news with our free email oxygen," explains Francesco Pepe (Geneva Observatory, also refined the orbit ... > read more Switzerland), the lead author of one of the recent papers. newsletters, updated daily and weekly. Or view First Habitable-Zone Super-Earth hourly updated newsfeeds in your RSS reader: One of the recently announced newly discovered planets, HD Discovered in Orbit Around a Sun-Like Email Newsletters 85512 b, is estimated to be only 3.6 times the mass of Earth Star (Dec. 5, 2011) — NASA's Kepler [6] and is located at the edge of the habitable zone -- a RSS Newsfeeds Mission has discovered the first super-Earth narrow zone around a star in which water may be present in orbiting in the habitable zone of a star similar to the liquid form if conditions are right [7]. Feedback ... we want to hear from you! Sun. A team of researchers, including Carnegie's Alan Boss, has discovered what ... > read more "This is the lowest-mass confirmed planet discovered by the Tell us what you think of ScienceDaily -- we radial velocity method that potentially lies in the habitable zone Planet Population Is Plentiful: Planets welcome both positive and negative comments. of its star, and the second low-mass planet discovered by Around Stars Are the Rule Rather Have any problems using the site? Questions? HARPS inside the habitable zone," adds Lisa Kaltenegger Than the Exception (Jan. 11, 2012) — (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany Your Name: Astronomers have used the technique of and Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Boston, gravitational microlensing to measure how common Your Email: USA), who is an expert on the habitability of exoplanets. planets are in the Milky Way. After a six-year Comments: The increasing precision of the new HARPS survey now allows search that surveyed millions of stars, the team the detection of planets under two Earth masses. HARPS is concludes that ... > read more now so sensitive that it can detect radial velocity amplitudes of New Effort To Discover Habitable significantly less than 4 km/hour [8] -- less than walking speed. Earth-Like Planets Around Other "The detection of HD 85512 b is far from the limit of HARPS Stars (Apr. 19, 2009) — Astronomers have announced plans to build an ultra- 1 of 3 03-04-2012 17:35 Astronomers find 50 new exoplanets: Richest haul of planets so far incl... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110912143536.htm and demonstrates the possibility of discovering other super- stable, high-precision spectrograph for the Science Click button to submit feedback: Earths in the habitable zones around stars similar to the Sun," and Technology Facilities Council's 4.2-m William adds Mayor. Herschel Telescope in an effort to discover ... > read more These results make astronomers confident that they are close Save Email Print Share to discovering other small rocky habitable planets around stars Astronomers Find First Habitable similar to our Sun. New instruments are planned to further this Earth-Like Planet (Apr. 24, 2007) — search. These include a copy of HARPS to be installed on the Astronomers have discovered the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in the Canary Islands, to survey most Earth-like planet outside our stars in the northern sky, as well as a new and more powerful Solar System to date, an exoplanet with a radius planet-finder, called ESPRESSO, to be installed on ESO's only 50 percent larger than the Earth and capable Very Large Telescope in 2016 [9]. Looking further into the of having liquid ... > read more future also the CODEX instrument on the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) will push this technique to a higher level. "In the coming ten to twenty years we should have the first list of potentially habitable planets in the Sun's neighbourhood. Making such a list is essential before future experiments can search for possible spectroscopic signatures of life in the exoplanet atmospheres," concludes Michel Mayor, who discovered the first-ever exoplanet around a normal star in 1995.
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