"During the observation period, Gliese 581 showed little change in brightness, indicating a level of stability that would prove beneficial to the growth of life..."

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"We want to analyze the light of a distant world to learn what elements are found in its atmosphere. These become clues to conditions there, and even markers of possible life." Centauri Drea

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"Having championed Webster Cash’s New Worlds Imager in earlier posts, Centauri Dreams was nonplussed yesterday to see NASA’s list of concept study selections for Discovery-class missions...."

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" ... the Hubble Space Telescope has weighed in with definitive evidence for the existence of at least one of those worlds, a Jupiter-class gas giant in a 6.9 year orbit around the star."

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“This planet is about one-quarter the density of water [...] in other words, it’s lighter than a giant ball of cork! Just like Saturn, it would float in a bathtub if you could find a tub big enough to

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"Astronomers using a tiny amateur-class telescope and off-the-shelf camera lenses have found a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a star 500 light-years from Earth." w00t! Score one for the littl

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We've got nearly a hundred of the things logged now, and the data is improving the longer we watch.

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Those exoplanets can be gard to spot...best put your shades on.

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More theories about how exoplanets form.

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Hubble has detected for the first time an organic molecule on a exoplanet.

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