Saturday, April 12, 2008

Exoplanet




Little Exoplanet



Credit: Spanish Research Council (CSIC)


They found this planet due to its perturbations on a bigger twin planet discovered via microlensing a couple of years ago. It is the smallest planet out of close to 300 exoplanet (Extra solar planet - not in our solar system). The star the planet orbits is in the star constellation LEO.




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