Astronomy News

New planets found 2014

The discovery images of 2012 VP113, which has the most distant orbit known in our Solar System. Three images of the night sky, each taken about 2 hours apart, were combined into one. The first image was artificially colored red, second green and third blue. 2012 VP113 moved between each image as seen by the red, green and blue dots. The background stars and galaxies did not…

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Habitable planets found

After years of observations and painstaking analysis, an international team of astronomers using independent Earth-based instruments has discovered what they believe is a potentially habitable, roughly Earth-size world orbiting the nearest star to the sun, according to a paper in the journal Nature released Wednesday. The team, led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé of Queen Mary University…

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News on Astronomy

More than 2, 300 scientists, teachers and journalists — including Space.com s Calla Cofield and Sarah Lewin — are in Kissimmee, Florida, this week for a conference dubbed The Super Bowl of Astronomy. Researchers will present the latest findings about black holes, alien planets and other cosmic bodies and phenomena at the 227th meeting of the American Astronomical Society…

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