Fascinating and exciting! If you want to find planets, look at lots and lots of stars over a long period of time....
More articles here http://www.scienceblog.com/community/article3786.html and here http://www.lowell.edu/press_room/releases/recent_releases/TrES-1_rls.html.
The paper should be here http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408421
1 posted on
08/26/2004 3:46:32 AM PDT by
alnitak
To: alnitak
2 posted on
08/26/2004 3:49:04 AM PDT by
alnitak
("That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver" - Foghorn Leghorn)
To: alnitak
Hubby and I just bought our first telescope:
Meade DS-90AT (90mm X 1000mm). He hasn't even set up the software yet! ;-)
We're new to this pleasure and would appreciate any tips you could offer.
Thanks,
LL
3 posted on
08/26/2004 4:10:05 AM PDT by
LakeLady
("I'm voting Republican. That dumbocrat left a bad taste in my mouth." - Monica Lewinsky)
To: alnitak
"Backyard Telescopes For New Planets"
Is this a new 527 group? :)
20 posted on
08/26/2004 5:56:50 AM PDT by
IamConservative
(A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.)
To: alnitak
I think the planets would need backyards for us to place telescopes in them.
;)
21 posted on
08/26/2004 6:55:24 AM PDT by
sharktrager
(The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And the paving contractor lives in Chappaqua.)
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