Extrasolar Planets

Its a plausible hypothesis, but its fairly hard to prove, said Roeland van der Marel of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. (ANI)  

... cooler objects in space, such as smaller stars which are too dim to be detected by their visible light, extrasolar planets, and giant molecular clouds. ...  

(PhysOrg.com) -- The CoRoT satellite has discovered a planet-sized object so exotic that astronomers are unsure whether to call it a planet. The object, named CoRoT-Exo-3b, is approximately the same size as Jupiter, but more than 20 times its mass. It orbits a star slightly larger than the Sun...  

Scientists have studied the night sky for thousands of years searching for clues to help them understand the universe.  

Astronomy Public Nights will be held Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, Nov. 3, 5, 6 and 10, 12, 13. Show times are 7, 7:45 and 8:30 pm in the planetarium ...  

Next year marks the International Year of Astronomy , celebrating the 400th anniversary of Galileo turning his telescope to the sky and revolutionizing the way we think of the Universe, and our place in it.  

An ongoing video podcast series for NASA called "IRrelevant Astronomy" (the "IR" stands for infrared, for NASA's infrared space telescope Spitzer) is in ...  

[caption id="attachment_19239" align="alignnone" width="580" caption="Fireball Galaxy. Credit: Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)"][/caption] During routine observations of the Coma Cluster of galaxies using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, astronomers discovered a...  

PM builds one and speaks to John Dobson, the man behind the plans, about the joys of DIY astronomy. By Karen Fox When I set out to build a portable ...  

These images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are close-up views of four galaxies from a large survey of nearby galaxies.  

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea have discovered truly enormous blobs of superheated gas that they describe as "fireballs." The blobs are 3,000 to 6,000 light-years across.  

As well, said the Mt. A. professor, they will get to see "deep sky objects," such as other galaxies and rich clusters of stars outside the Milky Way ...  

NGC 253 Close-Up Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. Williams (Univ. Washington) Ground-based data: T. Rector (Univ. Alaska, Anchorage), T. Abbott, NOAO/AURA/NSF Explanation: This dusty island universe is one of the brightest spiral galaxies in the sky. Seen nearly edge-on, NGC 253 lies a mere 13...  

A North Carolina astronomy buff uses his Crestron home automation interface to quickly find celestial bodies.  

The Nebraskan-born Australian National University astronomer is a respected world expert on Earth-like planets and dark matter in galaxies. ...