ASTRONOMY NEWS & LINKS
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Aug 04 2006	[ESO] The 'Planemo' Twins. Astronomers Discover Double Planetary Mass Object
Jul 24 2006	[JPL] Planet-Forming Disks Might Put the Brakes on Stars
Jun 06 2006	[ESO] Do 'Planemos' Have Progeny? Planetary-Mass Objects Found to be Surrounded by Disc
May 18 2006	[ESO] Trio of Neptunes and their Belt. HARPS Instrument Finds Unusual Planetary System
Feb 01 2006	[PPARC] Discovery of the smallest yet Earth-like planet
Jan 25 2006	[STScI] Astronomers Find Smallest Extrasolar Planet Yet Around Normal Star
Jan 25 2006	[ESO] It's Far, It's Small, It's Cool: It's an Icy Exoplanet! Distant Planet Brings Astronomers Closer To Home
Jan 11 2006	[UF] Planet finders use much faster instrument to discover distant planet
Jan 06 2006	[Keck] Grain growth in Orion Nebula protoplanetary disks
Dec 20 2005	[Keck] Two organic compounds - acetylene and hydrogen cyanide - found within the inner regions of a planet-forming disk
Nov 30 2005	[ESO] The Dwarf that Carries a World. HARPS Instrument Finds Neptune-Mass Exoplanet Around Small Star
Sep 29 2005	[Keck] NASA Takes Giant Step Toward Finding Earth-Like Planets
Jul 13 2005	[Keck] World With Triple Sunsets Discovered
Jun 30 2005	[NAOJ] A Massive-Core Hot Planet is Discovered
Jun 24 2005	[NRAO] First Stages of Planet-Building Around Nearby Star
Jun 13 2005	[Keck] First Rocky Planet Found Outside the Solar System
Apr 30 2005	[ESO] Yes, it is the Image of an Exoplanet - Astronomers Confirm the First Image of a Planet Outside of Our Solar System
Apr 20 2005	[CalTech] Signs of Alien Asteroid Belt
Apr 07 2005	[ESO] Is this a Brown Dwarf or an Exoplanet? New Young Sub-stellar Companion Imaged with the VLT
Mar 23 2005	[Cornell] For first time, light is detected from two confirmed planets orbiting stars outside our solar system
Mar 03 2005	[ESO] Undercover Stars Among Exoplanet Candidates. Very Large Telescope Finds Planet-Sized Transiting Star
Feb 07 2005	[CalTech] Astronomers Discover Beginnings of 'Mini' Solar System
Jan 10 2005	[STScI] Hubble's Infrared Eyes Home in on Suspected Extrasolar Planet
Dec 09 2004	[STScI] Discovery of dusty disks around sun-like stars
Nov 24 2004	[ESO] Young Stars Poised for Production of Rocky Planets. VLT Interferometer Studies the Inner Region of Circumstellar Discs
Oct 21 2004	[ISAS] Belts of Planetesimals Discovered around Beta Pictoris Reveals an Early Extrasolar Planetary System
Sep 15 2004	[AAO] Five new extra-solar planets: detection of three planets with sub-Saturn masses and a multiple planet system
Sep 10 2004	[ESO] Is This Speck of Light an Exoplanet? VLT Images and Spectra of Intriguing Object near Young Brown Dwarf
Aug 25 2004	[ESO] Discovery of the lightest known exoplanet - with a mass of only 14 times the mass of the Earth
Aug 24 2004	[Lowell] Network of Small Telescopes Discovers Distant Planet
May 07 2004	[ESO] Discovery of two extremely hot Jupiter-size extra-solar planets in close orbits by the transit method
Apr 18 2004	[NAOJ] Spiral Dance in a Planetary Nursery
Mar 22 2004	[LBL] Type Ia supernova SN 2002ic - explosion of a white dwarf inside a dense circumstellar disk
Feb 26 2004	[Hawaii] Nearest star with a visible circumstellar dust disk in a distance of 33 lightyears
Feb 25 2004	[CfA] KH 15D: eclipses are caused by a young binary system and not by a protoplanetary disk
Feb 20 2004	[CfA] Dusty disks around a star are good evidence for planet formation
Oct 01 2003	[NAOJ] First direct evidence of crystalline silicates in a proto-planetary disk surrounding a Sun-like star
Aug 07 2003	[CfA] Eclipse of a winking star by a protoplanetary disk started only recently.
Jul 10 2003	[STScI] Oldest known extrasolar planet has an age of 13 billion years.
Jul 03 2003	[AAO] Jupiter-like extrasolar planet found around nearby star
May 28 2003	[PPARC] WASP prepares to search for a thousand new planets
May 26 2003	[Harvard] Chandra Adds to Story of the Way We Were
May 26 2003	[NOAO] Astronomers Find Extremely Large Planet-Forming Disks Around Seven Young Stars
Apr 22 2003	[ESO] Glowing Hot Transiting Exoplanet Discovered - VLT Spectra Indicate Shortest-Known-Period Planet Orbiting OGLE-TR-3.
Mar 12 2003	[STScI] HD 209458b - an extrasolar planet with evaporating atmosphere
Jan 06 2003	[CfA] Transit technique leads to the discovery of the most distant extrasolar planet (OGLE-TR-56b)
Jan 06 2003	[Keck] Keck Observatory's Premier Planet-Hunting Machine is Getting Even Better
Dec 03 2002	[STScI] Precise measurement of the mass of the extrasolar planet Gliese 876b
Jun 12 2002	[AAO] New found planetary system starts to look like home
Apr 11 2002	[Keck] Evidence for Young Planets Found in Dusty Orbits Around Nearby Star
Mar 07 2002	[JPL] New simple instrument for the search of extrasolar planets
Feb 28 2002	[ESA] COROT - mission to search for rocky planets around other stars
Feb 15 2002	[ESA] Observation of dust ring around the Solar System helps in search for extrasolar planets
Jan 18 2002	[UNSW] Jupiter as a typical example of large planets around other stars.
Jan 10 2002	[NASA] Advanced space telescopes might soon probe far-off worlds for the chemical signatures of alien life.
Jan 10 2002	[ESA] New superconducting camera (S-cam) shall revolutionise the way astronomers observe the Universe
Jan 08 2002	[CfA] First planet detected orbiting a giant star.
Jan 08 2002	[CfA] Structure in dust around Vega may be signature of a planet.
Jan 08 2002	[RAS] The "Eddington" mission shall discover starquakes and Earth-like planets.
Jan 07 2002	[CfA] Discovery of an edge-on protoplanetary disk in a quadruple star system.
Nov 27 2001	[STScI] First direct measurement of the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet.
Oct 15 2001	[NSF] More planets emerge with solar system-like orbits.
Aug 15 2001	[NSF] Jupiter-size planet found orbiting the star 47 Ursae Majoris.
Jul 30 2001	[ESA] Discovery of x-ray emission from the jets of very young stellar systems with protoplanetary disks.
Jun 27 2001	[STScI] Wandering planet-sized objects in the globular cluster M22.
Jun 07 2001	[ESO] Brown Dwarfs form like stars, many of them have protoplanetary disks.
May 23 2001	[CSIRO] Radio observations of four protoplanetary disks (proplyds) in NGC 3603.
Apr 26 2001	[STScI] Difficult planet formation: First steps of planet growth and destruction.
Apr 04 2001	[ESO] Detection of 11 new extrasolar planets around solar-type stars.
Jan 09 2001	[NASA] Planet formation: Building of large dust grains in the gas and dust disk around a young star.
Jan 04 2001	[ESA] Molecular hydrogen in protoplanetary disks - new insights into the formation of giant gas planets.
Dec 11 2000	[AAO] Three new extrasolar planets.
Nov 09 2000	[Harvard] X-ray observations of protoplanetary disks and very hot young stars in the Orion Trapezium Cluster.
Oct 31 2000	[STScI] Lack of planets in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae.
Oct 13 2000	[ESO] Iota Horologii: the fourth known example of a star with both an extrasolar planet and a dust disk.
Aug 07 2000	[UTexas] Discovery of a Jupiter-mass extrasolar planet orbiting Epsilon Eridani.
Aug 07 2000	[spaceViews] Ten new extrasolar planets. Multiple-planet solar systems may be common.
Jul 27 2000	[ESA] Infrared observations of an early stage of formation of a planetary system with a central hot object.
May 04 2000	[ESO] New exoplanets! - Eight very low-mass companions to solar-type stars discovered at La Silla
Apr 06 2000	[STScI] TMR-1C: Suspected protoplanet may really be a distant star.
Mar 29 2000	[NASA] First discovery of two extrasolar planets that may be smaller in mass than Saturn.
Feb 04 2000	[ESA] Silicate crystals found by ISO in great quantities around old stars and in protoplanetary discs.
Jan 15 2000	[STScI] The planetary dust disk around Beta Pictoris hides giant elliptical ring system.
Nov 03 1999	[NASA] Evidence of the first known planet orbiting a pair of stars.
Jul 29 1999	[ESO] Iota Hor - Extrasolar giant planet in Earth-like orbit.
Apr 15 1999	[Berkeley] Upsilon Andromedae - the first 'solar system' outside our own.
Feb 09 1999	[STScI] Vast stellar disks set stage for planet birth.
Jan 09 1999	[UW] Extrasolar planets favor stars with overabundance of heavy elements.
Jan 09 1999	[CfA] NStars - The Nearby Stars Project will map all stars within 65 lightyears.
Jan 09 1999	[spaceViews] Two more extrasolar planets: HD 195019 and HD 217107.
Jan 08 1999	[STScI] New evidence for planets around other stars
Jan 08 1999	[NRAO] Rotating disk around young, massive star.
Jun 24 1998	[ESO] First circumstellar disk around a massive star.
Apr 21 1998	[CfA] Possible planet forming disk around the nearby star HR 4796A.