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Article: Planet hunters snap first pictures of other solar systems.(Innovation)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- November 14, 2008
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Byline: Peter N. Spotts Staff Writer for The Christian Science Monitor
In the hunt for solar systems beyond our own, astronomers have crossed an important threshold - capturing from the ground, as well as from space, the first direct images of planets around bright, sun-like stars.
Since September, three teams say they have imaged planet-candidates. The most recent reports, published in Thursday's issue of the journal Science, include a three-planet system around a variable star 128.5 light-years from Earth.
Until now, researchers have had to content themselves with shadowy, indirect approaches to finding planets - measuring a regular wobble in ...
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