Article: The Belfast camera snapping planets across the universe

Article: Do new planets mean life in other worlds?
The Boston Globe;  January 29, 1996 ;     479 words ......trillion miles) away. All of a sudden, new planets seem to be turning up all over the place...life -- to exist there. But both of the new planets, one located in the Big Dipper and the...actually exists there. All three of these new planets are around the size of Jupiter, the...

Article: St Andrews team spots new planets in space
Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  September 26, 2006 ;     298 words ......Scottish astronomers have discovered two new planets the size of Jupiter deep in space. Stargazers...international collaboration which found the new planets around stars over 1,000 light years...promises to speed up the search for new planets and our aim is now to detect dozens...

Article: Astronomers Discover Two New Planets, Both Among Hottest Ever.
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  September 26, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Astronomers have discovered two new planets outside our solar system, both extremely...about 200 planets discovered so far, the new planets are only the 13th and 14th to be found...Jupiter-like size and temperature, the new planets are so close to their stars that they...

Article: ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER TWO NEW PLANETS, BOTH AMONG HOTTEST EVER
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 26, 2006 ;     700+ words ......release: Astronomers have discovered two new planets outside our solar system, both extremely...about 200 planets discovered so far, the new planets are only the 13th and 14th to be found...Jupiter-like size and temperature, the new planets are so close to their stars that they...

Article: There could be life out there; BREAKTHROUGH AS EIGHT NEW PLANETS FOUND.(News)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  October 16, 2001 ;     413 words ......among a team which has discovered eight new planets. He believes the breakthrough has strengthened...discovered eight socalled giant planets. The new planets are between 0.8 and 10 times larger...Jones has described discovering the new planets as the pinnacle of his scientific ...

Article: 2 NEW PLANETS SHARE TRAITS OF JUPITER, SATURN.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  February 15, 2008 ;     156 words ......National Laboratory, where the method used to detect the new planets was first developed in the early 1990s. The planet-hunting...particularly bright microlensing event revealing the two new planets orbiting a star 5,000 light years away. - McClatchy

Article: It's a case of 'watch this space' for astronomical rise in new planets
The Scotsman;  March 31, 1998 ;     571 words ......discovery of the first of a range of new planets in the coming year is predicted by leading...beyond our own solar system to discover new planets that orbit stars much as the Earth orbits...shows we can expect to find the first new planets within about a year. "Altogether we...

Article: Evidence of two new planets shows systems may be similar.
The Boston Herald;  April 30, 1997 ;     199 words ......systems may be common, say local astronomers who found the new planets. Boston University astronomer John Mattox said there is no...Unlike several other planets recently announced, both of the new planets are far enough away from their stars to make it more likely...

Article: TEAMS FIND 9 NEW PLANETS.(NEWS)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  August 7, 2000 ;     113 words ...Astronomers said today they've found nine new planets outside our solar system. Three teams from Switzerland...spokesman. Switzerland's Geneva Observatory discovered six new planets, while the University of California at Berkeley found two...

Article: Astronomers find eight new planets; Discovery during 100m light-year search.(World News)
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  October 17, 2001 ;     442 words ...EIGHT new planets have been found orbiting nearby stars including...astronomers carrying out a systematic search for new planets around stars within a distance of about 100 light years. The new planets are all large gas giants - ranging in mass...

Article: Two new planets a science `milepost'
Chicago Sun-Times;  March 30, 2000 ;     502 words ......University of California, Berkeley. The new planets are thought to be hot, gaseous giants...than 100 light years away. Both of the new planets are slightly smaller than Saturn, a...sun of only about 0.22 mph. One of the new planets is about 80 percent the mass of Saturn...

Article: NEW PLANETS.(News)
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  December 16, 2007 ;     49 words ...THE detection of three new planets by a team of Midlands university boffins has been named among the world's Top 10 scientific discoveries of 2007. Astronomers at...

Article: SCOTS BOFFIN FINDS 3 NEW PLANETS; Boost for space team.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  November 1, 2007 ;     246 words ......skygazer has helped find three new planets the size of gas giant Jupiter...University, Staffordshire, and Queen's University, Belfast. They'...system are currently known. The new planets were found as the WASP cameras...systems form. Dr Don Pollacco,of Queen's, said: We are the only ...

Article: Finding new worlds (is Mr. Spock next?) HL: Astronomers meeting in Manchester, England present evidence of nine new planets. One may sound familiar to 'Star Trek' fans.(World)
The Christian Science Monitor;  August 9, 2000 ;     700+ words ...For astronomers, detecting new planets is now almost as commonplace as, say...just announced the discovery of nine new planets orbiting stars outside our own solar...Geneva Observatory spoke of detecting six new planets. A team from the University of California...