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... HVSs may house planets that should be detectable as transits. The discovery of such a transit has important consequences for ...
Anonymous - 2013-04-02 21:09
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... systems. The group analyzes changes in starlight as a planet transits, or eclipses, its star. These signals can give scientists clues to a ...
siteadmin - 2013-04-10 16:21
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... Light Curve Project. XI. Submillimagnitude photometry of two transits of the bloated planet WASP-4b," J.N. Winn, M.J. Holman, J.A. Carter, ...
Anonymous - 2013-03-20 13:24
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... located at an angle that makes it impossible to view their transits from Earth. It’s highly likely that a planet that is smaller and ...
siteadmin - 2013-02-26 18:50
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... subtle changes in the wavelength of light when a planet transits its star. As HD209458b transited last August, its parent star left ...
siteadmin - 2013-02-26 18:50
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... sunspots using the light of these stars. Each time a planet transits — or crosses in front of — such a star, it blocks a bit of ...
siteadmin - 2012-11-01 18:09
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A nearby star is pummeling a companion planet with a barrage of X-rays a hundred thousand times more than the Earth receives from the Sun. Credit: NASA/CXC/NSF/IPAC/2MASS (see the 
