Monday, June 1, 2009

Tiny 'Quotaion Marks' found in 'Space'

BBC NEWS | Distant world circles tiny star
A distant 'sun' residing in the constellation Aquila has become the smallest star known to host a planet.

The discovery of a Jupiter-like 'exoplanet' orbiting the star VB 10 is the first to be made using the astrometry method.

Astrometry has long been proposed as a tool for finding other planets, but this is the method's first 'catch'.

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