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Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Thursday, October 05, 2006 - Iddo Genuth Home >> Picture Of The Day >> Space   
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| Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets (an Illustration picture) - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. | ||||||||||
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The planet bonanza was uncovered during a Hubble survey called the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS). Hubble looked farther than has ever successfully been searched before for extrasolar planets. Hubble peered at 180,000 stars in the crowded central bulge of our galaxy 26,000 light-years away or one-quarter the diameter of the Milky Way's spiral disk. The results will appear in the Oct. 5th issue of the journal Nature. Until now scientists have been able to confirm the existence of almost 200 extrasolar planets. More information and pictures from NASA. |
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