Astronomy
Hubble Space telescope has discovered a planet which has a tail like a comet! HD 209458b planet is about 153 light years and was found in the year 2003.
Scientists have measured the gas coming out from the planet.
Scientists have used Hubble to find about the atmosphere of the planet as it crossed infront of its star.
- Watch Comet Mcnaught In This June Night Sky
Do you like to watch comets on a night sky like me ? If your answer is "yes" then you can watch comet McNaught with your naked eyes.The comet's tail will look like a celestial sword angling upward to the northern sky. The comet was discovered by Robert...
- Rocky Earthlike Planet Discovered
Researchers on 21.4.09 confirmed the existence of a rocky Earthlike planet with a mass of 1.9 Earth masses, orbiting in the Gliese 581 system. Another planet in the four planet system was also found to be lying in the star's habitable zone, the...
- A Nearby Watery Planet
A new rocky planet, GJ 1214b, has been found very close to the solar system, one of a few hundred exoplanets currently known. Making this discovery special, though, is that the planet contains water, being almost completely covered by it, and that its...
- Carbon Dioxide On Extrasolar Planet
Artist's View of the Extrasolar Planet HD 189733b orbiting the star HD 189733 Just a short while ago, the Hubble Space Telescope took the first visible-light photograph of an extrasolar planet, a planet outside our solar system. Now just recently,...
- Hubble Takes First Image Of An Extrasolar Planet
An artist's concept of Fomalhaut b The image on the left is the first visible-light photograph of a planet orbiting another star, an extrasolar planet. It was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet, named Fomalhaut b, orbits the star Fomalhaut....
Astronomy
Hubble finds a planet with a tail like a comet
Hubble Space telescope has discovered a planet which has a tail like a comet! HD 209458b planet is about 153 light years and was found in the year 2003.
Scientists have measured the gas coming out from the planet.
Scientists have used Hubble to find about the atmosphere of the planet as it crossed infront of its star.
- Watch Comet Mcnaught In This June Night Sky
Do you like to watch comets on a night sky like me ? If your answer is "yes" then you can watch comet McNaught with your naked eyes.The comet's tail will look like a celestial sword angling upward to the northern sky. The comet was discovered by Robert...
- Rocky Earthlike Planet Discovered
Researchers on 21.4.09 confirmed the existence of a rocky Earthlike planet with a mass of 1.9 Earth masses, orbiting in the Gliese 581 system. Another planet in the four planet system was also found to be lying in the star's habitable zone, the...
- A Nearby Watery Planet
A new rocky planet, GJ 1214b, has been found very close to the solar system, one of a few hundred exoplanets currently known. Making this discovery special, though, is that the planet contains water, being almost completely covered by it, and that its...
- Carbon Dioxide On Extrasolar Planet
Artist's View of the Extrasolar Planet HD 189733b orbiting the star HD 189733 Just a short while ago, the Hubble Space Telescope took the first visible-light photograph of an extrasolar planet, a planet outside our solar system. Now just recently,...
- Hubble Takes First Image Of An Extrasolar Planet
An artist's concept of Fomalhaut b The image on the left is the first visible-light photograph of a planet orbiting another star, an extrasolar planet. It was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet, named Fomalhaut b, orbits the star Fomalhaut....