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Water discovered on a habitable planet
... how they did it… Ingo - We found a planet outside our own solar system which is rocky and it has an atmosphere ... now have a relatively small planet, quite similar to our own, with evidence of water. How does this shift the balance ... into the universe, that there are other worlds like our own out there? Ingo - Well, I mean that's the exciting bit, ...
Searching for extrasolar planets
... it was a big question 20 years ago. We had only our own planets at that time and the big question is, are we ... we have not really found a planet or a system like our own solar system. Chris - Like the Earth is what you mean. ... technology that we have available today, look towards our own solar system, what would we be able to understand about ...
Distant planet's exposed core found
... So you're checking out the impact of the planet's own gravity on the star? Phil - Yes, that's right. So once ... you pretty rapidly as well. The planet orbits its own star in only 18 hours. So the temperature is thousands of ...
Closeby water world replete with methane and CO2
... away: in astronomical terms, that’s practically our own backyard! Matt Bothwell is the University of ...
Stopping Starlight to See Planets
... species say, methane, water, oxygen. We know that our own atmosphere on Earth would be very, very different if all ... one of the crazy things is that, outside of Earth, in our own solar system, some of the moons of for example Jupiter ...
Looking for life light years away
... which to be honest it took me about a year to get my own head around. But fundamentally we can focus the light ...
The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
... collegially, but there are a number of groups doing their own thing. Chris - So it's not just confined or ...