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In a First, Astronomers Find an Exoplanet by Using Radio Waves And a Wobbly Star – techtoday19

Illustration of a star’s wobble in space. (Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF) The hunt for exoplanets in our galaxy is a deeply important endeavour. The more exoplanets we find, the better we can understand our own Solar System – and how life emerges in the Universe.…

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The hunt for exoplanets in our galaxy is a deeply important endeavour. The more exoplanets we find, the better we can understand our own Solar System – and how life emerges in the Universe. To date, over 4,000 exoplanets have been confirmed – but a new discovery could widen the search, helping us to find exoplanets that previously have proven too difficult to detect.
The newly discovered exoplanet, with a mass comparable to that of Saturn, orbits a very small, cool red dwarf right at the lower …

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