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Astronomers find a planet denser than lead

badastronomy.com » 2008 » October » 6th » Astronomers find a planet denser than lead

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Planets circle the stars that dot the heavens. Before 1995, we couldn’t have said that with any certainty. Now we know of more than 30 planets orbiting distant stars, and we have a fleet of telescopes looking for them. The ultimate goal is to find another Earth orbiting a star like the Sun, but the quest on the way to that Holy Grail has yielded some strange benchmarks. COROT-exo-3b compared to … Continue Reading »

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