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December 02, 2015

Exiled exoplanet likely kicked out of star's neighborhood
Berkeley CA (SPX) Dec 02, 2015
A planet discovered last year sitting at an unusually large distance from its star - 16 times farther than Pluto is from the sun - may have been kicked out of its birthplace close to the star in a process similar to what may have happened early in our own solar system's history. Images from the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) in the Chilean Andes and the Hubble Space Telescope show that the star has a lopsided comet belt indicative of a very disturbed solar system, and hinting that the planet interacti ... read more

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Two Moons About Saturn

Synthetic muscle experiment will likely return to Earth in March

NASA awards two robots to university groups for upgrades

NASA completes heat shield testing for future Mars exploration vehicles

'Chemical Laptop' Could Search for Signs of Life Outside Earth

The "Omics" of Space Travel

Curiosity Mars Rover Heads Toward Active Dunes

New Super H-mode regime could greatly increase fusion power

China to launch Dark Matter Satellite in mid-December

Rocket Scientists to Launch Planet-Finding Telescope

5400mph winds discovered hurtling around planet outside solar system

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