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Astronomers conduct first remote reconnaissance of another planetary system

Posted on March 12th, 2013 at 18:57 by John Sinteur in category: News -- Write a comment

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Researchers have conducted a remote reconnaissance of a distant planetary system with a new telescope imaging system that sifts through the blinding light of stars. Using a suite of high-tech instrumentation and software called Project 1640, the scientists collected the first chemical fingerprints, or spectra, of this system’s four red exoplanets, which orbit a star 128 light years away from Earth.

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