Dusty Disk Around Nearby Star May Hide Earth-like Planet

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Socrates II — 2/9/2008 4:48:55 AM (archived)

Dusty Disk Around Nearby Star May Hide Earth-like Planet

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.nl.html?pid=24721

"A recent survey by a team of Japanese astronomers may
have found an Earth-like planet hidden in the dust around a
nearby star.

Using the Coronagraphic Imager with Adaptive Optics (CIAO)
at the Subaru Telescope, researchers recently resolved a
circumstellar disk around the young lightweight star FN Tau."

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Exoplanet transit from Europe on february 6th (Exoplanet live project) - Raoul - 2/3/2008 9:48:15 AM
- Migration and Final Location of Hot Super Earths in the Presence of Gas Giants - Socrates II - 2/4/2008 7:31:02 PM
  - Dusty Disk Around Nearby Star May Hide Earth-like Planet - Socrates II - 2/9/2008 4:48:55 AM

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