Thursday, February 14, 2008

Two Large Planets Discovered

Some scientists have determined that there are a few planets roughly the size of Jupiter and Saturn in a different solar system. The size of the planets was measured in a very complicated way that required two stars perfectly from the perspective of Earth. Unfortunately, this alignment in addition to the other requirements for being able to measure the size of certain planets does not occur very often. So these two huge planets were discovered, but there's not really a way to do follow-up observations.

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/02/14/another-solar-system-found-with-saturn-and-jupiter-sized-planets/#more-12828

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