Thursday, October 05, 2006

Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy





NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy.

The planet bonanza was uncovered during a Hubble survey, called the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS). Hubble looked farther than has ever successfully been searched for extrasolar planets. Hubble peered at 180,000 stars in the crowded central bulge of our galaxy 26,000 light-years away.

(Via Universe Today.)

1 comment:

wildone_106 said...

did it find only 16 planets out of 180,000 stars it looked at?