Radio Telescope Images Reveal Planet-Forming Disk Orbiting Twin Suns
(2009-06-10)
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UCLA astronomers David Rodriguez and Ben Zuckerman along with collaborators from RIT and CfA have used the Submillimeter Array to image the molecular disk around V4046 Sagittarii. The circumbinary disk around this 12 million year old T Tauri system offers clues into the formation of giant planets in binary systems.
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WISE Mission Assembled and Preparing for Launch
(2009-06-10)
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The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is assembled and undergoing the final preparations for its November launch. WISE will survey the entire sky at infrared wavelengths. The mission's principal investigator is Edward Wright from UCLA.
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Unlikely Suns Reveal Improbable Planets
(2009-06-01)
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Astronomers Mike Jura (UCLA) and Michael Werner (JPL) have published an article in Scientific American describing the diversity of planetary systems outside our own. While many planets have been discovered around stars like the sun, there are more extreme cases of planets orbiting neutron stars, white dwarfs, and brown dwarfs.
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