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September 12, 2011 08:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BBGCpyFyMSQ/50-New-Exoplanets-Found-Billions-More-Await
50 New Exoplanets Found, Billions More Await
The Bad Astronomer writes "Astronomers using a sensitive spectrograph have just announced the existence of 50 more planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars. The important things to note: 1) Sixteen of them are super-Earths, and 2) 40% of all Sun-like stars appear to have at least one planet with less mass than Saturn."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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