Pink alien planet is smallest yet to be photographed with an orbit around a sun. Nasa believes the planet, GJ 504b is a magenta colour, based on infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in HawaiiThe pink planet orbits its star at nearly nine times the distance Jupiter orbits the sun to challenge theoretical ideas of how giant planets formGJ 504b is about four times the mass of Jupiter and its star can be seen without a telescope in the constellation Virgo By Sarah Griffiths Published: 08:31 GMT, 9 August 2013 | Updated: 08:32 GMT, 9 August 2013 Astronomers at Nasa have discovered a pink alien planet orbiting a star like our sun 57 light-years away that they said is the smallest by mass photographed so far. Scientists believe the planet, GJ 504b, is thought to be a magenta colour, based on infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii.
While GJ 504b is the the lowest-mass planet ever detected around a star using direct imaging techniques, but it is still several times the mass of Jupiter and similar in size. Deep blue planet discovered by Hubble Space Telescope with scorching temperatures and glass raindrops. The Hubble Space Telescope has determined the true colour of an alien planet for the first timeHD 189733b is a deep blue, much like Earth, but a gas giant, with violent weather situated 63 light-years awayIn order to measure what this planet would look like to our eyes, the astronomers measured how much light was reflected off its surface By Sarah Griffiths Published: 15:09 GMT, 11 July 2013 | Updated: 07:56 GMT, 12 July 2013 The Hubble Space Telescope has determined the true colour of an alien planet for the first time - a dazzling blue.
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA telescope said that the planet, known as HD 189733b, is a deep cobalt blue, much like Earth. But that's where the similarities end. The planet is a huge gas giant orbiting very close to its host star and its atmosphere is scorching, with a temperature of over 1,000 degrees Celsius. Scroll down for video This illustration shows HD 189733b, a huge gas giant that orbits very close to its host star HD 189733. Computer Swap on Curiosity Rover. Computer Swap on Curiosity Rover Mission Status Report PASADENA, Calif. - The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been active.
The intentional swap at about 2:30 a.m. PST today (Thursday, Feb. 28) put the rover, as anticipated, into a minimal-activity precautionary status called "safe mode. " The team is shifting the rover from safe mode to operational status over the next few days and is troubleshooting the condition that affected operations yesterday. The condition is related to a glitch in flash memory linked to the other, now-inactive, computer. "We switched computers to get to a standard state from which to begin restoring routine operations," said Richard Cook of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, project manager for the Mars Science Laboratory Project, which built and operates Curiosity. Scientific investigations by the rover were suspended Wednesday and today. A planet is born: Astronomers capture 'super-Jupiter' challenging ideas about the formations of new worlds. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 21:49 GMT, 19 November 2012 | Updated: 07:55 GMT, 20 November 2012 A new planet labelled a 'super-Jupiter' has been spotted by astronomers who believe the find could challenge ideas about planet formations.
Scientists have long debated the prospect of large stars given birth to planets in a rotating disk of dust and gas but the new find suggest this could now be true. Captured by Japan's Subaru 8-metre telescope the planet, thought to be 13 times larger than our solar system's biggest planet, Jupiter, the object was spotted orbiting a star called Kappa Andromedae. Discovery: Snapped by the Subaru telescope this is the near infrared image of the Kappa Andromedae star system At more than two and a half times the mass of the sun and located 170 light-years away from Earth, the star is far from insignificant either.
Although it is far from the first new planet to be discovered, it is just one of a handful that have been captured in a photograph. 'Star Wars' planet discovered that is both orbiting two suns and being orbited by two suns. Four sun solar system KIC 4862625 is the first of its kind ever foundDiscovered by amateur astronomers as part of Yale University projectPlanet PH1 has been likened to Tatooine from the Star Wars films Published: 00:37 GMT, 16 October 2012 | Updated: 11:31 GMT, 16 October 2012 Amateur astronomers have discovered a new planet that not only orbits two suns but is simultaneously being orbited by two other suns. The incredible four sun solar system, the first of its kind ever discovered, was found as part of the Planet Hunters project led by a team from Yale University. Amateur enthusiasts work alongside professional scientists to analyse data collected by NASA's Kepler space telescope and find evidence of new worlds The planet, called PH1, a gas giant slightly bigger than Neptune, has being likened to Tatooine, the fictional two-sun planet and childhood home of Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars films.
Participants help sieve through data taken by the NASA Kepler space mission. New super-earth discovered around the red dwarf star Gliese 163 'could support life beyond Earth' Astronomers found it using the European Southern Observatory HARPS telescope (or High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher) By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 21:45 GMT, 5 September 2012 | Updated: 08:36 GMT, 21 September 2012 A newly-discovered 'super-earth' at the edge of a star's habitable zone could be a top contender for an alien planet beyond ours which supports life.
Gliese 163c, which lies beside a red dwarf star, has a mass of 6.9 times that of Earth and an orbital period of 26 days. Researchers believe the new-found world's location means it could be a super-earth where liquid water could exist. Scroll down for video Artistic representation of Gliese 163c as a rock-water world covered with a dense cloud layer (left). Astronomers found it using the European Southern Observatory HARPS telescope (or High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher).
The super-earth orbits a red dwarf star 49 light years away in the Dorado constellation. Two planets ... Two stars: Nasa detects strange new solar system (and one of the planets occupies the life-supporting 'Goldilocks zone') First time that planets have been seen orbiting a two-star system'Theorists will be going back to the drawing board to improve our understanding of how planets are assembled' By Eddie Wrenn Published: 16:30 GMT, 30 August 2012 | Updated: 08:25 GMT, 31 August 2012 Nasa has announced the discovery of a solar system which is home to not one, but two stars.
The Kepler solar system, 4,900 light-years away from Earth, has two stars - called a binary system - orbiting each other in a cosmic dance. What makes this discovery exciting is the discovery of two planets circling the system - and one of them inhabits the so-called 'Goldilocks Zone', where the planet is the right distance ('not too hot, not too cold') to support liquid water and potentially support life. Before today, it was unknown whether planets could form around a two-star system.
Scroll down for video Distant lands... 4,900 light-years from Earth are these two planets Kepler-47, orbiting a binary star system. Nasa finds 60 planets and 11 new solar systems - all from a fist-sized patch of sky. One solar system with sun older than ours has five planetsFind doubles the number of confirmed Kepler planetsDiscovery leads Nasa scientists to say galaxy is 'positively loaded with planets of all sizes'One sun older than ours has five planetsTechnique used could speed up space telescope's hunt for planets By Rob Waugh Updated: 12:16 GMT, 27 January 2012 NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets.
It's the latest find from a two-year space scan, and brings the total to 60 confirmed planets. The new haul triples the number of multi-planet solar systems found by Kepler. Doug Hudgins, a Kepler scientist at Nasa says, 'In just two years staring at a patch of sky not much bigger than your fist, Kepler has discovered more than 60 planets. Diagrams of the multi-planet systems detected by the Kepler space telescope: The planets range in size from 1.5 times the size of Earth to ones bigger than the gas giant Jupiter.