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Archive for January, 2010

Observations of an Exoplanet!

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

Last Wednesday night we lucked out with clear sky conditions and relatively good seeing to observe something amazing: the transit of an exoplanet!

HD80606b is a planet that is four times larger than Jupiter, orbiting one star of a binary star system 190 light-years away from earth. Every 111 days, this planet passes in front of its star as viewed from earth. Continue Reading…

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