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Astronomers find Super-Earth with Atmosphere
- Maciek416 17y agoCheck out the timelapse video in the gallery in this link. The telescopes are hard at work all night scanning all parts of the sky. Very cool.
- infinity 17y agoHere is a link to a paper by David Charbonneau et al. "A super-Earth transiting a nearby low-mass star" http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3229 http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3229 It contains more details. And here is a page about the MEarth project http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~zberta/mearth/ http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~zberta/mearth/ ... it seems that some nocturnal animals also find the telescopes highly interesting ...