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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope and a trick of nature have confirmed the existence of a planet orbiting two stars in the OGLE-2007-BLG-349 system, located 8,000 light-years away toward the center of our galaxy. The observations are the first in which a three-body system has been discovered using the micro-cleaning technique

The Hubble Space Telescope discovered a planet orbiting two stars at the same time

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Antarctica: The warm water seeps under the glaciers. Photo: shutterstock

Living according to the devil

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The universe from the surface of an alien planet. Illustration: shutterstock

Life at the seam between the bright side and the dark side: the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to examine the composition of the atmosphere of Proxima Centauri b

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Physicist Stephen Hawking, and behind him investor Yuri Milner (left), Freeman Dyson and Avi Leib at the announcement of the STARSHOT project in New York in April 2016. PR photo

The Israeli astrophysicist's journey to Proxima Centauri

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Artist's rendering of Proxima b The planet orbiting the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. The double star Alpha Cantauri A and B appears in the image between the planet and its sun. Image: ESO / M. Kornmesser

ESO confirms: Terrestrial planet discovered around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System

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An artist's rendering shows the triple star system HD 131399 and the planet orbiting the giant star of the three HD 131399Ab visible in the lower left of the image. Photo: ESO / L. Calçada

Surprise: a planet with three suns

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Extraterrestrial life: similar to us and closer than we thought

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Double eclipse in the Kepler system 1647. Image: NASA

A newly confirmed planet is the largest yet orbiting two suns

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Ring Superintendent - An artist's illustration of the ring system of a young giant or brown dwarf planet J1407b. The rings appear to cause a solar eclipse and hide the Sun-like but younger star J1407 as discovered in 2007. Illustration by Ron Miller for the University of Rochester

Rings in Super Saturn

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WFIRST space telescope. Image: NASA

The search for a second Earth

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Simulation of extrasolar planets. Source: NASA

NASA Announces 1,284 New Extrasolar Planets - Largest Harvest to Date

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An artist's rendering of a view from the surface of one of the three planets orbiting the cold dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 40 light-years away. CREDIT: ESO/M. KORNMESSER

Three planets with potential for life orbit a cold red dwarf close to the solar system

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A 1917 astronomical photographic plate spectrum of the star Van Meenen from the Carnegie Archives. The pull-out box shows the strong lines of the element calcium, which is surprising to see in a century-old spectrum. The spectrum is a thin (mostly) dark line in the center of the image. The broad dark spurs above and below the spectrum line originate from the bulbs used at the time to calibrate the image. In this image they appear in contrast to highlight the two emission lines missing from the star. Photo: Carnegie Institution for Science

A 1917 photographic plate reveals the first ever evidence of an extrasolar planetary system

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Artist rendering of a hypothetical moon orbiting a planet discovered in a dense three-star system. Image: NASA/Caltech

A planet was discovered in a system of three suns

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The "Einstein Ring", as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, is a phenomenon of gravitational collapse. When a massive mass passes on one axis between a more distant celestial gram and the Earth, the light rays of the more distant gram are bent around the massive mass and form a ring known as the "Einstein Ring" from the perspective of the observer on Earth. Examining slight changes in the gravitational clouding will allow the detection of planets around a star that creates such clouding. Source: NASA.

NASA has announced a new space telescope, WFIRST, to be launched in the next decade

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Simulation of the orbital configuration of the Wolf 1061 system. Wolf 1061 is an inactive red dwarf, small and cold from the Sun located 14 light years away from us. The orbits of planets b, c and d have a duration of 4.9, 17.9 and 67.2 days. In the simulation it is seen that the orbits of the planets are on one plane. The habitable zone around the star is marked in green - the part where it is too hot is marked in red and the cold part in blue. Illustration: Made using Universe Sandbox 2 software from universesandbox.com

The closest planet to the solar system that is in the habitable zone of its solar system has been discovered

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Two out of three climate simulations demonstrated the possibility of life even on planets that show their sun only one side. Illustration, KU University, Belgium

Even the planets facing one side to their sun may have life

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Artist's rendering of a red dwarf and a gas giant type planet surrounding it. Photo: DAVID A. AGUILAR (CFA/HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN)

Young red dwarfs may teach us how planets form

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Illustration illustrating the possible appearance of the planet HD 219134b, a super-Earth that is part of a system with a rocky inner planet and a gaseous outer planet. Photo: University of Geneva

Solar System 2.0 - four planets discovered around a star 21 light years away, arranged like in our solar system

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Life on a planet outside the solar system. Illustration: shutterstock

Better worlds than Earth / Renee Heller

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An artist's illustration of the Kepler 11 solar system featuring a Sun-like star and six planets. Telescopes designed to search for planets are finding more and more worlds with a chance of discovering life, including over 50% of the potential planets in the habitable zone. NASA's chief scientist said that "strong evidence" of extraterrestrial life will be discovered within a few years

NASA scientist "In 20-30 years we will be able to discover life in space, but not necessarily intelligent (video)

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An artist's illustration of the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star MWC 480. The ALMA telescope discovered the organic molecule methyl cyanide in the outer regions of the disk, where comets are thought to form. This is another evidence that organic chemistry is complex of the kind needed for life, it is universal. Figure: (NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Complex organic molecules, the basis of life, were discovered in the disk of a nascent solar system

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An artist's rendering of the Tao Seti system. Image: University of Hertfordshire

The Dust Ring of Neighbors / Ken Croswell

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Ring Superintendent - An artist's illustration of the ring system of a young giant or brown dwarf planet J1407b. The rings appear to cause a solar eclipse and hide the Sun-like but younger star J1407 as discovered in 2007. Illustration by Ron Miller for the University of Rochester

In another solar system, a "super Saturn" with a huge ring system and possibly a moon will be discovered

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Pictured: Kepler Hall of Fame: Of the over a thousand confirmed planets discovered by the Kepler space telescope, eight are less than two Earth diameters in diameter and are in the habitable zone of their Sun. All eight orbit stars smaller and colder than the Sun. Image: NASA

Kepler discovered the thousandth planet

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