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21 April 2009
For Immediate Release
“The holy grail of current exoplanet research is the detection of a rocky, Earth-like planet in the ‘habitable zone’ — a region around the host star with the right conditions for water to be liquid on a planet’s surface”, says Michel Mayor from the Geneva Observatory, who led the European team to this stunning breakthrough.
Originally posted by reugen
Interesting enough for a post, anyone here following what ESO does ? Oh wait i should have posted it with the title - "Extra - European NASA finds alien world!".
21 April 2009
For Immediate Release
“The holy grail of current exoplanet research is the detection of a rocky, Earth-like planet in the ‘habitable zone’ — a region around the host star with the right conditions for water to be liquid on a planet’s surface”, says Michel Mayor from the Geneva Observatory, who led the European team to this stunning breakthrough.
Full press release here.
[edit on 2009/4/21 by reugen]