Astronomers say they have found a planet orbiting a distant star that's more like the Earth than any other found so far.
Each telescope has a mirror just 10cm across, yet working together they detected the microscopic dimming caused by a planet getting in the way of the distant star.
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The probe was built with four reaction wheels and needs three of them -- one for each axis -- to aim its telescope precisely at a distant star, deputy project manager Charlie Sobeck said.
If an object floating through space passes near the line of sight between the earth and a distant star, its gravity should, according to the theory of relativity, bend and focus the light from that star.
The technique employed to find the new planet uses the gravitational field of a star like a lens - magnifying the light from a distant background star.
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Astronomers detected the new planet as it crossed the face of the distant "sun", dimming the star's light as it passed in front.
The technique uses distant light amplified by the gravity of a massive star or planet to create an astronomical magnifying lens.
And a distant world discovered in February called GJ 667Cc, orbiting a star 22 light years away from Earth, has an ESI value of 0.85, the highest ranking so far of any confirmed potentially habitable planet.
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Their goal was to measure distant Type 1a supernovae - the brilliant ends of a particular kind of dense star known as a white dwarf.
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