Many Penn State web sites have been cataloged by the CAC search engine. Click here to search other web sites at Penn State for information on this subject. The good, the bad and the bogus from the web as a whole are constantly being cataloged. Take your chances and click here to search the entire Web for information on this subject. The number of known planets orbiting stars similar to the sun is steadily growing.
Planets are too dim to be seen, but can be located by their pull on the stars they orbit.
In one study, new images of dust around a star indicate it hosts a full planetary system rather than a single planet. HD187123 is closer to its host than any other planet found so far. Another recently discovered planet, orbiting star HD210227, is the first whose average distance from its parent star is nearly the same as Earth s distance from the sun. Mars's Magnetic Field New Software predicts failure in Structural Materials and controls Spacecraft. Out There Accelerated Universe Related Pages on the Web A dozen new planets . . .