Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Smallest Exoplanets Found—Each Tinier Than Earth

Find out about the smallest alien planets yet discovered, in this SPACE.com infographic.
Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration


Smallest Exoplanets Found—Each Tinier Than Earth

I got to participate in a press conference today to announce three record-setting exoplanets that my group at Caltech discovered around a little red dwarf star named KOI-961. The paper, led by my postdoc Phil Muirhead, is on astro-ph tonight:

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