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• Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia — exoplanet.eu Kommerziell Nein Beschreibung Internetpräsenz zur Forschung im Bereich der Exoplaneten Sprachen 8 Sprachversionen (darunter D …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Methods of detecting extrasolar planets — Any planet is an extremely faint light source compared to its parent star. In addition to the intrinsic difficulty of detecting such a faint light source, the light from the parent star causes a glare that washes it out. For those reasons, only a …   Wikipedia

• Discoveries of extrasolar planets — See also: List of extrasolar planet firsts Number of extrasolar planet discoveries per year as of 10 July 2011, with colors indicating method of detection …   Wikipedia

• List of stars with confirmed extrasolar planets — The following are lists of stars with confirmed extrasolar planets. Extrasolar planets were first confirmed to be orbiting pulsars PSR B1257+12 and PSR B1620 26. These discoveries were announced in 1992 and 1993 respectively. The first extrasolar …   Wikipedia

• Appearance of extrasolar planets — The appearance of extrasolar planets is largely unknown because of the difficulty in making direct observations of extrasolar planets. In addition, analogies with planets in our solar system can apply for few of the extrasolar planets known;… …   Wikipedia

• Extrasolar planet — Planet Fomalhaut b (inset against Fomalhaut s interplanetary dust cloud) imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope s coronagraph (NASA photo) …   Wikipedia

• extrasolar planet — ▪ astronomy also called  exoplanet   any planetary body that orbits a star other than the Sun. The first extrasolar planets were discovered in 1992, and within 15 years some 250 were known.  Because planets are much fainter than the stars they… …   Universalium

• Extrasolar moon — An extrasolar moon, or exomoon, is a term that refers to a smaller, natural (non man made) satellite that orbits an extrasolar planet or other extrasolar body larger than itself. Definition of satellites around brown dwarfs While traditional… …   Wikipedia

• planets of other stars — or extrasolar planets Planets that orbit stars other than the Sun. The existence of extrasolar planets, many light years from Earth, was confirmed in the early 1990s with the detection of three bodies circling a pulsar. The first planet revolving …   Universalium

• extrasolar — adjective Date: 1872 originating or existing outside the solar system < extrasolar planets > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Planets in science fiction — are fictional planets that appear in various media, especially those of the science fiction genre, as story settings or depicted locations. [cite book last = Mann first = George authorlink = coauthors = title = The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science …   Wikipedia