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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 23:53

Huge discovery of tiniest exoplanet

A French-led astronomy team found the smallest exolanet ever discovered directly. Even though it is just over 11 times the size of Earth, it could be a gigantic discovery in the world of extrasolar planets, or exoplanets.

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It’s amazing but if you happened to have been looking up in the night sky in the direction of the constellation Boötes at 2:12 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (0612 UTC) on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, you could have seen with your naked eyes the brightest explosion of a star that ever occurred.           
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