An international team of astronomers discovered a planet orbiting a Sun-like star in the Cancer constellation by using a ground-based telescope named the Nordic Optical Telescope. It has a total length of 2.5 meters and is located in the Spanish archipelago Canary Islands at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory. This was the first time when ground-based telescopes were used in detecting and … [Read more...]
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