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Published online 9 May 2007 |
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| doi:10.1038/news070508-6
Corrected online: 10 May 2007
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Planet gallery
The hot, the fat and the molten.
The past few weeks have been feverishly active for planetary scientists — record-breaking results have popped out in all directions.
The glut of planetary announcements is probably coincidental, says Scott Gaudi, an astronomer studying exoplanets at Ohio State University in Columbus, but it might be because the transit method — watching planets as they pass in front of their stars — is reaching maturity.
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