Nov 7, 1999
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (November 7th, 1999) have witnessed for the first time a distant planet passing in front of its star, providing direct and independent confirmation of the existence of extrasolar planets that to date have been inferred only from…
Nov 1, 1999
MAUNA KEA, Hawaii (November 1st, 1999) Searching the night skies with the Keck I telescope, the world’s most prolific team of planet hunters has found six new planets orbiting nearby stars, bringing the total number of planets detected outside our…
Oct 22, 1999
WAIMEA, Hawaii (October 22nd, 1999) Gamma-ray bursts and their X-ray and optical afterglows have surpassed quasars as the most distant probes of the early universe, according to new calculations performed by University of Chicago astronomers. Don Lamb Jr., a Professor…
Sep 29, 1999
WAIMEA, Hawaii (September 29th, 1999) Cosmic gamma-ray bursts, the brightest known explosions in the universe, may come from the fiery deaths of very massive stars in supernova explosions, a team of astronomers said today. In a paper published Wednesday, Sept.…
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