[FPSPACE] FW: HUBBLE FINDS EXTRASOLAR PLANETS FAR ACROSS OUR GALAXY (STScI-PR06-34)

[LARRY KLAES]

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>Subject: HUBBLE FINDS EXTRASOLAR PLANETS FAR ACROSS OUR GALAXY 
>(STScI-PR06-34)
>Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:24:26 -0400
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>EMBARGOED UNTIL 1:00 PM (EDT) OCTOBER 4, 2006
>
>Erica Hupp/Dwayne Brown
>Headquarters, Washington
>(Phone: 202-358-1237/1726)
>
>Ray Villard
>Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
>(Phone: 410-338-4514; E-mail: villard at stsci.edu)
>
>PRESS RELEASE: STScI-PR06-34
>
>HUBBLE FINDS EXTRASOLAR PLANETS FAR ACROSS OUR GALAXY
>
>NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet 
>candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our 
>Milky Way galaxy.
>
>The planet bonanza was uncovered during a Hubble survey, called the 
>Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS). Hubble 
>looked farther than has ever successfully been searched for extrasolar 
>planets. Hubble peered at 180,000 stars in the crowded central bulge of our 
>galaxy 26,000 light-years away. That is one-quarter the diameter of the 
>Milky Way's spiral disk. The results will appear in the Oct. 5 issue of the 
>journal Nature.
>
>To see and read more about SWEEPS on the Web, visit:
>http://www.nasa.gov/hubble
>http://hubblesite.org/news/2006/34
>http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0612.html
>http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2006/pr-38-06.html
>
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