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NASA Science Update: NASA’s Hubble Discovers Extrasolar Planets Across Our Galaxy

October 4, 2006 · NASA

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NASA hosts a science update at 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Oct. 4, to discuss a Hubble Space Telescope discovery of extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars.

Panelists: – Jennifer Wiseman, Hubble program scientist, NASA Headquarters – Kailash Sahu, principal investigator, and Mario Livio, co-investigator, Hubble Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search project, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore – Alan Boss, Carnegie Institution of Washington