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'Einstein's Planet' Becomes First Exoplanet Discovered Using New Method

Posted by Soulskill on from the crazy-hair-mandatory-on-einstein's-planet dept.

cylonlover writes "Due to their relative faintness compared to their parent stars, most known exoplanets have been discovered using indirect detection methods – that is, detecting the effects they have rather than observing them directly. There are numerous indirect methods that have proven useful in the detection of exoplanets and now yet another, which relies on Einstein's special theory of relativity (abstract), has joined the list with the discovery of an exoplanet known as Kepler-76b."

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  1. Re:How many of these planets are habitable? by jbeaupre · · Score: 4, Funny

    Billions and billions*.

    * assuming one per galaxy.

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  2. What Einstein would say if he were alive today: by jbeaupre · · Score: 2, Funny

    Help! Help! Let me out!

    (Yeah, I know he was cremated, but his brain is in a jar.)

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  3. Re:BEER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    He would have got pissed ...