
The results will appear online in the journal Nature on 17 October 2012.Īlpha Centauri is one of the brightest stars in the southern skies and is the nearest stellar system to our solar system - only 4.3 light-years away. The planet was detected using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-meter telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun. The data in the above section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database™ under a Creative Commons Attribution License.European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system - the nearest to Earth.

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Notes: Most information for this issue from Error Report #3048 by Anthony DeMaria, September 2008. 6.875" X 9.5" Paper Stock: Newsprint Interior Glossy Cover Binding: Squarebound Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series Wollheim Color: Black & White With Four Color Insert Full Color Cover Dimensions: Standard Golden Age Pulp Magazine U.S. Published: December 1950, Price: 0.25 USD, Pages: 132, Editing: Donald A. Grand Comic Database Information™ on Out of This World Adventures #2 Issue: #2
