How to Find a Tiny Wobble in a Zippy Star
This image shows the star VB 10 moving across the sky over a period of nine years. Astronomers nabbed a planet circling this star using a method called astrometry -- the first successful application of the method to planet hunting.
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PIA12013
Date Created
May 28, 2009
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JPL
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