2002-12-02

fluffymark: (Default)
2002-12-02 01:48 pm

Wobbly stars

At long last, the Astrometric wobble (as opposed to the Doppler shift) of a star due to an orbiting planet has finally been detected using the Hubble Space Telescope. Yay! (Benedict et al. 2002)

Why this is very very good news )