MSNBC.com: Space News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... units (AU) from its star, where one AU is the average Earth-sun distance.Astrophysicist Sara Seager of MIT, who was not involved in the latest discovery, said while the possibility is exciting, another more convincing image of the object is in order. "We want to make sure it's moving together with the star," Seager said.Another image would show whether the star is moving at...
John & Belle Have A Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
... our own solar system might have looked like when it was 60 million years old,” Dr. Marois said. Sara Seager, a planetary theorist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said it was significant that the planets in both cases seemed to be associated with disks of dust, particularly Fomalhaut, one of the brightest and closest stars known to be host to a massive disk. “Fomalhaut...
Space Ref (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... are: -- Ed Weiler, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington -- Sara Seager, associate professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. -- Paul Kalas, assistant adjunct professor, Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California at Berkeley. -- Mark Clampin, James Webb Space...
Nasa (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... are: -- Ed Weiler, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington -- Sara Seager, associate professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. -- Paul Kalas, assistant adjunct professor, Physics and Astronomy Department, University of California at Berkeley. -- Mark Clampin, James Webb Space...
