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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: New Planet "Bonanza" Discovered at Center of Milky Way


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An artist's rendering depicts one of the planets discovered recently at the center of our galaxy. Five of the newfound planets have the fastest orbits of any known world, circling their parent stars in one Earth day or less.

Illustration courtesy NASA/ESA/A. Schaller