<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Quadruple star system may host a planet : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>29005</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29005/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Quadruple star system may host a planet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Planets may be present in a quadruple star system 150 light years from Earth, according to Spitzer Space Telescope observations. The system, called HD 98800, consists of two pairs of stars in which the partners in each pair orbit one another closely. The pairs themselves travel around each other on a very elongated path.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>53</score><crdate>7/26/2007 11:06:14 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-26T11:06:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>33777</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33777/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Star System Soaked With 'Rain']]></title><description><![CDATA[NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed a dusty star system being soaked with a &quot;steamy rain&quot; of water vapor.<br/>DUPE <div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/science/astronomy/l/33661/1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.plime.com/science/astronomy/l/33661/1/</a></div>]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>22</score><crdate>8/30/2007 12:32:00 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-30T12:32:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>80424</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/80424/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Evidence found of solar system around nearby star]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time, astronomers think that they've found evidence of an alien solar system around a star close enough to Earth to be visible to the naked eye.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>440</score><crdate>10/28/2008 8:49:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-28T08:49:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45954</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45954/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Astronomers from Heidelberg discover planet in a dusty disk around a newborn star]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg have discovered the youngest known extrasolar planet. Its host star is still surrounded by the disk of gas and dust from which it was only recently born. This discovery allows scientists to draw important conclusions about the timing of planet formation.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>237</score><crdate>1/3/2008 7:56:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-03T19:56:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40851</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40851/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Scientists Discover Record Fifth Planet Orbiting Nearby Star]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers have announced the discovery of a fifth planet circling 55 Cancri, a star beyond our solar system. The star now holds the record for number of confirmed extrasolar planets orbiting in a planetary system.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>322</score><crdate>11/6/2007 8:43:30 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-06T20:43:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>23498</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23498/1/</url><title><![CDATA[How Old Are You on Other Planets in Our System]]></title><description><![CDATA[Enter your age and discover your age on other planets in our solar system.  (Good link on here for building a scaled solar system too).  Not completely updated:  Pluto still a planet on this site.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>61</score><crdate>6/12/2007 12:30:48 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-12T00:30:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50257</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/50257/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Star eats star and builds planets from the crumbs]]></title><description><![CDATA[An unusual star may have swallowed its stellar companion and burped out a planet-forming cloud as a result, a new study reports. The star, called BP Piscium, is surrounded by a thick disc of gas and dust from which it appears to be sucking up new material at a prodigious rate.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>261</score><crdate>2/12/2008 8:44:26 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-12T08:44:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>53070</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/53070/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Last Confessions of a Dying Star]]></title><description><![CDATA[Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of previously unseen structures. The object, called NGC 2371, is a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a Sun-like star. The remnant star visible at the center of NGC 2371 is the super-hot core of the former red giant, now stripped of its outer layers.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>190</score><crdate>3/4/2008 11:26:29 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-04T23:26:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>58616</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58616/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The drifting star: Astronomers 'listen' to an exoplanet-host star and find its birthplace]]></title><description><![CDATA[By studying in great detail the 'ringing' of a planet-harbouring star, a team of astronomers using ESO's 3.6-m telescope have shown that it must have drifted away from the metal-rich Hyades cluster. This discovery has implications for theories of star and planet formation, and for the dynamics of our Milky Way.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>354</score><crdate>4/17/2008 12:09:23 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-17T00:09:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>82283</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/82283/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Scientists discover new planet orbiting dangerously close to giant star]]></title><description><![CDATA[A team of astronomers from Penn State and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland has discovered a new planet that is closely orbiting a red-giant star, HD 102272, which is much older than our own Sun. The planet has a mass that is nearly six times that of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>152</score><crdate>11/19/2008 8:29:17 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-19T08:29:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>35634</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35634/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Create Your Own Solar System]]></title><description><![CDATA[Create your own system of planets.  Change the direction and velocity of celestial bodies and keep them within your stars gravitational pull.  Be sure to &quot;select preset&quot; at the top right &amp; &quot;set number of bodies&quot; at bottom left.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>278</score><crdate>9/14/2007 1:23:31 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-14T01:23:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>30033</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30033/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Newfound planet has earth-like orbit]]></title><description><![CDATA[A planet outside our solar system with a year roughly equal to Earth's has been discovered around a dying, red giant star.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>98</score><crdate>8/3/2007 7:20:10 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-03T07:20:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>76343</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/76343/1/</url><title><![CDATA[First Picture of Alien Planet Orbiting Sunlike Star?]]></title><description><![CDATA[An image released today of a distant star and its potential planetary companion could go down in history as the first picture of a planet outside our solar system orbiting a sunlike star.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>235</score><crdate>9/16/2008 4:32:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-16T04:32:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44828</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44828/1/</url><title><![CDATA['Solar Flare' Detected From Star 150 Light Years Away]]></title><description><![CDATA[Using observations from ESO's VLT, astronomers were able for the first time to reconstruct the site of a flare on a solar-like star located 150 light years away. The study of this young star, nicknamed 'Speedy Mic' because of its fast rotation, will help scientists better understand the youth of our Sun.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>176</score><crdate>12/20/2007 8:38:28 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-20T08:38:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54539</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/54539/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Winking Star: First Step Of Earth-Like Planet Formation Observed]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time, astronomers have observed the initial phase in the formation of an earth-like planet. What astronomers observed was that a protoplanetary disk, or ring, around the binary star known as KH 15D, is composed of solid particles larger than what is usually observed in space.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>251</score><crdate>3/17/2008 1:07:47 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-17T01:07:47+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50665</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/50665/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mini Solar System Discovered ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers said Wednesday that they had found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light-years across the galaxy &#8212; the first planetary system that really looks like our own, with outer giant planets and room for smaller inner planets.<br/><br/>They also found signs of Elvis and Amelia Earhart.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>244</score><crdate>2/15/2008 1:34:05 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-15T01:34:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>22303</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22303/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Massive Transiting Planet With 31-hour Year Found Around Distant Star]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers with the Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey today announce the discovery of their third planet, TrES-3 in the constellation Hercules about 10 degrees west of Vega. The new planet was identified by astronomers looking for transiting planets &#8212; that is, planets that pass in front of their home star.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>99</score><crdate>6/1/2007 2:10:03 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-01T02:10:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>43399</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43399/1/</url><title><![CDATA[How to destroy a giant planet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Theorists have what they think is a good handle on how rocky planets like Earth form. Leftovers of star formation collide, stick together and eventually form a ball of rock. However, the formation of gas giant planets is more mysterious.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>138</score><crdate>12/6/2007 12:43:30 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-06T00:43:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>28489</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28489/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Astronomers Find Highly Elliptical Disk Around Young Star]]></title><description><![CDATA[Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope and W. M. Keck Observatory have found a lopsided debris disk around a young star known as HD 15115. As seen from Earth, the edge-on disk resembles a needle sticking out from the star.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>116</score><crdate>7/23/2007 12:05:57 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-07-23T00:05:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>13970</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13970/1/</url><title><![CDATA[WikiSky - Online Star Map]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wikisky is a draggable, zoomable, web-based star map. If you click on a star or other object, it brings upvall the information you could want on it, including recent articles and photos. That and much more.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>47</score><crdate>3/23/2007 4:35:11 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-23T16:35:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45025</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45025/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Earliest Stage Of Planet Formation In The Solar System Dated]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers have dated the earliest step in the formation of the solar system - when microscopic interstellar dust coalesced into mountain-sized chunks of rock - to 4,568 million years ago, within a range of about 2,080,000 years. The dates established by analyzing a particular type of meteorite, called a carbonaceous chondrite, which represents the oldest material left over from the formation of the solar system.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>225</score><crdate>12/21/2007 6:48:29 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-21T18:48:29+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>