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For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star. An advantageous alignment of a planet and its parent star in the system HD 189733, which is 63 light-years from Earth, enabled NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM Newton Observatory to observe a dip in X-ray intensity as the planet transited the star.![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_u5n0t8MM9JdhKECCdmJNQlEKjqDcHXISzaKZnTIXNCS_LyPDP6eJKSMG_Tcu7tOM3o0bv8lCjSbikPCYvjRvXSknTvRHfIzBttWEharJQwwu2vo9fOUmRUQ1xul1gHrLIA0xF7BIHfatpbYDQ6iLVRqfK7ihKETx3yzg=s0-d)
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For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star. An advantageous alignment of a planet and its parent star in the system HD 189733, which is 63 light-years from Earth, enabled NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM Newton Observatory to observe a dip in X-ray intensity as the planet transited the star.
via Science Daily
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