Photo: #The planet's home star is bigger and hotter than the sun, and is about 10 times larger than the planet. The image shows how the new planet compares in size to Jupiter, at left.
Photo: #The International Astronomical Union proposed the addition of three more planets to the solar system.
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The planet's home star is bigger and hotter than the sun, and is about 10 times larger than the planet. The image shows how the new planet compares in size to Jupiter, at left. (Jeffrey Hall, Lowell Observatory)
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Planet hunters step it up

Broadcast: Midmorning, 08/10/2007, 10:06 a.m.

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Astronomers are discovering new planets at the rate of two or three per month. Midmorning takes a closer look at this new age of astro-discovery, and the likelihood of discovering a living planet in our universe.

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