Three Massive Planets Orbit Nearby Giant Star HD 33142
An international team of astronomers, using the radial velocity (RV) method, has discovered a third planet in the planetary system HD 33142. “Since the first detection of an exoplanet around a solar-type star in 1995, the number of confirmed exoplanets has increased rapidly to over 5,000,” said Dr. Trifon Trifonov, an astronomer at the Max-Planck-Institut […]