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 Web References

1. 1. Planet Hunters: The Search for Life in Outer Space

   www.ucgstp.org/lit/gn/gn014/pl - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/26/2007   Last Visited: 9/20/2007

   When pointed at Jupiter, for example, the telescope provides images comparable to those from Voyager flybys" (Otto Johnson, editor, Information Please Almanac, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1997, p. 349).

2. 2. Planet Hunters: The Search for Life in Outer Space - The Good News Magazine January/February 1998 Issue

   www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn14 - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/1/2002   Last Visited: 12/1/2002

   When pointed at Jupiter, for example, the telescope provides images comparable to those from Voyager flybys" (Otto Johnson, editor, Information Please Almanac, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1997, p. 349).
   
   Unfortunately for planet hunters, Hubble's amazing abilities mean it is in high demand. Other tasks of a higher priority can and do get more attention and time; the search for planets gets relatively little opportunity.
   
   Astronomers at the Lick observatory near San Francisco are perfecting another technique less vulnerable to atmospheric distortions and variations: measuring the color variations of a star caused by motion induced by the gravitational pull of nearby planets.
   
   A star's light contains more than the spectrum of rainbow colors.