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Old 17-July-2007, 01:46 AM
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Hubble Space Telescope times-series photometry of the planetary transit of HD189733: no moon, no rings, starspots

Well, nobody really expected them to exist as any orbit would be unstable so close to the star. The planet was detected transiting huge starspots, which is very cool.
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