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Science 9 January 1998:
Vol. 279. no. 5348, p. 170
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5348.170
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ASTRONOMY:
Far-Off Planet Makes a Comeback

James Glanz

Nearly a year ago, an astronomer issued a serious challenge to the case for an extrasolar planet--the first to be discovered around a sunlike star. He presented evidence that slow jitters in the spectrum of the parent star, thought to result from a planet's periodic tug, were actually due to a pulsation of the star's gases. Now the astronomer and at least three other groups say they have been unable to reproduce his earlier results. What looked like a planet killer may have been just a chance alignment of noisy data points.

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