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Most of the research that was ongoing at Oak Ridge involved gathering data over long periods of time to measure the velocity of stars. Latham said more than half of the measurements in most of his projects have been gathered at Oak Ridge...
...Oak Ridge was so precise that in 1988 a team of astronomers, including Latham, used the telescope to observe, for the first time, a wobble in a star’s movement indicative of an orbiting planet. Although other telescopes were pointed at the same stars at the same time, Oak Ridge was the first telescope to detect a wobble...
...Oak Ridge discovery surprised the astrophysics community because few thought that a massive gas giant planet could orbit a star close enough to create visible fluctuations in star velocity. But, since the discovery, about 110 more candidate stars have been found...
...Oak Ridge has also been frequented by Harvard undergraduates, since it offers opportunities for both junior and senior thesis research and the lab course Astronomy 191, “Astrophysics Laboratory...
Lecturer on Astronomy Thomas M. Dame, who has been an instructor for “Astrophysics Laboratory,” said he did not look forward to losing the site. “Over the 18 year history of the course, the experiment conducted at Oak Ridge has consistently been one of the most successful and popular,” he said in an e-mail...