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According to Charbonneau, the eight telescopes surveyed red dwarf stars looking for periodic faintness, a signal that a planet has crossed in front of its star, blocking out a small portion of the star's light.
A lay-in and two-handed slam from Monroe gave him four of his 16 points and extended the lead to 19. Harvard’s deficit would soon grow to 24 and the Crimson was sent packing back to Cambridge.
“We tried to pick ourselves up at the start of the second half,” Amaker said. “But with an 11-point cushion for their team here at home, that’s a big hill for our team to climb.?...
The team believes that the planet—named GJ1214b after the red dwarf star it orbits and 6.5 times the Earth's size—is primarily composed of water and ice but, at roughly 400 degrees Fahrenheit, is too hot to sustain life.
“It was completely unexpected to find something in the first six months,” Charbonneau said. “We expected to find a planet maybe three years out, so this was really exciting.”