Liver lump: Irregular swelling in the liver. See detailed information below for a list of 8 causes of Liver lump, Symptom Checker, including diseases and drug side effect causes. Â» Review Causes of Liver lump: Causes | Symptom Checker Â». The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Liver lump.
Kepler telescope spots strange star. Image of the Milky Way that includes the Kepler field of view (Credit: Carter Roberts). A distant star is getting a lot of attention from astronomers â possibly as a sign that alien life is out there. The star KIC 8462852 was discovered through Planet Hunters, a citizen science program at Yale University. Taking data from the Kepler Space Telescope, volunteers go searching for signs of a drop in light due to orbiting exoplanets crossing in front of their parent stars. KIC 8462852 is 1,481 light years away from Earth.
'Zombie planet' gets weirder. Fomalhaut b is a giant alien planet that is nearly three times the mass of Jupiter. It was the first alien planet ever directly imaged in visible light. The planet orbits the dust-shrouded star Fomalhaut and is located about 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus.ew observations of the planet Fomalhaut b by the Hubble Space Telescope revealed the oddball orbit, which has wild extremes between its closest and farthest points from the parent star and appears to cross through a vast minefield of dusty debris.