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New technique may shed light on exotic alien atmospheres and more
Detecting the light from an exoplanet orbiting another star has been compared to trying to see a mosquito on the rim of a headlight ten miles away. But a team of astronomers working in the driest...
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Kepler spies a new solar system that looks familiar
We’ve found a lot of strange exo-planets in the last two decades, hot Jupiter’s spiraling into their star like giant comets and super earths that could be covered in exotic oceans and ices hundreds of...
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Earth-sized planet found lurking in data around … Alpha Centauri
We are living in the greatest age of planetary discovery since Galileo looked at Jupiter, and that age may be on the verge of delivering one of the most exciting discoveries imaginable: earth-like...
View ArticleNearby star is loaded with planets
A nearby star that’s been a staple of sci-fi and sci-fact for years may be loaded with planets, including at least one that may be able to support liquid water on the surface: Digital Trends — The star...
View ArticleFomalhaut B, the Zombie Planet, roams around its star once
Space.com — The latest observations of the odd planetary system revealed that the dusty debris disk surrounding the star Fomalhaut is much wider than previously thought. The debris belt spans a vast...
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Kepler finds exo-solar system full of ancient earth-sized worlds
Kepler, the probe that keeps on ticking, has found a well populated exo solar system of a type that could one day be the subject of a focused search by SETI – because there’s another interesting...
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Exoplanetary astronomers eager for rare opportunity to study nearest star
If you read science fiction or science fact, you know the nearest star to the sun is called Proxima Centauri, a tiny red dwarf that happens to lay on this side of its triple star system containing...
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New consideration doubles the theoretical number of habitable worlds in Milky...
A hypothetical water world with the red dwarf Gleise 581 glowering on the horizon. Look at a big spiral galaxy like the Milky Way and its blazing with the blue-white light of hot, young stars. But the...
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There’s another blue planet close by, let’s name it!
Hubble finds another blue planet! It needs a name — if we keep with the mythological gods and goddesses and demons and whatnot convention, we’re gonna run out of deities awful quick. There is however...
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Nearby super earth may be water rich
A hypothetical water world with the red dwarf Gleise 1214 glowering on the horizon. Nearby is relative, this world is more than 40 light-years away. Thousands of times farther from us than Pluto is...
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Hell on & off Earth
Venus may be the hottest terrestrial world in our solar system, super-volcanic Io might most resemble Dante’s Inferno, but we have a new candidate for most hellish earth-like world and it’s not even a...
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Hypothetical illustration of the surface of Kepler 186f: Lycoris
Kepler 186f, “Lycoris” by Karen Wehrstein. And she does this stuff at no charge, she depends solely on contribs. If anyone wants to drop a buck or two in her Paypal account at hearth@xplornet.com that...
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