Posted on Tue, 24 May 2011 03:00:05 -0600

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Billions of planets, alone in space? - Boing Boing

Hundreds of billions of the size of Jupiter are floating alone in space, or are so very far f...

Posted on Sat, 21 May 2011 03:00:06 -0600

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Dark, starless 'orphan planets' lurk all over the universe ...

This artist's conception illustrates a Jupiter-like planet alone in the dark of space, floating freely without a parent star. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Orphan planets — ones floa...

Posted on Fri, 20 May 2011 03:00:14 -0600

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Discovery: A new class of planets | Science Codex

The team of scientists that made the discovery estimates that there are about twice as many free-floating Jupiter-mass planets as stars. This implies that free-floating planets ar...

Posted on Thu, 19 May 2011 03:00:19 -0600

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Why do Stars Twinkle

Stars that are close to the horizon seem to twinkle more because there is more of the earth's atmosphere, turbulent air, between you and the star. This means that the light refracts and scatter...

Posted on Tue, 17 May 2011 03:00:06 -0600

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Habitability Around Nearby Stars

... of planets with longer orbital periods. But if you had to go with what we have now, Adam estimates a population of 'Earths' somewhere in the range of 150 to 200 million in the Milky Way, as...

Posted on Mon, 16 May 2011 03:00:11 -0600

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Zodiac Heaven * Dharma Stars: Lively up Yourself -> Four Aries ...

Note how these four planets working together in the Aries conjunction is fast acting, and is an extremely fiery combination that can easily whip-up things to fly about the air (as we have seen...

Posted on Sat, 14 May 2011 03:00:06 -0600

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A Parade of Four Planets and the Old Moon « Journey to the Stars

Throughout the month of May, a beautiful display of planets could be observed in the morning sky just before sunrise. Last May 2 – a day before the New Moon- the 1% thin waning crescent Moon ...

Posted on Thu, 12 May 2011 03:00:12 -0600

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Looking to the Stars and Planets Reminds You of the Energy within ...

If you look deeper, you can observe that the and planets above do indeed emanate different colo...

Posted on Wed, 11 May 2011 03:00:14 -0600

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Q&A: What evidence is there that there are any stars(not planets...

by Dallas1200am Question by neville r: What evidence is there that there are any stars(not planets) out in space right now? If a

Posted on Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:00:07 -0600

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