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Kepler Team to List Stars Harboring Planets » American Scientist

Last week astronomers with NASA's Kepler spacecraft released a list of some 350 stars newly suspected of having planets, but under an agreement with NASA they withheld data on the 400 be...

Posted on Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:00:10 -0600

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NatGeo - Extreme Universe - 05 - Time Bombs - 4 (2010)

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Posted on Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:00:09 -0600

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Kepler team has released the first 43 days of science data

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Posted on Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:00:11 -0600

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Earth-like Planets May Be Ready for Their Close-Up

"The problem with finding Earth-like planets," said Stefan Martin, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., "is that their host stars can emit 10 million times ...

Posted on Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:00:11 -0600

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Jupiter Planet Facts: Jupiter Planet Information | .net

By Stars& Astronomy On June 25th, 2010. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, which is situated between the planets of Mars and Saturn. Its diameter is 88846 miles (142984 k...

Posted on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:00:07 -0600

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