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Observing Planets in the Solar System
One of the most distinguishing features of the planets is that, unlike the stars the positions of which remain unchanged in the night sky, the planets keep moving in the backgroun...
Posted on Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:00:07 -0700
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reeljob1: Tomorrow, NASA Announce Findings Alien Planet
Kepler uses a super sensitive photometer is able to monitor more than 156000 stars in the constellation Cygnus and Lyra. With that equipment, Kepler is able to detect the presence of planets...
Posted on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:00:08 -0700
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Astrology, Planets and the Stars: The Ecliptic Lounge: The Stars...
Astrology, Planets and the Stars: The Ecliptic Lounge. Astrology Articles, Weekly Transits. Tuesday, February 15, 2011. The Stars This Week: The Sun and the Moon. Email This BlogT...
Posted on Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:00:07 -0700
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isitzukuri - Jesus of the moon, planets and the stars (Nick Cave)
A Jesus of the planets and the stars. Well, I kept thinking about what the weatherman said. And if the voices of the living can be heard by the dead. Well, the day is gonna come when we ...
Posted on Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:00:14 -0700
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The Reference Frame: Kepler: 1% of stars have visible planets
During four months in 2009 (May-September), they analyzed 156453 stars and found that 997 of them - almost one percent - had visible
Posted on Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:00:06 -0700
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NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates In Habitable Zone
"Kepler can find only a small fraction of the planets around the stars it looks at because the orbits aren't aligned properly. If you account for those two factors, our results indicate ...
Posted on Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:00:05 -0700
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NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates in Habitable Zone, Six ...
"The fact that we've found so many candidates in such a tiny fraction of the sky suggests there...
Posted on Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:00:05 -0700
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32 NEW PLANETS IN OTHER SOLAR SYSTEMS ARE DISCOVERED – REVEAL HOW ...
The astronomers stated that more than 40 percent of the stars looking like our own sun have planets with small masses. The new observations have given the astronomers a large insight in...
Posted on Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:00:07 -0700
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Science Storiented: Exoplanet Extravaganza
How do you detect a orbiting a very (and in astronomical terms that 'very' is oh-...
Posted on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 03:00:13 -0700
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» Aliens In Our Solar Systems
With all those other stars, why haven't scientists studied other solar systems, at least enough to know how many are in our galaxy? Well, the reason is that planets around other stars...