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Cosmos: Travels in Space and Time Part 4

Episode 8 of Cosmos. Author:

Posted on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:00:22 -0600

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Cosmos: The Lives of the Stars Part 2

Episode 9 of Cosmos. Author:

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SETI CONVERSATION STARTER WITH SPACE ALIENS GETS NO RSVP

Most of the stars are packed into the globular clusters and the dense central regions of the galaxy. Most of these are so closely surrounded by other stars that their planets woul...

Posted on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:00:22 -0600

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Plan to Identify Watery Earth-like Planets Develops

Astronomers are looking to identify Earth-like watery worlds circling distant stars from a glint of light seen through an optical space telescope and a mathematical method developed by research...

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The Annunaki and the Myth of a 12th Planet

... of course -- as long as historians of religion swear to it that stars and planets were smuggled into originally "healthy" fertility cults and naive fairy tales only "very late...

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Cosmos: The Lives of the Stars Part 4

Episode 9 of Cosmos. Author:

Posted on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:00:21 -0600

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Stephen Hawking, Frank Drake and life in the Universe.

R* is the average rate of star formation in our galaxy; fp is the fraction of those stars that have planets; ne is the average number of planets that can potentially support life ...

Posted on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:00:03 -0600

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SLY'S MOVIE SLIDESHOW

SLIDESHOW FILM OF VARIOUS ARTIST Au...

Posted on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:00:15 -0600

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Problems with Andrew Watson’s Hypotheis on the Rarity of ...

Astronomers have recently determined that rocky planets are very common in the universe. According to these results, at least 20%, and possibly as many as 60%, of sun-like

Posted on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:00:15 -0600

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