Friday, April 1, 2011

An Image Worth 1235 Potential Alien Planets - Space.com

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An Image Worth 1235 Potential Alien Planets
Space.com
The illustration shows all of Kepler's candidate planets — which await confirmation by follow-up observations — crossing the face of their host stars. This provides scale, and it's also a nod to Kepler's planet-hunting strategy: The spacecraft ...

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Searching for alien life? Check out failed stars - msnbc.com

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Searching for alien life? Check out failed stars
msnbc.com
This artist's illustration shows a brown dwarf with a disk of planet-forming material around it. Brown dwarfs are bodies without enough mass to ignite nuclear fusion and become stars. By Clara Moskowitz The search for alien life usually focuses on ...
Searching for alien life? Try failed starsMother Nature Network

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