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NASA’s Kepler confirms first planet orbiting two stars
by tte-77 Just like "Star Wars" Tatooine newly discovered Kepler-16b is a world where two suns set over the horizon - Credit: NASA TV Exciting news from the Kepler mission announced at 1800 UTC/GMT + 1...
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“Earth-like” planet Kepler 22b identified
by yaska77 Astronomers have identified an Earth-like planet in the “habitable zone” around a star similar to our own Sun. Called Kepler 22b it lies 600 light-years away and is 2.4 times the size of...
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An extraordinary time to be conducting SETI observations
by tte-77 The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) - Credit: SETI Telescopes at SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Life) are once again operational and searching planetary systems for signals of possible...
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First Earth-size planets beyond our Solar System identified
by yaska77 NASA’s Kepler mission has indentified the first Earth-size planets orbiting a star similar to our own sun. Called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, the planets aren’t in the recognised “goldilocks”...
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Ideal SETI-target planets and K-type stars
by tte-77 The Kepler-62 system – home to two habitable zone worlds. The small shining object to the right of Kepler-62f is Kepler-62e. Image credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech. Its been far too long since I...
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