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RE: Earth-like planet discovered 50 light-years away
by Vile at 8:08 pm EDT, Aug 27, 2004

Acidus wrote:
] ] The star is like our sun and just 50 light-years away. A
] ] light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about
] ] 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers). Most of the
] ] known extrasolar planets are hundreds or thousands of
] ] light-years distant.
] ]
] ] The star, mu Arae, is visible under dark skies from the
] ] Southern Hemisphere. It harbors two other planets. One is
] ] Jupiter-sized and takes 650 days to make its annual trip
] ] around the star. The other planet, whose existence was
] ] confirmed with the help of the new observations, is
] ] farther out.
] ]
] ] The three-planet setup, with one being rocky, is unique.
] ]
] ] "It's much closer to our solar system than anything we've
] ] found so far," said Alan Boss, a planet-formation
] ] theorist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington.
]
] Space is cool.

This story is gay. They discovered this five years ago. This isn't new or exciting. It is stale old bullshit! don't post shit like this!

Fuck it. This post was such shit that I have no choice. Acidhole, you are fired! Get your shit and go.

RE: Earth-like planet discovered 50 light-years away


 
 
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