From theregister.co.uk
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Lithium trick ideal for hunting alien civilisations
Astro boffins have developed a simple method for telling which stars have planets and which don't, potentially a great help in hunting for alien civilisations or uninhabited Earthlike worlds ripe for colonisation by humanity*.…The power of collaboration within unified communications
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Planets are, by and large, at the mercy of their stars. Not only do stars provide a ready energy source of radiated light and heat, but the mass and gravitational pull of stars flat-out dwarfs the summed masses and pulls of any orbiting companions. In our solar system, which has more planets--regardless of where one stands on the Pluto debate--than any other planetary system we know of so far, the sun still makes up more than 99.8 percent of...
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From rss.sciam.com
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Like most astronomers, Jim Kaler first became interested in astronomy as a child looking up at the stars. He has been interested ever since. This interest inspired Kaler, professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois, and his presentation "Other Stars, Other Planets," which is at 7 p.
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From dennews.com
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Astronomers at an observatory in Chile have discovered 32 planets outside our Solar System, bringing the number of known planets to more than 400.
The mass discovery was made by the European Southern Observatory's La Silla facility, which used the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (Harps). The searcher detects the existence of orbiting planets from the way their gravity makes their stars deviate in their movements across the sky...
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From radionetherlands.nl
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WASHINGTON -- European astronomers announced they had found 32 new planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, and said yesterday they believe their find means that 40 percent or more of sun-like stars have such planets.
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From nypost.com
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- Scientists find trawl of 32 new planets (reuters.com)
- European scientists find trawl of 32 new planets (nz.rss.news.yahoo.com)
We regularly report on the discovery of extrasolar planets in our galaxy, but earlier this year came news of possibly the first planet discovered outside of the Milky Way. Now comes news of the potential discovery of dozens of extragalactic planetary systems. Erin Mentuch and her colleagues at the University of Toronto [...]
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From universetoday.com
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On October 20, 2009, an international team of astronomers announced that 32 new planets had been discovered outside of Earth's solar system. Such extrasolar planets, also referred to as "exoplanets," now total 403.
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From jdnews.com
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- Nearly three dozen extrasolar planets found (rss.msnbc.msn.com)
- Nearly 3 Dozen Planets Found (rss.news.yahoo.com)

