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  Looking for Life by the Light of Dying Stars

  April 24, 2013 — Astronomers have now demonstrated that with the advanced technology available in the next decade we should be able to detect biomarkers like oxygen and methane in the planets that orbit dead stars ... > full story
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  Three Super-Earth-Size Planets Found in 'Habitable Zone'

  April 18, 2013 — NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of ... > full story

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  Can One Buy the Right to Name a Planet? A Response to Recent Name-Selling Campaigns

  April 12, 2013 — In the light of recent events, where the possibility of buying the rights to name exoplanets has been advertised, the wishes to inform the public that such schemes have no bearing on the official ... > full story
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  Ghostly Green Bubble: Detailed Image of Planetary Nebula

  April 10, 2013 — An intriguing new picture shows the glowing green planetary nebula IC 1295 surrounding a dim and dying star located about 3300 light-years away in the constellation of Scutum (The Shield). This is ... > full story
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  Retired Star Found With Planets and Debris Disc

  April 9, 2013 — The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has provided the first images of a dust belt -- produced by colliding comets or asteroids -- orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary ... > full story
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  NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation

  April 8, 2013 — NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from ... > full story
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  TESS Project Will Launch Telescopes to Perform Full-Sky Search for Transiting Exoplanets

  April 8, 2013 — NASA has selected the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project for a planned launch in 2017. The $200 million project will use an array of wide-field cameras to perform an all-sky ... > full story
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  Dead Star Warps Light of Companion Red Star, Astronomers Say

  April 5, 2013 — Astronomers have observed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion red star. The findings are among the first detections of this effect -- a result predicted by Einstein's theory ... > full story
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  Astronomers Anticipate 100 Billion Earth-Like Planets

  April 3, 2013 — Researchers have proposed a new method for finding Earth-like planets and they anticipate that the number will be in the order of 100 billion. The strategy uses a technique called gravitational ... > full story
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  Distant Planetary System Is a Super-Sized Solar System

  March 14, 2013 — Astronomers have made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-like planet beyond our Solar System. A spectrum reveals that the carbon to oxygen ratio is consistent with the ... > full story

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