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on Wednesday November 14 2018, @10:33PM
from the with-an-oink-oink-here-and-a...oh,-wait dept.
from the with-an-oink-oink-here-and-a...oh,-wait dept.
Exoplanet discovered around neighbouring star
Astronomers have discovered a planet around one of the closest stars to our Sun.
Nearby planets like this are likely to be prime targets in the search for signatures of life, using the next generation of telescopes.
The planet's mass is thought to be more than three times that of our own, placing it in a category of world know as "super-Earths".
It orbits Barnard's star, which sits "just" six light-years away.
Writing in the journal Nature [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0677-y] [DX], Guillem Anglada Escudé and colleagues say this newly discovered world has a mass 3.2 times bigger than the Earth's.
Also at phys.org.
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(Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday November 14 2018, @11:48PM
No. Fighting over meaningless values is what gives life meaning exceeding the bare struggle for survival life is otherwise. Any organism can expand its habitat. But it's only humans that can kill each other over spelling mistakes and the correct pronunciation of the one and only Flying Spaghetti Monster.
p.s. I may or may not had Nyango Star's Anpanman Maachi cover [youtube.com] playing in the background.
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