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:: HIMALAYAN TRUST :: himalayan trust nepal, sir edmund trust, trust nepal, hillary trust, hillary trust neal, verest, Sherpa Tenzing, Sir Edmund Hillary Prof. Dr. Christian Spannagel Bad Astronomy Well now, this is an interesting discovery: astronomers have found what looks like a "super-Earth" – a planet more massive than Earth but still smaller than a gas giant – orbiting a nearby star at the right distance to have liquid water on it! Given that, it might – might – be Earthlike. This is pretty cool news. We’ve found planets like this before, but not very many! And it gets niftier: the planet has at least five siblings, all of which orbit its star closer than it does. Now let me be clear: this is a planet candidate; it has not yet been confirmed. The star is called HD 40307, and it’s a bit over 40 light years away (pretty close in galactic standards, but I wouldn’t want to walk there). Massive planets tug on their star harder, so they’re easier to find this way. In this case, HD 40307 was originally observed a little while back by HARPS, and three planets were found. We don’t know how big the planet is, unfortunately. That’s exciting because of the prospect for life.

Albert Schweitzer Stiftung für unsere Mitwelt – Begeistert für Tiere e-Denkarium Daniel Fischer looks into the Universe... Links to the News and Press Releases / Contact me! This page is a kind of cosmic "short cut", leading the viewer to the most important (or most entertaining) events in space without wasting lots of time searching around for the real news stories or downloading unknown or useless images - that's my task :-) So then, welcome to The Cosmic Mirror of March 1, 2013!There are many long articles and a Blog (in German) to browse.Space History - Space News in German - Strange News Awards: and Daniel Fischer is also the 1997 winner of the Bruno-H. New: A tested collection of links about Hale-Bopp and comets! And for something completely different, try the funny pages... Search Tools: ForschungsPortal, Google News Tracker, Raging, Excite, PaperBall. Spaced-out Links worth of frequent checks: Leading sources for breaking news in space and astronomy: Updated weekly or roughly so: SciDev | WFS Bild der Woche | Science News | Phys.

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