By adkoill on August 26, 2010
You know how sometimes you’re just sitting out in a field with your homies, looking up at the stars and thinking man, the universe is so BIG… and I’m just so small! Thanks to the Very Large Telescope in Chile, Professor Paul Crowther at Sheffield University, and some good old-fashioned Hubble data, you can feel just a little bit [...]
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By adkoill on August 26, 2010
Tight binary solar systems are inhabited in science fiction — remember the Star Wars world of Tatooine — but humanity might find such planets inhospitable over the long term, and not just because of the heat. Using NASA’s Spitzer telescope, scientists discovered clouds of dust around three such binary systems far too recent to come from [...]
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