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Another Earth Just 20 Light Years Away

October 19, 2007 – 8:40 pm

From Daily Mail.
It’s got the same climate as Earth, plus water and gravity. A newly discovered planet is the most stunning evidence that life - just like us - might be out there. The discovery was announced today by a team of European astronomers, using a telescope in La Silla in the Chilean Andes.
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Star System ‘Just Right’ for Building an Earth

October 5, 2007 – 1:17 am

From NASA.
An Earth-like planet is likely forming 424 light-years away in a star system called HD 113766, say astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Scientists have discovered a huge belt of warm dust - enough to build a Mars-size planet or larger - swirling around a distant star that is just slightly more massive than our [...]

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Mars Once Had Large Oceans

June 15, 2007 – 10:41 pm

From msnbc.
The once-flat shorelines were disfigured by a massive toppling over of the planet, scientists announced today. The warping of the Martian rock has hidden clear evidence of the oceans, which in any case have been gone for at least 2 billion years.
Somewhere along the way to toppling over 50 degrees to the north, Mars [...]

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