Thursday, November 15, 2007

New Earths may be popping up in Pleiades

MSNBC - November 14, 2007
Small, rocky planets that could resemble Earth or Mars may be forming around one of the hundreds of stars in the Pleiades cluster, astronomers reported Wednesday.
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The team used NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope as well as the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii to detect the dust. The resulting findings are reported in the Astrophysical Journal.
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