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Interstellar Seeds Could Create Oases of Life

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Cambridge, MA - We only have one example of a planet with life: Earth. But within the next generation, it should become possible to detect signs of life on planets orbiting distant sta...

New eBook: "From the First Star to Milkomeda"

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Avi Loeb, chair of the Harvard Astronomy Department and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation, has published a new eBook: "From the First Star to Milkomeda," available on K...

The Evolving Population of Black Holes

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Quasars are among the most luminous sources in the universe, shining with a total luminosity of hundreds or thousands of Milky Ways. Their large radiative emission enable us to observe th...

Dust Storms on Mars

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In the 1870's astronomers first noted the presence of yellow clouds on the surface of Mars and suggested they were caused by windblown dust. Today, dust storms on Mars are well known and ...

Third Annual GMT Community Science Meeting

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On October 1-3, 2015, the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization will present the third annual GMT Community Science Meeting. This year's conference, entitled "(re)Solving Galaxies in the ...

Direct Imaging of a Young, Extrasolar Kuiper Belt

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The Kuiper belt is the region of the solar system situated just beyond Neptune's orbit, about 40 AU from the Sun (one AU - astronomical unit - is the Earth's average distance from the Sun...

The Nearest Potentially Habitable Planet

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The Kepler mission has so far spotted an astonishing 4696 possible exoplanets; about one third of them, 1030, have been confirmed as exoplanets so far. A small percentage of this set are ...
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