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Cradle for a New Human Genesis

Posted by Warren Wong on Saturday, November 13, 2010,
 The search for a new home for human life has started
Planets with water are the goal of astronomers. NASA photo.

The search for planets capable of acting as a cradle for a new human genesis has begun. Astronomers are searching the night sky above you for planets circling distant stars within what space scientists refer to as a stars life-zone or habitable-zone. This zone is an area at an orbital distance from the star in question that allows for the formation of the elements of life ...


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The Planetary Zoo is Expanding Accommodations for New Arrivals

Posted by Warren Wong on Wednesday, November 10, 2010, In : exo-planets 
What would life be like on a planet with such a weird orbit?

"Journey to the Beginning of Space and Time" to view the planetary zoo

Looking for a new place to live?
Space scientists looking at the rapidly expanding menagerie of planets being added to the planetary zoo keep coming back from their journey wide-eyed and smiling like a kid that just got the key to the candy store. The latest editions to the planetary zoo are orbiting celestial bodies in orbits totally out-of-whack...


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The More We Look, the More We Wonder?

Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010, In : exo-planets 
NASA photos
Do we really know anything?
 
 
The more astronomers look around on the human journey to the beginning of the universe, the more they realise we really have only scratched the surface of the known universe, and we really know nothing. This is exciting, for sure, for astronomers viewing the universe, but it means space scientists are constantly reworking theories and ideas concerning the universe and the way things really work. Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to vi...

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