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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

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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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