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New planet found orbiting sun-like star

2008-07-25 09:13:21

A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After just 555 days in orbit, the mission has now observed more than 50,000 stars and is adding significantly to our knowledge of the fundamental workings of stars. read more

By: Machines Like Us - Science and Technology News

Orbiting gamma-ray observatory begins search for odd space objects

2008-07-10 09:19:45

The scientists have stopped holding their breath. Three weeks after the launch of the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), researchers from Stanford University, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and elsewhere have shaken awake the scientific instruments aboard their $690 million satellite, 350 miles above Earth, for the first time. read more

By: Machines Like Us - Science and Technology News

Astronomers find grains of sand orbiting distant stars

2008-03-14 09:58:56

In a find that sheds light on how Earth-like planets may form, astronomers this week reported finding the first evidence of small, sandy particles orbiting a newborn solar system at about the same distance as the Earth orbits the sun. read more

By: Machines Like Us - Science and Technology News

Rock 97.7 Orbiting Too Far From "The Sun"...

2007-03-21 11:21:00

A couple months ago, one of our local radio stations, Sun FM changed their format, and their name (Rock 97.7)...they now have the slogan "Today's Best Rock and Killer Classics". Don't much like the change, I must say. What the change essentially means is that they play alot of old garbagemixed with some mediocre new material. There are way too many of their "killer classics" being played, most

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