Planets circle the stars that dot the heavens.
Before 1995, we couldn’t have said that with any certainty. Now we know of more than 300 planets orbiting distant stars, and we have a fleet of telescopes looking for them. The ultimate goal is to find another Earth orbiting a star like the Sun, but the quest on the way to that Holy Grail has yielded some strange benchmarks.
Full Article:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/10/06/astronomers-fi...
And this is related to
And this is related to rhetoric or pedagogy exactly how?
often off topic
Barry seems to have quite a few not quite rhetoric and pedagogy focused postings. Or perhaps I'm not prescient (this is my big word for the day) enough to see the connections.
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That's easy enough to cure.
That's easy enough to cure. It's no longer published on the front page.
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