Sunday, December 23, 2007

Earth-like planet...


This NASA Spitzer Space Telescope artist's conception received 03 October 2007 shows a binary-star, or two-star, system, called HD 113766, where astronomers suspect a rocky Earth-like planet is forming around one of the stars। Corot, a French-funded probe designed to detect worlds orbiting other stars, has found four such candidates in its first year of operation, its mission chiefs said here on Thursday.

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