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Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit: Ball Aerospace, The Kepler Mission , NASA/Ames Research Center Explanation: Observational astronomy has recently provided evidence of the existence of massive Jupiter-sized planets orbiting distant suns, protoplanetary disks of gas and dust surrounding newly formed stars, and planetary bodies orbiting exotic stellar corpses known as pulsars . ... Are there nearby solar systems with Earth-sized planets as well? ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day ...

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... The study of extra solar planets will be one of the most important areas of research in astronomy in this century. ... The first planets outside the solar system were found in 1992 around the millisecond pulsar PSR B1257+12 by Alex Wolszczan at the Arecibo Observatory . ... Three space missions based on this principle (MOST, COROT and Kepler ) have already been launched or approved, and have the last one at least has the potential to find Earth-sized planets. ... SIM ( NASA ) is one of such missions...

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Where and how are we looking for evidence of life? ... Because the universe is an immense place, it makes sense to search for evidence of life in more than one way. In addition to focusing on what we know about life on Earth, especially in extreme environments, astrobiology currently comprises three basic types of searches in space, each employing different technologies, looking in different places, and expecting to find different kinds of data: . ... The search types ? ... Extrasolar Planets vs. ...

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... An Automated Search for Extrasolar Planet Transits M. G. Hidas, J. K. Webb, M. C. B. Ashley, C. H. Lineweaver University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052 NSW, Australia J. Anderson University of California, Berkeley, USA arXiv:astro-ph/0209388 v1 19 Sep 2002 M. Irwin Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK Abstract. We are setting up a new search for transiting extra-solar planets using the 0.5m Automated Patrol Telescop e at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia. ... 2002; Mayor et al. 2002). ...

. Mars has become the center of intense interest since the Martian Meteorite results were announced. Currently there is a lively debate whether or not primitive life formed there or not.

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