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Grant County Park, Santa Clara County Image by sfcityscape Along Mount Hamilton Road east of San Jose is Grant County Park, at nearly 10,000 acres the largest open space in Santa Clara County. Homebuilders have long criticized the Bay Area practice of protecting vast areas of countryside from development; environmentalists, of course, are constantly advocating [...]

[双语] 研究发现银河系中或存在很多地球 Kepler's scans have found 1235 extrasolar planets in the Cygnus constellation of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. 开普勒号发现了1235个在天鹅座，太阳系以外的星座，但是他们都属于银河系。 A new study … Read more on 华龙网

Fomalhaut b Image by Dallas1200am Fomalhaut b is an extrasolar planet approximately 25 light-years away in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus. The planet was discovered orbiting the A-type main sequence star Fomalhaut in 2008 in photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Fomalhaut b and the planets of HR 8799, whose discovery was announced simultaneously, [...]

2012 Gordon Research Conference on Origin of Life The 2012 conference will feature recent and cutting-edge results, and sessions will address attempts to fabricate life or life-like systems in the laboratory, the search for extra-solar Earth like planets, recent developments in our understanding of … Read more on Astrobiology News (press release)

Extrasolar planet WASP-11b/HAT-P-10b Image by Raven Vasquez My impression of planet WASP-11b/HAT-P-10b and its star. A weekend installment of the online play-at-home news quiz. Among other exciting finds, astronomers this week announced the discovery of an extra-solar planet they're calling … what? 4. The US Marine Corps is now offering civilians an officially endorsed what? [...]

New Funding For European Extremely Large Telescope “The UK is also involved in the design of an instrument that is specialized to take images and basic spectra of extra-solar planets. This instrument will have its own very specialized adaptive optics system to provide extremely sharp images needed to … Read more on RedOrbit VII Ancient [...]

World's Largest Telescope Sparks Hundreds of Project Requests With all 66 radio antennas expected to be built by 2013, ALMA carries the humanity's hope to unfold the origins of the universe by discovering and analyzing the oldest stars and galaxies. The cutting-edge telescope could also image extrasolar planets, … Read more on International Business Times [...]

Another Earth It is interesting to me that creationists in the 1960s insisted that extra-solar planets could never be found because they did not exist. They reasoned that Genesis 1:14-15 spoke only of "lights" and only here in the Solar system was there "dry land" … Read more on Ventura County Star Lazy 8 Studios [...]

Does Famous Exoplanet 'Fomalhaut b' Really Exist? Awe and wonder ensued; we were looking directly at those fabled extra-solar planets for the first time! But according to University of Toronto astronomer Ray Jayawardhana and his team, the Hubble discovery might not be all it seems. … Read more on Discovery News Young Clays on Mars [...]