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Far Away Planets "Can Support Life"

Posted January 07, 2014 9:56 AM

From BBC News - Science & Environment:

Earth-sized planets could support life at least 10 times further away from stars than originally thought, Scottish researchers claim.

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Re: Far Away Planets "Can Support Life"

01/08/2014 11:50 AM

In that case, the existing rovers there are probably the wrong shape:

A redesign would offer 6.02 x 1023 additional possibilities...

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