Hot times for the Harvard exoplanets
Don’t worry about the bird flu. We’ve got it covered. Like everyone else, we’re focused on outer space: From The New York Times: In what amounts to a kind of holiday gift to the cosmos, astronomers from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft announced Tuesday that they had discovered a pair of planets the size of Earth orbiting a distant star. The new planets, one about as big as Earth and the other slightly smaller than Venus, are the smallest yet found beyond the solar system. The Globe has an excellent graphic and story: Even with these two planets, the team had difficulties … Read more