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Planet survives stellar explosion

Maybe Earth isn't doomed after all...

Planets circling close to their star — such as Earth around the Sun — aren't necessarily doomed to being swallowed up by that star, according to a new observation.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on September 12, 2007
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We know next to nothing about the past history of the surviving planet. What we found could be a small remnant of a much larger planet that was mostly destroyed during the red giant phase. Thus I don't think that Earth is any safer for now. P.S. Your "hype-title" mentions an explosion, but this slow process lasts for millions of years...

Posted by: Ronny Sheffer | September 13, 2007 12:43 AM

That if there's any creators outside is intersting. But why can't they survive in which case humans can not live?

Posted by: zhangjie | September 13, 2007 03:56 AM

there will be more such kind of planets! be sure.

Posted by: Thomas | September 14, 2007 05:05 AM

Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more. So please keep up the great work. Greetings.

Posted by: Dirk Karl Maßat | September 14, 2007 01:42 PM

I dont believe one should ever take predictions very seriously to effect the daily moods of ones conscious experience. Thought exact sounding, mathematical, science is more (meant to be)of a created toy, than a creator. The ways of emergence, transmission-the nearly unreferred to topics of science, ar emergences themselves of our own personal struggles; hence statements, predictions, are of the Ptolemy (II) type, they refute absolutely Ptolemy( i.e that the wotrld is centered around the earth) and substitute instead, predictions from our earthlty struggles-i.e-still self-centered.
Though most of what we pursue is Ptolemy(II) type; it is good to see, though, more referal to with the term emergence, and growing lattitude of tolerance for the unpredictable and unknown. A (the) major obstacle to maintaining our science pursuits in this light, is to know what is appropiate for our applications, and 'emerging' from this what new there is to know, can be known, maybe there could be surprises waiting from a new point of reference , in what appears as a random chaos.

Marvin Kirsh
http://www.marvinekirsh.com
http://www.authorsden.com/marvinelikirsh

Posted by: kirsh2152000@yahoo.com | September 25, 2007 03:08 AM

There are many useful informations on this site. Thanks and greetings from Germany!

Posted by: Bernhard Heß | October 18, 2007 01:20 PM

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