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Our nearest stellar neighbor has a planet. Where do we go from here?
# astrobiology
For all the excitement about this potentially habitable world, we still don't know much about it and its ability to host life.
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Just like supermassive black holes, planets can bend light with their gravity. But do they bend it enough for us to detect them that way?
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How big are some supermassive black holes? Just trying to scale them down to numbers we can wrap our minds around is a challenge in and of itself.
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Kepler-22b is now of the our best candidates for extraterrestrial life. But there are a lot of questions left to answer about this planet.
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Gliese 581d, one of the exoplanets considered potential homes for alien creatures seems to show even more promise on further investigation.
# astrobiology
Just because a planet was ejected from its solar system doesn't mean its oceans can't stay liquid long enough to host some basic life.
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A neutron star that suddenly cooled gives us a hint at what's going on in its superheated innards.
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Kepler's first survey gives us a list of over 1,200 new potential planets and shows that terrestrial planets may be as common as we hoped.
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The most likely candidate for alien life outside out solar system, Gliese 581g, might not really exist.