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Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/science/newly_found_planet_could_support/ A rocky planet not much larger than Earth has been detected orbiting a star close to our own neighborhood in the Milky Way, and the European astronomers who found it say it lies within the star's "habitable zone," where life could exist -- possibly in oce news science 2007-04-25 08:17:40 http://www.newsique.com/science/newly_found_planet_could_support/ SF Gate http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/news/~3/111815045/article.cgi http://www.newsique.com/sources/sfgate/ 95 Interesting [7] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/newly_found_planet_could_support/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/compact_fluorescent_light_bulbs/ If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR, we would save enough energy to light more than 2.5 million homes for a year and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of nearly 800,000 cars. news science 2007-02-02 10:34:11 http://www.newsique.com/science/compact_fluorescent_light_bulbs/ www.energystar.gov http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=cfls.pr_cfls Interesting [7] 100 mrmdc http://www.newsique.com/profiles/mrmdc/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/compact_fluorescent_light_bulbs/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/diamond_star_thrills_astronomers/ Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered. news science 2007-01-05 16:42:38 http://www.newsique.com/science/diamond_star_thrills_astronomers/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3492919.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Amazing [8] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/diamond_star_thrills_astronomers/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/tiniest_extrasolar_planet_found/ Astronomers have sighted the smallest extrasolar planet yet orbiting a normal star - a distant world just three times the size of our own. Discovering a planet with a similar mass to that of Earth is considered the "holy grail" of research into planets news science 2008-06-03 08:19:37 http://www.newsique.com/science/tiniest_extrasolar_planet_found/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7432114.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/tiniest_extrasolar_planet_found/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/exploding_star_caught_in_the_act/ Astronomers have been able to capture and record the first moments when a massive star blows itself apart. After decades of searching, researchers have used the world's top telescopes to observe the remarkable event. Previously, scientists had only news science 2008-05-22 08:22:48 http://www.newsique.com/science/exploding_star_caught_in_the_act/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7413160.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/exploding_star_caught_in_the_act/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/how_does_small_star_let_off_a_hu/ A tiny star recently unleashed what is considered the brightest burst of light ever seen in the universe from a normal star, astronomers announced today. Shining with only 1 percent of the sun's light and boasting just a third of the sun's mass, this r news science 2008-05-20 08:14:36 http://www.newsique.com/science/how_does_small_star_let_off_a_hu/ MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24711241/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/msnbc/ 95 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/how_does_small_star_let_off_a_hu/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/solar_systems_look-alike_found/ Astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own. They found two planets that were close matches for Jupiter and Saturn orbiting a star about half the size of our Sun. Martin Dominik, from St Andre news science 2008-04-07 08:22:23 http://www.newsique.com/science/solar_systems_look-alike_found/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7333155.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/solar_systems_look-alike_found/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/astronomers_see_youngest_planet/ An embryonic planet detected in a far off galaxy could be less than 2,000 years old, astronomers say. The ball of dust and gas, which is in the process of turning into a Jupiter-like giant, was detected around the star HL Tau by a UK team. Research news science 2008-04-02 08:21:00 http://www.newsique.com/science/astronomers_see_youngest_planet/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7326318.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/astronomers_see_youngest_planet/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/astronomers_discover_new_planet/ Astronomers in the US say they have found a new planet in orbit around a star 41 light years from Earth. The discovery brings to five the number of planets orbiting the star, 55 Cancri, the most found to date in a single solar system outside our own. news science 2007-11-07 08:21:53 http://www.newsique.com/science/astronomers_discover_new_planet/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7082257.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/astronomers_discover_new_planet/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/scientist_reworks_star_distances/ The most accurate catalogue of the distances to more than 100,000 stars has just been released. Cambridge astronomer Dr Floor van Leeuwen has spent the past 10 years checking and recalculating data gathered by the Hipparcos satellite. It collected t news science 2007-10-01 08:19:39 http://www.newsique.com/science/scientist_reworks_star_distances/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7016247.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [5] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/scientist_reworks_star_distances/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/water_vapour_found_on_exoplanet/ Astronomers have found water vapour in the atmosphere of a giant planet outside our Solar System. The detection in the extrasolar planet HD 189733b was made using Nasa's powerful Spitzer Space Telescope and is reported in the journal Nature. The tea news science 2007-07-12 16:54:05 http://www.newsique.com/science/water_vapour_found_on_exoplanet/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/6292076.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/water_vapour_found_on_exoplanet/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/secrets_of_sun-like_star_probed/ The first image of the surface of a Sun-like star has been captured. It confirms that Altair, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is a rapidly spinning, non-spherical body. Until now, telescopes have only been powerful enough to zoom in on news science 2007-06-04 14:39:20 http://www.newsique.com/science/secrets_of_sun-like_star_probed/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/6709345.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/secrets_of_sun-like_star_probed/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/planet_of_promise_small_rocky_wo/ For the first time, astronomers have discovered a planet far, far away that might be similar to Earth. This distant world, which pirouettes around a dim bulb of a star with the unglamorous name Gliese 581, may possibly sport a landscape that would be vagu news science 2007-05-19 12:36:49 http://www.newsique.com/science/planet_of_promise_small_rocky_wo/ Space.com http://www.space.com/searchforlife/070517_seti_planet.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/spacecom/ 98 Under Rated [1] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/planet_of_promise_small_rocky_wo/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/brightest_supernova_spotted/ Nathan Smith, of the University of California at Berkeley, who led the discovery team, described SN 2006gy as "a special kind of supernova that has never been seen before". He called it "freakily massive" at 150 times the mass of the sun. "This on news science 2007-05-08 12:16:54 http://www.newsique.com/science/brightest_supernova_spotted/ Al Jazeera http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/278F4153-930F-49AF-88EF-6378EB6AC5F2.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/al_jazeera/ 90 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/brightest_supernova_spotted/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/dwarf_stars_emit_powerful_pulse/ A class of "failed" star called a brown dwarf emits beams of radiation that are thousands of times brighter than any released by the Sun. The brown dwarfs are behaving like an altogether different and exotic cosmic object called a pulsar. Pulsars ar news science 2007-04-20 14:59:53 http://www.newsique.com/science/dwarf_stars_emit_powerful_pulse/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/6574433.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Interesting [3] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/dwarf_stars_emit_powerful_pulse/#comments http://www.newsique.com/science/water_detected_on_distant_planet/ Water has been detected for the first time in the atmosphere of a planet outside our Solar System. The planet, known as HD 209458b, is a Jupiter-like gas giant located 150 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. Other scientists reporte news science 2007-04-12 09:32:16 http://www.newsique.com/science/water_detected_on_distant_planet/ BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/6544257.stm http://www.newsique.com/sources/bbc_news/ 93 Under Rated [2] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/water_detected_on_distant_planet/#comments