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Scientists Propose New Way To Study Rare Alien Planets

Posted 10.02.2012 | Science
Read More: Dead Stars, Alien Planets, Daily Discovery, Pulsar Worlds, Pulsar Planets, Planets Electric, Pulsar Electric Current, Pulsar Electric, Dead Supernova, Pulsars, Video, Science News

By: Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor Published: 10/01/2012 05:58 PM EDT on SPACE.com Alien worlds that orbit the energetic dead stars know...

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160 Billion Exoplanets and Counting

Kyle Jarrard | Posted 07.31.2012 | Science
Read More: Ufos, Barking Dog, Exoplanets, Pulsars, Milky Way, Space, Planets, UFO Sightings, Neutron Star, Science News
Kyle Jarrard

News like this -- that the galaxy is bristling with potential broadcast platforms -- will only embolden these go-go pioneers. Hand them 160 billion planets and what will they say? What they've been saying all along: They just have to be out there -- meaning them.

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Memories of a special moment with Don Backer

SETI Institute | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Jill Tarter, Astronomy, Don Backer, Seti, SETI Institute, Astrophysicist, Pulsars, Technology News
SETI Institute

Don Backer, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley who discovered the first millisecond pulsar, died on July 25. He was director ...

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