Tuesday, June 17, 2008

New Planets Discovered In The Delta Quadrant

This week in nerd-ville, Captain Piccard and his crew discovered a new series of planets in our star system the Delta Quadrant. Thanks to the evocatively named High-Accuracy Radial-Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), a telescope mounted atop La Scilla Mountain in Chile, his team were able to detect a litter of new planets, some as small as four times the mass of Earth — tiny by exoplanet standards. This ground breaking discovery could signal the existence of sustainable life on non-Earth planets...remarkable, simply remarkable.

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