SETI bioastro: Double Vision: Two Telescopes for Hunting Earth-like Planets

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From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Mon May 31 2004 - 17:46:14 PDT

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    * Double Vision: Two Telescopes for Hunting Earth-like Planets

    http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/tpf_techwed_040526.html>

    After years of whittling away prospective designs for a NASA mission to search for earth-like planets around alien stars, the space agency had narrowed the choice down to two very different observatories.

    * Survival of the Smallest: Mini-Microbes Redefine Extreme Living
    http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/microbe_limits_040526.html>

    A world of mini-microbes discovered deep under ice in Greenland reveals apparent survival skills that could come in handy on Mars or other extreme worlds: Get small and hang in there.

    * Universe Measured: We're 156 Billion Light-years Wide!
    http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040524.html>

    If you've ever wondered how big the universe is, you're not alone. Astronomers have long pondered it, too, and they've had a hard time figuring it out. Now an estimate has been made, and it's a whopper.

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