SETI public: Fw: Ancient Planet

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Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:39 PM
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Subject: Ancient Planet

NASA Science News for July 10, 2003

Some 13 billion years ago in a distant cluster of stars, a planet formed.
Remarkably it's still there, according to astronomers using the Hubble
Space Telescope. The confirmation of this ancient world means planets
formed very early in the history of our universe--only one or two billion
years after the Big Bang itself. Orbiting a pair of burned-out stars in
the crowded globular cluster "M4", the planet is too small to see from
Earth. Backyard sky watchers can, however, see the star cluster in which
it lives. Read today's story for sky maps and more information.

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