An open source team just discovered the first planet known in a 4-sun system, just by parsing public data!
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Venus was the first planet to make an appearance, and onlookers were able to observe for themselves that Venus also goes through phases.
This past December, for example, NASA's Kepler space telescope confirmed its first planet in the habitable zone, a "super Earth" known as Kepler-22b that's thought to be 2.4 times as wide as our planet.
Mr. JACK LISSAUER (NASA): This is likely to be or plausibly the first rocky planet around a normal star other than the sun, and in that sense it's a class of planets like Earth.
One of the first, a planet called Rocktropia, brings recording companies, artists and gamers together in a virtual world.
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In an episode in the history of thought that can still make the heart beat faster, he noticed that, night after night, they were waltzing back and forth near the big planet: first left, then right, never quite clearing its path, as though the planet were sticky and they wanted to stay near it.
On 18 March, Nasa spacecraft Messenger will make history by becoming the first to orbit the planet Mercury.
In 1962, the Mariner II space probe began sending back to Earth man's first information from another planet, Venus.
Team members hugged and high-fived one another as Curiosity beamed back the first pictures from the planet, while some shed tears.
Sybil Seitzinger, Executive Director, IGBP, opened with a keynot address saying that the first State of the Planet Declaration had sober findings.
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The chemistry of Titan is thought to be similar to that of Earth 4.6 billion years ago and could provide clues to how life first arose on our planet.
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Held in a scoop on the rover's mechanical arm, the tablespoon of pulverized gray rock offers planetary scientists their first sample from the planet's interior, where it may have been sheltered from the harsh surface chemistry and ultra-violet radiation.
The first direct image of a planet orbiting around another star is still some years away.
This provides us with the first real image of a planet situated 25 light years from Earth.
First it was The Daily Planet, until DC Comics, which owns the right to that name, had its say.
And since the number of objects in the catalogue is fast approaching 10, 000, he advocates making Pluto the first five-figure minor planet.
For it really is true that the major cost and difficulty of doing so is getting the first 50 miles off the planet.
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The 1956 sci-fi thriller Forbidden Planet was the first major motion picture to feature an all-electronic film score a soundtrack that predated synthesizers and samplers.
We can now add soil composition to the list, as Curiosity became Earth's first visitor to the Red Planet to both gather and analyze Martian soil on its own.
Evidence from the spacecraft NASA has sent to Mars so far suggests that the "warm and wet" period on Mars lasted for the first billion years of the planet's history.
Astronomers using the Kepler telescope found the first known double-star planet just last September Kepler-16, a gassy oddball orb the size of Saturn that circles a pair of stars 200 light-years from Earth, like the planet Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films.
Astronomers using the Kepler telescope found the first known double-star planet just last September Kepler-16b, a gassy oddball orb the size of Saturn that circles a pair of stars 200 light-years from Earth, like the planet Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films.
This Me First profit mentality has harmed the planet and created a global economic morass that continues to get worse.
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His goal is to pump up those results by 50% during Planet Hollywood's first full year of operation as a gaming operator.
Its biggest instrument alone is nearly four times the mass of the very first robot rover deployed on the planet back in 1997.
As they moved out into space, the men became the first earthlings to watch their home planet grow smaller and smaller and smaller.
Mars Express continues to listen out for Beagle's call but if no contact is made by early February, the lander segment of this first solo European mission to another planet will be declared lost.
"If we are correct, this is the first time we are seeing a planet forming inside its natal environment, " said Sascha Quanz, an astronomer at the Swiss university ETH Zurich and leader of the team.
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