Far better to use a broadcast signal, which we can target at a specific star, and which moves at the speed of light.

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Since Kepler finds planets by measuring the tiny dips in a star's brightness when a dark planet moves across the face of that star, less accurate photometry means Earth-like planets will be too hard to find.

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United have been linked with moves to sign Bayern Munich's France star Franck Ribery and Wigan's Ecuador winger Antonio Valencia as Ferguson seeks to replace Ronaldo.

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This year marks the first time that Couture Fashion Week moves from the Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star Waldorf Astoria New York to its new home in the New Yorker Hotel.

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Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations.

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Longtime fund star Robert Rodriguez likes the strategy but is somewhat more constrained in his moves.

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Here on Earth, we see the star get brighter as the lens crosses in front, and then fade as the lens moves away.

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