Finding habitable earth-like planets around other sun-like stars has never been an easy task.
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NASA-funded astronomers have located two planets located within a dense cluster of sun-like stars.
Advanced science instruments aboard future spacecraft, such as the proposed European Plato mission, could find many more Earth-mass planets orbiting Sun-like stars.
While there are a number of different types of stars in the Cluster, each of the two planets were found orbiting Sun-like stars.
And that may be one crucial difference that separates ours from millions of other sun-like stars in this part of our Milky Way galaxy.
But, based on the limited numbers of planets found so far, Dr Boss has estimated that each Sun-like star has on average one "Earth-like" planet.
Kepler-69c, the biggest of this newly discovered trio is estimated to be 70 percent larger than Earth and takes 242 days to revolve around its sun-like star Kepler-69.
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Since the discovery in 1995 of a planet around the star 51 Pegasi by Michel Mayor and his colleague Didier Queloz, more than 270 exoplanets have been found - mostly around Sun-like stars.
One recent study of more than 450 Sun-like stars within about 325 light-years of Earth indicated most had high iron content in their photospheres, or on their surfaces - again, evidence the stars had gorged themselves on planetary material.
"To our complete surprise, we found several red dwarf binaries with orbital periods significantly shorter than the 5-hour cut-off found for sun-like stars, something previously thought to be impossible, " the study's lead author Bas Nefs, from Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, said in a statement.
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Cancer Research UK says people should not use artificial tanning devices for cosmetic purposes because they - like the sun - increase skin cancer risk.
As for services, a new generation of easy-connection software like Sun Microsystems Jini might wipe out low- end systems integrators in a blink.
Suncalled the acquisition a further investment into the future of Web-based computing, to be pioneered by vendors like Oracle, with its new Sun-based Business Online database outsourcing service.
So the desire for success in the high-stakes consumer market will drive many companies like Microsoft, Sun and Cisco into a plug-and-play business model.
To be Earthlike, you also need a sun like ours and Kepler-22b has that.
The baking sun, coupled with the lunar-like lava beginning to dominate the terrain, starts to addle my mind.
High-tech companies like Sun Microsystems Inc. and 3Com Corp. are also constantly running marketing campaigns aimed at their thousands of corporate customers and independent distributors.
One of the four, dubbed KOI 172.02, is a mere 1.5 times the size of the Earth and around a star like our own Sun - perhaps as near as the current data allow to finding an "Earth 2.0".
Dot with the roughly chopped sun-dried tomatoes and, if you like, an extra scattering of thyme leaves.
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Set around a rotunda that mirrors the gentle curves of the porcelain, the Korean collection is housed in an ochre building by architect Mario Botta with a turret and battlements--"Like a castle guarding traditional art, " says Park Min-sun, a Leeum spokeswoman.
Engineers such as Vinod Dham started creating breakthrough technologies such as the Pentium chip, and entrepreneurs such as Kanwal Rekhi and Vinod Khosla co-founded companies like Excelan and Sun Microsystems.
Such black holes ranging in size from 1, 000 to 10, 000 times the mass of the sun should sit inside globular clusters like scaled-down versions of galactic black holes at least in theory.
The Balearics seemed to us like the perfect mix of relaxing sun-soaked travel and an exciting step back into a culture we love so much.
This is easily enough to detect Jupiter-like planets around distant stars, and it should also be enough to detect smaller, Uranus-like planets around stars within the sun's stellar neighbourhood.
And with each new layer of stone the air got warmer and began to smell, at first something like a laundry hamper, then more like inside the mouth of a sun-baked cadaver.
But some of our favorite designs are the ones that do social good, like Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun -- a portable solar-powered lamp that's being distributed to people who live without electricity worldwide.
However, he says Quantum Mechanics prevents anyone from claiming it would be smaller than a Planck length, a length of measurement so miniscule that it would make a normal-sized atom look like an outsized sun.
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Roxburgh brought the house down by pointing out that it was all a bit like the appearance of the sun in Scotland - so rare that you have to take advantage of it.
Like many Ladakhi houses, this one reserves the lowest floor for livestock, and the tiny gray donkey, whose braying--like rusty hinges grinding--has kept me awake these past two nights, steps out to sun himself.
Then, Icarus-like, it soars too close to the sun and the wings melt.
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