Yet the cheap system processed a trade in 50 milliseconds, one-fourth the time needed by the Sun system.
An open source team just discovered the first planet known in a 4-sun system, just by parsing public data!
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Similarly, one camp maintains that temperatures are rising dramatically with unspeakable portents, while the other thinks what has happened is entirely a result of undefined internal oscillations in the earth-sun climate system, and that there is virtually no human component to climate change.
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It is not circling the Earth but orbits a point in the Sun-Earth system called the second Lagrange point.
The probe's five-year mission is the cornerstone of a NASA science program called Living with a Star, which aims to help scientists better understand aspects of the sun-Earth system that affect our lives and society.
But beginning next week, "The Bachelorette" will for the first time feature a single mother as the sun in the solar system of suitors.
And with the advent of 3D broadcasting, imagine if students could inspect a visualization of the planets orbiting the sun in the solar system, projected right out into their classroom.
Our sun is enriched with heavy elements, with metals, and oxygen, and so forth, that have to have been made inside another star that died before our sun and our solar system formed.
More importantly, Microsoft and Sun have a new common enemy: Linux, an operating system that competes with Windows and with Sun's Solaris but which, unlike the other two, is written by volunteers and shared freely among all who want to download and use it.
KELT-2Ab orbits a star that is slightly bigger than the sun, within a binary system called HD 42176.
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The French nuclear giant Areva bought a company that taps the biggest nuclear energy source in the solar system: the sun.
All four of the new systems include full hardware redundancy, redundant storage and network connections and allow for live operating system upgrades, Sun said.
Dr Adams has found that there is one chance in 100, 000 that this would cause the earth to be ejected from the solar system before the sun becomes a red giant.
Sun already offers an online rental system and expects to keep selling hardware.
An analysis of the solar wind is expected to provide clues about the composition of the sun and origins of our solar system.
But just why ancient people created the Nazca Lines has been an enduring mystery: Some archaeologists have suggested it was an alien landing strip, a primitive sun calendar, or an irrigation system.
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Without it such a galaxy's outer parts would spin more slowly than the inner ones (just as the outer planets of the solar system move around the sun more slowly than the earth does).
Students work on certification as Unix system administrators, and Sun helps with curriculum design, offers teacher internships and sets up computer labs, says Leslie Bowers, Sun's enterprise network services workforce program manager in Milpitas, Calif.
The Sun's magnetic field and solar wind - mainly in the form of electrons and protons coming out of the Sun - protects the entire Solar System by acting as a sort of shield from cosmic rays (very energetic particles and radiation from outer space).
In our Solar System, we believe the Sun has accreted about two-and-a-half Earth-masses of rocky material.
It describes a life form that inhabits a small nebula known as a Bok globule, which visits the solar system to refuel from the sun.
The devices will run on Sun's Java-based operating system and will boost demand for the company's big servers, which already power some of the most popular websites.
MySQL's lighter-weight database system may also fit into Sun's ambitions of becoming a major player in "utility computing, " a model of information technology infrastructure that pipes in software applications, processing and storage over the Internet rather than from a company's own data centers.
Just as Microsoft can give away its browser because it makes money from the Windows operating system and Office, so Sun can afford to make StarPortal free because it makes so much from selling the powerful servers that host web pages and other data.
The reason for a fuel cell system is that of course the Sun does not shine at night.
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If one body is much larger than its neighbours, such as the sun compared with the planets of the solar system, its effect dominates the others.
But for a solar eternal plane to be exactly that it needs an efficient energy harvesting, conversion and storage system that will work when the Sun has set.
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Kepler-37b is a tad larger than our heavenly dance partner, the Moon, and whizzes round a star much like our Sun, with two larger planets in its system for company.
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"It took a little while for the client to be comfortable with the idea that the heating system would be minute and the sun would provide 60% of the energy, " said Tim Delhey Eian, the Minneapolis architect who designed the house.
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