abstract:Distant Star (Estrella distante in Spanish) is a novella by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño, first published in Spanish in 1996. Chris Andrews’s English translation was published by New Directions in 2004.
Fifty years ago this week, a young Cornell University scientist named Frank Drake pointed a radio telescope at a distant star, hoping to hear transmissions from an alien civilization.
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Astronomers say they have found a planet orbiting a distantstar that's more like the Earth than any other found so far.
Each telescope has a mirror just 10cm across, yet working together they detected the microscopic dimming caused by a planet getting in the way of the distantstar.
Premise: that the moon is really a disguised spaceship from a distantstar that, after a botched mutiny, has sat dormant for 50, 000 years, its crew having abandoned ship for Earth.