December 23, 2024
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Comments for: Light we see from ‘nearby’ orb is 20 years old

The April 25 edition of the Bangor Daily News carried a piece about astronomers detecting an earthlike planet around a nearby star. This is “nearby” only in astronomical terms for the star, Gliese 581, is 20 light-years or 120 trillion miles from Earth. And to… Read More

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