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Newly-Discovered Sun-Like System Highlights This Week @ NASA

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The continuous monitoring of more than 156,000 stars for subtle brightness changes has led to the discovery by NASA's Kepler Mission of the first confirmed system outside our own that has more than one planet transiting the same star. Also, researchers head north to "Mars on Earth;" "Avatar" director and film's imagery featured in NASA Earth science public service campaign; Mary J. Blige encourages students "to reach for the stars;" NASA helps celebrate "Star Wars;" and more.

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  • I know it's for the greater good, but somehow I resent that we have to use pop junk like Avatar in order to get people interested in science. It's like we're trying to convince a bunch of preschoolers that they need to eat their vegetables.

  • guess what, we will be the future aliens of ourselves!

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  • wow.. new planet? can human live there??

  • It is heart breaking shame that NASA is not going to Mars and returning to the Moon ! They need to get leave LEO !!!

  • @eah2119 if you think about how little time it took us to acually get into space, the idea of traveling to new planets seems very like in the next 40-100 years.

  • how bout some nicer names huh? i mean really, 9b and 9c? sounds like math homework.

  • there goes the neighborhood

  • @giddygiddy85 lmao. Just saying, looking at the stars and discovering planets that may have life is one thing. Going there is the next step.

  • @eah2119 it's a dream in this days our maximum speed is 90k mil/hour to reach the speed of light it needs over 200 years and i liked the video

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