Today's Exoplanet Discovery - " most earthlike yet&quo

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Read about yesterday afternoon's announcement of the newly discovered, "most Earthlike yet" extrasolar planet -- an apparent Earth-Uranus hybrid orbiting the 10th magnitude red-dwarf star Gliese 876 in Aquarius:

 

http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1530_1.asp

 

For telescope users with a highly detailed star atlas, you can find the star glowing orange at right ascension 22h 53m 13s, declination -14d 15' 13" (2000.0), in the bottom of Aquarius's water bucket (as SKY & TELESCOPE draws the constellation) currently low in the southeast just before the first light of dawn.

 

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Just How "Earth-like" is the Newest Planet?

 

http://www.astromart.com/news/news.asp?news_id=289

 

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