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A diamond planet?

By Sid Perkins / November 30, 2012

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Distant, carbon-rich world could contain one-third its weight in gems that are relatively rare on Earth

Posted in Space | Tagged 55 Cancri, 55 Cancri e, astronomy, cancer, Cancri, carbon planet, constellation, diamonds, extrasolar planet, getinvolved, Goddard Space Flight Center, graphite, light year, Marc Kuchner, NASA, Nikku Madhusudhan, planet, super-Earth, topstories, transit, Yale University

New planetary neighbor

By Stephen Ornes / November 5, 2012

Astronomers have found that our closest stellar neighbor has an Earth-sized planet orbiting it. This illustration shows what the pair might look like. Credit: ESO

Nearest star system has a world that’s Earthly in size, but too hot for human visitors

Posted in Space | Tagged aliens, Alpha Centauri, astronomy, Debra Fischer, exoplanet, extrasolar planet, Geoff Marcy, getinvolved, HARPS, rocky world, Santa Cruz, space, Stéphane Udry, telescopes, University of California, Yale University