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ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News


Astronomers rediscover life on Earth -- by looking at the moon

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 11:08 AM PST

By observing the Moon using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have found evidence of life in the universe -- on Earth. Finding life on our home planet may sound like a trivial observation, but the novel approach may lead to future discoveries of life elsewhere in the universe.

New model provides different take on planetary accretion: Collapse may take place in 3-D cold dust cloud

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 06:19 AM PST

The prevailing model for planetary accretion assumes that the solar system's planets formed in an extremely hot, two-dimensional disk of gas and dust, post-dating the sun. Scientists now propose a radically different model, in which collapse takes place in a cold, three-dimensional dust cloud.

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