Planetary System Similar to Sol

sgtwilko writes "The BBC News site has an article about how astronomers have found several new planets including some that have a similar distribution to our own Solar System. They are finding planetary systems that are more and more like the one in which the Earth resides. It's only a matter of time until the Terrestrial Planet Finder program gets going and finds another Earth." There's another story on space.com. Update: 06/13 21:51 GMT by M : Space News and Wired have stories as well, with spiffy graphics and artists' renderings and so on.

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Re:WOOHOO!

[hij]

I tried very hard to stay away from the new Star Wars movie but finally couldn't stand it anymore. This new movie had some very enlightening facts about Naboo:

• A matriarchial society.
• The people in charge appear to be ageless, teenage sluts.
• The women are willing to marry even homocidal egomaniacs.
• The only competition seems to be a bunch of half-witted, very tall lizards.

I for one am glad to see that we are getting closer to being able to reach out to these new and wonderful worlds.