Astronomers Find Sun's Twin

mroch writes "Space.com is reporting that astronomers may have found a solar twin -- a star almost exactly like our own Sun. Interesting tidbits from the article include: "The star, 18 Scorpii, sits about 47.5 light-years away in the constellation Scorpio, and has long-been suspected of being Sun-like. [...] The star burns slightly hotter than the Sun, at 5,789 degrees Kelvin compared to 5,777 degrees. It appears to rotate slightly faster than the Sun, taking 23 days to complete a rotation rather than the Sun's 25." It boggles my mind to think that we can measure temperature that exactly from 279,000,000,000,000 miles away, and that they are complaining over a 12-degree difference."

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Heh

[Anonymous Coward]

" It boggles my mind to think that we can measure temperature that exactly from 279,000,000,000,000 miles away"

It boggles my mind to think that Slashdot editors will post stories submitted by people that can't speaking English properly.

Just as predicted

[Sklivvz]

[C:\>net send all This is a joke!]
So where's the news? It was already predicted somewhere else. Also, they predicted the failure of the Beagle...

Nothing to see here move along... :-)