New Model Helps Predict Earth-Sized Planets

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 21, 2004 @02:35AM from the colonization-time dept.

look over yonder writes "A new computer model created by astronomers from the Smithsonian Center and Astrophysics and the University of Utah predicts that systems which harbour Earth-sized planets will have a fingerprint of a ring of dust orbiting the star. This model will make it much easier for astronomers to locate stars and predict the size of planets orbiting it by simply measuring how bright the star system is at infrared (IR) wavelengths of light. Stars with dusty disks are brighter in the IR than stars without disks. The more dust a star system holds, the brighter it is in the IR."

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Re:Humjobs from CmdrTaco... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-21 06:02 · Score: -1, Troll

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Re:Finding life? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-21 06:13 · Score: -1, Troll

Yes, but until the GNAA analyzes the jizz found on Mars by the current mission, we will not know whether if it is Martian gay nigger seed or not.