December 20th, 2011 at 10:24AM
NASA Kepler Discovers First Earth-sized Planets Around Another Star “The era of exoEarths begins.” — Francois Fressin, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (And Kepler’s just getting warmed up. Let’s keep this one funded long enough to let the era of exoEarths continue, shall we?)

NASA Kepler Discovers First Earth-sized Planets Around Another Star

“The era of exoEarths begins.” — Francois Fressin, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

(And Kepler’s just getting warmed up. Let’s keep this one funded long enough to let the era of exoEarths continue, shall we?)

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September 16th, 2011 at 9:06AM

kateoplis:

Dinosaur Feathers Have Been Found Preserved in Amber (slideshow)

See, now I want to go back in time and introduce “Dinosaur feathers!” as a statement of disbelief. Oh, how we’d laugh!

(via jedsundwall)

850 notes Source: The Atlantic #science#dinosaurs