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A rocky planet around one of our galaxy’s oldest stars – Space Daily
Honolulu HI (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 –
They should have sent a poet, says Ellie Arroway in the film Contact as, suspended in outer space, she gazes upon a spiral galaxy….
“They should have sent a poet,” says Ellie Arroway in the film Contact as, suspended in outer space, she gazes upon a spiral galaxy. Almost all of the planets discovered to date (including the solar system planets) are confined to the plane of the Milky Way, unable to glimpse such a sweeping vista of our galaxy. However, astronomers at the University of Hawai?i Institute for Astronomy (IfA) using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea have discovered a rocky planet with a different kind of view.
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