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The ingenuity of astronomers continues to blow me away. The advances in observational techniques over the last 20-30 years is phenomenal.

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PostSubject: Re: Astronomers Observe Planets Orbiting Another Star Like Never Before   Astronomers Observe Planets Orbiting Another Star Like Never Before EmptyMon Mar 18, 2013 2:58 pm

It's amazing how many planets are being found today. Now if we could just find a habitable one really close, that would be handy.

If you consider the past hundred years, when the technology was comparatively rudimentary, their contributions to human knowledge are even more amazing. When my parents were children, it was thought that the Milky Way was the totality of the universe. And, like today, there were only eight planets.

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