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...back 27 years, when Israeli construction workers were gouging out the foundations for a new building in the industrial park in the Talpiyot, a Jerusalem suburb. The earth gave way, revealing a 2,000 year old cave with 10 stone caskets. Archaeologists were summoned, and the stone caskets were carted away for examination. It took 20 years for experts to decipher the names on the ten tombs. They were: Jesua, son of Joseph, Mary, Mary, Mathew, Jofa and Judah, son of Jesua...
...team examined “HD 189733b,” a large, gaseous planet similar to Jupiter. It is 60 light-years from Earth...
...Earth, silicates are found in rocks, but on much hotter planets, Charbonneau said, silicates have been found in dark clouds...
Sara Seager, a professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences at MIT, said more accurate results will depend on a better telescope...
Seager said the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be launched in 2013 and orbit the earth at a height of one million miles, will have a lens seven times bigger than that of the Spitzer telescope...