Word: libra
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...European astronomers. The new planet, Gliese 581 e, is 1.9 times the size of Earth and 80 times smaller than the first exoplanet, which was discovered in 1995. The solar system where the planet was found is 20.5 light years away and can be found in the constellation Libra. Members of the CFA, which has played a major role in the search for exoplanets, heralded the discovery as momentous. “This discovery can be compared to what happened 400 years ago with Galileo’s discovery of Jupiter’s moons,” said Dimitar...
...Light up your life with a new flame—hey HBS Rugby Team heyyy. Virgo We’re in the midst of midterms and procrastination is beckoning, but save Gossip Girl for later. Spoiler: Chuck and Blair get married. Sorry we’re not sorry. XOXO. Libra Wondering if you really have 972 “friends” on Facebook? They probably don’t remember you, either—maybe it’s time to let go of those 80 kids from prefrosh. Scorpio With Mercury dancing in the east, you might find...
...Tuesday, a team of European astronomers announced that they had not only found a new planet circling a comparatively nearby star in the constellation Libra, but that that planet is unexpectedly Earth-like. Like Earth, it orbits a comfortable distance from its sun; like Earth, it maintains a surface temperature somewhere between 32 and 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Most importantly, like Earth, it could easily harbor surface water. In the biological arithmetic we know best, warmth and water often equal life...
...don’t know. Am I really a 21-year-old, six-foot three-inch, blond, blue-eyed, Syracuse-born and raised, Libra shopaholic that slipped through the cracks of Harvard admissions? Or is that a carefully constructed image...