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...news traveling at warp speed: University of Texas astronomer WILLIAM COCHRAN has discovered a Jupiter-size planet in the same orbit that Star Trek lore says you would find Vulcan, MR. SPOCK'S home world. That would be somewhere orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, just a hop, skip and parsec from Earth, or 10.5 light-years to be exact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beam This Up | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...parsec is equal to 3.26 light-years or 19 trillion miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: The Prevalence of Planets And the Probability of Life | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

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