Word: planetsized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Racist cops in the inner cities still follow black people around as if they were all criminals and store owners still follow black shoppers in fear that they will be shoplifted. What is the purpose of affirmative action if black people think they are locked out of a racist job...
What Burrows and his colleagues are looking at is more than a confirmation of astronomical theory. It's also a snapshot of what our own sun must have looked like about 5 billion years ago. And it raises the intriguing possibility that most, if not all, of the stars in...
To explain this baffling fact, astronomers in the past decade or so have suggested that jets of matter must be shooting out of these still forming stars. Only by slinging some of the incoming matter away as a counterbalance could the protostars avoid going into a superfast spin. When a...
The new data also fill in one more piece of the puzzle of planetary formation. Astronomers have observed dusty disks surrounding many nearby stars, and the laws of gravity suggest that sooner or later the dust should coagulate into bigger and bigger pieces-comet- and asteroid-size at least, and...
The new images imply that such disks are a crucial part of the starmaking process and not, as Arizona State University astronomer Jeff Hester puts it, "just the peculiarities of a few oddball objects." And that adds an important clue to an already strong circumstantial case that planets are the...