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A team of astronomers, including Harvard’s Massimo Marengo, found a triple-ring system surrounding Epsilon Eridani, the ninth closest star to the Sun. The rings suggest the existence of three or more planets around the star, according to their paper, which will be published in a forthcoming...
The inner ring appears identical in composition and mass to the asteroid belt in our solar system located between Mars and Jupiter, and the outer one is 20 astronomical units from Epsilon Eridani—about the distance from Uranus to the Sun. The outer ring of icy mini-planets...
Marengo said that he and his team of astronomers think that the gaps between the rings were created by the process of planetary formation and are held in place by orbital gravity. Some of these possible planets may even be similar to Earth.
Japan was nearly 30 years ahead of us, as usual.Yasutaka Tsutsui’s quirky and entertaining “Salmonella Men on Planet Porno,” a collection of short stories written in 1979, is just now making its debut in the United States, but the stories capitalize...
Jonathan Carroll’s special blend of novel resists attempts to classify it. It’s not science fiction, nor is it fantasy, nor is it realistic. His newest novel, “The Ghost in Love,” tells the story of a man who is...