Word: redness
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That's not to say Acenese have truly healed, or that they ever will. Syamsiah, 47, runs a food stall in Calang, a tsunami-annihilated town about 90 miles from Banda Aceh that was rebuilt by the Red Cross. She seemed unfazed by the prospect of another tsunami ("That's God's business. Why should I be afraid?") but is tormented by the loss of many of her relatives, including her parents, when the wave swept over their coastal village. Syamsiah had found only their bones. "It broke my heart," she sobbed. (See pictures of what was lost...
According to Charbonneau, the eight telescopes surveyed red dwarf stars looking for periodic faintness, a signal that a planet has crossed in front of its star, blocking out a small portion of the star's light...
...team believes that the planet—named GJ1214b after the red dwarf star it orbits and 6.5 times the Earth's size—is primarily composed of water and ice but, at roughly 400 degrees Fahrenheit, is too hot to sustain life...
Harvard astronomy professor David Charbonneau and his colleagues discovered the super-Earth using the MEarth (pronounced "mirth") Project, an array of eight robotic telescopes that have monitored 2,000 red dwarf stars since...
Charbonneau added that MEarth is the first project dedicated to looking at red dwarf stars, stating that most researchers study other stars like...