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...would have planets more or less like the ones going around the sun. But starting with the 1995 discovery of the first extrasolar planet--a gassy monster like Jupiter but orbiting seven times as close to its star as Mercury orbits around our sun--each new find has seemed stranger than the last. Searchers have found more "hot Jupiters" like that first discovery. These include huge planets that career around their stars not in circular orbits but in elongated ones; their gravity would send any Earthlike neighbors flying off into space. Says Princeton astronomer Scott Tremaine: "Not a single prediction...
...second discovery is far stranger--a solar system 123 light-years away, in the constellation Serpens, that harbors one "ordinary" planet and another so huge--17 times as massive as Jupiter--that nobody can quite figure out what it can be. It is, says Marcy, "a bit frightening...
...encounter must have been quite a shock to render bright red a man married to Madonna, but Ritchie collects himself quickly. "Isn't he a gent?" says Ritchie, who must be used to days far stranger than this. Last month Ritchie wed Penn's ex during a five-day celebration in a remote Scottish castle. Ritchie, 32, the father of Madonna's second child, Rocco, calls the nuptials "the best five days of my life," though it was preceded by months in a burning media spotlight. Tabloids excitedly chronicled HER PLOT TO GET TOYBOY LOVER TO ALTAR. Paparazzi stalked them...
...Well, stranger things have happened...
...Someone has to listen to all those anti-TV activists; it may as well be me. A typical comment from Joan Anderson, author of Getting Unplugged and Breaking the TV Habit: "TV is not a member of the family; it's a stranger. Would you let a stranger into your child's bedroom?" Amen...