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- proper noun astronomy short form name of the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars
- abbreviation astronomy the
prefix ofcatalog entries in the Gliese star catalog
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Gliese is 20 light years from Earth and located in the constellation Libra.
Karl Giberson, Ph.D: Christianity and Extraterrestrial Life: Are the Gliesans Going to Hell? Ph.D Karl Giberson 2010
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Gliese is 20 light years from Earth and located in the constellation Libra.
Karl Giberson, Ph.D: Christianity and Extraterrestrial Life: Are the Gliesans Going to Hell? Ph.D Karl Giberson 2010
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A bit over a year ago, Vogt and Paul Butler, of Carnegie, announced a similarly earthlike planet they called Gliese 581g, but other astronomers were and remain dubious about the legitimacy of the find.
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The planet joins three others previously detected around its star and takes the designation Gliese 581 e. one of the other planets in this system does appear to be.
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The hunt for extraterrestrial life has been boosted recently by the discovery last month of a rocky world not unlike our own, about 20 light years away, which its Swiss discoverers have dubbed Gliese 581e, the latest in a long line of planet discoveries during the past decade 350 and counting.
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It's called Gliese 229B, it's 19 light-years away and "it looks like Jupiter," says Caltech's Shrinivas Kulkarni.
How Now, Brown Dwarf 2008
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It orbits a red dwarf star called Gliese 581, located around 20 light years from Earth, which makes it one of our closest neighbours.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Unfortunately, the most habitable planet found so far - a world known as Gliese 581g, announced by Butler and his colleague Steve Vogt last fall - is now widely believed not to exist after all.
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The destination is a star that you can't see with your naked eye, in the southern constellation Libra, called Gliese 581.
WN.com - Articles related to Real and virtual matters about U.S. and World Wars 2010
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The star, known as Gliese 710, could disrupt planetary orbits and send a shower of comets and asteroids towards the inner planets when it passes in 1.5 million years time.
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December 11, 2009