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My project takes on the big question of how planets orbiting Sun-like stars form and attacks it from a particular direction.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Ignacio Mosqueira -- Worlds in the Making SETI Institute 2011
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My project takes on the big question of how planets orbiting Sun-like stars form and attacks it from a particular direction.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Ignacio Mosqueira -- Worlds in the Making SETI Institute 2011
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Astronomers discovered two Earth-size planets orbiting a Sun-like star in their search for habitable worlds.
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When asked whether this protective shield of water was present in our own Solar System, Bergin answered, When we say that there were thousands of oceans of water vapor in the habitable zone, we mean around Sun-like stars.
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Real Science: New evidence suggests more than half the Sun-like stars in the Milky Way could have similar planetary systems.
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But one thing is clear: its unusual Sun-like elements so far from where they belong make NGC 2420 a prime playground for study.
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: February 19-21, 2010 | Universe Today 2010
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Real Science: New evidence suggests more than half the Sun-like stars in the Milky Way could have similar planetary systems.
February 2008 2008
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Astronomers have obtained the first direct spectrum – a “chemical fingerprint” – of a planet orbiting a distant, Sun-like star, providing direct data about the composition of the planet's atmosphere.
First Direct Spectrum of an Exoplanet Orbiting a Sun-like Star | Universe Today 2010
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Edwin Ted Bergin and Thomas Bethell, both of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Michigan, calculated that in Sun-like systems the abundance of water early on can absorb much of the ultraviolet light from the central star.
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Often scientists will look to Sun-like stars for signs of planets (and hopes of finding rocky Earth-like planets), but newer evidence shows that binary (two) star systems may have equal potential for harboring planets as single star systems like our own.
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