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January 11, 2010
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Good Morning,
Astronomers have discovered that a planet outside of our
solar system, which used to be very massive, is now evap-
orating. Read all the details on this interesting planetary
happening including how big the planet may have once been
and how big it is now in the second article.
Until Next Time,
Erin
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Buck Institute to build stem cell center
NOVATO, Calif. - The Buck Institute for Aging will borrow
money, if necessary, to build a $41 million stem cell re-
search center in Novato, Calif., its board said. In 2008,
the institute was awarded $20.5 million from the California
Institute for Regenerative Medicine on the condition that
it could find matching funds. The institute is waiting to
hear if it will receive $15 million in federal stimulus
money. If the federal money falls through, Buck will raise
the matching funds through donations from philanthropic
organizations, wealthy individuals and, if necessary, through
loans, said Dr. Charles Epstein, chairman of the Buck board
of trustees. "That was the unanimous decision of the board,"
Epstein told the Marin (Calif.) Independent Journal in a
story published Tuesday. The new 65,600-square-foot building
would be built at Buck's Novato campus. The board wants to
break ground on the project by early April.
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Earthlike exoplanet evaporating near star
WASHINGTON - The most Earthlike planet yet found outside
our solar system probably began as a giant Saturn-sized
planet that is now evaporating, U.S. astronomers say. Corot-
7b, orbiting the yellow dwarf star Corot-7, is the smallest
extrasolar planet discovered, with a diameter 1.7 times that
of the earth and a volume 4.8 times Earth's. The rocky,
volcanic planet takes 20.4 Earth hours to circle its sunlike
star, located 480 light-years away in the constellation
Monoceros, a faint constellation on the celestial equator.
Astronomers believe Corot-7 is about 1.5 billion years old,
or about one-third the sun's age. "Corot-7b is almost 60
times closer to its star than Earth, so the star appears
almost 360 times larger than the sun does in our sky," said
researcher Brian Jackson of NASA's Goddard Space Flight
Center in Greenbelt, Md. As a consequence, the planet's
surface experiences extreme heating that may reach 3,600
degrees Fahrenheit on the daylight side, he said at the
American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington. With
such a high dayside temperature, "any rocky surface facing
the star must be molten, and the planet cannot retain any-
thing more than a tenuous atmosphere, even one of vaporized
rock," Jackson said. He estimated solar heating may have
already cooked off several Earth masses of material from
Corot-7b. "You could say that, one way or the other, this
planet is disappearing before our eyes," Jackson said. He
said Corot-7b "may be the first in a new class of planet --
evaporated remnant cores."
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Star had mass 200 times that of the sun
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - A distant star dubbed Y-155 had nearly
200 times the mass of our sun when it exploded about seven
billion years ago, scientists in Indiana said. Y-155 is so
far away it is a million times fainter than the unaided
human eye can detect, University of Notre Dame astronomer
Peter Garnavich said in release Tuesday. The star's center
became so hot it triggered a thermonuclear reaction that
would have been visible nearly halfway across the universe.
At its peak, Y-155 was generating energy at a rate 100
billion times greater than the sun's output. "If Y-155 had
exploded in the Milky Way it would have knocked our socks
off," Garnavich said of the star's spectacular explosion.
Garnavich and his team discovered the star in the constel-
lation Cetus, just south of Pisces, during six years of
searching that also detected more than 200 weaker stellar
explosions. Y-155 was detected with the Keck telescope in
Hawaii, the Magellan telescope in Chile and the MMT tele-
scope in Arizona.
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