Topic: Scott Kenyon
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End of the world May 21st? About a billion years too soon, astronomers say.
Beginning of the end of the world: May 21st is what a California minister (with a considerable following) predicts. Scientists, for their part, consider the sun's 'habitable zone' in calculating when Earth will become toast.
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Oddball solar system found: Six giants and an exoplanet pipsqueak?
A team of astronomers say they have found a solar system that includes at least five Neptune-like planets – all within the equivalent of Mars's orbit. There might be two other planets, as well, including the smallest exoplanet yet found.
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R136a1: Monster star too big to be true?
R136a1 could once have been 320 times as massive as the sun. That's twice as massive as scientists thought a star could be. Perhaps R136a1 is several stars close together, some say.
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