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May 14, 2013 03:21 pm PDT
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Kepler space telescope discovers a BEERplanet
Before you get excited, please note that said planet is not actually made of beer. In fact, it's probably a gas giant, like Jupiter, only way hotter owing to the fact that it sits much closer to its own sun. BEER, in this case, is a somewhat tortured acronym for "relativistic BEaming, Ellipsoidal, and Reflection/emission [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/OlpjzvU9Rmk/story01.htm
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