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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Random Thoughts

The spectrum of a planet is like a fingerprint. It provides key information about the chemical elements in the planet’s atmosphere. With this information, we can better understand how the planet formed and, in the future, we might even be able to find telltale signs of the presence of life.

- Markus Janson
www.eso.org/public/news/eso1002

Spot on.

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