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Comment Fly me to the exoplanets and let me sing among the (Score 1) 1

by ripicheep (#47366629) Attached to: What does alien life look like?

stars.

NASA has n exciting Exoplanet visualization tool at http://eyes.nasa.gov/exoplanets.
You can see where in the Milky Way we have discovered exoplanets. You can fly to an exoplanet system and see which planets lie in the habitable zone. You can compare the planetary system with an overlay of our solar system. All data driven from the Caltech Exoplanet Archive, it was a finalist in the SXSW Interactive awards in the Technical Achievement category. It's amazing to see how far humans have come in the 50 years since the Drake equation

Submission + - India launches five foreign satellites

Submitted by vasanth
vasanth writes: India has put into orbit five foreign satellites, including one built by France two from Canada and one each from Singapore and Germany. The PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) has so far successfully launched 67 satellites, including 40 foreign ones, into space. The PSLV costs about 17 Million USD and the cost is seen as a major advantage India has over other countries in terms of commercial launches. When talking about the cost of the project, the Prime Minister of India noted that the launch was cheaper than Hollywood film Gravity.

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