Sentences with phrase «somewhat nearer star»
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«For NASA, this number — that every fifth star has a planet somewhat like Earth — is really important, because successor missions to Kepler will try to take an actual picture of a planet, and the size of the telescope they have to build depends on how close the nearest Earth - size planets are,» said Andrew Howard, astronomer with the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii.
http://www.keckobservatory.org/
Somewhat outside the purview of films that depict present and very - near - future epidemics, but nonetheless worthy of an appreciative final word, is the doom - laden 2010 British film Black Death, set in 1348 England and starring Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, and Carice van Houten.