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		<title>Earth like exoplanet story telling</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/23/earth-like-exoplanet-story-telling/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As more and more exoplanets (at first) and earth-like exoplanets (eventually) have been discovered, the way thy are described to us has become increasingly sophisticated. Below are embeds of diverse video descriptions that have been very quickly developed and distributed given the freshness of this latest scientific discovery. Note that the practice of very clearly &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/23/earth-like-exoplanet-story-telling/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Earth like exoplanet story telling</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pluto Has Tail, X-Rays</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/17/pluto-has-tail-x-rays/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[cosmos]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Did you ever notice that Pluto doesn&#8217;t have much of a tail? No, not that Pluto! This Pluto: This has been known for a while. NASA noted this last year: New Horizons has discovered a region of cold, dense ionized gas tens of thousands of miles beyond Pluto &#8212; the planet’s atmosphere being stripped away &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/09/17/pluto-has-tail-x-rays/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Pluto Has Tail, X-Rays</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Captain. We&#8217;ve found an M-Class Planet</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/08/24/captain-weve-found-an-m-class-planet/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 18:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[cosmos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cosmos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exoplanet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M-class planet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Proxima b]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The star that is nearest our own has a planet that could be habitable by Earthlings. This is very important news. The news comes to us from this research paper in Nature: A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri by Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Pedro J. Amado, John Barnes, Zaira M. Berdiñas, R. &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/08/24/captain-weve-found-an-m-class-planet/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Captain. We&#8217;ve found an M-Class Planet</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ethan Siegel on The Universe</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/06/07/ethan-siegel-on-the-universe/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[astronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cosmos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dark Energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ethan Siegel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[planetary science]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Check out our detailed interview with the famous and amazing Ethan Siegel. We talk about the history of understanding the universe, why you should believe in Dark Matter even though it is obviously fake, why exploring uranus can lead to the discovery of amazing things, and more.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy Anniversary Exoplanets</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/11/19/happy-anniversary-exoplanets/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2015 17:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[cosmos]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This month is the twentieth anniversary of the discovery of exoplanets, which are really just planets that are not in our solar system. (Frankly, I dislike the term exoplanet. It is so solarcentric.) When you think about it, the discovery of planets outside our solar system (we need a word for that) is a special &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/11/19/happy-anniversary-exoplanets/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Happy Anniversary Exoplanets</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>That Orion Thing Is Great!</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/12/05/that-orion-thing-is-great/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2014 02:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cosmos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mars]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Watch the Orion test flight: Splashdown: Why is it great? Well, speaking as a Gemini (not my horoscope sign, but the space program going when I first gained sentience) &#8230; &#60;li&#62;First, it is big, fast, cool looking. It actually looks like a rocket that might have been designed a decade before they ever actually made &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/12/05/that-orion-thing-is-great/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">That Orion Thing Is Great!</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>#Cosmos with @neiltyson &#8211; The first episode is a win.</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/03/10/cosmos-with-neiltyson-the-first-episode-is-a-win/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[astronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Sagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neil deGrasse Tyson]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you missed the first (or later any) episode of Cosmos 2014, you can get it on Amazon Prime streaming (for a fee). It&#8217;s worth it. Here are a few comments I jotted down (then lightly edited) while watching the first episode. Neil does have his own spaceship, like Carl did. That&#8217;s important because it &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/03/10/cosmos-with-neiltyson-the-first-episode-is-a-win/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">#Cosmos with @neiltyson &#8211; The first episode is a win.</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cosmic Bombardment of the Earth ca 2.2 Million Years Ago?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/05/24/cosmic-bombardment-of-the-earth-ca-2-2-million-years-ago/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cosmos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iron-60]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are bacteria that use Iron (and other elements) to make tiny magnets that they carry around so they don&#8217;t get lost. (I anthropomorphize slightly.) There are isotopes of Iron that are not of the Earth, but are found only elsewhere in the universe. Suppose an event happened elsewhere and spewed some of that cosmic &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/05/24/cosmic-bombardment-of-the-earth-ca-2-2-million-years-ago/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Cosmic Bombardment of the Earth ca 2.2 Million Years Ago?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>It was so unexpected that we thought there was something wrong with the instrument</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/03/05/it-was-so-unexpected-that-we-thought-there-was-something-wrong-with-the-instrument/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Cosmos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Van Allen Belts]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I love it when scientists say that! And, so said scientist Daniel Baker, speaking of a newly observed feature of the famous and well known, or at least, we thought well known, Van Allen Belts. First discovered in 1958, the Van Allen belts have been thought to comprise two reservoirs of high-speed, electrically charged particles, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/03/05/it-was-so-unexpected-that-we-thought-there-was-something-wrong-with-the-instrument/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">It was so unexpected that we thought there was something wrong with the instrument</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Asteroid That Is Coming Really Close To Earth</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/05/the-asteroid-that-is-coming-really-close-to-earth/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[asteroid]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In February, Asteroid 2012 DA 14 will come so close to earth that it will be nearer to our planet than many satellites are. This asteroid, which really should get a new name, is about half the size of a football field. Its orbit is similar to that of the Earth itself, in size and &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/05/the-asteroid-that-is-coming-really-close-to-earth/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Asteroid That Is Coming Really Close To Earth</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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