February 2012

Artistic concept of planet GJ 667Cc with the three stars of its system in the background

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An international team of scientists has discovered a potentially habitable planet about 22 light years away from Earth. The planet, called GJ 667Cc or Gliese 667C c, has a mass about 4,5 times the Earth so it belongs to the category of planets called super-Earths. This planet has an orbital period of about 28 days around a class M red dwarf called GJ 667C or Gliese 667C.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg

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It was only a matter of time and yesterday Facebook has officially submitted to SEC, the authority that watches over U.S.A. stock market, the papers needed to declare that the company founded by Mark Zuckerberg wants to go public with an IPO.

The space probe IBEX (Image NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

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NASA spacecraft Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has been studying interstellar matter since October 2008, when it was launched into orbit, revealing the differences with the matter within the solar system. IBEX observations focused on the atoms of hydrogen, oxygen, neon and helium, which make up interstellar matter.