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[major_clanger]

The scientific press has been trumpeting this press release from ESO, announcing the discovery of three 'super-Earth' planets orbiting the star HD 40307. It's accompanied by this rather nice artist's impression, showing a trio of worlds at least two of which are cloud-streaked and Earthlike.

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[hatusu]

I am impressed.

[major_clanger]

I wanted to be an astronomer from about age 5 until my mid-teens, when I met enough astronomers via talks at my local astronomical society to put me off through warnings about poor pay and lack of job security (which seem to have been very prescient, alas.) Nonetheless I still have a strong interest in astronomy and space science, and I still have vague hankerings after getting some sort of formal qualification one day.

[hatusu]

You definitely have the math down which was my failing.