I am working on setting up the Distant Earths blog. You will find here news and views on the search for life beyond the solar system, extrasolar planets, and astrobiology.
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Well, actually, we knew that. We live on one. And anwyay, the International Astronomical Union recently stipulated that planets could only be things orbiting the Sun.a0 Don’t ask me why. So the new things have to be called exoplanets. And over 300 hundred of these were known before today anwyay.a0 A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, so we won’t worry about the taxonomy. But what’s the big deal?