Last week NASA announced a newly discovered planet, sitting outside our solar system in what seems to be the ideal place for life. The new planet is eerily similar to Earth.

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The Kepler probe, which was launched more than a year ago, has found, within 6 weeks of operation outside our solar system,  five new solar systems in the Milky Way and identified over 700 bodies that could be new planets.

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Researchers at NASA uploaded an amazing series of composite pictures of clear view of Earth named “Blue Marble”. The photos are the results of months of effort putting together thousands of true-color images were cloud coverage was minimized by taking separate photos over the course of several days.

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Link to the pictures (Flicker)

Google and NASA will soon launch a new university which will teach all aspects of future technologies. This university, Singularity University, will first allow 30 students this summer.

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