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Call Exoplanets w/ Google Voice: After I installed the Google Voice extension on my Chrome Browser, I happened to highlight an exoplanet (HD 189733 b) in an article and suddenly the Google Voice interface popped up that seemed to allow me to call it via Google Voice. Wow, i live in the future, baby!
Dust in Sauron’s Eye
Remember Fomalhaut? The star whose planets were directly imaged by Hubble and had a photo that looks like the Eye of Sauron? Well they found out that Fomalhaut has “micro-Asteroids” orbiting around it.
See: On The Nature of Dust Orbiting Fomalhaut
