The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth. The temperature on the planet is a balmy 22°C and TWICE the size of our world.

The planet, called Kepler-22b, joins a list of more than 500 planets found to orbit stars beyond our solar system. It is the smallest and the best positioned to have liquid water on its surface — among the ingredients necessary for life on Earth. It orbits a star like the Sun 600 light years — that’s nearly 4,000 BILLION MILES — away in the constellation Cygnus. On a side note, a light year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion km).

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No words needed. Just sit back and enjoy this one!

All I can say is WOW! The HTC innovation team has done it again. If you haven’t had a qwerty phone before and you’re really thinking about getting one, HTC Desire Z is your baby. I can’t remember the last time I was so excited about an upcoming phone.

I’ve been looking for a qwerty phone running Android for almost a year now, and like many times before HTC has come to the rescue. Lets take a closer look what this high tech smartphone has under the hood.

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At one point in time you’ve probably asked yourself (like most people) if we’re all alone in the dark and cold cosmos. It’s hard to comprehend how big the universe is because there are so many galaxies and so many stars in each galaxy.

To give you an idea and a good explanation of how large the universe is I’ve added this little video from the national geographic channel.

But wait, there is so much more to come. Here are a few numbers for you to play with…

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