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I hope everyone has a safe and happy new year!

Happy New Years as well...

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! This year, 2012, the Kepler mission is expected to potentially discover several hundred thousand new planets - looking in an area of space the size of a 2 or 3 postage stamps (and all in our own galaxy). Just eight years ago - do you know how many extrasolar planets were confirmed? One.

Bring in 2012, not with fear, but with this thought from JPL as told to space.com:

"Based on current discoveries and calculations...this means there are "two billion" of these "Earth analogs" (siblings) in our own Milky Way galaxy alone. The JPL astronomers also noted that there are "50 billion other galaxies", potentially yielding more than one sextillion "Earth analog" planets if all galaxies have similar numbers of planets to the Milky Way."

Life is everywhere! We are literally stardust. In 2012, we get closer to unlocking the mysteries by gaining more knowledge in one year that at anytime in the history of humankind.

Shooting down silly 2012 doomsday fears - with science. (http://scc.losrios.edu/~sah/physics/2012.htm)
Follow the Kepler Mission on Twitter (https://twitter.com/NASAKepler)

Happy New Year everyone. As we go in to this year remember we are all apart of this community, so regardless of the challenges and issues about to confront us...we are all in this together and make this site what it is.

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Happy official new year!

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Why don't you make a "Merry Christmas 2012" thread so that can be yours too. Your thread for 'Happy New Year' was posted on the 28th. This thread has actual discussion in it. Get with the program in 2012, Thunder!

Mag 7.0 Earthquake hits Japan...

It has begun.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0007fbh.html

Happy 2012!!