Forget simply detecting a slight "dip" in brightness as an exoplanet transits in front of its star, soon we'll be able to image the event. What's more, by doing this we'll see that exoplanetary transits look exactly like the historic Venus transit that wowed the world on Tuesday.

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On June 7, 2012, an unidentified flying object was seen nationwide over Israel. There have been reports of similiar sightings in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria as well. Hundreds flood police with reports of UFO in nation's skies; Astronomical Association chairman says object isn't a meteor, flew above Lebanon. Similar sighting in Norway in 2009 turned out to be failed missile test.

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This map from MarineTraffic.com shows AIS (Automatic Identification System) equipped ships close to the supposed location of the Baltic Sea anomaly (which local divers say is somewhere in the middle of the map below). The Ocean Explorer’s ship the Ancylus is not required to have an AIS transmitter due to [...]

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SETI researcher Seth Shostak bets that we will find extraterrestrial life in the next twenty-four years, or he'll buy you a cup of coffee. At TEDxSanJoseCA, he explains why new technologies and the laws of probability make the breakthrough so likely -- and forecasts how the discovery of civilizations far more advanced than ours might affect us here on Earth.

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