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And now, we return to my Twitter feed's regularly scheduled programming of eerie silence and vast open space. I'll be back before too long. 2:08 PM May 25th via TweetDeck
Breaking radio silence to celebrate successful docking of Dragon with the ISS. Hat's off to @SpaceX team - congrats! goo.gl/bGUZJ 2:07 PM May 25th via TweetDeck
DrFunkySpoon Wow. A masterful takedown of the philosophical arrogance of some physicists. NYTimes: On the Origin of Everything nyti.ms/GSturU 9:16 AM Mar 28th via iOS Retweeted by LeeBillings and 6 others
HARPS data hints the Milky Way's population of red dwarf stars hosts many, many billions of rocky planets in hab zones: goo.gl/Gbl2I 6:58 AM Mar 28th via TweetDeck
mocost Crowdsourcing the search for extraterrestrial life bbc.co.uk/news/technolog… 5:21 AM Feb 29th via web Retweeted by LeeBillings and 1 other
Kepler's latest haul includes dozens of worlds in the habitable zone. Let's hope the extended mission goes forward! goo.gl/5BM7P 6:09 AM Feb 29th via TweetDeck
ProfAbelMendez The galactic habitable zone in elliptical galaxies bit.ly/ymCXDe 8:00 AM Feb 16th via TweetDeck Retweeted by LeeBillings and 1 other
Neal Stephenson for president: goo.gl/cSwbT 7:52 AM Feb 16th via TweetDeck
@missaki Hey there :D 10:19 AM Feb 14th via web
b0yle Planetary scientists see today's budget plan as bad, bad news; but overall, the news ain't that bad for science: on.msnbc.com/zwxT5E 7:32 PM Feb 13th via TweetDeck Retweeted by LeeBillings and 13 others
pickover 7 billion people walk on dot on the left. 12 of them have walked on the dot on the right. jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?… (thanks @DailyGrail) 8:35 AM Feb 10th via web Retweeted by LeeBillings and 19 others
AllPlanets Are very wide orbit exoplanets captured free-floating planets? A novel idea: arxiv.org/abs/1202.2362 8:12 PM Feb 13th via web Retweeted by LeeBillings and 6 others
lukedones “@AstroPHYPapers: The Maximal Runaway Temperature of Earth-like Planets. arxiv.org/abs/1202.2644” Runaway Venus can't be hotter than 1200-1300K 8:15 PM Feb 13th via Twitter for Mac Retweeted by LeeBillings and 1 other
cosmos4u The first serious analysis of the new trends in NASA's planetary program - that still exists, folks! - I have seen: futureplanets.blogspot.com/2012/02/nasas-…. 3:25 PM Feb 13th via Mobile Web Retweeted by LeeBillings and 1 other
You haven't rly experienced Thunderbolt off @Bjork's new album til you've heard its bass line played on a Tesla Coil: goo.gl/1ltkF 3:22 PM Feb 13th via TweetDeck
Watching the FY2013 NASA budget presentation is not helping my pounding neck/headache. Hard to find anything positive to say... 12:11 PM Feb 13th via TweetDeck
petitsciwrite Who found the best super-Earth yet? The debate is fascinating. tinyurl.com/7bdvgvf 8:54 AM Feb 13th via web Retweeted by LeeBillings and 3 others
@Gemma_Lavender Thanks, Gemma! Looking forward to getting it out there for you and everyone else to read. :) 11:20 AM Feb 12th via TweetDeck in reply to Gemma_Lavender
NatureNews Russia confirms Lake Vostok breakthrough ow.ly/8WG5C 6:26 AM Feb 8th via HootSuite Retweeted by LeeBillings and 57 others
Here's the big new GJ 667 Cc discovery paper: goo.gl/0bWID Here's one from last year also mentioning GJ 667 Cc: goo.gl/9Kl9I 6:53 AM Feb 3rd via TweetDeck

Name Lee Billings
Location New York City
Bio Freelance science journalist, writing a book for Current/Penguin about the astronomical search for alien Earths. Five Billion Years of Solitude drops in 2013.