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Difference Images, 8.3 days Showing Variable Stars (Alas No Planets)
- Release DateOctober 31, 2000
- Science ReleaseAstronomers Ponder Lack of Planets in Globular Cluster
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov