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One out of every five sun-like stars in the Milky Way galaxy has a planet about the size of Earth that is properly positioned for water, a key ingredient for life, a study released on Monday showed.

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown layer lurking in the human eye.

All of this has long since become a standard part of astronomy textbooks. What's not standard at all is the idea of a star actually turning into a planet — but that, says Matthew Bailes, astronomer at Australia's Swinburne University of Technology and lead author of the Science paper, isn't as crazy as it sounds.

Something big is going on at the center of our galaxy, and astronomers are happy to say they don’t know what it is.