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What people will be able to see without the funny looking glasses on. but everybody is getting their cameras out, i have seen some really expensive equipment brought here from just a citizen scientist. people who are interested in the stuff. a cross between woodstock and i dont know, a "star trek" festival where people are science geeks who are out here looking at what nature does once every hundred years or so. actually, you know what? i eclipse happens every year and a half, but very rarely ac...

Scientists believe that 60% of all the stars might have planets. so maybe this is just overly common. >> they believe that now. when kepler first launched in 2009 they thought 1% of stars did. what they found from this is there could be more than half of all the stars. >> bill: explain what that could mean possibly? >> it means there are planets everywhere even the next star closest to us may have its own set of planets and where there is a lot of planets there could be a lot of earth-like plane...

Signs of also sighs come kind knows -- signs of ice volcanoes. give them idea of active place. bill: tariq, do you consider pluto a planet? growing up i did. what about now? >> all of us grew up with nine planets. the my daughter is six. it is definitely not a planet to her. i think pluto is interesting world, whatever we call it, isnt like the most important thing to actually getting there and seeing it with these pictures. bill: fair point. have a good weekend. tariq malik from space.com. than...

And this includes our commitment to being on time. every time. thats why if were ever late for an appointment, well credit your account $20. its our promise to you. were doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. because we should fit into your life. not the other way around. bill: some incredible new pictures of plutos largest moon. nasa releasing enhanced already image by the new horizon spacecraft during historic fly-by of pluto. tariq malik, space.com. how are you doin...

Bill: future for space travel now setting up shop in familiar territory. amazon ceo jeff bezos announcing his private spaceflight company, blue origin, will launch flights from the coast of florida. tariq malik, editor, space.com. how are you doing? >> doing well. bill: what is his idea? >> jeff bezos basically had background plan to build rockets but didnt have a launch site. he is taking old launch site of cape canaveral air force station. home port for u.s. launches. will revitalize it into p...

How long it can survive. >> astronaut ice cream doesnt require a spoon. >> turns out martians like soup. >> a new magnetic tractor beam looks something like this. >> get the exact source of that tracker beam. lock on target. >> shields will be down. ive always wanted to say that on tv. technology would be used to move satellites around in space. how does it work? lets ask managing editor of space.com. thanks for joining us. >> its a pleasure. >> whats the technology? this company in california...

Jing me is space.com managing editor. welcome to the show. >> thanks, clayton. good to be here. >> they find this planet. had they been tracking this for a long time and they finally nailed down this is just like earth? >> nasa has this space craft. blinking one spach of sky in space. for signs of dip in light. tell tell sin of planets around another star. >> because of gravity. it actually blocks the light of that star. its like a flickering kind of a thing. they go back and look at it it and h...

Been investigating planets for six years now. nasa gave details of its discovery in a noon press conference. tariq malik, managing editor of space.com by way of skype. good day to you. youre about 60 minutes away from hearing from nasa. what will they tell us about this? >> were expecting to just get an update what kept lar has been doing for the last few months. last we heard was earlier this year and were all really excited. they said it is latest discoveries from the spacecraft. it has been g...

Planet normally they put out a press release for that. when they say were growing to announce something two days from now at noon, that usually perks up your ears a bit. yeah, we should be paying attention. bill: makes people like you excited. i know youre waiting on news. hey ho. tariq malik, thank you so much from space.com. well see at 12 noon eastern time. >> a pleasure bill. martha: something to think about right? this is something to think about as well. this is secretary moniz, earnest mo...

The senior editor of space.com joins us live to talk about what all of this means. thanks for your time. we have this first stunning closeup image of pluto showing that it has these 11,000 feet high ice mountains, i guess. there is so much that this discovery will bring but what does that mean or tell us about this mission so far? >> well, so far it tells us that the cameras on board new horizons worked like they were supposed to. this image of the ice mountains is one little sliver of this hear...