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@sisfreak2017 | 20 June 17 | |
'We are probably not alone' - NASA finds 10 planets which could sustain life NASA has discovered more than 200 new planets and 10 of them are the right size and temperature to sustain life. The distant worlds were discovered by the planet-hunting Kepler telescope which, in four years of searching, has discovered 49 planets in the so-called Goldilocks zone. This is the area around a star which is considered neither too hot, nor too cold, to sustain complex life. Commenting on the discovery Kepler scientist Mario Perez said: Are we alone? Maybe Kepler today has told us indirectly, although we need confirmation, that we are probably not alone. |
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@sisfreak2017 | 20 June 17 | |
Kepler has already found dozens of worlds of interest and has still only looked at a tiny part of the galaxy. It has searched just a quarter of one per cent of a galaxy which holds around 200 billion stars Of the 10 new planets which could sustain life, NASA says seven of them circle stars which are not unlike the Sun. The findings do not mean that the planets have life, just that the basic requirements for life have been met SOURCE http://news.sky.com/story/we-are-probably-not-alone-nasa-finds-10-planets-which-could-sustain-life-10920773 and still people's will kill in belief of their earthly fairytale gods |
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@shadow27 | 3 July 17 | |
Some interesting stuff I just read about, scientists spot 6 hypervelocity stars in/exiting the Milky Way. These stars are the product of interactions with the supermassive black hole that is at the centre of our galaxy. Interesting thing about how these stars were spotted: an artificial neural network was utilized to sieve through the mountains of data (if you think back to the quantum computer topic you will notice they were being used to do such things re: exoplanet detection etc)
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@shadow27 | 3 July 17 | |
4.5 billion years ago a collision between a young Earth and a stray Mars-sized planetoid created the Earth-Moon system we see today. Scientists are now studying models of this early Moon to better understand how protoplanets and red dwarf stars elsewhere in the universe may interact with each other.
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@shadow27 | 3 July 17 | |
''At first, though, the moon would have been covered in a deep, global ocean of hot liquid rock. The post collision Earth would have been blisteringly hot as well - upwards of 2000 degrees Celsius - and would have glowed like a red dwarf star. Prabal Saxena of NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues added up the radiation the early moon would have received from that starlike Earth, plus the sun and the magma ocean itself. Previous models had suggested the early moon should have an atmosphere, but the team believes its model is the first to include all those inputs at once, revealing fresh details about how the atmosphere and ocean may have interacted.'' |
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@shadow27 | 5 July 17 | |
About those hypervelocity stars again: Massive blue stars end their lives by collapsing to a neutron star or black hole after hundreds of millions of years and runaway stars are no different. Most of the runaway stars in the simulation died 'in flight' after being kicked out of the LMC (Large Magellanic Cloud) The neutron stars and black holes that are left behind just continue on their way and so, along with the 10,000 runaway stars, the researchers also predict a million runaway neutron stars and black holes flying through the Milky Way. |
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@sisfreak2017 | 7 July 17 | |
Face spotted on Mars as NASA releases bizarre photo An image taken in 2001 by the thermal imaging camera on NASAs Mars Odyssey probe has just been released by the space agency, seemingly revealing the planets mugshot. SOURCE http://www.rt.com/viral/395470-nasa-image-mars-face/ |
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@shadow27 | 7 July 17 | |
The National Space Council has been revived, along with it a push towards getting Americans back on the Moon and eventually landing on Mars. It's only taken 40 years to get back on track, here's hoping it happens
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@shadow27 | 7 July 17 | |
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The Trump administration will seek a heavier emphasis on human-spaceflight efforts, including crewed missions to the moon and Mars, Vice President Mike Pence said today (July 6). During a 25-minute speech at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) here on Florida's Space Coast, Pence told the 700-plus members of the crowd that the United States is ''at the dawn of a new era of space exploration,'' and called for a return to the moon and ''American boots on the face of Mars.'' He also said the United States will maintain a presence in low-Earth orbit. |
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@shadow27 | 7 July 17 | |
The next 10-20 years we are going to see the militarization of space, probably with China/US being the main players. You can bet this is one reason the Space Council was revived. |
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