Planetary Astrophysicist, Senior Research Scientist at the Southwest Research Institute and Co-Investigator for the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS), Arizona State University
Natalie Hinkel receives funding from the NASA Nexus for Exoplanet System Science research coordination network based out of Arizona State University. This funding is used to research exoplanet habitability.
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Scientists have discovered over 4,000 exoplanets outside of our Solar System, according to NASA's Exoplanet Archive .
While you're here, how about this:
Earth's oldest known impact crater may tell us a lot about our planet's frozen past | Space
Scientists have identified the oldest known impact crater on Earth — and the ancient structure could tell us how our planet emerged from a long-ago frozen phase.
Yarrabubba Crater, a 43-mile-wide (70 kilometers) geological feature in Western Australia, is 2.229 billion years old, plus or minus 5 million years, a new study reports. That's about half the age of Earth itself and 200 million years older than the previous record holder, the 190-mile-wide (300 km) Vredefort Dome in South Africa.
As the Worlds Turn: Visualizing the Rotation of Planets - Visual Capitalist
Dr. James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist at the Japanese space agency who has the creative ability to visually communicate space concepts like the speed of light and the vastness of the solar system , recently animated a video showing cross sections of different planets spinning at their own pace on one giant globe.
Each planet in the solar system moves to its own rhythm. The giant gas planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) spin more rapidly on their axes than the inner planets. The sun itself rotates slowly, only once a month.
New, accurate way of viewing solar system turns data into images - Business Insider
For many years, there were only two ways for astronomers to see distant worlds in our solar system: Either they used a powerful telescope, or they sent spacecraft into the inky blackness to get up close and personal.
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At the American Museum of Natural History, a new planetarium show reveals images of Saturn's moon Titan, the 67P comet, and the lunar surface, all generated using data collected during 50 years of space missions.
"We're not making anything up here," Carter Emmart, director of astrovisualization for that show, said at a press conference. "The height, color, and shapes we see come from actual measurements. You get to see these beautiful objects as they actually are, to the best of our abilities."
Not to change the topic here:
Pain and Practical Planets by Holiday Mathis – Boston Herald
The gurus suggest others do not cause us pain, rather they bring up the pain that is already in us. Maybe so, but in the moment of pain, people don’t usually look too deeply into the matter. That’s why working on ourselves is so much easier when we’re not currently mired in the thick of it. For instance, now, while practical earth sign energy rules.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Do you. What they want from you and what you want to give may not exactly match up now, but as you keep doing your thing, they’ll learn to expect and want what you most prefer to deliver.
Meet the NASA intern who discovered a new planet on his third day - BBC News
As far as impressing your potential new boss goes, discovering a planet on day three of your internship at NASA is up there.
That's what happened to 17-year-old Wolf Cukier while helping out at the space agency in the United States.
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Wolf, who is now back at high school in Scarsdale, New York, has been speaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat about his amazing discovery.
He explains that he landed the two-month placement with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center when school finished last summer.
What If Fashion Was Good for the Planet?
It's too big of a question to answer in a single blog post, of course, but I'm intrigued by the topic of the Study Hall conference next week: climate positivity. Study Hall hosts talks on sustainability throughout the year, with one big global summit annually. This one asks us to envision a world in which fashion is not only not actively harmful to the planet, but actually beneficial. In light of the Everlane debacle, it's a tall ask.
Céline Semaan, the founder of Study Hall and its parent company, Slow Factory, says that even clothes made from new materials can be climate positive if they're circular or "will act as nutrients for the soil." For her, this is more than just a thought exercise; it's a way of figuring out how to marry fashion's whims with hard scientific evidence. "We felt the need to define what we mean by sustainability," she said.
Potential super-Earth found orbiting the nearest star from our sun - CNN
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