Five elements bind every Star Wars movie together: a comical droid, a bad dude who wears all black, someone saying "hyperspace," a lightsaber, and, unfortunately for us all, a desert planet.
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There's Water on Alien Planets, Just Not As Much as Scientists Thought: Study | Space
Water appears both common and unexpectedly scarce in exoplanets — many distant worlds have it, but less of it than predicted, a new study finds.
These findings may shed light on how planets form, including those in our own solar system , researchers said.
Scientists examined data from the atmospheres on 19 exoplanets collected by space-based and ground-based telescopes. These worlds ranged widely in temperature, from nearly 70 degrees F (20 degrees C) to more than 3,630 degrees F (2,000 degrees C), and in size, "from mini-Neptunes roughly 10 times Earth's mass to super-Jupiters more than 600 times Earth's mass," study co-author Nikku Madhusudhan, an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge in England, told Space.com.
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But it is indeed possible, probable, and arguably even inevitable because the climate crisis, née global warming, is embedded in a mostly white, liberal, humanist civilization whose peoples, at least since the middle of the fifteenth century, have privileged the appropriation of land, labor and geological resources over an ecological accommodation of the rest of the planet. It is this ideology, rooted in capital accumulation, that now manifests as extreme weather events.
Despite conventional green-wisdom, and Greta's urging, changing our predominant energy source to real-time solar, wind, photovoltaic, and hydro from the harvesting of prehistoric, subterranean stores of fossil biomass does not change the underlying modes of subjugation practiced by the capitalist class hell bent on resource extraction.
Google Maps Introduces Hyperspace Animation When Switching Between Planets / Digital Information
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Planetary Society All-Stars Look Back at 2019 and Ahead to 2020 | The Planetary Society
Happy new year in space! Editorial Director Jason Davis, Chief Advocate Casey Dreier and Solar System Specialist Emily Lakdawalla join Mat Kaplan for a review of 2019’s biggest news from the final frontier. Our experts then turn to the promise of 2020 for Mars exploration, humans in space and much more. The theme continues as Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts adds his highlights in a special What’s Up segment. Got a great joke that combines space and the new year?
Prince William Launches 'Prestigious' Environment Prize To 'Repair The Planet' In the Next Decade
Prince William has launched a new prize in a bid to "repair the planet" in the next decade, saying the Earth is now at a "tipping point."
The Earthshot Prize was unveiled with a brief video voiced by veteran broadcaster Sir David Attenborough in a post on the Kensington Palace Twitter account. "Who is ready to lead as we make the 2020s a decade of action to repair our planet?" a caption alongside the clip said. "Introducing the @EarthshotPrize."
"The earth is at a tipping point and we face a stark choice: either we continue as we are and irreparably damage our planet or we remember our unique power as human beings and our continual ability to lead, innovate and problem-solve," the Duke of Cambridge said in a statement shared on Twitter.
Researchers Find New 'Super-Puff' Planets With Density Lesser Than Cotton Candy | Technology News
Researchers have confirmed the existence of three new planets in a class called 'super-puffs', which as the name suggests, are planets with a very low mass to volume ratio. Or to put it simply, these planets have extremely low density, and essentially act as the celestial equivalents of cotton candy. First spotted by NASA's Kepler space telescope, these super-puff planets were discovered orbiting the Kepler 51, a young solar-type star.
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Members of the Minnesota Rovers Club ski across Lake Gegoka back to the Lodge after a morning on the trails.
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Fans of "Broad City" will be drawn to "Ilana Glazer: The Planet Is Burning," a stand-up special featuring that sitcom's co-creator and star. Glazer's material often feels like leftover material from her groundbreaking series, but she fully commits to her bizarre impersonations of everything from marching like a Nazi to inserting a DivaCup. In the end, you'll feel like you've just survived the planet's most entertaining workout video.
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I know Star Wars Discourse is over but at the end of the movie they cut to Endor and Jakku and Bespin to show Star… https://t.co/XtIIm9WEfw drmistercody (from Los Angeles) Tue Dec 31 22:13:33 +0000 2019
The "Star Wars" actor also explained why 2020 is "the make-or-break year" for the country. https://t.co/hpOGyNVUK4 HuffPost Thu Jan 02 12:31:34 +0000 2020
The final installment in the new Star Wars trilogy has a lot of people split. Let's see if the Nostalgia Critic can… https://t.co/F9uDGnc9tK ChannelAwesome (from Chicago, IL) Thu Jan 02 00:56:41 +0000 2020
why didn't you include this bit in star wars 9 if you filmed it??? WHY, IT SOUNDS LIKE ONE OF MY **FAVORITE** SIMPS… https://t.co/7pmWsVCeKW MichaelToole (from Cambridge, MA) Thu Jan 02 16:13:21 +0000 2020
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