Artist's rendering of six planets orbiting a Sun-like star, Kepler-11. A newly discovered system, also likely with six planets, includes a "super-Earth" and four "mini-Neptunes." Image credit: NASA/Tim Pyle.
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The discovery: A “super-Earth” and at least four “mini-Neptunes” orbit a Sun-like star 88 light-years away. A sixth, outermost planet also is likely, though its presence could not be fully confirmed. Perhaps this system’s most haunting quality: All the planets are locked in rhythmic harmony, like a waltz in a cosmic ballroom.
Many things are taking place:
'The most dangerous place in the history of planet earth' revealed | Fox News
Fossils of a 'bonecrushing' reptile that's related to the modern-day crocodile has been discovered in Brazil. The powerful scavenger that feasted on dinosaurs 230 million years ago was nicknamed the 'T. Rex of its time' by researchers.
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An international team of paleontologists says that 100 million years ago, ferocious predators such as flying reptiles and crocodile-hunters made the Sahara no place for the faint-hearted.
The research is published in the journal ZooKeys . Experts based the study on 100 years of fossil vertebrate discoveries in an area of rock formations in southeastern Morocco, known as the Kem Kem Group.
The planet that never existed - CNN
Fomalhaut's Planet Has Gone Missing, But it Might Have Been Something Even More Interesting
Planets don’t simply disappear. And yet, that appears to be what happened to Fomalhaut b (aka. Dagon), an exoplanet candidate located 25 light-years from Earth. Observed for the first time by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2004, then confirmed by follow-up observations in 2008 and 2012, this exoplanet candidate was the first to be detected in visible wavelengths (i.e. the Direct Imaging Method .)
Over time, this candidate got fainter and wider until it disappeared from sight altogether. This led to all kinds of speculation, which included the possibility of a collision that reduced the planet to debris. Recently, a team of astronomers from the University of Arizona has suggested another possibility – Fomalhaut b was never a planet at all , but an expanding cloud of dust from two planetesimals that smashed together.
Not to change the topic here:
St. Patrick’s Planets by Holiday Mathis – Boston Herald
The luck of this St. Patrick’s Day is governed by an Earth-sign lunar trine of the moon and Venus. There’s a commercial implication. It’s an excellent day for business, closing deals, shopping and sensing excellent investment opportunity. Take stock of resources, and give thanks for the fortunes with which the fates have already favored you.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’re a realist, an excellent quality, though it’s not always the easiest for you, as it has you doubting yourself more than the next person. If you must doubt yourself, follow up by arguing for yourself in a big way.
Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans gets clean energy and climate activism terribly wrong - Vox
Last week marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day . To celebrate the occasion, filmmaker Michael Moore dropped a new movie he produced, Planet of the Humans . In less than a week, it has racked up over 3 million views on YouTube .
But the film, directed by Jeff Gibbs, a long-time Moore collaborator, is not the climate message we've all been waiting for — it's a nihilistic take, riddled with errors about clean energy and climate activism. With very little evidence, it claims that renewables are disastrous and that environmental groups are corrupt.
Why Venus's Atmosphere Rotates Much Faster Than the Planet | Digital Trends
The planet Venus has some strange characteristics, but one of its oddest features is its atmosphere. Full of clouds of sulfuric acid , its thick atmosphere hides the surface of the planet and heats it so much that even though it’s further from the sun than Mercury, it is the hottest planet in the solar system. And strangest of all, even though the planet itself rotates slowly, its atmosphere whips around and rotates incredibly fast.
A Venusian day, which is one full rotation of the planet, takes 243 Earth days, but its atmosphere rotates 60 times faster than this, with the top of the clouds rotating all the way around the planet in just four Earth days. And as you look higher in the atmosphere, the rotation becomes faster. This phenomenon, called superrotation, was first discovered in the 1960s but until now, scientists have been puzzled as to what caused it.
NASA, Lego celebrate Earth Day's 50th anniversary with 'Build A Planet' challenge | Space
Fifty years after an astronaut's photo of our home planet gave rise to the first celebration of Earth Day, NASA has turned to another medium to "piece together" a planetary formation challenge.
NASA and Lego announced the toy company's new "Build a Planet" activity on Wednesday (April 22), the 50th annual Earth Day. Launched as part of NASA's "Earth Day at Home" programming and The Lego Group's #LetsBuildTogether initiative, the Build a Planet one-day challenge is aimed at highlighting the space agency's role in studying and preserving Earth while helping families to celebrate Earth Day while at home and apart in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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