Researchers have discovered a new Earth-sized planet orbiting a star outside our solar system. The planet, called Kepler-1649c, is only around 1.06 times larger than Earth, making it very similar to our own planet in terms of physical dimensions. It’s also quite close to its star, orbiting at a distance that means it gets around 75% of the light we do from the Sun.
Kepler-1649c was found by scientists digging into existing observations gathered by the Kepler space telescope before its retirement from operational status in 2018. An algorithm that was developed to go through the troves of data collected by the telescope and identify potential planets for further study failed to properly ID this one, but researchers noticed it when reviewing the information.
Quite a lot has been going on:
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi..The planet Crait..Photo: Film Frames Industrial Light & Magic/Lucasfilm..©2017 Lucasfilm Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Tatooine, Coruscant and Kashyyk are among the more commonly referenced planets in the Star Wars canon. Each of those planets have been explored in plenty of depth and fans by now are likely up to speed on the unique environments and inhabitants of each.
Ever since Disney’s acquisition of Star Wars in 2012, countless new planets have been hinted at and briefly introduced. With the conclusion of the sequel trilogy last December, there are endless new planets that could be explored that fans have only gotten a small glimpse of.
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I have been familiar with Blaustein's work for many years, from his "The Value of a Dollar" (which ended up going viral after being published by the New York Times) to his writing about photography in the A Photo Editor blog as well as the New York Times's Lens blog.
After taking a look at his book, I was interested in highlighting it here on In Sight . The book's message about how we interact with the planet seems more pressing, especially now. But I was wary about writing about the book because Blaustein is a much better writer than I am. So I proposed that he take the reins and give us his own insight into the work. I'm thankful that he graciously obliged. Here's what he had to say:
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Many things are taking place:
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Microsoft’s new ‘Planetary Computer’ project will use global environmental data
This is an evolution of Microsoft’s AI for Earth program, which was launched in 2017 , and the actual development of the Planetary Computer will involve further investments in infrastructure, as well as participation from the existing AI for Earth grant recipients to built out analyses on the data collected.
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The pictures are in from BepiColombo’s Earth flyby last week. The European-Japanese spacecraft , which launched in 2018, used Earth’s gravity to swing toward the inner solar system. As it flew past, the spacecraft snapped shots of our planet using its black-and-white monitoring cameras. Learn why we explore Mercury and what BepiColombo hopes to discover there .
The Moon's orbit is getting farther from Earth at about the same rate your nails grow, about 38 millimeters (1.5 inches) per year
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I had a text from my brother a week or two ago telling me to go outside and look up. And there in the night sky was a stunning pairing of the crescent moon and Venus, that brightest of planets, blazing 25 million miles (more than 40 million kilometres) away.
Even from a city drowned in street lights, it was a spectacular sight, a quiet moment of wonder in these unsettling times.
I thought of that quote from the famous late American astronomer Carl Sagan. He was writing about a photograph taken by Voyager 1 in 1990 as it headed for the outer fringes of the solar system. There, barely discernible in the vast reaches of space, was a pale blue dot, a lonely speck. It was Planet Earth.
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A potentially habitable Earth-sized exoplanet is similar in size and temperature to Earth, according to a new study… https://t.co/6dCeexVd2Z CNN Thu Apr 16 06:00:07 +0000 2020
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Scientists from around the world have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone! Ou… https://t.co/KAqxUMkkub OpenUniversity (from UK) Fri Apr 17 09:20:08 +0000 2020
New Earth-sized planet found in habitable sweet-spot orbit around a distant star https://t.co/91JjcFhUcw by… https://t.co/qjUuPrPwNw TechCrunch (from San Francisco, CA) Wed Apr 15 17:59:05 +0000 2020
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