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Skywatch: Catch meteors & planets this week | 10tv.com
We'll start off the week with a New Moon which means better stargazing & better meteor watching (more on that in a second). The New Moon is officially here Sunday morning at 12:07 a.m. Enjoy the darker skies.
As I mentioned earlier a darker sky will make finding meteors that much easier. The Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak Monday night into Tuesday morning under a moonless sky! It's caused by debris from Comet Tempel-Tuttle and roughly every 33 years the lion roars and we're treated to a meteor storm. This is not expected to be one of those years but at its peak, 10-15 meteors per hour aren't out of the question. Find a dark spot, far away from city lights for the best show.
Martian dust storms parch the planet by driving water into space | Science | AAAS
In 2018, Mars was enveloped by dust storms (seen here in a Mars Express image) that helped water escape the planet.
Fossilized rivers and deltas etched across Mars suggest water flowed there billions of years ago . Most of it must have somehow escaped to space—yet researchers thought water vapor could not travel high in the frigid, thin atmosphere without condensing into snow and falling back to the surface. New data from NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter, published today in Science , show how churning dust storms may in effect pump water into space.
Meet the hell planet with a magma ocean and rocky rain | Space | EarthSky
Exoplanet K2-141b is fiery hot world that circles so close to its star that 1 side of the planet features a deep ocean of molten lava. Meanwhile, the other side is freezing cold.
Artist’s concept of K2-141b, a hot lava world with a magma ocean, rock vapor atmosphere and supersonic winds. Image via Julie Roussy/ McGill Graphic Design/ Getty Images/ McGill University .
In a new study announced on November 3, 2020, an international team of researchers described a planet unlike any in our solar system. The Earth-size exoplanet – named K2-141b – is a hot lava world on one side, but extremely cold on the other. It has a magma ocean, a rock vapor atmosphere, and supersonic winds.
Not to change the topic here:
The Most Hellish Planet Yet | Daily Planet | Air & Space Magazine
A new study led by Giang Nguyen from York University in Toronto modeled the atmosphere of an exoplanet known as K2-141b—just over 200 light years from us in the constellation Aquarius—and found that this world is truly the most hellish place we can imagine. A massive rocky lava planet, it orbits extremely close to its host star, which is classified as an orange main sequence, or K star.
Nguyen’s simulations suggest a truly bizarre and infernal world. The planet’s interior consists of rocks, as we might expect. But the ocean also consists of rocks. And the atmosphere? Rocks.
This bizarre planet could have supersonic winds in an atmosphere of vaporized rock | Space
Scientists think they have identified a lava world so dramatic that it might boast a thin regional atmosphere of vaporized rock where it is closest to its star.
That exoplanet is called K2-141b and was originally discovered in 2017. The world is about half again as big as Earth but orbits so close to its star, which is one class smaller than our own, that it completes several loops each Earth-day with the same surface permanently facing the star.
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"All rocky planets, including Earth, started off as molten worlds but then rapidly cooled and solidified," Nicolas Cowan, a planetary scientist at McGill University in Canada and a coauthor on the new paper, said in a statement . "Lava planets give us a rare glimpse at this stage of planetary evolution."
Astronomers Suggest There Are 6 Billion Earth-Like Planets In Milky Way | Fatherly
We all know about the infamous Carl Sagan quote about the pale blue dot we call planet Earth, in regards to the famous photo of the Earth taken by the Voyager 1 Spacecraft in 1990, a photo taken explicitly at Carl Sagan's request .
The quote is famous — it became a book title for Sagan and is one of his most often cited diatribes about the nature of the universe — but it also now may have a bigger meaning, now that astronauts have discovered through the use of the Kepler space telescope that there may be some 6-billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy alone.
Corvus planet Star Wars: Ahsoka Tano's location could be a major twist
The Mandalorian is headed to Corvus, a forest planet where he'll find Ahsoka Tano in the city of Calodan. At least, that's what he thinks is happening. But a closer look at Star Wars history suggests Mando's new friend Bo-Katan could be lying to him, or at the very least, testing Din Djarin before she reveals the location of one of the most important people in the galaxy.
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Bo-Katan Kryze couldn't be more clear when she gives Mando directions at the end of The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 3:
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