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Astronomers trawling through a mess of stellar data discover that Tau Ceti, our nearest single Sun-like star, hosts five planets - one in its "habitable zone".
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If like me you grew up reading science fiction that postulated Tau Ceti and Alpha Centuari as homes for alien life, you will be heartened to hear of the planetary findings around both starts. Tau Ceti appears to have at least 5 planets and one of which in the so called habitable zone. Currently the confirmed planets number 854 but its increasingly clear that many star systems have planets. Going to be interesting as we refine the techniques used for detection and evetually infered observation. Good article on BBC Science on how the planets were detected. Click the image or title to learn more Delete the scoop?
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Astronomers see a temperature pattern on Saturn's moon Tethys that looks like the 1980s arcade icon Pac-Man - the second such find near Saturn. Click on the image or title to learn more. Delete the scoop?
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DTNP is go... Astronauts on the International Space Station use an experimental version of interplanetary internet (more correctly the Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) Protocol) to control a robot on Earth. Vint Cerf proposed this the basis of DTN over 10 years ago and the demonstration shows how communciations using the store and forward protocol are increasingly possible over very large distances. (a previous test was conducted with image transmition between earth and a remote satellite, 20 million miles away.). Click on the image or title to learn more via the BBC Technologiy article. Delete the scoop?
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The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully berthed with the International Space Station this morning after a long overnight approach including several correction manouvers. Its a big day for space exloration and SpaceX today. Awesome. Learn more... Delete the scoop?
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Located in a lonely region of space 4,200 light-years away and difficult to see using an amateur telescope, the lonesome planetary nebula NGC 7354 is often overlooked. Delete the scoop?
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the world’s third-fastest supercomputer --known as Mira--will complete tests of its new upgraded software and begin running the largest cosmological simulations ever performed at Argonne National Laboratory. One point of interest is the HACC (for Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code) the underpinning code base is modular and reconfigurable for different compute architectures including hybrid CPU and GPU architectures. Links for further information in the article sidebar. Click on the image or the title to learn more. Delete the scoop?
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From the BBC Science column - Astronomers have found what looked like a three-planet system 42 light-years away is in fact a set of six planets - one a "super-Earth" in the habitable zone. Given the finding trend - this is going to be an increasing occurance. Its going to be interesting over the next decade as we strt being able to use the space based telecopes to assess composition and longer term perhaps atmospheric changes. Awesome. Click on the image or title to learn more. Delete the scoop?
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Neil Armstrong talks about the space race, lunar landing and why NASA is important. Totally worth watching... Delete the scoop?
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Science continues to unravel more and more clues about our past and evolution illustrating that the more data and analysis and qualitative processes you have the more robust ideas can become. Interesting discovery reinforcing role of agriculture driving societal evolution.