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on Wednesday November 14 2018, @10:33PM
from the with-an-oink-oink-here-and-a...oh,-wait dept.
from the with-an-oink-oink-here-and-a...oh,-wait dept.
Exoplanet discovered around neighbouring star
Astronomers have discovered a planet around one of the closest stars to our Sun.
Nearby planets like this are likely to be prime targets in the search for signatures of life, using the next generation of telescopes.
The planet's mass is thought to be more than three times that of our own, placing it in a category of world know as "super-Earths".
It orbits Barnard's star, which sits "just" six light-years away.
Writing in the journal Nature [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0677-y] [DX], Guillem Anglada Escudé and colleagues say this newly discovered world has a mass 3.2 times bigger than the Earth's.
Also at phys.org.
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Exoplanet Detected Around Barnard's Star, 6 Light Years Away
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It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so raisiny ...
(Score: 3, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday November 15 2018, @03:34AM (1 child)
-t.
Some of them have pointy ears. All the pointy-eared ones are also wearing green facepaint.
As they approach you can see that their holding up brightly hand-painted signs. Then you can hear them shouting. From a distance at first, but when two blocks away you can just make it out:
"WHAT DO WE WANT?"
"WARP DRIVE!"
"WHEN DO WE WANT IT?"
"NOW!"
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @11:28AM
Every self-respecting Trekkie knowns that the Warp drive will be invented in the 2060s by Zefram Cochrane.