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cosmoscon.com
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| | | | | There was an announcement today that the Kepler mission has confirmed the existence of a planet that is the most Earth-like that has ever been discovered. The planet was given the name Kepler-22b and was discovered using the transit method where the Kepler instruments look for slight dimming of the stars brightness which indicates a... | |
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alexvorkovwriter.wordpress.com
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| | | | | At long last, my new horror/dark sci-fi novel is out there in the world. Expect scares. Set in the year 2704, ALL THE COLORS OF THE DEAD tells the story of a secretive deep-space mission to scout a remote exoplanet for possible colonization. Piloted by commander Derek Rain and carrying a small science team, the... | |
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lewisdartnell.com
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| | | | | I offer PBL workshops to challenge your most able students, scholars, or Oxbridge candidates (and also works very well with an inquisitive group of GCSE students). The aim is not to test the group on what they have already learned in class, but to apply their background understanding and work-out solutions from first principles. This [...] | |
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| | | I get a lot of questions asking why the James Webb Space Telescope is infrared, and how its images can hope to compare to the (primarily) optical Hubble Space Telescope. Why would NASA build something that isn't going to capture beautiful images exactly like Hubble does? The short answer to this is that JWST will absolutely capture beautiful images of the universe, even if it won't see exactly what Hubble does. (Spoiler: it will see a lot of things even better.) There are legit scientific reasons for JWS... | ||