NASA Detects Planet Dancing With a Pair of Stars

This Carl Sagan video has been floating around the interwebs for awhile now but it never gets old. Our world is far from perfect. Crises and conflicts seem to portend of our impending doom; we are far down the slippery slope, and picking up speed. But this is not the first time things have seemed dire, and it won't be the last.
And yet we are still here. Carl Sagan, in prescient words written decades ago, reassures us that we are a remarkable species, and that greatness—after we've ironed out our kinks—awaits..

Is better ot hit the sack early tonight



Space Junk: Satellite Forecast to Re-Enter Friday Afternoon off Chilean Coast; USA Safe From Debris

How nice from you

nite nite

ESO, the European Southern Observatory

ESO operates three unique world-class observing sites in the Atacama Desert region of Chile: La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor. ESO's first site is at La Silla, a 2400 m high mountain 600 km north of Santiago de Chile. It is equipped with several optical telescopes with mirror diameters of up to 3.6 metres. The 3.5-metre New Technology Telescope broke new ground for telescope engineering and design and was the first in the world to have a computer-controlled main mirror, a technology developed at ESO and now applied to most of the world's current large telescopes. The ESO 3.6-metre telescope is now home to the world's foremost extrasolar planet hunter: HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher), a spectrograph with unrivalled precision.
Star That Should Not Exist
A team of European astronomers has used ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) to track down a star in the Milky Way that many thought was impossible. They discovered that this star is composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium, with only remarkably small amounts of other chemical elements in it. This intriguing composition places it in the “forbidden zone” of a widely accepted theory of star formation, meaning that it should never have come into existence in the first place

A faint star in the constellation of Leo (The Lion), called SDSS J102915+172927 [1], has been found to have the lowest amount of elements heavier than helium (what astronomers call “metals”) of all stars yet studied. It has a mass smaller than that of the Sun and is probably more than 13 billion years old.

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