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...in Europe, where standards are stricter than in the U.S.
A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
An open source effort to preserve and modernize LEGO® Star Wars: The Complete Saga, and possibly other Traveller's Tales LEGO® games in the future.
The newly announced project has significant financial backing along with notable partners signed on to develop over a thousand spacecraft.
I write this at 11:19 PM, due to Star Trek barging back into my head minutes from going to sleep.
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For decades, astronomers thought rings were something only giant planets had. That changed in 2013, when a small, dark body orbiting between Saturn and Uranus passed in front of a star and blinked twice on either side of the main event, revealing two narrow rings around an object barely 250 kilometers across. “It was a surprise,” says Pablo Santos-Sanz, an astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Granada, Spain. Ever since, the question has been what such rings are made of and how long they can last. In a recent study, Santos-Sanz and his colleagues used the James Webb Space Telescope to watch the same body, now known as Chariklo, pass in front of a background star again. They found one of its rings had grown denser and the other had almost vanished. We don’t know exactly why. Shadowing a star The technique behind the observation is simple. “We predict when a Solar System object passes in front of a star,” Santos-Sanz said. The starlight dims for a moment, and the shape of that dip reveals the size, shape, and surroundings of the object that caused it. “This is particularly challenging for minor bodies, and more challenging for distant minor bodies,” he said. Read full article Comments