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Is there any justice in the system, or is it just-us in the system
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
2023 February 1
The Seventh World of Trappist-1
Seven worlds orbit the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. A mere 40 light-years away, many of the exoplanets were discovered in 2016 using the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) located in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and later confirmed with telescope including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The TRAPPIST-1 planets are likely all rocky and similar in size to Earth, and so compose one of the largest treasure troves of terrestrial planets ever detected around a single star. Because they orbit very close to their faint, tiny star they could also have regions where surface temperatures allow for the presence of ice or even liquid water, a key ingredient for life. Their tantalizing proximity to Earth makes them prime candidates for future telescopic explorations of the atmospheres of potentially habitable planets. All seven exoplanets appear in the featured illustration, which imagines a view from the most distant known world of this system, TRAPPIST-1h, as having a rocky landscape covered in ice. Meanwhile, in the imagined background, one of the system's inner planets crosses in front of the dim, orange, nearly Jupiter-sized parent star.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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The Biden Border Crisis
Feb 1 2023
https://rumble.com/v27ypno-the-biden-border-crisis.html
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TRAILER: President Donald J. Trump's FIRST one-on-one Interview of 2023
On Thursday, February 2nd at 8 PM ET, watch President Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States, sit down with RSBN's Brian Glenn for his first official one-on-one interview of 2023.
https://rumble.com/v27xcpa-trailer-president-donald-j.-trumps-first-one-on-one-interview-since-announc.html
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Want to See the Green Comet? Adler Planetarium Will Have a Livestream Wednesday Night
February 1, 2023 9:56 am
Having traveled from a place in the solar system that scientists only theoretically think exists, the Green Comet is making its closest pass to Earth Wednesday night and the skies are looking clear enough for Adler Planetarium to host a virtual viewing party.
Tune in to the Adler’s Sky Observers Hangout at 9 p.m., live from the Doane Observatory. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to catch a glimpse of the faint, fuzzy smear of light that hasn’t been seen in 50,000 years and quite possibly may never come around again.
Though hyped as a “naked eye” comet, the Green Comet — technical name C/2022 E3 (ZTF) — is really only visible with binoculars or a telescope. It’s still, at its “closest,” 26 million miles away and the moon’s glow is interfering with the view.
For those who want to scope out the comet on their own, the Adler has a map of where to look.
Joe Guzman, the Chicago Astronomer, has been on the hunt for the comet in recent days and tells sky watchers to sweep the area between the North Star (Polaris) and “the bucket of the Big Dipper.” Guzman has been rewarded with multiple sightings, including early Wednesday morning and managed to capture the moment with an 18mm lens.
His advice to amateur observers: adjust expectations.
“Comets do not zip through the sky, but travel slowly across the background of stars over days, weeks and months,” Guzman shared with his followers on social media.
Images showing a blazing green ball streaking through space are time exposures through telescopes, he said, teasing out details the eye can’t grasp.
None of which should dim the enthusiasm for this distant visitor, said Tom Prince, one of the scientists who discovered it: “Comets such as this are messengers from the outermost reaches of our solar system.”
Greetings from Earth.
https://news.wttw.com/2023/02/01/want-see-green-comet-adler-planetarium-will-have-livestream-wednesday-night
https://twitter.com/AdlerPlanet/status/1620207002893828097
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzCFuqbUGLI