Anonymous ID: 25595f Nov. 20, 2018, 3:57 a.m. No.3970029   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Scientists discover our sun’s long-lost identical twin, which could lead us to Earth 2.0

 

An international team of scientists and astronomers has discovered an almost identical twin to our sun, in a promising development which could help narrow down our search for another habitable world.

 

It is estimated that up to 85 percent of all stars could be binary pairs (or triplets or quadruplets) as stars tend to form in stellar nurseries, which are vast clouds of gas and dust which can often form thousands of stars

With this in mind, using cutting-edge techniques including the latest astrometric data from the ESA’s GAIA space observatory, scientists at the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) in Portugal believe they have found our sun’s binary sibling some 184 light years away.

Like our sun, HD186302 is a G-type main-sequence star. It’s slightly larger than its supposed sibling, with roughly the same surface temperature and luminosity and is also about 4.5 billion years old, with a similar chemical composition.

 

These details are crucial as our sun’s size, age, temperature, luminosity and chemical composition offer the best, and seemingly only, conditions for sustaining life as we know it in the universe at present.

 

“If we are lucky, and our sibling candidate has a planet, and the planet is a rocky type, in the habitable zone, and finally if this planet was ‘contaminated’ by the life seeds from earth, then we have what one could dream - an Earth 2.0, orbiting a Sun 2.0,"Adibekyan added.

A previous contender for long-lost solar sibling was an F-type star HD162826 which was discovered in 2014. F-type stars are blue to white in color, burn hotter than our sun and have a larger mass averaging 1.7 times the sun. They are also much brighter.

 

Now IA scientists plan to scour the surrounding cosmic countryside around the newly discovered potential twin for signs of any planets that may look conspicuously like our own.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/444436-suns-long-lost-sibling/

Anonymous ID: 25595f Nov. 20, 2018, 4 a.m. No.3970039   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Theresa May govt to ‘engineer financial crash’ to frighten MPs into voting for Brexit deal – report

 

Theresa May’s government are planning to “engineer a financial crash” if parliament fails to back their Brexit deal – in an attempt to frighten MPs into voting it through at a second vote, claims a source close to the PM’s aides.

 

Since agreeing a draft Brexit withdrawal deal with the EU on Wednesday, May has had to contend with a string of cabinet resignations and a huge backlash from rebel MPs.

 

The Sunday Times reports that, faced with the prospect of the deal being voted down, the UK government will attempt to plunge the financial markets into chaos – in a bid to scare MPs into eventually voting it through on a second vote.

 

A source, who has discussed the issue with May’s officials, has told the paper that No 10 has come up with a dark plan to twist the arms of MPs to force through their Brexit deal.

 

https://www.rt.com/uk/444391-tories-brexit-crash-economy/