“The planet was detected by searching for very small variations in the velocity of the host star, caused by the gravitational tug of the planet as it orbits – the so-called “Doppler wobble technique,” said Gálvez-Ortiz. “Overcoming the interference caused by the activity was a major ch...
Discovery image of the planet 2M0437, which lies about 100 times the Earth-Sun distance from its parent star. The image was taken with the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea. The much-brighter host star has been mostly removed, and the four “spikes” are artifacts produced by the optics of th...
Another record-setter on the crew is Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old Dutch student who is now the world’s youngest person to fly to space. (The late Soviet cosmonautGherman Titov, who followed Yuri Gagarin into orbit in 1961 at the age of 25, previously held the record.) Daemen, the ...
On Sunday (March 14),Beyoncéand her daughter won the Grammy award for Best Music Video for "Brown Skin Girl." The announcement was made during the virtual Grammy Premiere Ceremony. Blue Ivy starred in the video and is credited in its creation. Queen Bey also won the Best Rap Performance ...
she won't be traveling alone. They give Keli an escort in the form of Mogo the Living Planet. Even so, as the pair travels through the starless region known as the Void, the Central Power Battery fails, which renders Mogo dormant and immobile. Thankfully, this is Keli's chance to over...
Think "Rocketman" meets "Planet of the Apes." 10/02/2024 By Belen Edwards Why Pharrell Williams made his biopic ‘Piece by Piece’ a Lego movie "It gave me an amount of degrees of separation and disassociation that allowed me to look at myself more objectively." 10/04/2024 By Krist...
Firsts have always been important in exploration. This seems rather straightforward, even tautological, to say since being first is woven into the definition of exploration. After all, traveling to unknown places is doing something that hasn't been done
About a Boy) also in the running, if Pattinson does not sign on.The Batmanwill be the first solo movie for the DC Comics superhero sinceThe Dark Knight Rises, and will be directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield,Let Me In), whose most recent film was 2017’sWar for the Planet of t...
Within weeks of Endeavour landing, Hubble embarked on a succession of stunning and still unfolding discoveries that have helped to confirm the existence of black holes, refine the age of the universe and reveal star- and planet-forming processes. ...