Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
I regularly review features about exoplanets, together with giving periodical updates on their number and recent discoveries. Here for the latest stats: The catalogue maintained at Exoplanet.eu gives (April 4, 2018) 3757 planets / 2807 planetary systems / 627 multiple…
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I have written a lot about exoplanets on this blog in the past, therefore this is a news I can’t avoid discussing here. Just two days ago NASA released an update on Kepler space telescope team, which added to the already…
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It’s difficult to stay up to date with all the exoplanet discovery (one article of this week was discussing a perfect twin for our planet) and even more to figure them out. This is why animations of the kind Ethan…
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The idea for this articles comes out of a discussion with Roberto Flaibani. Roberto, whose name has already appeared here in some guest posts (his Il 13 Cavaliere is one of the most interesting blogs about astrophysics I have come…
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Four days ago, NASA made an amazing announcement – the biggest discovery of exoplanets to date. According to their figures, which added 1,284 planets to the total world count, the confirmed exoplanets are now more than 3,000 (3,264, to be precise)…
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Do you remember the claim that Jupiter is somehow a failed star? Well, this time it seems we have finally found a star that behaves in the same way, storms included. Have a look at what NASA has published just yesterday….
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A recent discovery by Kepler, the planet hunter, has got everybody in the scientific community excited, as a brief look to this week’s news can prove. An otherwise quite ordinary, sun-like star called KIC 8462852 has been found characterised by bizarre dips in…
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I have already spoken a few times here about the challenges of worldbulding in SF, both in terms of designing working planetary systems – around a single or binary star – and imagining celestial bodies where life is at least…
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“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” (Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide…
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