Two astronomers have written a paper and say that the first Earth-like, habitable exoplanet will be announced in May of 2011.
Do they have inside information, a crystal ball, or amazing powers of prediction?
No, they base their projection on math and trends from the past 15 years of exoplanet discoveries. And if the discoveries continue at their present rate, the researchers say next year is the year of the long awaited holy grail of finding another Earth-like planet out in the cosmos.
This morning, Sept. 19th around 0200 UT, magnetic fields around the sun's north pole became unstable and erupted.
This event shows, by the way, that sunspots are not required for explosions on the sun. There was certainly no sunspot at the base of this explosion; sunspots are never found at the sun's poles.
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The Friday Message from Inspirationpeak
In this now ...
It's not enough to have lived.
We should be determined to live for something.
May I suggest that it be creating joy for others,
sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind,
bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.