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Do other stars have planets like our Sun? Previous evidence shows that they do, coming mostly from slight shifts in the star’s light created by the orbiting planets. Recently, however, and for the first time, a pair of planets has been directly imaged around a Sun-like star. These exoplanets orbit the star designated TYC 8998-760-1 […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on August 18, 2020: Turkish pastry with cream filling. https://ift.tt/3aAChjH

Hi-RISE, the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured this avalanche plunging down a 1,640-foot-tall cliff. via wordpress https://wp.me/p4wJUi-7cZ

Why would meteor trails appear curved? The arcing effect arises only because the image artificially compresses (nearly) the whole sky into a rectangle. The meteors are from the Perseid Meteor Shower that peaked last week. The featured multi-frame image combines not only different directions from the 360 projection, but different times when bright Perseid meteors […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on August 17, 2020: Muskox on Bolshoy Begichev Island in Laptev Sea, Sakha, Russia https://ift.tt/2FoPfWk

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Wikipedia article of the day is Battle of Lagos. Check it out: https://ift.tt/29FoKfx Summary: The naval Battle of Lagos took place between a British fleet commanded by Sir Edward Boscawen and a French fleet under Jean-François de La Clue-Sabran over 18–19 August 1759 during the Seven Years’ War. The French Mediterranean Fleet successfully passed through the Strait […]

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