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Stunning Views from the ISS at Night

Bob2002

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Best watched at YouTube (or at Vimeo - here ) with high-def selected -

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this is pretty cool ^_^
 
I hope they got the copyright for that track, which comes from the excellent film 'Sunshine' :) .

Speaking of space and all things above.. Back in 2010 the discovery of what seems to be officially the closest matching extra-solar planet to Earth, Gliese 581g (it's also very very near at just 20 light years!), was announced and promptly refuted after others failed to find it. But happily Gliese 581g has now rejoined exoplanets Gliese 667Cc, Kepler-22b, HD85512 and Gliese 581d on the list of possible earth-like planets. Further analysis of the Gliese system found that the orbits of the planets were circular, rather than elliptical, and it was in this type of scenario that a strong signal for Gliese 581g once again appeared.

So what makes this little one such a close match for Earth? Well firstly, if Earth has a mass/score of 1.0 and Mars 0.66 then 581g comes out at 0.92 - very close. It also orbits squarely in its star’s Habitable Zone at 0.13 AU, which is mild enough for liquid water without being too hot or too cold for advanced life to form.

As a result 581g is now considered the best candidate for being an Earthlike world — knocking previous favorite Gliese 667Cc (0.85) into second place. Any future 100-year robotic space explortion mission will probably be headed in that direction and future telescopes (JWTS) might even tell us whether it has water.

Now we just need to get read for the war :) - Starship Troopers style perhaps.
 
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