A team of planetary scientists from the California Institute of Technology have published a paper documenting strong circumstantial evidence for a large planet with an orbit outside of Pluto’s. This yet-undiscovered planet is hypothesized to be smaller than Neptune, but would be 10-times more massive than Earth, and comes no closer than 30.5 billion km (19 billion miles) to the Sun.
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A team of researchers have announced they have completed a map of a previously unknown weather system. Unlike other known weather systems however, this map has recorded wind speeds of 5,400 mph, on a planet 63 light-years away.
This new weather map, generated by astrophysicists at the University of Warwick, in Coventry, England, is of exoplanet HD 189733 b. This is a gas giant that is 14% larger than Jupiter, orbiting the star HD 189733 A, found in the constellation of Vulpecula. It is very close to it’s parent star — nearly 13 times closer than Mercury is to the Sun — and orbits it’s star every 2.2 days.
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We asked experts about the video of the Gray running beside a car – If you read the story about our incredible video image that seems to be an alien running beside a car (filmed, complete with sound effects, from inside the automobile), you’ll remember that we promised to bring you some expert opinions on its veracity. We now have them, so if you keep reading, you’ll find out what the experts say.
An independent filmmaker we know had this to say: “One would have to view the original video to even begin to analyze it meaningfully. This sort of web video is so degraded that it can hide a multitude of sins. But even if it turned out to be seamless, it doesn’t look like anything that would be beyond the ability of a competent CG artist.”
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