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About 127 light-years away there's a star like our sun that hosts at least five planets, each roughly the same mass as Uranus or Neptune, astronomers announced today. The planets were found via what's called the radial velocity method, aka the Doppler wobble. This method of planet hunting looks for periodic shifts in starlight caused by the gravitational pull of orbiting worlds. Using an instrument dubbed the HARPS spectrograph on a European Southern Observatory telescope in Chile, the team saw five strong wobbles corresponding to planets between 13 and 25 times Earth's mass orbiting the star HD 10180. For comparison, Uranus is roughly 14 times Earth's mass, and Neptune is about 17 times Earth's mass. By contrast, Saturn is 95 Earth masses, and Jupiter tips the scales at almost 318 Earth masses. What's more, there are hints that the planetary system also hosts a world roughly the mass of Saturn, with at least 65 Earth masses, and another more like Earth itself. The Saturn-like world would be farther out, taking about 2,200 days to complete an orbit. The Earthlike planet, meanwhile, would be closer in than all the rest, and it would be the least massive exoplanet yet found, at just 1.4 Earth masses. If confirmed, the two additions would make this planetary system the most like our own yet discovered, at least in terms of number and general layout...
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The Lion's Mane jellyfish, or Cyanea capillata, have a sting which can cause muscle paralysis, leading to suffocation and heart attacks. The swarm of newcomers was first discoverd by diver Andy Pearson, who was surrounded by more than 200 of them while looking for basking sharks at Sennen Cove, Coverack Cove and Kynance Cove in southern Cornwall. He also saw groups of the smaller and rarer blue jellyfish, which carry a nasty sting too. Although he described the sight as "spectacular", Mr Pearson warned fellow divers and swimmers of the danger. He said: "Usually there will be one or two but the jellyfish were literally everywhere in the water. It was worrying. "Swimmers really need to be careful because the Lion's Mane can give a potent sting." Ruth Williams, of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust, said: "It's unusual to get them in such massive swarms in Cornwall." She also said swimmers must be careful and should stay "well clear of their trailing tentacles". A spokesman for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution said they were aware of the danger and advised beach users to take care...
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A deadly tree and plant disease first found in the UK in 2002 has spread to Wales, the Forestry Commission says. Spores of the fungus-like organism referred to as "sudden oak death" have spread across the Bristol Channel to south Wales, said the commission. In 2009 Japanese larch trees in south west England were found to be infected. "This appearance and spread into larch trees in Wales add to our concern," said Roddie Burgess of the Forestry Commission. The organism, Phytophthora ramorum, gets its common name because it kills many of the trees and plants that it infects, the commission explained. It was first identified eight years ago on a viburnum plant at a garden centre and has since infected shrubs including rhododendrons, viburnums and bilberries. Last year's outbreak made south west England the only place in the world where it has attacked large numbers of commercially grown conifer species...
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They are the digital-age equivalent of crop circles - mysterious patterns appearing on the Bureau of Meteorology's national radar system without any explanation. And the random images described as red stars, rings of fire and white doughnuts are sending online conspiracy websites into meltdown. The anomalies first began on January 15 when an "iced doughnut" appeared over Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Satellite imagery showed there was no cloud over the area at the time to explain the unusual phenomenon but farmers' online comments claimed it was "unusually hot" all day. It was followed by a bizarre red star over Broome on January 22 and a sinister spiral burst over Melbourne described by amateur radar buffs as the Ring Of Fire Fault. The Bureau, which did not respond to repeated requests for comment, has acknowledged the anomalies on its popular website. It has since posted a disclaimer above the national loop feed putting the images down to "occasional interference to the radar data". "The Bureau is currently investigating ways to reduce these interferences," the disclaimer said. Conspiracy websites, however, have lit up with dozens of breathless theories behind the strange anomalies from alien involvement, secret military testing to government weather modification...
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Nemesis
Posted by: martin on Friday, March 12, 2010 - 11:41 |
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AN invisible star may be circling the Sun and causing deadly comets to bombard the Earth, scientists said yesterday. The brown dwarf - up to five times the size of Jupiter - could be to blame for mass extinctions that occur here every 26 million years. The star - nicknamed Nemesis by Nasa scientists - would be invisible as it only emits infrared light and is incredibly distant. Nemesis is believed to orbit our solar system at 25,000 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun. As it spins through the galaxy, its gravitational pull drags icy bodies out of the Oort Cloud - a vast sphere of rock and dust twice as far away as Nemesis...
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