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☆ She Dreams of Pink Planets and Alien Dinosaurs
  + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Becky Ferreira | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Have dinosaurs evolved on other worlds? Could we spot a planet of glowing organisms? What nearby star systems are positioned to observe Earth passing in front of the sun? These are just a few of the questions that Lisa Kaltenegger has joyfully tackled. How much is the diversity of opinion and emotion from people around the search for extraterrestrial life top-of-mind in your research?
Persons: Lisa Kaltenegger, Carl Sagan, Kaltenegger’s, Cornell Organizations: Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell University, Cosmos, New York Times Locations: Austria
☆ Mysterious Pattern in a Cave Is Oldest Rock Art Found in Patagonia
  + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Becky Ferreira | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In the stark inland desert of Patagonia in Argentina, there is a remote cave decorated with nearly 900 paintings of human figures, animals and abstract designs. Until recently, archaeologists had assumed that the rock art at this site, known as Cueva Huenul 1, was created within the past few thousand years. Cave artists continued to draw the same comb design in black pigment for thousands of years, an era when other human activity was virtually absent at the site. The cave art provides a rare glimpse of a culture that may have relied on this design to communicate valuable insights across generations during a period of climactic shifts. These early inhabitants thrived at Cueva Huenul 1 for generations, leaving signs of habitation.
Persons: Cueva Huenul, ”, Guadalupe Romero Villanueva, CONICET Organizations: Argentine, National Institute of Anthropology, Cueva Huenul Locations: Patagonia, Argentina, Buenos Aires, South America, Cueva
☆ Napoleon Didn’t Really Shoot Cannons at Egypt’s Pyramids
  + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Becky Ferreira | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
As Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” opens for Thanksgiving holiday viewing, scenes from the film’s trailers are making waves. That was especially true of a sensational depiction of French troops led by Joaquin Phoenix as the French emperor firing cannons at the pyramids of Giza. “I don’t know if he did that,” Mr. Scott told The Times of London. “From what we know, Napoleon held the Sphinx and the pyramids in high esteem and used them as a means of urging his troops to greater glory,” said Salima Ikram, a professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo. “He definitely did not take pot shots at them.”
Persons: Ridley Scott’s “ Napoleon ”, Joaquin Phoenix, Mr, Scott, Napoleon, ”, Salima Ikram Organizations: Times, American University Locations: London, Egypt, Cairo, “
☆ The ‘Forbidden Planet’ That Escaped a Fiery Doom
  + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Becky Ferreira | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
All across the Milky Way, dying stars are gobbling up their planets. Even Earth is likely to perish this way about five billion years from now, when the sun expands and devours its innermost worlds. But the giant planet Halla, which closely orbits a star 520 light years from Earth, appears to have narrowly escaped such an apocalyptic fate. Halla is “a forbidden planet of sorts,” said Marc Hon, a NASA Hubble fellow at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and an author of the study. In some systems, planets may even cannibalize each other, according to another recent study that found evidence of a gas giant that ate a Mercury-size world.
Persons: ”, Marc Hon Organizations: Halla, NASA Hubble, University of Hawaii Locations: Manoa
☆ It’s the End of a World as We Know It
  + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Becky Ferreira | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Small stars, like red dwarfs, may shine for trillions of years, whereas the most massive stars explode just a few million years after their births. The light of some stars is polluted with the chemical signatures of planets, suggesting that whole worlds are being digested before our eyes. Those images revealed a star chilling at about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, about 10 times colder than the searing temperatures expected from red novas. Puzzled, Dr. De and his colleagues observed the star again, this time in infrared light, using another camera at the Palomar Observatory and NASA’s NEOWISE space telescope. It dawned on the researchers that they were most likely watching a star gulping down a planet in real time.
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