Gliese 12 b is an Earth-size planet orbiting in the temperate zone around a nearby, stable red dwarf star. It's a Rosetta Stone world that will tell us a lot about how many superficially earthlike planets actually have the right conditions for life.
If you're the kind of person who likes to go deep, I got you.
The full research paper is freely available online, providing the technical details of how astronomers found the Earth-size planet Gliese 12b, and what we really do (and do not) know about it.
@coreyspowell Yeah, I don't disagree that there are possibilities, but a class-M goldilocks world presents a lot of special conditions that sets it apart. Emissions from the star and the tidal lock especially. It's sort of fascinating in its own way because if life arose in such a world it may focus in a (also goldilocks) ring between the two sides. There is discussion of if convection would be sufficient to extend the ring.
I imagine such a world would need a strong magnetosphere though?
The hornet has landed: Scientists combat new honeybee killer in the U.S.
@KnowableMag reports: "An invasive yellow-legged wasp has been decimating beehives in Europe — and bedeviling Georgia since last summer. Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods."
#PPOD: A massive storm, large enough to encompass most of North America, was spotted in Jupiter’s northern latitudes by NASA's Juno spacecraft on May 12. Juno is currently in its first extended mission and recently wrapped up close flybys of the Galilean moons Ganymede, Europa, and Io. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/ @kevinmgill
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit physicist, inventor and scientific instrument maker was born #OTD in 1686.
He created the temperature scale that bears his name in 1724. He set the zero point of his scale at the temperature of a mixture of ice, water, and ammonium chloride, a freezing brine solution. He established 32°F as the freezing point of water and 212°F as the boiling point of water at standard atmospheric pressure. He also invented the mercury-in-glass thermometer.
@gutenberg_org as far as I know, he intended for 100°F to be set at human body temperature. I have been told that he was just one of those people who ran a little cold, but it wouldn't surprise me if the difference was caused by limits of accuracy and technique with the prototype.
@andro_abhi Whatever problems this will cause, it'll probably cut down on violent crime including wife-and-child beating. Alcohol and weed both make you stupid, but only one of them makes you violent.