Editorial by John Mackay On 21st December 2020, the planets Jupiter and Saturn will pass so close to one another they will appear as one. The expected increase in brightness has people making all sorts of claims about the original Christmas star. Three thousand years ago King David also wrote about the then yet to […]
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Impossible Planet with Three Suns
“Impossible planet” with three suns reported in news@nature, ScienceNOW, 13 July 2005 and BBC News, 18 July 2005. Maciej Konacki of the California Institute of Technology has found a planet associated with a star known as HD 188753 in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan) 149 light years away. However, as ScienceNOW writer Govert Schilling puts […]
Not So Average Sun
A not so average sun may interfere with the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The logic behind the search is that Earth is the average planet of an average star (the Sun) in an average galaxy. Therefore there should be plenty of solar systems with planets like ours, so the universe must be teeming with […]