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astronomy
Rove Magazine
“Reality has finally caught up
with science fiction”
“This is a direct detection; it removes all doubt,” said Laurance degrees or more over the course of
January 2012
Doyle of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., who led the a few Earth days, from minus 100 to minus
January 2012
discovery team. 150 Fahrenheit. So the weather is like “a nippy
day in Antarctica at best,” as Dr. Doyle put it.
Beyond the wow factor, astronomers said the discovery — as so Kepler, launched in 2009, is on a mission to determine
many discoveries of so-called exoplanets have done — had thrown a the fraction of stars in the galaxy that have Earth-like planets.
wrench into another well-received theory of how planets can and It scrutinizes a patch of some 155,000 stars in the constellations
cannot form. “In other words,” said Sara Seager, a planetary expert at Cygnus and Lyra looking for dips in starlight when planets cross in
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was not part of the front of their home stars.
Sometimes the orange sun rises first. Sometimes it is the red one,
discovery team, “people don’t really know how to form this planet.”
although they are never far apart in the sky and you can see them In the case of the Kepler 16 system — home to Tatooine — there
moving around each other, casting double shadows across the firmament Such is life, if it were possible, on the latest addition to the pantheon It was long thought, Dr. Seager said, that for its orbit to be stable, a turned out to be a lot of dips. The two stars are about 20 million
and periodically crossing right in front of each other. of weird planets now known to exist outside the bounds of our own planet belonging to two stars at once would have to be at least seven miles apart and produce two eclipses every 41 days as they take
solar system. It is the first planet, astronomers say, that has been times as far from the stars as the stars were from each other. turns going in front of each other. One star is about two-thirds the
definitely shown to be orbiting two stars at once, circling the pair — According to that, Kepler 16b would have to be twice as far out mass of the Sun, the other about a fifth of the Sun.
which themselves orbit each other tightly — at a distance of some as it is to survive.
65 million miles. The degree of dimming during the planetary transits — those times
“This planet broke the rule,” she said. Moreover, by timing all the that a planet crosses the path of something else — usually allows
A team of astronomers using NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting eclipses and transits of the planet and stars in the system, the Kepler astronomers to measure the size of a planet relative to the
spacecraft announced the discovery on Thursday in a paper published astronomers have been able to measure the sizes and masses of the stars. As a result, uncertainties in the properties of stars propagate
online in the journal Science, in a talk at a conference in Jackson Hole, stars and the planet to unusually high precision, calibrating models of into uncertainties of as much as 25 percent in the mass of a planet —
Wyo., and in a news conference at NASA’s Ames Research stellar and planetary properties. “I believe this is the best-measured enough to blur the line between a rocky planet and a gaseous one.
Laboratory in Mountain View, Calif., Kepler’s headquarters. The official planet outside the solar system,” Dr. Doyle said.
name of the new planet is Kepler 16b, but astronomers are already But in the Kepler 16 system, by comparing slight variations in the
referring to it informally as Tatooine, after the home planet of Luke Technically, Tatooine is probably a ball of rock and gas about the size timing of the transits with calculations of the positions of the stars
the
and Anakin Skywalker in the George Lucas “Star Wars” movies, which and density of Saturn living in a system about 200 light-years away, in and the gravitational nudges the bodies give one another, Dr. Doyle’s
the
also had two suns. While some double-star systems, of which there the constellation Cygnus. team could deduce the absolute masses and sizes of the stars and
are billions in the galaxy, have been suspected to harbor planets, planets in the system. That is a tool, they say, that is becoming
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those smaller bodies have never been seen. If you go, pack to wear layers. Because those suns move back and increasingly valuable for determining the masses of small planets in
forth all the time, temperatures on the planet can change by 50 multiple-planet systems.
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80-Kilometer Diameter Crater
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Curiosity By The Associated Press
The world’s biggest extraterrestrial
explorer, NASA’s Curiosity rover,
rocketed toward Mars on Saturday
on a search for evidence that the
planet might once have been home
to microscopic life. It will take eight
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make the 345-million-mile journey to
Mars. During a nearly two-year
prime mission after landing in August
2012, the rover will investigate
02planet with a pair of stars
whether the Gale Crater region has
spaceflight ever offered conditions favorable for
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microbial life.
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Editor-in-Chief Bruce Alberts
Executive Editor Monica M. Bradford
News Editor Colin J. Norman
Managing Editor, Research Journals Katrina L. Kelner
Deputy Editor, Physical Sciences R. Brooks Hanson
Art Department
Art Director Yael Fitzpatrick
Associate Art Director Laura Creveling
Senior Illustrators Chris Bickel, Katharine Sutliff
Production Department
Production Director Wendy K. Shank
Assistant Production Manager Rebecca Doshi
Skin Exhibition at the International Center of Photography Poster, 36” x 48”
Bad News Rocket Type design booklet.
Quay Brothers – Shifting Realities
Type treatment / Exhibition brochure.
Street of Crocodiles is a 21-minute-long
stop-motion animation short subject
directed and produced by the Brothers
Quay and released in 1986. The Street
of Crocodiles was originally a short
The Brothers Quay are among the
novel written by Bruno Schulz, from a
most accomplished animation artists
story collection published under that
to emerge in recent years. Their
title in English translation. Rather than
fantastic decor and Kafkaesque
literally representing the childhood
puppets, attention to the liberation
memoirs of Schulz, the animators used
of the mistake and their casual and
the story’s mood and psychological
lingering closeups combine in an
undertones as inspiration for their
ingenious alchemy of unconscious,
own creation.
metaphoric vision. Watching any of
their animated films means entering
a dream world of metaphor and
visual poetry.
In their own words: "Puppet films by
their very nature are extremely
artificial constructions, even more so
depending at what level of
'enchantment' one would wish for them
in relation to the subject, and, above
all, the conceptual mise-en-scène
applied." The enchantment of the
Quays' films has won them audiences
throughout the world, and their
innovations have introduced a new
quality of poetry to animated film.
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