Our New Home Awaits! @10:44 AM
I'm always suspicious when they announce the discovery of a new, semi-Earth-like planet mere hours before the opening of a mega space opera movie. Like, okay James Cameron, what CAN'T you manipulate? And yet there it is, announced yesterday: GJ 1214b, a planet a mere 13 parsecs away (just 247 trillion miles! I think that is like maybe a couple weeks of travel time in hypersleep, right you guys?) that is less than three times the size of earth, entirely covered in maybe-water, at a delightful surface temperature of 374°F. We are all going to live there! I can't wait! With our gills and our pressure pills and our exoskeletons! 24
Here are some images of the planets in our solar system that are more recent than may be familiar with! The one above is Saturn! I wanted to do Uranus, because that joke never gets old, but the picture was kind of eh. 12
Assload Of New Planets Discovered @3:20 PM
NEWS FROM SPACE: "Astronomers have found 32 new planets outside the solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop. Scientists using European Southern Observatory telescopes did not find any planets quite the size of Earth or any that seemed habitable or even unusual. But their announcement increased the number of planets discovered outside the solar system to more than 400." Great! Now let's try to blow them up! 21
