Wow! Just about every opening weekend seat for Alien Covenant at Alamo Drafthouse was taken, except for the 10:30pm show! There are still plenty of seats, but there won’t be for long, so GET YOUR TICKETS NOW if you plan on coming!
Since it’s so late, this time we’ll meet up BEFORE the show and walk over together, I’ll announce where as we get closer to the date.
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun. The first scientific detection of an exoplanet was in 1988. However, the first confirmed detection came in 1992; since then, and as of 1 April 2017, there have been 3,607 exoplanets discovered in 2,701 planetary systems and 610 multiple planetary systems confirmed.
1- Kepler-186f
was the first rocky planet to be found within the habitable zone – the region around the host star where the temperature is right for liquid water. This planet is also very close in size to Earth. Even though we may not find out what’s going on at the surface of this planet anytime soon, it’s a strong reminder of why new technologies are being developed that will enable scientists to get a closer look at distant worlds.
2- CoRoT 7b
The first super-Earth identified as a rocky exoplanet, this planet proved that worlds like the Earth were indeed possible and that the search for potentially habitable worlds (rocky planets in the habitable zone) might be fruitful.
3- Kepler-22b
A planet in the habitable zone and a possible water-world planet unlike any seen in our solar system.
4- Kepler 10-b
Kepler’s first rocky planet discovery is a scorched, Earth-size world that scientists believe may have a lava ocean on its surface.
5- 55 Cancri e
55 Cancri e is a toasty world that rushes around its star every 18 hours. It orbits so closely – about 25 times closer than Mercury is to our sun – that it is tidally locked with one face forever blisters under the heat of its sun. The planet is proposed to have a rocky core surrounded by a layer of water in a “supercritical” state, where it is both liquid and gas, and then the whole planet is thought to be topped by a blanket of steam.
6- 51 Pegasi b
This giant planet, which is about half the mass of Jupiter and orbits its star every four days, was the first confirmed exoplanet around a sun-like star, a discovery that launched a whole new field of exploration.
7- Kepler-444 system
The oldest known planetary system has five terrestrial-sized planets, all in orbital resonance. This weird group showed that solar systems have formed and lived in our galaxy for nearly its entire existence.
8- PSR B1257+12 system
Discovered in 1992 and 1994, the planets that orbit pulsar PSR B1257+12 are not only the smallest planetary bodies known to exist outside our solar system, they also orbit a neutron star. These weird “pulsar planets” demonstrated that planets exist in all environments in the galaxy – even around the remnants of an exploded star.
9- HD 80606 b
This world has the most eccentric orbit, and as one scientist put it, “wears its heart on its sleeve,” with storms, rotation, atmospheric heating, and a crazy orbit all plainly visible.
10- OGLE-2005-BLG-390
Considered to be the first cold super Earth, this exoplanet began to form a Jupiter-like core of rock and ice, but couldn’t grow fast enough in size. Its final mass is five times that of Earth. The planet’s nickname is Hoth, after a planet from Star War
“Udon II” is a signed and numbered time-limited edition of giclée prints.
They will be made available for 24 hours starting at 8:00 AM PDT on Monday, April 10 and ending at 7:59 AM PDT on Tuesday, April 11.
“Udon II” was created specifically for a billboard in Sawtelle Japantown in Los Angeles. Also known as “Little Osaka,” this historic area is filled with all sorts of Asian culinary delights.
‘Butterfly’ acrylic on canvas by Haiti artist Francois Cauvin.
Francois Cauvin’s art has two recurring themes. These are the representation of the Black Woman and Nature. Usually both themes are combined in a painting.
The
Heart Nebula |
Planetary Landscapes
Credit image: Simon Addis via NASA APOD (caption).
The nebula glows brightly in red light emitted by its
most prominent element: hydrogen. The red glow and the larger shape are
all created by a small group of stars near the nebula’s center. In the
center of the Heart Nebula are young stars from the open star cluster
Melotte 15 that are eroding away several picturesque dust pillars with
their energetic light and winds. The open
cluster of stars contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass
of our Sun, many dim stars only a fraction of the mass of our Sun, and
an absent microquasar that was expelled millions of years ago. The Heart
Nebula is located about 7,500 light years away toward the constellation
of Cassiopeia. At the top right is the companion Fishhead Nebula.
A spectacular Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the heart of the Lagoon Nebula. Seen as a massive cloud of glowing dust and gas, bombarded by the energetic radiation of new stars, this placid name hides a dramatic reality.
The Dark River to Antares : Connecting the Pipe Nebula to the colorful region near bright star Antares is a dark cloud dubbed the Dark River, flowing from the pictures left edge. Murky looking, the Dark Rivers appearance is caused by dust obscuring background starlight, although the dark nebula contains mostly hydrogen and molecular gas. Surrounded by dust, Antares, a red supergiant star, creates an unusual bright yellowish reflection nebula. Above it, bright blue double star Rho Ophiuchi is embedded in one of the more typical bluish reflection nebulae, while red emission nebulae are also scattered around the region. Globular star cluster M4 is just seen above and right of Antares, though it lies far behind the colorful clouds, at a distance of some 7,000 light-years. The Dark River itself is about 500 light years away. The colorful skyscape is a mosaic of telescopic images spanning nearly 10 degrees . via NASA
VF-19 Fire Valkyrie on the front cover of the 1/1995 issue of Newtype. Lots of good stuff in this issue. This issues started the 10 year publication anniversary for Newtype.
Like I stated in the previous post, the this issue is a little rough. I didn’t realize that the right side of the front cover was not scanned that well. I will rescan the cover and fix sometime this week
