Scientists spot ‘one in a million’ super-Earth
Toward the center of our galaxy, in a star system far away, is a planet with features that remind us of home.
Astronomers at New Zealand’s University of Canterbury (UC) discovered a particularly rare super-Earth. “The new planet is among only a handful of extra-solar planets that have been detected with both sizes and orbits close to that of Earth,” said UC in a release on Monday.
“Extra-solar planet” is another term for exoplanet, which describes a planet located outside our solar system. We only have artists’ impressions of what these planets might look like, but they continue to fuel our curiosity as we seek out distant worlds that feel familiar.
The newly spotted exoplanet’s year lasts about 617 days and it travels around a much less massive star than the sun. It’s located near the Milky Way’s central bulge of stars. For scale, Earth is about 25,000 light-years away from the galactic center.
The researchers published their findings in The Astronomical Journal this month.
The super-Earth discovery was a fortuitous event that UC described as “one in a million.”
The astronomers used a gravitational microlensing technique to spot the planet. “The combined gravity of the planet and its host star caused the light from a more distant background star to be magnified in a particular way. We used telescopes distributed around the world to measure the light-bending effect,” said UC astronomer Antonio Herrera Martin.
There’s a lot of hope wrapped up in a term like “super-Earth,” but there are no guarantees a planet in this category will look anything like our own. NASA describes super-Earths as “up to 10 times more massive than Earth,” but says they may vary in composition from water worlds to icy planets to ones made mainly of gas.
NASA has racked up some intriguing super-Earth discoveries in recent years, including the potentially habitable Kepler 62f.
Article via CNET
How to Keep an Indoor Plant Alive
Keeping an indoor plant alive means providing it with what it needs on a long-term basis. Keeping an indoor plant alive means no forgetting about its existence for months at a time. Keeping an indoor plant alive is a sign that you’ve managed to cross the threshold into competent adulthood.
So how do you keep an indoor plant alive?
Sunlight, water and soil keep plants happy
Keeping a plant alive requires giving it the appropriate amount of sunlight and water, as well as the right soil and nutrients. How much of each will depend on the particular plant, and too much or too little will lead to yet another death. The key to is to research what your particular plant needs and figure out the right way to provide it and how to recognize the warning signs that something is out of whack if you’re doing it wrong. Although this sounds simple, it does take a bit of practice to get right (sorry, starter plants).
How to tell if a plant is getting too much or too little sunlight
Plants require light for photosynthesis, which is how they are able to produce energy. Each type of plant requires different amounts of light.
Too much light and plants become scorched, bleached and limp. Too little light and they become pale and wilted, their leaves growing long and thin in order to stretch toward a light source—or alternatively, dropping their leaves altogether.
Different plants will require low, medium or high light conditions, which is why it’s important to figure out what an individual plant needs and what place in your home might be able to provide it. Low light plants should be placed away from direct sunlight, medium light plants should be in a well-lit part of the house and high light plants should be in the sunniest spots in your home.
If you don’t know what the sunlight requirements for your plant are, one useful metric is to search out its foot-candle estimate, which is a measure of light intensity or brightness. A low light plant needs between 50-250 foot-candles, a medium-light plant needs between 250-1000 foot-candles, while a high light plant needs more than 1000.
How to tell if a plant is being over- or under-watered
Too much water is just as bad as not enough. If a plant is over-watered, the tips of its leaves turn brown, the stem’s base turns soft and mushy, and it develops yellow leaves which drop off. If a plant is under-watered, the leaves start to curl and get brown and crispy.
That’s why it’s important to water your plant at the right intervals and in the right amount. Each plant will have different requirements, but a good measure of whether a plant needs more water is to feel the soil. If the soil is wet or damp, it doesn’t need to be watered. If the soil is dry, then, depending on the plant, it might need more water.
When it comes to ensuring your plants get the right amount of water, drainage is critical. For example, if the soil in the pot is constantly damp, that’s a sign that the water isn’t draining, and can lead to molding roots.
Two hacks for ensuring proper drainage would be to either fill the bottom half of the pot with packing peanuts, or to line your pot with coffee filters, which will encourage proper drainage. It’s also important to dump any water that accumulates in the drainage tray, as letting it sit there isn’t good for the roots either.
Soil
Most house plants should be planted in regular potting soil. The exceptions would be orchids, which need more drainage and for which special orchid mixes are available, and cacti and succulents, which need more drainage, for which adding in sand will help.
Nutrients
You’ll want to fertilize your plants periodically to ensure they are getting the nutrients they need. A general indoor plant fertilizer will usually be enough, as long as it has a mixture of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. These fertilizers can be bought in liquid, stick and tablet forms, as well as slow release or granular. A good rule of thumb is to fertilize when the plant is actively growing—usually during the spring—and remember that, like water, too much fertilizer is just as bad as too little.
Easy plants for beginners
Some beginner-friendly indoor plants include aloe vera, chinese evergreen, christmas cactus, dumb cane, jade plant, lucky bamboo, snake plant and peace lily. Although these names may sound unfamiliar to plant newbies, you’ve probably seen them in the homes and apartments of people you know. These types of plants could probably thrive in your home as well—as long as you do a little bit of research to figure out what they need and how to give it to them. Once you’ve done that, you’ll be well on your way to keeping your plant friend alive. And just think how satisfying that will be.
Article via LifeHacker
The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.
At around 7 am on a quiet Wednesday in August 2017, Marcus Hutchins walked out the front door of the Airbnb mansion in Las Vegas where he had been partying for the past week and a half. A gangly, 6’4″, 23-year-old hacker with an explosion of blond-brown curls, Hutchins had emerged to retrieve his order of a Big Mac and fries from an Uber Eats deliveryman. But as he stood barefoot on the mansion’s driveway wearing only a T-shirt and jeans, Hutchins noticed a black SUV parked on the street—one that looked very much like an FBI stakeout.
He stared at the vehicle blankly, his mind still hazed from sleep deprivation and stoned from the legalized Nevada weed he’d been smoking all night. For a fleeting moment, he wondered: Is this finally it?
But as soon as the thought surfaced, he dismissed it. The FBI would never be so obvious, he told himself. His feet had begun to scald on the griddle of the driveway. So he grabbed the McDonald’s bag and headed back inside, through the mansion’s courtyard, and into the pool house he’d been using as a bedroom. With the specter of the SUV fully exorcised from his mind, he rolled another spliff with the last of his weed, smoked it as he ate his burger, and then packed his bags for the airport, where he was scheduled for a first-class flight home to the UK.
Hutchins was coming off of an epic, exhausting week at Defcon, one of the world’s largest hacker conferences, where he had been celebrated as a hero. Less than three months earlier, Hutchins had saved the internet from what was, at the time, the worst cyberattack in history: a piece of malware called WannaCry. Just as that self-propagating software had begun exploding across the planet, destroying data on hundreds of thousands of computers, it was Hutchins who had found and triggered the secret kill switch contained in its code, neutering WannaCry’s global threat immediately.
This legendary feat of whitehat hacking had essentially earned Hutchins free drinks for life among the Defcon crowd. He and his entourage had been invited to every VIP hacker party on the strip, taken out to dinner by journalists, and accosted by fans seeking selfies. The story, after all, was irresistible: Hutchins was the shy geek who had single-handedly slain a monster threatening the entire digital world, all while sitting in front of a keyboard in a bedroom in his parents’ house in remote western England.
Still reeling from the whirlwind of adulation, Hutchins was in no state to dwell on concerns about the FBI, even after he emerged from the mansion a few hours later and once again saw the same black SUV parked across the street. He hopped into an Uber to the airport, his mind still floating through a cannabis-induced cloud. Court documents would later reveal that the SUV followed him along the way—that law enforcement had, in fact, been tracking his location periodically throughout his time in Vegas.
When Hutchins arrived at the airport and made his way through the security checkpoint, he was surprised when TSA agents told him not to bother taking any of his three laptops out of his backpack before putting it through the scanner. Instead, as they waved him through, he remembers thinking that they seemed to be making a special effort not to delay him.
He wandered leisurely to an airport lounge, grabbed a Coke, and settled into an armchair. He was still hours early for his flight back to the UK, so he killed time posting from his phone to Twitter, writing how excited he was to get back to his job analyzing malware when he got home. “Haven’t touched a debugger in over a month now,” he tweeted. He humblebragged about some very expensive shoes his boss had bought him in Vegas and retweeted a compliment from a fan of his reverse-engineering work.
Hutchins was composing another tweet when he noticed that three men had walked up to him, a burly redhead with a goatee flanked by two others in Customs and Border Protection uniforms. “Are you Marcus Hutchins?” asked the red-haired man. When Hutchins confirmed that he was, the man asked in a neutral tone for Hutchins to come with them, and led him through a door into a private stairwell.
Then they put him in handcuffs.
In a state of shock, feeling as if he were watching himself from a distance, Hutchins asked what was going on. “We’ll get to that,” the man said.
Hutchins remembers mentally racing through every possible illegal thing he’d done that might have interested Customs. Surely, he thought, it couldn’t be the thing, that years-old, unmentionable crime. Was it that he might have left marijuana in his bag? Were these bored agents overreacting to petty drug possession?
The agents walked him through a security area full of monitors and then sat him down in an interrogation room, where they left him alone. When the red-headed man returned, he was accompanied by a small blonde woman. The two agents flashed their badges: They were with the FBI.
For the next few minutes, the agents struck a friendly tone, asking Hutchins about his education and Kryptos Logic, the security firm where he worked. For those minutes, Hutchins allowed himself to believe that perhaps the agents wanted only to learn more about his work on WannaCry, that this was just a particularly aggressive way to get his cooperation into their investigation of that world-shaking cyberattack. Then, 11 minutes into the interview, his interrogators asked him about a program called Kronos.
“Kronos,” Hutchins said. “I know that name.” And it began to dawn on him, with a sort of numbness, that he was not going home after all.
Read the whole story on Wired
Is the ‘fox eye challenge’ racist? Why some Asians are giving the side eye to social media trend popularised by stars like Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner
Article via SCMP
- The look, with almond-shaped eyes lifted at the outer corners, is inspired by celebrities like Bella Hadid, and tips to recreate the look are popular on TikTok
- Asians have taken to social media to call the trend out for its replication of a facial feature that, growing up, they were bullied for having
The “fox eye challenge” is a social media trend inspired by famous women, including model Bella Hadid and actress Megan Fox, who have almond-shaped eyes lifted at the outer corners to smouldering effect. The trend’s hashtag, #foxeye, has gained more than 10.1 million views on TikTok alone.
Ways to achieve the desired look include shaving off the eyebrows after the arch and redrawing them, and applying a heavy-handed cat eye with eyeliner.Shaving off the end of the brow creates a straight which makes the face appear narrower, while redrawing them with an upwards slant creates the illusion of upturned eyes. Bella Hadid uses thick black liner to make her eyes appear elongated.
Other women use more drastic measures such as brow lifts or thread lifts, in which temporary sutures lift the skin and pull the eyes into the desired shape.
The trick for success, as many videos have pointed out, is to make sure the brow is shaved from the point directly above the outer rim of the pupil, while the winged liner should be drawn at a 45-degree angle.
To complete the look, one can also contour the cheekbones and nose to create a sharper, more pointed face shape.
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The fox eye look has inspired a popular photo pose, in which people deliberately pull at their eyes with their fingers and smoulder at the camera. The pose has rubbed many the wrong way.
TikTok star Melody Nafari’s (@melodynafarii) video of herself posing in this way has gained more than 1 million views and thousands of comments. Some have come from Asian social media users, such as one calling herself Sheena, who remarked: “I remember when I was in primary [school] people were making fun of Asian eyes doing this, now it’s a trend.”
Asian-American TikTok user Melissa (@chunkysdead) has been vocal about how uncomfortable the trend makes her, explaining that seeing its popularity with Caucasians – who used to pull the same face to mock her for her heritage – was unpleasant.
Just as “dimpleplasty”, a type of plastic surgery used to create dimples on the cheeks, became popular after the angelic big eye-look of Australian model Miranda Kerr was all the rage about five years ago, this look’s popularity has popularised blepharoplasty – plastic surgery that modifies the eyes.
Angelo Tsirbas, an ophthalmologist in Sydney, Australia, told Beautycrew.au that the looks of Kendall Jenner, Hadid and the Kardashians are the ones most requested by his plastic surgery patients.
This slanted-eyes trend may not have deliberately emulated the characteristic Asian feature, but many Asians see it as an act of appropriation that ignores the racism and discrimination many have faced in Western countries and communities.
View this post on Instagram throwback A post shared by Kylie (@kyliejenner) on Mar 22, 2020 at 10:28am PDT They have called the trend out for turning one of their largest childhood insecurities and traumas – their looks – on its head. Where they used to be teased and bullied for their features, how they look is now considered a new standard of beauty.
Kim Hee-jae, a student at University of California, Davis, in the United States said she was mocked in the streets by strangers for her eye shape and called a Chink, an offensive word for a Chinese person. She says that she finds it “amazing how opinion of Asians has changed so swiftly”.
“Is being Asian a trend now? It kind of feels like it is … The fox eye thing itself is probably just an aesthetic, like a beauty trend, not racism. But it doesn’t mean that we [the Asian community] don’t feel slighted. They used to insult us for that.”
Some Asians view the trend positively. John Son, a second-generation Asian-American high school student, says he feels good that Asians are gaining popularity and are being seen in a positive light.
“I feel like we’ve become the cool kids – we used to want [to be seen as more white] but now it’s the opposite, especially because of social media. So like, in the current generation of teens, everyone is more accepting and we take things as jokes, at face value. We don’t get so pressed.
“Beauty trends are just that. Trends that come and go. We’re all just people underneath it all, and I think people are starting to see that.”
Jennifer Lopez sued for $150,000 for posting a photo of herself on Instagram
Jennifer Lopez is being sued for $150,000 for posting a photo of herself to Instagram that she allegedly did not own the rights to.
According to court documents filed in New York and obtained by Fox News, professional photographer Steve Sands is suing the 50-year-old singer and her production company, Nuyorican Productions, for copyright infringement.
The image in question was posted by JLo in 2017. Now, Sands is arguing that it was used without permission to “promote their brand” to her millions of Instagram followers. As of this writing, the image has garnered more than 656,000 likes.
“Defendants did not license the Photograph from Plaintiff for its Website, nor did Defendants have Plaintiff’s permission or consent to publish the Photograph on its Website,” the lawsuit reads, noting that Sands is hoping for $150,000 over the infraction.
Representatives for Lopez did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
Sands’ attorney, Richard Liebowitz, told Fox News in a statement: “This is an example of celebrities using photographers photographs without permission to brand themselves on social media. The number of likes the photograph receives coupled with their number of social media followers is a tool to commercialize their posts.”
Finding out about a lawsuit in the midst of a worldwide pandemic is likely the last thing that Lopez wants to deal with at the moment. She previously revealed that the situation with the world is already affecting her high-profile wedding plans with former MLB player Alex Rodriguez.
“It did affect it a little bit,” Lopez told Ellen DeGeneres during a recent remote appearance on her show. “So, we’ll see what happens now… I really don’t know what’s gonna happen now as far as dates or anything like that.”
“We are just kind of in a holding pattern like the rest of the world,” the “Hustlers” star added. “So, again, it’s just something we have to wait and see in a few months how this all pans out.”
Article via FoxNews
Kanye West’s High School Art Valued At Thousands Of Dollars On ‘Antiques Roadshow’
Just a few of the pieces, all created when the rapper attended Polaris High School in Chicago, were appraised at a total of $16,000 to $23,000.
Your high school art projects? Worth about $1. Kanye West’s high school art projects? Worth thousands.
Artwork created by the rapper back when he attended Polaris High School in Chicago was appraised at $16,000 to $23,000 on an “Antiques Roadshow” episode that aired this week.
In April 2019, West’s first cousin’s husband brought a large collection of West’s work for collectibles expert Laura Woolley to appraise during a taping of the PBS series at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.
“My husband is Kanye West’s first cousin. When Kanye’s mother passed away in 2007, my husband received them as part of the estate about a year after she passed,” he explained while standing beside only a small part of the collection.
The five works highlighted included pieces done with graphite, gouache and scratchboard techniques. The collection also featured a flyer for West’s first known art showing from 1995.
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“This flyer is really interesting because it gives the full background of his entire artistic training up until that point,” says Woolley in the clip above. “I have to say he has a very impressive resume having attended the Hyde Park Art Academy at age 4, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago State University [and] Nanjing University in the People’s Republic of China.”
Woolley then notes that by age 17, when West was at the Polaris School, he had “already been studying at these extraordinary artistic institutions, and my favorite part of this flyer is actually the very end” ― where there’s a passing reference to his work in music “as well.”
West’s cousin-in-law explains that the star’s late mother, Donda West, was the reason he was so well-trained.
“She traveled all around the world and he went everywhere with her,” the cousin-in-law says, adding: “His mother pushed him to do anything that he wanted to do and made sure that it was available for him.”
Woolley offered a measured appraisal, telling West’s cousin-in-law that while the rapper is “a controversial figure with his opinions and his career, I don’t think anyone can deny the fact that he has extraordinary talent and I think that, in time, I would expect these to continue to appreciate.”
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“To have early pieces like this from someone who really will be an important cultural figure of our time I think is really fantastic,” she says.
Woolley valued the largest piece at about $6,000 to $8,000 and other smaller works ranging from $2,000 to $7,000 each.
“Altogether, just for this grouping, $16,000 to $23,000 at auction,” she says.
Article via Huffpost
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Kylie Jenner Is Being Slammed for Using $450 Chopsticks During These Times
The coronavirus pandemic has put major stress on the global economy. Many businesses around the world have been forced to shut down as the government tries to stem the spread of the disease, leaving thousands of people out of work and without any means of income.
That’s why people are so upset at Kylie Jenner, who recently flaunted an expensive pair of chopsticks on social media. They say that she’s insensitive and tone-deaf and have held no punches in calling her out online.
See Kylie Jenner’s post about her chopsticks
On March 22, Jenner took to her Instagram Story and shared a video of her opening up a fancy pair of Louis Vuitton chopsticks. They were packaged in a dainty plexiglass case adorned with the brand’s signature brown print. According to Us Weekly, the utensils carry a hefty price tag of $450.
“Gotta start traveling with these,” Jenner captioned the post. The video has since expired from her Instagram Story but a clip can be seen below.
Fans are giving Kylie Jenner an earful over her pricey chopsticks
Usually, fans let celebrities live their luxury lives without saying too much about their spending habits. But considering everything going on in the world, many people are not having it this time.
They quickly rushed to social media platforms such as Twitter and called Jenner out for splurging on expensive chopsticks instead of helping out people who are in need amid the coronavirus crisis.
One person tweeted: “It’s funny how influencers like Kylie Jenner post about needing to remember to travel with her louis vuitton chopsticks while there are people being laid off and wondering how they will earn their next paycheck during this pandemic.”
Another said it makes them “sick” to see Jenner spending money on luxury items like that.
“We in the middle of a pandemic with lack of funding for basically everything and then there’s Kylie Jenner showing off her LV chopsticks,” read a third tweet.
“Idk what’s worse: the coronavirus or Kylie Jenner copping Louis Vuitton chopsticks,” said another person.
“I can’t believe I still have to try to convince my friends that billionaires shouldn’t exist after Kylie Jenner posted a picture of her LOUIS VUITTON CHOPSTICKS after donating a grand $0 to help fight a global pandemic…???” said someone else.
As of writing, the makeup star has yet to respond to the backlash. But she has acknowledged the pandemic. She recently called on her fans to practice social distancing in a bid to stop the spread of the disease and shared that she had been quarantining at her massive Hidden Hills, California home.
It’s not the first time Kylie Jenner has faced criticism for her expensive habits
Jenner faced criticism back in December 2019 for getting her then-1-year-old daughter, Stormi Webster, a lavish diamond ring. Fans were outraged and appalled that Jenner would get a child something so pricey, as kids tend to lose or misplace their possessions, and called her out on social media.
“What exactly is she going to do with that!?” one person wondered.
“All that money for her to flush it down the toilet,” another comment read.
Other people were more concerned about Stormi’s wellbeing, with one person writing, “That’s a choking hazard!!!!”
But Jenner brushed the criticism off and went on to share several posts on her Instagram of Stormi wearing the sparkler.
Perhaps she’ll do the same with those chopsticks.
Article via CheatSheet
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Popeyes’ quarantine-focused “fried chicken and chill” campaign sets you up with Netflix
There are three eternal truths to life: death, taxes, and brands attempting to promote themselves even (or especially) in the darkest of times. The third one is quite hard to pull off; usually when companies try to get in on a crisis, it, uh, doesn’t go well. That’s why we’re surprised that Popeyes’ new quarantine-themed ad campaign, “fried chicken and chill,” actually manages to be…thoughtful, classy, and fun all at once? Way to go, Popeyes.
Here’s how it works: Post a photo of yourself eating Popeyes on social media and hashtag it #ThatPasswordFromPopeyes. If you’re one of the first thousand people to do so, you’ll get a Netflix username and password from Popeyes. As the fried chicken emporium put it via press release: “As a brand rooted in southern heritage, Popeyes treats everyone like family. And what do families do? They share streaming service passwords, of course.” Thank you, Popeyes, for validating my use of all my parents’ streaming services as a 30-year-old adult.
Popeyes is having a moment right now, and if you’ve read this website with even the slightest of regularity, you know why. Despite that success, and the fact that the fast food industry seems to be doing okay during the coronavirus pandemic, and the fact that Popeyes reported 35% sales growth in Q4 2019, brands will always keep branding no matter what. So hats off to Popeyes for not running a campaign that accidentally promotes germ-spreading, like some fried chicken chains we know.
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Miley Cyrus Tells Hailey Bieber Why She Left Her Church
Miley Cyrus and Hailey Bieber not only grew up as friends, but also both grew up in the Christian church, a major topic they discussed ahead of their beauty tutorial on Cyrus’ latest Bright Minded Instagram Live episode Friday (March 20).
When the two landed on the R of the Instagram Live series title — which stands for Reliable sources — Bieber listed family members, friends, therapists, random strangers, pets and church parishioners, which shifted the conversation to another important R in both of their lives: religion. Bieber, who shares the same fervor for her spirituality as husband Justin Bieber, explained to Cyrus, “I think there’s a difference between being raised in church and then being an adult and having your own relationship with God…. I feel like I’ve found my footing with spirituality and faith and church. I’ve found a church community that works for me where I feel supported and loved and accepted.”
But that core group wasn’t a dependable source of comfort for Cyrus during her young adult years.
“I was raised going to church as a believer, and that was a really important part of my life. And I kind of fell off that path a little bit because I think I had a hard time finding a relationship with God that worked for me as an adult,” Cyrus confirmed. “I think what I just took away from you is I’m allowed to decide what my relationship is with spirituality as an adult that doesn’t have to be aligned with the way it was when I was brought up.”
She continued, “I was also brought up in the church in Tennessee at a time in the ’90s, so it was a less accepting time with all that. I had some gay friends in school that the reason why I left my church is that they weren’t being accepted. They were being sent to conversion therapies. And I had a really hard time with that and I had a hard time with me finding my sexuality too. So I think you now telling me that I’m allowed to redesign my relationship with God as an adult and make it how it feels most accepting to me would make me feel so less turned off by spirituality.”
Cyrus came out as pansexual in 2015 and disclosed in a 2016 interview with Variety that her upbringing in “a very religious Southern family” encumbered her development as a middle school girl figuring out her sexual identity and entering her first relationship with another girl. “The universe has always given me the power to know I’ll be OK,” she said at the time. “Even at that time, when my parents didn’t understand, I just felt that one day they are going to understand.”
And the “Slide Away” singer confessed she still feels like her parents have a major presence in her spiritual life.
“I think that I’m in this quadruple-thruple relationship with God where it’s me and my parents and God,” she said during the live show. “If I could remove them and it can become my relationship with the higher power… now that feels way less intimidating and I can just talk to God directly rather than it being me and my parents having a conversation.”
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Planets aligned: Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are easy to see for the next few weeks
According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, now is one of the best times of year to see Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all at once. If you are up early over the next few days- look east before dawn. The three planets are grouped together, and an added bonus: on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday a slim crescent moon is also close by.
By next week, Mars passes just below Jupiter, and then the following week, Mars will be just below Saturn.
While you are out there, looking up, check out Sirius, nicknamed the “dog star” because it is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major. Sirius is so bright in our sky because it is one of the closest stars to our sun. To find Sirius, face South and look for Orion, easy to find for the three bright stars in a straight line, the straight line formed by the stars point downward, towards Sirius.
NASA’s Voyager 2 Spacecraft is headed (roughly in stellar and galactic terms,) in Sirius’ direction, in about 300,000 years the spacecraft will pass within 4.3 light years of the star.
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