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Astro Bob: What would the sun look like from Alpha Centauri? Were stuck orbiting one star, but if we could see the sun from say, a planet orbiting inside the Alpha Centauri system, wed be pleasantly surprised. Written By: Bob King for the Duluth News Tribune | 12:55 pm, Nov. 5, 2020 × This artist’s impression shows a view of the surface of Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. Because the planet orbits just 4.7 million miles (7.5 million km) from its ...

We’re never going to mine the asteroid belt: Fickling Artist rendition of a mining operation in space. ( Where would science fiction be without space mining? Sign Up for the Battery Metals Digest Sign Up Red Dwarf, to Sam Bell in  Moon and  The Expanse’s Naomi Nagata, the grittier end of interstellar drama would be bereft if it weren’t for overalled engineers and their mineral-processing operations. It’s such an alluring vision that real money has been put toward its realization. ...

Where would science fiction be without space mining? From Ellen Ripley in Red Dwarf, to Sam Bell in Moon and The Expanse’s Naomi Nagata, the grittier end of interstellar drama would be bereft if it weren’t for overalled engineers and their mineral-processing operations. It’s such an alluring vision that real money has been put toward its realisation. Alphabet Inc’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, and Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron (director of the Alien sequel Aliens) all invested ...

The best thing about Cyberpunk 2077? Its alleyways and bars At times Night City can feel a little like concept art, but its alive and bustling in its dingy alleyways I’m leaving the Afterlife, a mortuary turned bar that caters to hardened mercs and guns for hire. Passing a couple of augmented dancers suspended in tanks of water, I hear a gangster pleading with a ripperdoc to save his dying buddy. He’s not coming. Outside on the streets, a bunch of garish advertisements bombard my artificial...

Sun Dec 20 2020 at 19:42:33 As of 2020, Proxima Centauri has two confirmed exoplanets: Proxima Centauri b (discovered 2013) and Proxima Centauri c (2019). There are hints of a third, but these are not clear enough to be distinguished from statistical noise. It should be noted that by the common naming convention, Proxima Centauri itself is Proxima Centauri a. Proxima Centauri b: Proxima Centauri b orbits close enough to Proxima Centauri that it may have liquid water on its surface. It is onl...

Proxima Centauri Declination: -62 40 46.1 Even though Proxima Centauri is closer to the Earth than any other star, it is small and shines with a dim red light, making it invisible to the naked eye. Two other stars are joined by Proxima Centauri (also called Alpha Centauri C) in the Alpha Centauri system: the yellow and orange dwarf stars that are Alpha Centauri A and B, respectively. In the constellation Centaurus, Alpha Centauri represents the foot of the Centaur, at the southeast corner o...

Scientific American also has a good synopsis). The work on analysis has not yet been published in the scientific journals, though papers are expected to come out soon, so we dont have the whole story yet. I am in general reluctant to report on non-published data, but given that this news is out there, I think its important to give people the background. The signal was detected as part of a set of observations of the star Proxima Centauri (usually just called Proxima) in the summer of 2019. It w...

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A mysterious radio signal from our nearest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri, is being carefully investigated by a team of alien-hunting astronomers. Researchers from the Breakthrough Listen Project – a £70m initiative to find alien life through radio telescopes – have been studying the radio waves since April 2019. Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years from Earth and has two confirmed planets, a Jupiter-like gas giant and a rocky world called Proxima b in the habitable zone. The signal wa...

Origin A common trope in science fiction stories is the invocation of an element or chemical with properties that allow for something that, in science reality, would be physically impossible. Cleverly dubbed “unobtainium” or sometimes “unobtanium,” it is, from a factual standpoint, literally unobtainable due to its marked lack of being real. It is also occasionally used, in some circles, as a placeholder term for a substance needed, but not yet discovered, to solve a scientific problem....