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Concept art by Rick Guidice (Credit: NASA) We’ve all read about it: after decades of construction, a shiny new generation ship is loaded with a crew of bright-eyed optimists. Once the sun is just another bright star in the sky, mutiny and civil war reduce the crew to ignorant peasants…unless something worse happens. This is a narrative pattern set as early as Murray Leinster’s 1935 “Proxima Centauri,” solidified by Heinlein’s 1941 “Universe,” and embraced by authors ever since: ...

Mysterious News Briefly — January 19, 2021 In a Reddit survey, former Flat Earthers reveal the reasons they became globeheads and the rationales range from scientific to personal experience to finding out the political affiliation of fellow Flat Earthers. Not surprisingly, the results of the survey are being contested. NASA’s initial test of its huge Space Launch System rocket started out great but had to be shut down after 67 seconds when the fourth engine failed. Would not be surprised of...

South African astronomy has a long, rich history of discovery The South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town is the oldest permanent observatory in the southern hemisphere: It turned 200 in 2020. This observatory is a fundamental part of South Africa’s long history of astronomical research, which began when French academic Nicolas-Louis de La Caille visited Cape Town from 1751 to 1753. He undertook a careful examination of every square degree of the southern sky. This resulted...

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Scientific American Did We Receive a Message from a Planet Orbiting the Nearest Star? A radio blip, seemingly from Proxima Centauri, where an Earth-size planet world orbits in the habitable zone, is tantalizing—but it’s probably not a signal from aliens Advertisement On December 18, 2020, Ian Sample of the Guardian published a report about a tantalizing radio signal at 982.002MHz that was detected within the Breakthrough Listen project by the Parkes telescope in Australia from the nearest ...

South African astronomy has a long, rich history of discovery – and a promising future By Ian Glass - The Conversation The Southern African Large Telescope has been a key part of South Africa's astronomical contributions. - Source: SAAO Listen to article The South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town is the oldest permanent observatory in the southern hemisphere: it turned 200 in 2020. This observatory is a fundamental part of South Africas long history of astronomical research...

Astronomers investigate an unusual radio signal from the closest star beyond the sun. Written By: Bob King for the Duluth News Tribune | 7:31 pm, Jan. 10, 2021 × This is an artists conception of Proxima Centauri b, a planet slightly bigger than the Earth, orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. Proxima and the Alpha Centauri binary are seen in the background at left. Last spring, an Australian radio telescope recorded an unexplained radio signal emanating from the Proxima syste...

The Atlantic They have noticed something intriguing coming from the direction of Proxima Centauri. Ian Waldie / Alamy Last month, as 2020 drew to a close and we on Earth completed one of our strangest orbits around the sun, news broke that astronomers had picked up a mysterious signal from another star. Astronomers could tell, from the specific properties of the beam of radio waves, that it wasn’t made by an act of nature, such as a cosmic explosion. The signal coming from the star’s direct...

Astronomers investigate an unusual radio signal from the closest star beyond the sun. Written By: Bob King for the Duluth News Tribune | 7:31 pm, Jan. 10, 2021 × This is an artists conception of Proxima Centauri b, a planet slightly bigger than the Earth, orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. Proxima and the Alpha Centauri binary are seen in the background at left. Last spring, an Australian radio telescope recorded an unexplained radio signal emanating from the Proxima syste...

Perhaps other life in the universe is, in the end, utterly dull