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There are seven rocky planets within the TRAPPIST-1 system and they’re surprisingly comparable
The TRAPPIST-1 system has long been studied by exoplanet hunters because there are a unique set of planets that happen to be Earth-sized too. In a recent article, a team of scientists led by Erik Agol of the University of Washington went…
Research Examines How Clear Air Act Impacts Municipal Bond Market – Watts Up With That?
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
Announcement of the science business
Research has examined the effects of climate risk on financial markets, but few studies have looked at the effects of environmental policy on these markets. A new…
Spaceships are launched from these oil rigs bought by SpaceX
Over the years, Elon Musk has been pretty open about how he (and the company he founded) want to make space more accessible and make humanity an "interplanetary species". A key element of this plan is the Starship and Super-Heavy launch…
Mark Steyn recordsdata an evasive movement to summarize the judgment in Michael Mann’s…
Stephen McIntyre's Twitter thread
Mark Steyn filed an eviscerated and well-informed motion to summarize the verdict in the defamation lawsuit against Michael Mann. https://www.steynonline.com/documents/10973.pdfwith memorandum…
You possibly can really see the wave of the Milky Approach galaxy by mapping its stars
Spiral galaxies are one of the most famous types of galaxies. Most people see them as large round disks and know that our Milky Way galaxy is one of their numbers. What most people don't realize is that many spiral galaxies have some…
“Ocean acidification” – watts with it?
From Rud Istvan
For a long time, WUWT readers have known that some time ago I stopped publishing certain "Whack-a-Moles" here and at Judith's Climate Etc. My reason was simple. Doesn't do well The climate…
In idea, supermassive black holes might grow to be much more supermassive
Our universe contains some huge black holes. The supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy has a mass of 4 million suns, but is rather small in terms of galactic black holes. Many galactic black holes have a billion solar…
6 Issues to Know About NASA’s Mars Helicopter Heading to Mars – What’s Fallacious…
From NASA
January 21, 2021
In this picture, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is standing on the surface of the Red Planet while NASA's Perseverance Rover (partially visible on the left) rolls away. Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech…
Virgin Orbit efficiently launches a collection of satellites from an plane
On Sunday, January 17, Virgin Orbit conducted the second launch test of its LauncherOne rocket, which the company will use to put small satellites into orbit in the years to come. The mission (Launch Demo 2) went smoothly and validated…
One other new examine says that warming and CO2-induced greening are COOLING land floor temperatures…
From the NoTricksZone
By Kenneth Richard on January 21, 2021
Since the 1980s, warming and increasing CO2 fertilization have triggered a global greening trend. This leads to a “greening-induced cooling effect” in land surface…