Laintal

  Research papers and news items for November 2024 Hi everyone some interesting research out this month to read through. Ive just finished reading the S&T article about exoplanet atmospheres, a very good look at what planets can have atmospheres.     Research papers   The impact of the cosmological constant on past and future star formation https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/535/2/1449/7896079     Making Habitable Worlds Planets Versus Megastructures https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06562     Astronomical engineering a strategy for modifying planetary orbits https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102126     Three Diverging Tales of Planetary Habitability and Windows to Earth's Past and Future https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01150       Haasttse-baad Tessera Ring Complex A Valhalla-Type Impact Structure on Venus? https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023JE008256 ...

  September 2024 News and research papers Hi Folks   Not too many papers this month that I’ve found but there are some really interesting ones well worth a read this month. The Earth having a ring was interesting. There was a look at F type stars I’m thinking Sirius here, perhaps below 2 solar masses and you could have a nice exo planet for life. There is also a look at the fauna of long lost NZ, and a reasonable explanation of the Neanderthals disappearing too, I’m thinking sure the ice ages numbers couldn’t have been too high.         A synchronous moon as a possible cause of Mars' initial triaxiality https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14725   Short-timescale Spatial Variability of Ganymede's Optical Aurora https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad49a2   Evidence suggesting that earth had a ring in the Ordovician https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X24004230   Nightside Clouds on Tidally-l...