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  April 2024 News, research Items and Starcharts   Hi Folks, the biggest event of the past month was meeting Lisa Kaltenegger from Cornell, she gave an interesting presentation on one of my favourite research subjects. That being the e nvironments and condition on a range of Exo planets. While not able to see it in person watching some of the live stream and all the photos of the eclipse from the states was enjoyable.   The most interesting papers out this month to catch my attention were the search for an Outer Ice giant, the search continues there. Pluto has a good look in with a look at the details of Sputnik Planitia. There is also work from Cornell on exoplanets as well.   Research papers     How to identify cell material in a single ice grain emitted from Enceladus or Europa https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adl0849     A Proposal for Enhancing Technosignature Search toward the Galactic Center https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538

  March 2024 News and research papers A few interesting ones to read this month on a range of topics. The updated look and thinking on Mini Neptune/or Ocean Hycean Planets was interesting and something I’m going to have to do more research and study on, My feeling is the temperature of the planet can have a big impact on the outer layers or envelope. I have also looked into battery power systems for emergency’s and also running your telescope so that’s on my list of things to do more research on too. Simulating Alien Civilizations with LLM-based Agents https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.13184 A recently quenched galaxy 700 million years after the Big Bang https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14155 Dedicated work searching and lets hope another target can be found. The New Horizons Extended Mission Target https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04927 This is the first I have read on this subject, interesting Deep-sea hiatus record reveals orbital pacing by 2.4 Myr eccentricity grand cycles https://www.nature.com/art