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 August 2024 News and research papers. Hi Folks   It’s been a stormy night here, and I found myself reading up on the latest research from New Horizons, providing insight to how dark the universe is. There was also an interesting one tonight regarding galactic Seti and looking beyond out milky way. Juice also made a flyby recently, on its way to Jupiter.   I’ve noted down a number of other interesting ones too below for you to read.     Tonight’s storm! https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/526692/weather-storms-lightning-and-heavy-rain-dampen-weekend     Research papers   Climatic Effects of Ocean Salinity on M Dwarf Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04754       Radiolytic Effects on Biological and Abiotic Amino Acids in Shallow Subsurface Ices on Europa and Enceladus https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2023.0120     A diamond-bearing core-mantle boundary on Mercury ...

  Astronomy research and news Items for May 2024   Hi Folks   This month there seems to be a lot of physics and cosmology papers. Make sure to watch the video of a journey into a Black Hole and there is an interesting update on the search for an outer Ice giant too. My own research suggests that atmospheres on Earth sized world’s receiving an Earths like steller flux, where the Red dwarf star is smaller than 25% the mass of the Sun is extremely unlikely. The paper looking at Trappist 1 here seem to confirm that finding too.   I hope everyone managed to see the Auroura the past month too one of the biggest solar storms in some time. I managed to snap a few Smartphone photos but it clouded over here around 7:30pm that evening.   Until next month enjoy the reading.   Multiring basin formation constrains Europa’s ice shell thickness https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adj8455     The evolution of a young ocean with...

  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://...

  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...