How do we take pictures of exoplanets?
If you’re trying to get actual images of exoplanets, it helps to look at M-dwarfs, particularly young ones. These stars, from a class that makes up perhaps 75 percent of all the stars in the galaxy, are low in mass and much dimmer than their heavier cousins, meaning the contrast between the star’s light and…
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Paul Gilster - Centauri Dreams
The strangeness of air-conditioned golf courses
Golf runs in my family, although I don’t seem to have inherited that gene; I was nonetheless interested to read about an air-conditioning network embedded in the ground itself at this year’s Masters Tournament, dehumidifying the course from below. In an article called the “Weather Underground,” published in the May 2011 issue of Golf Digest,…
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Geoff Manaugh - BLDGBLOG
