Various astronomy news

[Evarchart]

Raining here too :(

[impaktor]

'Godzilla of Earths' identified

[impaktor]

Star Within a Star: Weird Stellar 'Hybrid' Discovered or alternatively Astronomers discover first Thorne-Zytkow object, a bizarre type of hybrid star

[DraQ]

'Godzilla of Earths' identified

Too bad we won't be getting any of those in Pioneer.

[FluffyFreak]

@DraQ, why not? When these things get announced we just have to add another planet type.

On Topic: What would happen if NASA got all the money spent on wars

[DraQ]

@DraQ, why not? When these things get announced we just have to add another planet type.

Ok, I worded it badly: not with the current generation algorithm where everything above certain mass threshold is gas giant.

[impaktor]

A team of astronomers has identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected. This ancient stellar remnant is so cool that its carbon has crystallized, forming -- in effect -- an Earth-size diamond in space.
https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressrelea ... hite-dwarf

[impaktor]

OK, not astronomy, but still of interest to the community.

Dubai To Build The World's First Climate-Controlled City
Dubai's Climate-Controlled Dome City Is a Dystopia Waiting to Happen

[impaktor]

An article about Elite and Braben and Astronomers.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/e ... alaxy.html

[impaktor]

There's been a lot of fuzz over the impossible space drive tested by Nasa. This might be worth a read:
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/h ... 9318dd1ae6

“Thrust was observed on both test articles, even though one of the test articles was designed with the expectation that it would not produce thrust. Specifically, one test article contained internal physical modifications that were designed to produce thrust, while the other did not (with the latter being referred to as the “null” test article).”