Worked this time and they've achieved earth orbit! Congratz SpaceX, getting to orbit is hard and they're the only private company to have done it (that I know of), this new rocket with the dragon capsule will hopefully be able to ferry cargo and maybe even astronauts to the space station.
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This is extremely cool news: astronomers have, for the first time, directly seen an exoplanet orbiting its star from one side to the other!
This picture is actually a composite of three separate observations. The outer part with the blue fuzzy stuff was observed in 1996, and I’ll get back to that in a sec. The good stuff is in the center: two images of the planet, called Beta Pic b, are superposed in the picture; it was observed in 2003 (left blob), then again in late 2009 (right blob). Observations taken just months before in 2008 and 2009 observation didn’t show the blob at all — it must have been too close to the star to be seen clearly — indicating this really is a planet orbiting the star, and not just some background object like a star or galaxy. In other words, astronomers have captured the motion of the planet as it physically moved from one side of the star to the other!
Scientists in Alberta have discovered the largest dinosaur bonebed ever documented – along with evidence of massive carnage – near Hilda, 50 km north of Medicine Hat.
The find covers an area of about 2.3 square kilometres and contains thousands of bones from the plant-eating dinosaur Centrosaurus apertus, according to a new book “New Perspectives On Horned Dinosaurs,” published this month by Indiana University Press.
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