The new “Backyard Worlds: Planet 9” initiative by NASA and various American institutions along with the Zooniverse platform was announced to allow anyone connected to the Internet to participate in the search for the ninth planet of the solar system. You can connect to the project’s website, examine images captured by the WISE space telescope and report any moving objects.
The novel “City at the End of Time” by Greg Bear was published for the first time in 2008.
Ginny, Jack and Daniel are apparently normal persons but what could seem dreams are actually connections with a future so remote that the universe is completely different. Yet even in a hundred trillion years there are human beings, the result of a series of humanity’s rises and falls.
Jebrassy, who wants to be a warrior, and Taidba, an explorer, live in this very remote future. Their connection to Ginny, Jack and Daniel involves all of them in the events that threaten the destruction of the universe. Is it possible to save those future humans from the strange entity that is destroying the universe?
The Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE project announced the 21 teams that will participate in its semi-finals among the 32 that signed up to competition by the end of September 2016. The initiative was announced in December 2015 by Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of XPRIZE in order to support the development of ocean exploration technologies. The first round of tests for the semifinalists is scheduled for August-September 2017.
Levardis Robert Martyn “LeVar” Burton Jr. was born on February 16, 1957 in Landstuhl, in the then West Germany, where his parents worked. He’s famous especially for his role as young Kunta Kinte in the original version of “Roots” and as Geordi La Forge in the TV show “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, a role he played in some movies of the saga as well. He’s also a TV director and a producer.
An article published in the journal “PeerJ” describes a research on a giant pterosaur that lived in today’s Transylvania in the last part of the Cretaceous period. Called Hatzegopteryx thambema, according to Dr Mark Witton, from the University of Portsmouth and Dr Darren Naish from University of Southampton, who examined its fossilized remains, it was likely the dominant predator in its environment.
