August 4, 2013

Peter Capaldi in 2008

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In the special “Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor” it was officially announced that Peter Capaldi will be the Twelfth Doctor. The regeneration of the Eleventh Doctor is scheduled for the special episode of Christmas 2013. The actor has already participated in “Doctor Who”, playing Caecilius in the episode “The Fires of Pompeii”, the same that saw the Karen Gillan’s debut. Above all, he had an important role in “Torchwood: Children of Earth” playing John Frobisher.

A section of the Sun's atmosphere as seen by the SDO space probe on the left and by the IRIS space probe on the right (Image NASA/SDO/IRIS)

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On June 28 there was the launch of the IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) space probe, a part of the Small Explorer Program which aims to explore space with probes that have a contained cost. On July 17 the great day came when the IRIS probe started sending the mages captured by its telescope and the results show that it’s already keeping its promises providing researchers with details of the lower layer of the solar atmosphere never seen before.