Chuck Yeager, first pilot to break the sound barrier, personified what it meant to have “the right stuff.” Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/this-date-in-science-chuck-yeagers-birthday…
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Taurus? Here’s your constellation
How to find to find the constellation Taurus in your night sky. Plus the names of some of its bright stars and star clusters and its mythology. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/taurus-heres-your-constellation…
Why Are So Few Babies Born on Christmas Day?
Christmas and New Year’s are days of celebration in many parts of the world when people gather with family and friends. One thing many typically don’t celebrate on those days is a birthday. Source: https://www.livescience.com/why-so-few-births-christmas-new-years.html
Sun in zodiac constellations, 2020
The sun enters the constellation Sagittarius on December 18, 2019, and then enters the constellation Capricornus on January 20, 2020. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/sun-in-zodiac-constellations-2020…
Aries? Here’s your constellation
How to see Aries the Ram in your night sky, plus info about this constellation in astronomy history and mythology. Source: https://earthsky.org/constellations/aries-heres-your-constellation…
Pisces? Here’s your constellation
How to see the constellation Pisces. Plus sky lore and science. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/pisces-heres-your-constellation…
Sun enters Ophiuchus on November 30
The sun always passes in front of Ophiuchus from about November 30 to December 18. That’s why some call Ophiuchus an unofficial member of the zodiac. Source: https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/sun-in-ophiuchus-november-30-to-december-18…
A Blind Man Sees His Birthday Candles Again, Thanks To a Bionic Eye and a Brain Implant
peterthegreat321 shares this story from Medium’s new tech site, OneZero about Second Sight’s experimental brain implant that offers a kind of artificial vision:
From the outside, the Orion looks like a pair of sunglasses with a small camera and video processing unit attached to it. Implanted in the brain, however, is a postage stamp-sized chip containing 60 electrodes that sits on the…
TESS spacecraft is finding hundreds of exoplanets
… and it’s poised to find thousands more. But will we find another Earth? Source: https://earthsky.org/space/tess-spacecraft-finding-exoplanets…
Salesforce Transit Center: San Fransisco’s $2.2 Billion Cracks
Slashdot readers jimminy_cricket and Thelasko share a report from Popular Mechanics about how San Francisco’s Salesforce Transit Center went from the Grand Central of the West to a $2.2 billion construction debacle. Here’s an excerpt from the report: Built at a cost of $2.2 billion, the Salesforce Transit Center and Park formed the cornerstone of the Bay Area’s ambitious regional transportation…