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✿༻༺✿𝕋𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕣 ℝ𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕒𝕝✿༻༺✿ Unexpected Ever After Anthology. ᖇᗴᒪᗴᗩᔕiᑎǥ ᗝᑎ September 20, 2022! 𝒫𝓇𝑒-𝑜𝓇𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒸𝑜𝓅𝓎 𝓉𝑜𝒹𝒶𝓎! #UnexpectedEverAfter #Anthology #Romance #TeaserReveal

✿༻༺✿𝕋𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕣 ℝ𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕒𝕝✿༻༺✿ Unexpected Ever After Anthology. ᖇᗴᒪᗴᗩᔕiᑎǥ ᗝᑎ September 20, 2022! 𝒫𝓇𝑒-𝑜𝓇𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒸𝑜𝓅𝓎 𝓉𝑜𝒹𝒶𝓎! #UnexpectedEverAfter #Anthology #Romance #TeaserReveal

Unexpected Ever After Anthology Teaser RevealPre-Order Today! https://geni.us/UnexpectedEverAfter   Anthology BlurbMeet. Fall in love. Live happily ever after…It’s the way it should be.At least, that’s what we’ve been told.But that’s only in fairytales.Real life throws twists and turns.It will flip you upside down and inside out.Yet, love will appear when you least expect it.In the most unusual…

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pequeño fragmento de la Nebulosa Carina, 3 equipos de observación:

1.- Observatorio de La Silla en Chile.

2.- Telescopio Espacial Hubble.

3.- Telescopio Espacial James Webb.

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🎧 We are so excited to share that House of Ash and Glass by SR Jones & Silla Webb is available NOW in 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤! ➜ https://geni.us/HouseOfAshAndGlass

🎧 Narrated by Rebecca Storm & John Lane

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐔𝐒𝐀 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐒𝐑 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐛 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐦𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐚, 𝐚𝐠𝐞-𝐠𝐚𝐩 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞.

𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨

She shouldn't have stumbled into my dark world. But now that she has, I'll never let her go. Naïve, innocent, and almost broken, Cindy needs a protector. But she got me, brutal and ruthless, a man hellbent on his own pleasure. I'll take her for my own, and I'll kill to keep her safe.

𝐂𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐲 I have nothing. My father's death left my world ruined. All that remains is my ancestral home, but my stepmother will do all that she can to take it from me. Broken and alone, things can't get any worse… Until he arrives. Nico Andretti. A dangerous mobster with a soul so dark the Devil himself would fear him. He claimed me as his Cinders, but he treats me with disdain. His men desecrate my family home and ruin my last shred of hope. I want him gone. But then I realize he hates my stepmother even more than I do. Could my enemy's enemy be my friend? Once I have his attention, we begin a deadly game, creating a strange new bond as breakable as glass.

𝐈𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐬𝐡.

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Samanyolu'nun ikizi olabilecek yakındaki sarmal gökada NGC 6744'ün bu fotoğrafı, Avrupa Cenup Gözlemevi'nin Şili'deki La Silla Gözlemevi'nde çekildi. —ESOJames Webb Uzay Teleskobu (JWST), UCR gökbilimcisi Alexander de la Vega'nın da yer almış olduğu internasyonal bir araştırma ekibiyle beraber göksel bir buluşla, Samanyolu'na benzeyen ceers-2112 adlı en uzak çubuklu sarmal gökadayı belirledi. Bu bulgu, galaksi evrimi hakkında geleneksel inanışlara meydan okuyor; çubuklu sarmal galaksilerin, evrenin tarihinde daha ilkin düşünülenden oldukça daha erken bir zamanda oluşabileceğini ve seviye sergileyebileceğini öne sürüyor.Nature dergisinde gösterilen ve İspanya'daki Centro de Astrobiología'daki bilim adamları tarafınca yürütülen araştırma, merkezi bir galaktik bara (yıldızlardan oluşan bir yapıya) ev sahipliği meydana getiren ceers-2112'ye ışık tutuyor. Geleneksel olarak, Samanyolu şeklinde çubuklu sarmal gökadaların, evrenin ortalama 13,8 milyar senelik şimdiki yaşlarının yarısına ulaşmasından sonrasında ortaya çıkmış olduğu varsayılırdı.UCR'de ortak yazar ve doktora sonrası araştırmacı olan De la Vega, ceers-2112'nin beklenmedik doğasına dikkat çekerek, erken evren gökadalarının temelde kaotik olduğu ve Samanyolu'na benzer yapılardan yoksun olduğu yönündeki yaygın görüşe meydan okuyor.Ceers-2112'de galaktik bir çubuğun varlığı, galaksi oluşumu ve evrimi hakkında mevcut teorilere meydan okuyan, hızlandırılmış bir olgunlaşma sürecine işaret ediyor. Galaksilerin çubukların oluşmasına olanak elde eden seviye düzeyine erişmesi için birkaç milyar yıla gereksinim duyulduğu yönündeki önceki varsayımın aksine, bu bulgu, bu tür yapıların ortalama bir milyar yıl yada daha kısa sürede ortaya çıkabileceğini öne sürüyor.De la Vega'nın araştırmaya katkıları, ceers-2112'nin kırmızıya kaymasını ve özelliklerini tahmin etmeyi, galaksinin özelliklerine dair mühim bilgiler sağlamayı ve ölçümlerin yorumlanmasına destek olmayı içeriyordu. Bulgu, yalnızca galaksi evriminin kuramsal modellerinde revizyonlara yol açmakla kalmıyor, hem de erken evrendeki benzer yapıları saptamak için yeni yollar açarak astronomi alanında mühim bir dönüm noktasına işaret ediyor.

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💜𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖 𝐁𝐘 𝐒𝐑 𝐉𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐀 𝐖𝐄𝐁𝐁 𝐈𝐒 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄!!! 💜

From USA Today Bestselling Authors SR Jones and Silla Webb comes a twisted, angsty, age gap Fractured Fairy Tale Romance filled with pain and sorrow.

I thought I wanted freedom, but I was wrong.

I just needed a different kind of prison.

James

I found her locked in a tower. The girl who wrote a plea for help in her own blood.

Her note called to something dark in me, and so I returned for her and took her as mine.

Now she seems to think I’m her angel.

She says we can be something beautiful.

I’ve warned her that beauty is deceitful, but she’s nothing if not a believer … in us.

In this.

Can I live up to what she needs from me, or will my cold heart ruin this the way it does everything good in my life?

Ellie

He rescued me from my room in the tower and set me free.

I’m lost in a new world, unable to navigate my new life.

The rules and regulations of my enforced conformity were like restraints, and with them gone, I’m unmoored.

I need a new safety and crave the certainty I had in my tower but without the pain and sorrow.

Can this brutal but beautiful man, my fallen angel, give me that? I believe so.

Slowly, one fragile step at a time, I explore my new world.

But I explore too far, and the past catches up with me in a dangerous way.

All I can hope and pray for is that I’ll find redemption a second time and truly be set free.

Tower of Pain and Sorrow is a forced proximity captive romance featuring a sweet sunshine heroine and a broody, grumpy hero with Who did this to you vibes.

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New ESO observations show rocky exoplanet has just half the mass of Venus A team of astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile to shed new light on planets around a nearby star, L 98-59, that resemble those in the inner Solar System. Amongst the findings are a planet with half the mass of Venus — the lightest exoplanet ever to be measured using the radial velocity technique — an ocean world, and a possible planet in the habitable zone. "The planet in the habitable zone may have an atmosphere that could protect and support life,” says María Rosa Zapatero Osorio, an astronomer at the Centre for Astrobiology in Madrid, Spain, and one of the authors of the study published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics. The results are an important step in the quest to find life on Earth-sized planets outside the Solar System. The detection of biosignatures on an exoplanet depends on the ability to study its atmosphere, but current telescopes are not large enough to achieve the resolution needed to do this for small, rocky planets. The newly studied planetary system, called L 98-59 after its star, is an attractive target for future observations of exoplanet atmospheres. Its orbits a star only 35 light-years away and has now been found to host rocky planets, like Earth or Venus, which are close enough to the star to be warm. With the contribution of ESO’s VLT, the team was able to infer that three of the planets may contain water in their interiors or atmospheres. The two planets closest to the star in the L 98-59 system are probably dry, but might have small amounts of water, while up to 30% of the third planet’s mass could be water, making it an ocean world. Furthermore, the team found “hidden” exoplanets that had not previously been spotted in this planetary system. They discovered a fourth planet and suspect there is a fifth, in a zone at the right distance from the star for liquid water to exist on its surface. “We have hints of the presence of a terrestrial planet in the habitable zone of this system,” explains Olivier Demangeon, a researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, University of Porto in Portugal and lead author of the new study. The study represents a technical breakthrough, as astronomers were able to determine, using the radial velocity method, that the innermost planet in the system has just half the mass of Venus. This makes it the lightest exoplanet ever measured using this technique, which calculates the wobble of the star caused by the tiny gravitational tug of its orbiting planets. The team used the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) instrument on ESO’s VLT to study L 98-59. “Without the precision and stability provided by ESPRESSO this measurement would have not been possible,” says Zapatero Osorio. “This is a step forward in our ability to measure the masses of the smallest planets beyond the Solar System.” The astronomers first spotted three of L 98-59’s planets in 2019, using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). This satellite relies on a technique called the transit method — where the dip in the light coming from the star caused by a planet passing in front of it is used to infer the properties of the planet — to find the planets and measure their sizes. However, it was only with the addition of radial velocity measurements made with ESPRESSO and its predecessor, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) at the ESO La Silla 3.6-metre telescope, that Demangeon and his team were able to find extra planets and measure the masses and radii of the first three. “If we want to know what a planet is made of, the minimum that we need is its mass and its radius,” Demangeon explains. The team hopes to continue to study the system with the forthcoming NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), while ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), under construction in the Chilean Atacama Desert and set to start observations in 2027, will also be ideal for studying these planets. “The HIRES instrument on the ELT may have the power to study the atmospheres of some of the planets in the L 98-59 system, thus complementing the JWST from the ground,” says Zapatero Osorio. “This system announces what is to come,” adds Demangeon. “We, as a society, have been chasing terrestrial planets since the birth of astronomy and now we are finally getting closer and closer to the detection of a terrestrial planet in the habitable zone of its star, of which we could study the atmosphere.” TOP IMAGE....This artist’s impression shows L 98-59b, one of the planets in the L 98-59 system 35 light-years away. The system contains four confirmed rocky planets with a potential fifth, the furthest from the star, being unconfirmed. In 2021, astronomers used data from the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) instrument on ESO’s VLT to measure the mass of L 98-59b, finding it to be half that of Venus. This makes it the lightest planet measured to date using the radial velocity technique. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser LOWER IMAGE....This infographic shows a comparison between the L 98-59 exoplanet system (top) with part of the inner Solar System (Mercury, Venus and Earth), highlighting the similarities between the two. L 98-59 contains four confirmed rocky planets (marked in colour in the top panel), orbiting a red-dwarf star 35 light-years away. The planet closest to the star is around half the mass of Venus, making it the lightest exoplanet ever detected using the radial velocity technique. Up to 30% of the third planet’s mass could be water, making it an ocean world. The existence of the fourth planet has been confirmed, but scientists don’t yet know its mass and radius (its possible size is indicated by a dotted line). The team also found hints of a potential fifth planet, the furthest from the star, though the team knows little about it. If confirmed, it would sit in the system’s habitable zone where liquid water could exist on its surface. The distances from the stars and between the planets in the infographic are not up to scale. The diagram has been scaled to make the habitable zone in both the Solar System and in L 98-59 coincide. As indicated by the infographic, which includes a temperature scale (in Kelvin [K]), the Earth and the fifth (unconfirmed) planet in L 98-59 receive similar amounts of light and heat from their respective stars. Assuming their atmospheres are similar, this fifth planet would have a similar average surface temperature to Earth and would support liquid water at its surface. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser (Acknowledgment: O. Demangeon)

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Jeanette Nolan.

Filmografía

- Macbeth (1948) - Lady Macbeth

- Palabras y música (1948) - Sra. Hart

- Abandonado (1949) - Mayor Ellen Ross

- No hay canciones tristes para mí (1950) Mona Frene

- Vagabundo de silla de montar (1950) - Ma Higgins

- Kim (1950) - Madre adoptiva (sin acreditar)

- El secreto de Convict Lake (1951) - Harriet Purcell

- El tiempo feliz (1952) - Felice Bonnard

- Nudo del ahorcado (1952) - Sra. Margaret Harris

- El gran calor (1953) - Bertha Duncan

- Una calle sin ley (1955) - Sra. Dingo Brion

- Homenaje a un hombre malo (1956) - Sra. LA Peterson

- Todo menos la verdad (1956) - Miss Adelaide Dabney

- Séptimo Caballería (1956) - Charlotte Reynolds

- La marca Halliday (1957) - Nante

- Las armas de Fort Petticoat (1957) - Cora Melavan

- April Love (1957) - Henrietta Bruce

- Los seis profundos (1958) - Sra. Austen

- Patrimonio salvaje (1958) - Ma (Janet) Bascomb

- La trampa del conejo (1959) - Sra. Colt

- Psicosis (1960) - Norma Bates (voz, sin acreditar)

- El gran impostor (1961) - Ma Demara

- Dos cabalgaron juntos (1961) - Sra. Mary McCandless

- El hombre que mató a Liberty Valance (1962) - Nora Ericson

- Crepúsculo de honor (1963) - Amy Clinton

- Mi sangre corre fría (1965) - tía Sarah

- Cámara de los horrores (1966) - Sra. Ewing Perryman

- El astronauta reacio (1967) - Sra. Fleming

- ¿Escuchaste el de la vendedora ambulante? (1968) - Ma Webb

- Peege (1973) - Peege

- El cielo es el límite (1975) - Gertie

- Los vientos de otoño (1976) - Ora Mae Hankins

- The Rescuers (1977) - Ellie Mae (voz)

- El Manitou (1978) - Sra. Winconis

- Avalancha (1978) - Florence Shelby

- El zorro y el sabueso (1981) - Widow Tweed (voz)

- Confesiones verdaderas (1981) - Sra. Spellacy

- Goliat aguarda (1981) - Sra. Bartholomew

- Capa y daga (1984) - Eunice MacCready

- Justicia callejera (1987) - Sra. Chandler

- The Horse Whisperer (1998) - Grandma Ellen Booker (papel final de la película).

Créditos: Tomado de Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanette_Nolan

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Review: Rock Bottom (Buried Secrets Book 4), by Silla Webb

Review: Rock Bottom (Buried Secrets Book 4), by Silla Webb

4 out of 5 Stars

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I was disappointed with this book. There was only 25 to 30 percent new storyline in this book, the rest was in previous books. Now the new part of this novella had me on the edge of my seat, again. I can’t wait for the next book to come out. Now to understand this…

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**COVER REVEAL**

Title: Unexpected Ever After Anthology

Genre/Trope: Contemporary Romance/Unexpected Romance

Model: Kyle Kriesel

Photographer: Wander Aguiar

Cover Designer: Silla Webb

Release Date: September 20, 2022

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Add to your TBR:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60724161-unexpected-ever-after #UnexpectedEverAfter #ContemporaryRomance #CoverReveal #Anthology #BareNakedWords Unexpected Ever After brings you 17  brand new contemporary romance stories about finding love in the unexpected! Laugh, cry, and feel your heart beat again with these dazzling stories from some of today’s hottest authors! Anthology BlurbMeet. Fall in love. Live happily ever after…It’s the way it should be.At least, that’s what we’ve been told.But that’s only in fairytales.Real life throws twists and turns.It will flip you upside down and inside out.Yet, love will appear when you least expect it.In the most unusual of places.Under the worst of circumstances.It can bring light to situations so dark you can barely see.Hope where none lived before.Passion where only pain lies.It can surprise you and heal the deepest of wounds.As long as you’re willing to embrace the unexpected ever after… Silla Webb & Kaden Layne, Gwyn McNamee, A.M. Guilliams, Claire Wilder, Evan Grace, Gail Haris, Grahame Claire, Heather Dahlgren, Jennifer Rebecca, Laura Pavlov & Willow Aster, Leaona Luxx, Leslie Pike, Lynn Burke, Rachel Everly, Rachel Lyn Adams, Rene Webb

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What in the World is an ‘Exoplanet?’

NASA logo. April 12, 2018 Step outside on a clear night, and you can be sure of something our ancestors could only imagine: Every star you see likely plays host to at least one planet.

Image above: The Milky Way, our own galaxy, stretches across the sky above the La Silla telescope in Chile. Hidden inside our own galaxy are trillions of planets, most waiting to be found. Image Credits: ESO/S. Brunier. Step outside on a clear night, and you can be sure of something our ancestors could only imagine: Every star you see likely plays host to at least one planet. The worlds orbiting other stars are called “exoplanets,” and they come in a wide variety of sizes, from gas giants larger than Jupiter to small, rocky planets about as big around as Earth or Mars. They can be hot enough to boil metal or locked in deep freeze. They can orbit their stars so tightly that a “year” lasts only a few days; they can orbit two suns at once. Some exoplanets are sunless rogues, wandering through the galaxy in permanent darkness. That galaxy, the Milky Way, is the thick stream of stars that cuts across the sky on the darkest, clearest nights. Its spiraling expanse probably contains about 400 billion stars, our Sun among them. And if each of those stars has not just one planet, but, like ours, a whole system of them, then the number of planets in the galaxy is truly astronomical: We’re already heading into the trillions.

Image above: This rocky super-Earth is an illustration of the type of planets future telescopes, like TESS and James Webb, hope to find outside our solar system. Image Credits: ESO/M. Kornmesser. We humans have been speculating about such possibilities for thousands of years, but ours is the first generation to know, with certainty, that exoplanets are really out there. In fact, way out there. Our nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri, was recently found to possess at least one planet – probably a rocky one. It’s 4.5 light-years away – more than 25 trillion miles (40 trillion kilometers). The bulk of exoplanets found so far are hundreds or thousands of light-years away. The bad news: As yet we have no way to reach them, and won’t be leaving footprints on them anytime soon. The good news: We can look in on them, take their temperatures, taste their atmospheres and, perhaps one day soon, detect signs of life that might be hidden in pixels of light captured from these dim, distant worlds. The first exoplanet to burst upon the world stage was 51 Pegasi b, a “hot Jupiter” 50 light-years away that is locked in a four-day orbit around its star. The watershed year was 1995. All of a sudden, exoplanets were a thing.

Transit Method Single Planet

Video above: When a planet passes directly between its star and an observer, it dims the star’s light by a measurable amount. Video Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. But a few hints had already emerged. A planet now known as Tadmor was detected in 1988, though the discovery was withdrawn in 1992. Ten years later, more and better data showed definitively that it was really there after all. And a system of three “pulsar planets” also had been detected, beginning in 1992. These planets orbit a pulsar some 2,300 light-years away. Pulsars are the high-density, rapidly spinning corpses of dead stars, raking any planets in orbit around them with searing lances of radiation. Now we live in a universe of exoplanets. The count of confirmed planets is 3,700, and rising. That’s from only a small sampling of the galaxy as a whole. The count could rise to the tens of thousands within a decade, as we increase the number, and observing power, of robotic telescopes lofted into space. How did we get here? We’re standing on a precipice of scientific history. The era of early exploration, and the first confirmed exoplanet detections, is giving way to the next phase: sharper and more sophisticated telescopes, in space and on the ground. They will go broad but also drill down. Some will be tasked with taking an ever more precise population census of these far-off worlds, nailing down their many sizes and types. Others will make a closer inspection of individual planets, their atmospheres, and their potential to harbor some form of life. Direct imaging of exoplanets – that is, actual pictures – will play an increasingly larger role, though we’ve arrived at our present state of knowledge mostly through indirect means. The two main methods rely on wobbles and shadows. The “wobble” method, called radial velocity, watches for the telltale jitters of stars as they are pulled back and forth by the gravitational tugs of an orbiting planet. The size of the wobble reveals the “weight,” or mass, of the planet.

Animation above: This evocative movie of four planets more massive than Jupiter orbiting the young star HR 8799 is a composite of sorts, including images taken over seven years at the W.M. Keck observatory in Hawaii. Animation Credits: Jason Wang/Christian Marois. This method produced the very first confirmed exoplanet detections, including 51 Peg in 1995, discovered by astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz. Ground telescopes using the radial velocity method have discovered nearly 700 planets so far. But the vast majority of exoplanets have been found by searching for shadows: the incredibly tiny dip in the light from a star when a planet crosses its face. Astronomers call this crossing a “transit.” The size of the dip in starlight reveals how big around the transiting planet is. Unsurprisingly, this search for planetary shadows is known as the transit method. NASA’s Kepler space telescope, launched in 2009, has found nearly 2,700 confirmed exoplanets this way. Now in its “K2” mission, Kepler is still discovering new planets, though its fuel is expected to run out soon. Each method has its pluses and minuses. Wobble detections provide the mass of the planet, but give no information about the planet’s girth, or diameter. Transit detections reveal the diameter but not the mass. But when multiple methods are used together, we can learn the vital statistics of whole planetary systems – without ever directly imaging the planets themselves. The best example so far is the TRAPPIST-1 system about 40 light-years away, where seven roughly Earth-sized planets orbit a small, red star. The TRAPPIST-1 planets have been examined with ground and space telescopes. The space-based studies revealed not only their diameters, but the subtle gravitational influence these seven closely packed planets have upon each other; from this, scientists determined each planet’s mass. So now we know their masses and their diameters. We also know how much of the energy radiated by their star strikes these planets’ surfaces, allowing scientists to estimate their temperatures. We can even make reasonable estimates of the light level, and guess at the color of the sky, if you were standing on one of them. And while much remains unknown about these seven worlds, including whether they possess atmospheres or oceans, ice sheets or glaciers, it’s become the best-known solar system apart from our own. Where are we going? The next generation of space telescopes is upon us. First up is the launch of TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. This extraordinary instrument will take a nearly full-sky survey of the closer, brighter stars to look for transiting planets. Kepler, the past master of transits, will be passing the torch of discovery to TESS. TESS, in turn, will reveal the best candidates for a closer look with the James Webb Space Telescope, currently schedule to launch in 2020. The Webb telescope, deploying a giant, segmented, light-collecting mirror that will ride on a shingle-like platform, is designed to capture light directly from the planets themselves. The light then can be split into a multi-colored spectrum, a kind of bar code showing which gases are present in the planet’s atmosphere. Webb’s targets might include “super Earths,” or planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune – some that could be rocky planets like super-sized versions of our own.

Image above: An illustration of the different missions and observatories in NASA’s exoplanet program, both present and future. Image Credit: NASA. Little is known about these big planets, including whether some might be suitable for life. If we’re very lucky, perhaps one of them will show signs of oxygen, carbon dioxide and methane in its atmosphere. Such a mix of gases would remind us strongly of our own atmosphere, possibly indicating the presence of life. But hunting for Earth-like atmospheres on Earth-sized exoplanets will probably have to wait for a future generation of even more powerful space probes in the 2020s or 2030s. Thanks to the Kepler telescope’s statistical survey, we know the stars above are rich with planetary companions. And as we stare up at the night sky, we can be sure not only of a vast multitude of exoplanet neighbors, but of something else: The adventure is just beginning. Related links: The launch of TESS: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1495/nasa-prepares-to-launch-next-mission-to-search-sky-for-new-worlds/ James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/main/index.html TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite): http://www.nasa.gov/tess Kepler and K2: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html TRAPPIST-1: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1487/10-things-all-about-trappist-1/ Exoplanets: https://www.nasa.gov/content/the-search-for-life Images (mentioned), Animation (mentioned), Video (mentioned), Text, Credits: NASA/Tony Greicius/JPL/Calla Cofield. Greetings, Orbiter.ch Full article

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New Exoplanet Survey Finds its First Planet

The Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) instrument at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile has found its first exoplanet, a hot Jupiter orbiting an M-dwarf star now named NGTS-1. The planet, NGTS-1b, is only the third gas giant to have been observed transiting an M-dwarf star, following Kepler-45b and HATS-6b. NGTS-1b is the largest and most massive of these three, with a radius of 130% and a mass of 80% those of Jupiter.

The NGTS uses an array of twelve 20-centimetre telescopes to search for the tiny dips in the brightness of a star caused when a planet in orbit around it passes in front of it (“transits”) and blocks some of its light. Once NGTS-1b had been discovered its existence was confirmed by follow-up observations at ESO’s La Silla Observatory: photometric observations with EulerCam on the 1.2-metre Swiss Leonhard Euler Telescope; and spectroscopic investigations with the HARPS instrument on ESO’s 3.6-metre telescope.

Small planets are relatively common around M-dwarf stars, whereas gas giants like NGTS-1b appear to be rarer around M-dwarfs than they are around stars more like the Sun. This is consistent with current theories of planet formation, but observations of more M-dwarfs are needed before a clear understanding of the numbers of giant planets around them can be arrived at. The NGTS is specifically designed to provide better data on planets around M-dwarf stars, and since they account for around 75% of stars in the Milky Way, studying them will help astronomers to understand the majority population of planets in the Galaxy.

The future could be very exciting for this exoplanet system as it has the potential to be studied in greater detail by the suite of instruments on board the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) which is due to be launched in 2019.

source: eso.org

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Title: House of Ash and Glass Authors: SR Jones and Silla Webb Genre/Tropes: Age Gap, Fake Marriage/Marriage of Convenience, Virgin Heroine, Ruthless Hero, Stalker, Captive, Forced Proximity, Slow Burn, Fractured Fairytale, Dark Mafia Release Date: June 29, 2023

From USA Today Bestselling Authors SR Jones and Silla Webb comes a twisted Dark Mafia, Fractured Fairy Tale, Age Gap Romance filled with hatred and desire.

I have nothing. My father’s death left my world ruined. All that remains is my ancestral home, but my stepmother will do all that she can to take it from me. Broken and alone, things can’t get any worse… Until he arrives. Nico Andretti. A dangerous mobster with a soul so dark the Devil himself would fear him. He claimed me as his Cinders, but he treats me with disdain. His men desecrate my family home and ruin my last shred of hope. I want him gone. But then I realize he hates my stepmother even more than I do. Could my enemy’s enemy be my friend? Once I have his attention, we begin a deadly game. Our strange new bond is as brittle as glass and just as breakable. It seems I’ve made a pact with the Devil, and he just might burn my world to ash.

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Tower of Pain and Sorrow by SR Jones and Silla Webb 

Model: Manuel

Photographer: Wander Aguiar Photography

Cover Designer: Silla Webb

Genre/Trope: Dark Romance/Fractured Fairy Tale Retelling/Age Gap Romance

Release Date: October 26, 2023

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I thought I wanted freedom, but I was wrong. 

I just needed a different kind of prison.

James 

I found her locked in a tower. The girl who wrote a plea for help in her own blood.

Her note called to something dark in me, and so I returned for her and took her as mine. 

Now she seems to think I’m her angel.

She says we can be something beautiful.

I’ve warned her that beauty is deceitful, but she’s nothing if not a believer … in us.

In this.

Can I live up to what she needs from me, or will my cold heart ruin this the way it does everything good in my life?

Ellie

He rescued me from my room in the tower and set me free.

I’m lost in a new world, unable to navigate my new life.

The rules and regulations of my enforced conformity were like restraints, and with them gone, I’m unmoored.

I need a new safety and crave the certainty I had in my tower but without the pain and sorrow.

Can this brutal but beautiful man, my fallen angel, give me that? I believe so.

Slowly, one fragile step at a time, I explore my new world.

But I explore too far, and the past catches up with me in a dangerous way.

All I can hope and pray for is that I’ll find redemption a second time and truly be set free.

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Hubble delivers first insight into atmospheres of potentially habitable planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 An international team of astronomers has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to look for atmospheres around four Earth-sized planets orbiting within or near TRAPPIST-1’s habitable zone. The new results further support the terrestrial and potentially habitable nature of three of the studied planets. The results are published in Nature Astronomy. Seven Earth-sized planets orbit the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, 40 light-years away from the Earth [1]. This makes TRAPPIST-1 the planetary system with the largest number of Earth-sized planets discovered so far. These planets are also relatively temperate, making them a tantalizing place to search for signs of life beyond our Solar System. Now, an international team of astronomers has presented a study in which they used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to screen four planets in the system — TRAPPIST-1d, e, f and g — to study their atmospheres [2]. Three of the planets orbit within the system’s habitable zone, the region at a distance from the star where liquid water — the key to life as we know it — could exist on the surface of a planet. The fourth planet orbits in a borderline region at the inner edge of the habitable zone. The data obtained rule out a cloud-free hydrogen-rich atmosphere for three of the planets — but for the fourth planet, TRAPPIST-1g, such an atmosphere could not be excluded [3]. Lead author Julien de Wit, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, describes the positive implications of these measurements: “The presence of puffy, hydrogen-dominated atmospheres would have indicated that these planets are more likely gaseous worlds like Neptune. The lack of hydrogen in their atmospheres further supports theories about the planets being terrestrial in nature. This discovery is an important step towards determining if the planets might harbour liquid water on their surfaces, which could enable them to support living organisms.” The observations were made while the planets were in transit in front of TRAPPIST-1. In this configuration a small section of the star’s light passes through the atmosphere of the exoplanet and interacts with the atoms and molecules in it. This leaves a weak fingerprint of the atmosphere in the spectrum of the star. While the results rule out one type of atmosphere, many alternative atmospheric scenarios are still consistent with the data gathered by de Wit and his team. The exoplanets may possess a range of atmospheres, just like the terrestrial planets in our Solar System [4]. “Our results demonstrate Hubble’s ability to study the atmospheres of Earth-sized planets. But the telescope is really working at the limit of what it can do,” adds co-author Hannah Wakeford from the Space Telescope Science Institute, illustrating both the power and limitation of Hubble. These latest findings complement the analysis of ultraviolet observations made with Hubble in 2017 (heic1713) and help us understand more about whether life might be possible in the TRAPPIST-1 system. By ruling out the presence of a large abundance of hydrogen in the planets’ atmospheres, Hubble is helping to pave the way for the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. “Spectroscopic observations of the TRAPPIST-1 planets with the next generation of telescopes — including the James Webb Space Telescope — will allow us to probe deeper into their atmospheres,” concludes Michael Gillon, from the University of Líege, Belgium. “This will allow us to search for heavier gases such as carbon, methane, water, and oxygen, which could offer biosignatures for life.” Notes [1] The planets were discovered using the ground-based TRAPPIST-South at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile; TRAPPIST-North in Morocco; the orbiting NASA Spitzer Space Telescope; ESO’s HAWK-I instrument on the Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile; the 3.8-metre UKIRT in Hawaii; the 2-metre Liverpool and 4-metre William Herschel telescopes on La Palma in the Canary Islands; and the 1-metre SAAO telescope in South Africa. [2] The observations were performed in the infrared with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) between December 2016 and January 2017. [3] An atmosphere largely dominated by hydrogen, if cloud-free, should yield prominent spectroscopic signatures in the near infrared. However, the spectra for TRAPPIST-1d, -e, and -f do not show significant features. [4] This includes atmospheres dominated by water vapor, nitrogen, carbon dioxide or tenuous atmospheres composed of a variety of chemical species. IMAGE 1....This is an artist’s impression of the TRAPPIST-1 system, showcasing all seven planets in various phases. When a planet transits across the disk of the red dwarf host star, as two of the planets here are shown to do, it creates a dip in the star’s light that can be detected from Earth. Also during such transits astronomers are able to study the potential atmospheres of these planets. Credit: NASA IMAGE 2....A size comparison of the planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, lined up in order of increasing distance from their host star. The planetary surfaces are portrayed with an artist’s impression of their potential surface features, including water, ice, and atmospheres. Credit: NASA/R. Hurt/T. Pyle IMAGE 3....This infographic displays some artist's illustrations of how the seven planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 might appear — including the possible presence of water oceans — alongside some images of the rocky planets in our Solar System. Information about the size and orbital periods of all the planets is also provided for comparison; the TRAPPIST-1 planets are all approximately Earth-sized. Credit: NASA IMAGE 4....The TRAPPIST-1 system contains a total of seven known Earth-sized planets. Three of them — TRAPPIST-1e, f and g — are located in the habitable zone of the star (shown in green in this artist’s impression), where temperatures are just right for liquid water to exist on the surface. While TRAPPIST-1b, c and d are too close to their parent star and TRAPPIST-1h is too far away, the remaining three planets could have the right conditions to harbour life. As a comparison to the TRAPPIST-1 system the inner part of the Solar System and its habitable zone is shown. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech IMAGE 5....These spectra show the chemical makeup of the atmospheres of four of the Earth-sized planets orbiting within or near the habitable zone of the star TRAPPIST-1. To obtain the spectra, astronomers used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to collect light from TRAPPIST-1 passing through the exoplanets’ atmospheres as the exoplanets crossed in front of the star. The purple curves show the predicted signatures of gases such as water and methane that absorb certain wavelengths of light. These gases would be found in a puffy hydrogen-dominated atmosphere similar to those of gaseous planets such as Neptune. The Hubble results, indicated by the green crosses, reveal no evidence of an extended atmosphere in three of the exoplanets (TRAPPIST-1d, f, and e). Additional observations are needed to rule out a hydrogen-dominated atmosphere for the fourth planet (TRAPPIST-1g). The evidence indicates that the atmospheres are more compact than could be measured by the Hubble observations. Credit: NASA, ESA and Z. Levy (STScI) IMAGE 6....Astronomers used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to analyse light from the nearby star TRAPPIST-1 as it passed through the atmospheres of four Earth-sized planets in the star’s habitable zone — the region at a distance from the star where liquid water, the key to life as we know it, could exist on their surfaces. The astronomers were looking for the signatures of certain gases, including hydrogen, in the atmospheres that were imprinted on the starlight. The graphic at the top shows a model spectrum containing the signatures of gases that the astronomers would expect to see if the exoplanets’ atmospheres were puffy and dominated by primordial hydrogen from the distant worlds’ formation. The Hubble observations, however, revealed that the planets do not have hydrogen-dominated atmospheres. The flatter spectrum shown in the lower illustration indicates that Hubble did not spot any traces of water or methane, which are abundant in hydrogen-rich atmospheres. The researchers concluded that the atmospheres are composed of heavier elements residing at much lower altitudes than could be measured by the Hubble observations. Credit: NASA, ESA and Z. Levy (STScI)