Archives for December 5, 2011
Voyager 1 Is In the Stagnation Zone
Posted by Greg Laden on December 5, 2011 … and probably has been there for months, but new research is confirming the nature of this very interesting phenomenon. It is the outer edge of our solar system, where fast moving stuff heading away from the sun has slowed down because it’s movement is stifled by gravity, but some extra-energetic particles are still leaking…
Class M Planet Discovered
Posted by Greg Laden on December 5, 2011 Maybe. Well, not really. But it could be …. NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region around a star where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count. Ten of these candidates…
You can now graph things on Google
Posted by Greg Laden on December 5, 2011 Just go to a google search bar and type in a function. For instance, cos(pi*x/5) You’ll get a graph that has some interactive features. Separate multiple functions with commas. Details here.
, which is now available for the 
