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I'm focusing on 'family stories' at the moment. ("A Change of Pace: Family Stories" (11/23/2024))- Category: Family Stories
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Brian H. Gill
I was born in 1951. I'm a husband, father and grandfather. One of the kids graduated from college in December, 2008, and is helping her husband run businesses and raise my granddaughter; another is a cartoonist and artist; #3 daughter is a writer; my son is developing a digital game with #3 and #1 daughters. I'm also a writer and artist.
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Category Archives: Exoplanets and Aliens
WISPIT 2b: Giant Planet Growing in a Distant Gap
WISPIT 2 is a protostar, a very young star that’s still growing. At the moment, it’s roughly as massive as our Sun, and very roughly a third of the way to Kappa Aquila: a very bright, very hot, star that’s … Continue reading
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Vega, a Closer Look: Smooth Disc, No Planets, Starspots
A little over a week ago, scientist published a detailed analysis of Vega’s surprisingly planet-free debris disc. Vega, one of the brightest stars in Earth’s sky, may have planets: but the October 31 paper rules out any Saturn-size or larger … Continue reading
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Jezero Sediment, TOI-715 b: Headlines and Extraterrestrial Life
Last month ended with headlines hinting that our first glimpse of extraterrestrial life was just around the corner. A week later, there’s the usual politics and pandemonium in the news: but no space aliens. I’m not surprised. I’m not disappointed, … Continue reading
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Double Jupiters, a JuMBO Puzzle; Antimatter Falls Down
Every time we develop new tech for studying this universe, we find something new. New to us, that is. This week, I’ll be talking about unexpected Jupiter-size objects in the Orion Nebula, and why scientists at CERN dropped a few … Continue reading
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Unidentified Phenomena, Being Human, Taking Reality As-Is
NASA’s “UAP Independent Study Team Report” used the words stigma, destigmatize, or destigmatizing about a dozen times. At 31 mostly-text pages, that works out to one of those words every two and a half pages. That’s nowhere near the frequency … Continue reading
