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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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Tag Archives: planets
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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A Super-Earth With an Air About It: 55 Cancri e, Janssen
This month’s analysis of a piping hot super-Earth’s atmosphere is a big deal. But it’s not the “first” detection of a terrestrial exoplanet’s atmosphere, not by about eight years.1 I’ll be talking about how scientists sift through data, 55 Cancri … Continue reading
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Colliding Planets Near ASASSN-21qj: Maybe
They were looking for supernovae. What they found may become a double planet, like the Earth-Moon system, once it cools down. Or a planet with a giant moon, again like the Earth-Moon system. Then again, an oddly-uneven dusty disk may … Continue reading
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Spokes in Saturn’s Rings, View With Hubble Space Telescope
That’s a one minute, four second, video with music and no narration. Cool, though. So was this three-minute (their estimate) read from NASA: And that’s all the writing I’m doing today: Christmas Eve, December 24, 2023. Aside from wishing you … Continue reading
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Sednoids, Rewinding the Solar System in a Simulation
Sedna and Sednoids aren’t this month’s only science news. But I saw two exciting, for me, developments; and that’s what I started talking about last week. This week I’ll wrap up most of what I was going to say about … Continue reading
