Exoplanet KOI-3010.01 was found to be habitable with an 84% probability (extremely high)
KOI-3010.01 is about 1.78 times larger and 2 times heavier than the Earth and completes a revolution around the parent star in 60.87 days. The exoplanet fits perfectly into the habitable zone.
Artist illustration credit: Michael Taylor
KOI-3010.01 is about 1.78 times larger and 2 times heavier than the Earth and completes a revolution around the parent star in 60.87 days. The exoplanet fits perfectly into the habitable zone.
Artist illustration credit: Michael Taylor
Sumerians Looked to the Heavens as They Invented the System of Time… And We Still Use it Today. One might find it curious that we divide the hours into 60 minutes and the days into 24 hours - why not a multiple of 10 or 12? Put quite simply, the answer is because the inventors of time did not operate on a decimal (base-10) or duodecimal (base-12) system but a sexagesimal (base-60) system. For the ancient Sumerian innovators who first divided the movements of the heavens into countable intervals, 60 was the perfect number. The number 60 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30 equal parts. Moreover, ancient astronomers believed there were 360 days in a year, a number which 60 fits neatly into six times. The Sumerian Empire did not last. However, for more than 5,000 years the world has remained committed to their delineation of time.
We are on Earth. Earth is within the Solar System about 93 million miles from the Sun. That sun is a star located in the Orion Arm. The Orion Arm of the galaxy is about 26,000 lightyears from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy is located within the Local Group, which is a cluster of more than 54 galaxies including our own, our neighbor galaxies the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, Andromeda, Triangulum, and many others. The Local Group is located in the larger Virgo Supercluster which contains about 100 galaxy groups. This Virgo Supercluster is in the center of about 10 million superclusters that make up the entire Observable Universe.
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The rings we see on Saturn consist of billions of ice fragments and space rocks of different sizes. Some are as small as grains of sand while others are bigger than some houses on earth. Surrounding the planet is a set of 7 main rings with space in between. Each one spins at a different speed. Scientists don't know the exact origin of the rings, but one hypothesis is that they are the remains of comets, asteroids, or moons that collided and collided, causing the fragments to go into orbit around Saturn. Saturn's 82 natural moons help keep the rings in orbit, preventing them from expanding violently into space. But it is quite sad that these rings are disappearing at a rapid rate.