“Tau Bootis b,” first discovered in
1996 and around 51 light years from us. It is considered a hot Jupiter due to
the fact of it being a gas giant, and it’s close orbit to its star. It is now
been discovered to have water vapor in its atmosphere.
We have been able to do this before
and detect water to a point, but the planet had to pass between us and it’s
star in order for us to be able to.
From our viewpoint however, Tau
Bootis b doesn’t pass where it needs to. What they did to analyze the
atmosphere instead, was to look at the faint glow given off. By analyzing the
light, you can see the different wavelengths that reveal different chemical
identities. They had used a similar technique before to find carbon monoxide
around Tau Bootis b.
The
article is well worth the read folks.
THE FLASH RETURNS:
No I don’t mean the new animated movie
Flashpoint Paradox, (but if you haven’t seen that, see it).
Apparently the CW has decided to add
the Flash to its lineup of superheroes after the Arrow.
First off, I am a longtime fan of
the Flash. And secondly, I haven’t seen yet where this has ever been done to anyone’s
satisfaction in live action. The last time this was tried, well, let’s just say
it didn’t do very well. So hopefully this time it will be better.
Now I am behind on Arrow and trying
to catch up, so I won’t say anything about the actor yet as I haven’t seen him portraying
Barry Allen. The look he has in the uniform picture however, (head shot only)
makes you think maybe he could do it. But again, we’ll have to wait and see.
But here is what irritates me the
most about all this. Supposedly, and I’ll believe it when I see it, there is a
Justice League movie in the works with script writing etc. And we all know that
if either of these characters would show up in that movie, they wouldn’t be
portrayed by the ones doing the series. They need to get their s..t together
and keep things flowing in one direction, and with the same people playing
parts in the movie that they do on the small screen. Maybe not Arrow, but
definitely the Flash is easy enough to do right where the same guy can do both.
Anyway, here is a link to the article, and you can check out what it says and
see the first profile pic released so far.
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