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Kepler Closes Eyes After a Decade of Discovery

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Since its launch in March 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has provided us with an incredible amount of data about exoplanets within our galaxy, proving these worlds are more varied and numerous than we could ever have imagined. Before its launch we simply didn’t know how common planets such as ours were, but today we know the Milky Way contains billions of them. Some of these worlds are so hot they have seas of molten rock, others experience two sunsets a day as they orbit a pair of stars. Perhaps most importantly, thousands of the planets found by Kepler are …read more

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Majority of Sites Fail Mozilla’s Comprehensive Security Review

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A thorough review of the top 1 million websites reveals 93 percent fail Mozilla’s Observatory security review. Continue reading Majority of Sites Fail Mozilla’s Comprehensive Security Review→

Majority of Sites Fail Mozilla’s Comprehensive Security Review

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An Astronomical Observatory For Your Front Yard

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[Barry Armstead] is an astronomy enthusiast who built his own observatory in his front yard, in Canberra, Australia. It was a fine observatory as home-made observatories go, but he describes it as being small and cramped. His replacement was on an entirely different scale though, a building created by hand and which no doubt many readers would be pleased to own.

His design started with a cardboard model, and has a downstairs room upon which sits a rotatable dome with two sliding sections to form the observation window. The original observatory’s concrete pillar on which the telescope mount stood remained …read more

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