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NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers a World Orbiting Two Stars
The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. NASA’s Kepler mission has made the first unambiguous detection of a circumbinary planet — a planet orbiting two stars — 200 light-years from Earth. Unlike Star Wars’ Tatooine, the planet is cold, gaseous and not thought to harbor life, but its discovery demonstrates the diversity of planets in our galaxy. Previous research has hinted at the existence of circumbinary planets, but clear confirmation proved elusive. Kepler detected such a planet, known as Kepler-16b, by observing transits, where the brightness of a parent star dims from the planet crossing in front of it.
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NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers a World Orbiting Two Stars

The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. NASA’s Kepler mission has made the first unambiguous detection of a circumbinary planet — a planet orbiting two stars — 200 light-years from Earth.

Unlike Star Wars’ Tatooine, the planet is cold, gaseous and not thought to harbor life, but its discovery demonstrates the diversity of planets in our galaxy. Previous research has hinted at the existence of circumbinary planets, but clear confirmation proved elusive. Kepler detected such a planet, known as Kepler-16b, by observing transits, where the brightness of a parent star dims from the planet crossing in front of it.

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Laureato alla prestigiosa «Ecole polytéchnique fédérale de Zurich», era stato cacciato dal lavoro perché rifiutava di adattarsi alle evoluzioni dell’informatica, e s’era ritirato nella casa dei genitori che riteneva intoccabile. Viveva solo e isolato dal mondo, e usciva solo di notte, con una torcia in mano. Ha scritto lettere chilometriche e folli alle autorità. E, per quanto matto sia, non l’hanno ancora preso.

— Matematico folle in fuga in Svizzera tiene in scacco 300 poliziotti

L’analisi del Dna di Adolf Hitler, ottenuto da campioni di saliva di 39 parenti del Fuehrer, dimostra che il dittatore nazista aveva origini ebraiche e nordafricane.

— La prova del dna, Hitler era ebreo e nordafricano

Suspense as Britain bids to save silent Hitchcock thrillers

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BERKHAMSTED — Examining buckled film reels under a microscope, technicians pore over each precious original frame of Alfred Hitchcock’s early movies as Britain bids to salvage the master’s magic.

The delicate nitrate reel — brown, brittle and shrunken — is handled with extreme care as they scrutinize the opening credits of the 1927 film The Lodger for every minuscule scratch, blotch and speck.
The British Film Institute is undertaking a mammoth project to restore Hitchcock’s silent movies to their former glory.In a painstaking process, they are cleaning up and restoring his first films, creating a perfect-as-possible digital version to thrill audiences again. The BFI reckons viewers will be stunned by their clarity.

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