Ready to reach the stars?

The American multinational corporation Google, has launched a new project that will allow users travel through the space like every kid has always imagine. This experiment has been called “100.000 Stars”, and the reason for this name is really simple: with help from NASA, the European Space Agency and other sources alongside the technology used in Chrome, Google’s creative lab is creating a magnificent display of the one hundred thousand nearest stars in relation to our Sun.

 And that’s not everything of course, apart from the possibility of zooming in or out the site, or literally navigate through our cosmos, with the assistance of the Virtual Encyclopedia Wikipedia, users are able to acquire information about every star shown on the display, and get a digital image of the celestial body. The site starts with a short explanation of itself, and then the user will gain full control of it; either he could begin a followed tour through the site or just explore our part of universe by himself, like a real astronomer could do.

This last application of Google join the vast group of services that the successful corporation had integrated into our daily life – Gmail, Chrome, Google Maps, Google+, among others -, but after using for a few minutes, you’ll start realizing that more than a service, is a beautiful tool that could not only amaze or entertain, but also enlighten the young minds of future scientists.

The Holy Grial of science: A new planet

Some would say that a new planet found would be great. Some would say a new planet in another system “similar” to ours would be amazing. But, although scientists consider it to be way close to Earth, it is at a distance of four light years.

It would take four thousand years with the current propulsion power to get there.

Alpha Centauri B, besides the new planet

Scientists are revolving in the fact that the planet, discovered by Observatory’s La Silla of Chile, is orbiting a star called Alpha Centauri B. It has been found that the planet is orbiting its own sun, and because of that, heat has been sensed there. Actually, the estimated temperature of the orb is of 1.200 degrees Celsius. Some people say it is too hot for some living organism to develop there. But, if you reader think about it, this very planet was too hot when compared to others in our solar system, so, it is not totally wrong to think there would be some developing organism.

The same happened in Earth thousands and millions of years ago, when organisms started to react whether in the water or under the effects of the sun’s heat on some organisms.

The media coverage has induced a whole scientific spirit, taking men to out of their best to achieve such a goal as a way of analyzing better the new planet is.

The Holy Grail of science is about to be discovered. Even though man could not travel there due to the distance, if it is proven that there is life or that there is the chance for it to be so, it would be a tremendous and astonishing breakthrough. But the question is: Would those organisms develop on time for scientists to see them? Might have they grown enough to contemplate humankind as inferior due to their “superiority”?

View media coverage here
http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/17/closest-planet-found-outside-solar-system/

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