Bright Star with a hint of color stands close above the moon as darkness falls this evening that subtle color reveals some important facts about the star Regulus is the heart of Leo the lion it s actually a system of 4 stars but only one is bright enough to see with the eye alone the star we know as Regulus if you look at it carefully you ll notice that regular shines with just a hint of blue the color tells us that it surface is much hotter than the surface of the Sonne the hottest stars are bright blue the coolest are orange or red and stars in the middle like this on our yellow Regulus is so hot because it s more than 3 times as massive as the sun that great weight squeezes the star tightly that makes its core extremely hot which revs up its nuclear reactions as a result Regulus has a life span will be billions of years shorter than the Sun the energy from the core heats the surface making it blue and bright if you place Regulus in the sun at the same distance Regulus would look ab
News this hour from townhall dot com I m Rhonda Rogers President Trump insists there is no chaos inside his month old White House correspondent Greg Clarkin reports it s been a week filled with intelligence leaks about Russia and the firing of the national security adviser but the president told a news conference that stories of chaos behind the scenes are not true this 0 chaos we are running this is a fine tuned machine as for any problems he and his team are encountering the president blamed the Obama administration and heritage a mess it s a mess Mr Trump also blame the news media saying the level of dishonesty is out of control right clutched at the White House at the beginning of the event Mr Trump announced he s tapped Alexander Acosta as his nominee for labor secretary Wednesday Mr Trump s 1st nominee fast food executive Andrew puzzler withdrew when he lost support among Republican senators Acosta is dean of the Florida International University Law School has a law degree from
Told at least 13 people and injured many others Turkish officials say the blast believed to be a car bomb and a suicide bomb or targeted police officers It happened near the football stadium. Saw what happened was. I into the coffee shop 5 minutes before the blast I had 2 explosions in 30 seconds they were loud I saw the flames as well I walked towards the police passing the public vehicles and I saw a policeman inside the bus that was on fire I think there are many wounded a church roof has collapsed in Nigeria killing at least 60 people attending the ordination of a bishop reports say hundreds of people were inside including the local state governor I as fighters have reentered the ancient Syrian city of power Mira 9 months after they were driven out monitoring groups say militants and pro-government forces had fought fiercely in the center of power Mira in Geneva talks have been help which wean Russia and the u.s. To try move closer to an agreement that can end the fighting in Syri
That was Jim I can toss I m Jackie learned and you re listening to the newsroom from the B.B.C. World Service it s a scene of devastation entire buildings flattened and roads buckled by the $6.00 magnitude earthquake which struck a mountainous area of central Italy before dawn as the country lay asleep the number of dead has been steadily rising through the day at the moment officials say more than 70 people have been killed in the provinces of on burial at sea Oh and Mark A is thought at least $150.00 are still missing the mayor of one badly affected town and 3 Chase says half of it no longer exists a number of towns and villages have been affected the epicenter was close to the town of North Czerny approach 2 women in the village of accumulate say their family was trapped under a collapsed building service dogs are called to God relieved of over there you know . Nothing really of a very body to be a little bit of value one of the women is saying that she s been waiting for help for