monkey spider bot. we ve long fantasised about the possibility of life on other planets. but it was only in 1995 that we found the first planet outside our solar system. these exoplanets are hard to find. of course they are, they re relatively tiny. and so far they ve mainly been detected indirectly, either by the incredibly slight dimming of a star s light as a planet moves in front of it, or by the wobble of the star caused by something orbiting it. in the last 20 years we ve detected about 2000 exoplanets, but we haven t actually seen many at all. this is why. well, the planets are very, very faint compared to a star and they re very close to a star. the kind of planets where we might find life, an earth like planet orbiting a star would be 10 billion times fainter than a star. but if you can see the planets, you can start to look for evidence of life on their surfaces. what you need is something to block out the light of a star. what you need is a star shade. due to go in
this is bbc news. the headlines: president trump s restrictions on refugees and people from seven mainly muslim countries entering the united states is widely condemned by politicians. i m not happy about him coming here until that ban is lifted. look at what is happening with those countries, how many more is going to be? what is going to be the long term of this on the rest of the world ? but as a us judge issues a temporary halt to the deportation of visa holders or refugees, nigel farage backs president trump s executive order. donald trump s policy in many ways has been shaped by what angela merkel did. he is fully entitled to do this. in this country, i would like to see extreme vetting. in yemen, us commandos are thought to have carried out a raid, killing at least 30 suspected al-qaeda fighters and civilians. a statue of princess diana will be built in kensington palace by her sons prince harry and the duke of cambridge. the princes said 20 years after her death, the
we ve long fantasised about the possibility of life on other planets. but it was only in 1995 that we found the first planet outside our solar system. these exoplanets are hard to find. of course they are, they re relatively tiny. and so far they ve mainly been detected indirectly, either by the incredibly slight dimming of a star s light as a planet moves in front of it, or by the wobble of the star caused by something orbiting it. in the last 20 years we ve detected about 2000 exoplanets, but we haven t actually seen many at all. this is why. well, the planets are very, very faint compared to a star and they re very close to a star. the kind of planets where we might find life, an earth like planet orbiting a star would be 10 billion times fainter than a star. but if you can see the planets, you can start to look for evidence of life on their surfaces. what you need is something to block out the light of a star. what you need is a star shade. due to go into space in the mid
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a patch of ask is 45 minutes to reach his land on the way he passes the entrance to the time she plantation. he doesn t know what the firm is up to here it supposedly grows cocoa but not on this land. it used to be home to 70 farms neighbors on all side
Station. they re five years behind schedule. make no mistake about it, spacex has eaten boeing s lunch. boeing is well behind schedule, well behind spacex, but they have a contract for six more flights to the space station. and why is this flight important? it is a test flight. there are only two astronauts on board, instead of a normal contingent of three to four to five, whatever they decide to do in the future. they re going to try to demonstrate that they can manually fly this spaceship, that will be butch wilmore s assignment. they want to make sure they can manually fly it, not just on computer auto pilot and want to demonstrate and test the solar arrays, this will allow for powering the sparliner spaceship. i want to make the point, starliner is the spaceship at the top of the rocket and underneath that rocket is the atlas 5. one of the most successful rockets in the history of the entire space program dating back