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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

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Astronomers have found evidence suggesting that two infant planets are forming around a distant young star in our Milky Way galaxy.

Located roughly 400 light-years from Earth, the young star, known as HD 163296, is approximately 5 million years old and about twice the mass of our sun. The two newborn planets orbiting HD 163296 are not yet fully formed, and each is about the size of Saturn, the second-largest planet in our solar system.

Thousands of planets have been found around other stars in our galaxy. However, “nearly every one of these exoplanets has been discovered in orbit around a mature star with a fully evolved planetary system,” officials said in a statement from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Therefore, the recent findings may reveal new clues about planet formation, the scientists said. [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, astronomers examined the distribution of both the dust and the carbon monoxide gas components of the protoplanetary disk surrounding HD 163296. Observations of the star’s disk revealed evidence of two infant planets forming there, officials said.

The gas and dust of the protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star named HD 163296, in which two new planets are forming.

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); A. Isella; B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)

After stars are born, clouds of leftover gas and dust condense into rings and form what is called a protoplanetary disk. Over time, the material in the disk clumps together under the pull of gravity to form new planets. In the dust and gas in the protoplanetary disk surrounding HD 163296, astronomers found three distinct gaps.

The first gap is approximately 60 astronomical units (AU) from the central star. (One AU is the distance from the sun to the Earth — about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers — and 60 AU is about twice the distance from our sun to Neptune.) The other two gaps are located roughly 100 AU and 160 AU from the central star. At this distance, the farthest two gaps would extend well beyond our solar system’s Kuiper Belt — the distant swath of icy bodies beyond Neptune, the outermost planet in our solar system.

“ALMA has shown us amazing images and never-before-seen views of the rings and gaps around young stars that could be the hallmarks of planet formation,” Andrea Isella, lead author of the study and an astronomer at Rice University in Houston, said in the statement. “However, since we were only looking at the dust in the disks with sufficient detail, we couldn’t be sure what created these features.”

The ALMA radio telescope can detect faint millimeter wavelengths of light emitted by gas molecules. ALMA data showed that the farther two gaps in HD 163296’s protoplanetary disk had a considerable decrease in carbon monoxide, compared with the surrounding dust. This decrease suggests that planets are forming in the outer regions of the planetary system, officials said.

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On the other hand, there was little or no difference in carbon-monoxide concentration observed in the gap nearest to the star, which indicates that it was created by something other than planet formation, Isella said.

“Dust and gas behave very differently around young stars,” Isella said in the statement. “We know, for example, that there are certain chemical and physical process[es] that can produce ringed structures in the dust like the ones we have seen previously. We certainly believe these structures could be the work of a nascent (young) planet plowing through the dust, but we simply can’t rule out other possible explanations. Our new observations provide intriguing evidence that planets are indeed forming around this one young star.”

These are not the first signs of infant planets around young, distant stars. Astronomers have found similar evidence while studying other young stars, such as HL Tauri and TW Hydrae. In these studies, ALMA observations “revealed striking gaps and prominent ring structures in the stars’ dusty (protoplanetary) disks,” officials said.

“These features may be the tantalizing first signs that planets are being born,” they said. “Remarkably, these signs appeared around much younger stars than astronomers thought possible, suggesting that planet formation can begin soon after the formation of a protoplanetary disk.”

The new findings will be published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Follow Samantha Mathewson @Sam_Ashley13. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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Weight loss tips: Doing THIS exercise burns MORE fat than going for a run [bestandroiddoubledinheadunit950.blogspot.com]

Weight loss is going to be at the top of most Brits’ list as January’s ‘New Year, New You’ season approaches. And with these five key exercises you won’t have to swap your social life for the gym.

The barbell rollout is said to be the best exercise for burning fat and fast. Express.co.uk explains how to do a barbell rollout and four other key fat-burning exercises.

Barbell rollouts

A study at the Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education revealed this gym move burns fat stored in the body faster than ‘traditional’ cardio exercise.

That doesn’t mean you should ditch your 20 minute warm-up jog for a barbell rollout but combining the two will hit your body where it really matters.

You must take care to do this move properly, however, as this core killer risks the shoulders and lower back if performed without due care.

According to Muscle and Fitness magazine, this is how you should undertakes a barbell roll out:

Place a barbell on the floor and grab it with an overhand grip, your hands shoulder-width apart
Your shoulders should be directly over the barbell. This is your starting position
Keeping your knees in a fixed position, roll the bar out in front of you until your arms fully extend in front of your body

It comes after exercise was revealed not to be the most important factor in slimming down.

Amie Richmond, weight loss expert and nutritionist at www.bodychef.com, said: “When embarking on a fat or weight loss programme the first question you should always ask yourself is ‘do I want to be thin or do I want to be healthy?’

Deadlift

A weight training exercise that intimidates many – but an important one to master for your health and fitness regime. The deadline involves picking up a loaded barbell or bar form the ground to the hips, then lowered back to the ground.

The ‘powerlifting’ exercise may seem daunting but it’s one of the best ways to kick-start any weight loss regime.

The impressive move targets the quads, hamstrings, gluteal muscles, lower back, traps, and forearms – really working your whole body in one fail-safe move and it’s the best for building total-body strength, size and athleticism.

Push ups

It might seem like a no-brainer but push-ups are the easiest way to kick-start your fitness for 2017. And with no gym or equipment required, there’s no excuse not to get involved.

Doing a push-up, or press up as they’re sometimes called, activates your latissimi dorsi muscles. It also strengthens the chest, shoulder and arms all at once.

How will this help you burn fat? Well, the more muscles you activate, the more calories your body burns during a work-out.

Bent Over Row

It’s important to get the bent over row technique correct or you risk hurting your back.

Bodybuilding.com advises holding a barbell with your palms facing down, bend the knees and keep the back straight until it is almost parallel to the floor.

Breath out and lift the barbell up toward yourself, keeping your elbows close to your body. Breath out as the bar comes up toward

This exercise incorporates the lats, rhomboids, rear delts, traps, and even the biceps.

Sit-ups

Doing thousands of sit-ups isn’t the best option for pin-pointed weight loss, but the exercise does offer other benefits.

Performing sit-ups after or during a cardio-based work out strengthens the core, in turn helping to build abdominal muscles.

Having more muscles will, in turn, increase the amount of calories that your body burns.

Doing a sit-up properly is vital to your health and well-being. To begin, lie on your back with your knees bent, feet flat on the floor. Place your finger tips gently behind your ears, and pull your shoulder blades back so your elbows are out to the side.

Brace your abs and then raise your body up towards your knees, shoulders lifted off the floor.

If you want the perfect bottom, PT Sophie Holmes has the best work-out for a rounded rear.

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How to See Saturn and the Moon in Tuesday’s Pre-dawn Sky [bestandroiddoubledinheadunit950.blogspot.com]

In late December, the ringed planet Saturn will be sitting very low in the southeastern sky before dawn. On Tuesday, Dec. 27, the old crescent moon will sit only 5 degrees to the northwest of (above) the planet. The best viewing times are between 6:15 a.m. and 7:15 a.m. local time.

Early Tuesday morning (Dec. 27) we all have an opportunity to get our first look at the ringed wonder of the solar system, Saturn, in the early morning sky.

Saturn has been hidden from our view since mid-November, when it was an evening object, and moved progressively lower in the southwest sky until it ultimately disappeared into the glare of the sun. The planet arrived at solar conjunction on Dec. 10 and transitioned into the morning sky. And on Tuesday morning, Saturn will move far enough away from the sun to again be glimpsed visually – weather permitting – low in the southeast sky about 45 minutes before sunrise. [Video: The Planets in December’s Sky]

Of course, it does not hurt to have a benchmark to positively make a sighting and that’s where the moon comes in; appearing as just a hairline sliver of light, only 3 percent illuminated by the sun. On Tuesday morning, 45 minutes before sunrise, look for the moon low in southeast sky. And if you look straight down below it, close to the horizon, you’ll see a moderately bright “star” shining with a yellow-white hue. That will not be a star, but the planet Saturn.

The distance between the moon and Saturn will measure about 5 degrees. As I have said many times before, your clenched fist held out at arm’s length measures roughly 10 degrees. So on Tuesday, Saturn will be about “half a fist” below the razor-thin lunar crescent.

Two things will markedly increase your chances of making a sighting. First, make sure that you do not have any obstructions such buildings or trees toward the southeast part of the sky that could block your view of either the moon or Saturn. Secondly, it would help if you scanned that part of the sky with good binoculars, which will certainly help in your picking out the moon and Saturn against the brightening sky. Once you hit upon the moon, finding Saturn should be easy; just drop an imaginary plum line straight below the moon and you will hit upon Saturn.

The year 2017 will belong to Saturn, for this is the year its magnificent ring system will be at their maximum tilt toward Earth. That will actually come in October, when the tilt will be equal to 27 degrees, though right now the rings are practically at their maximum … currently tilted 26.8-degrees toward us. If you have a telescope, you’ll have to wait a while for Saturn to get high enough above the horizon and above any horizon haze for you to get a good view of it. If you try to look at it through a telescope on Tuesday morning, you likely would be disappointed because objects near the horizon tend to have their images quiver or “boil” because of atmospheric instability. You’ll have to wait several more weeks for Saturn to climb high enough in the sky and far enough from the dawn glow to make it worthwhile to look at through a small telescope.

But at least be advised that Saturn has begun the process of emerging back into view and that 2017 promises many great nights observing the sixth planet from the sun. The Lord of the Rings is back!

Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York’s Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for Natural History magazine, the Farmer’s Almanac and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for Fios1 News, serving the Hudson Valley of New York. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

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Naga Munchetty weight loss: Strictly Come Dancing routines help newsreader SHED the pounds [bestandroiddoubledinheadunit950.blogspot.com]

The star was pictured recently on the red carpet looking extremely trim, which is no surprise after she survived four week of the dance programme before being voted off.

Dancing is not Naga’s usual exercise of choice, and she has a passion for golf, playing with a handicap of nine.

In fact, Naga admitted ahead of her appearance on the Strictly that she was not a natural dancer at all.

Describing her wedding dance 12 years ago, she said: “I had to dance lessons before I got married and they didn’t quite work out because I ended up falling over on our first dance and James came over and picked me up very gallantly but no they didn’t work out. That’s all I’ve had.”

Not only is Naga’s waist much more trim since her turn on Strictly, her arms are also incredibly toned.

Her cheekbones are now very defined, showing off her pretty features and amazing bone structure.

Naga is not the only celebrity to shed the pounds this year – Rebel Wilson hit the headlines after dropping two stone in eight months.

Known for her role as ‘Fat Amy’ in Pitch Perfect, Rebel is now sporting a much slimmer figure after her weight loss transformation began earlier this year.

The youngster celebrated her 26th birthday just before entering the jungle, enjoying a meal out with her boyfriend Luke Crodden.

And it would seem Luke has had more of an impact on Scarlett than previously thought.

Scarlett, speaking to New magazine, said her boyfriend encouraged her to go to the gym and keep up her training routine.

She said: “My boyfriend is super-fit so it’s quite good having him on side because he’s quite motivated. I’ve got no excuse now!”

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