This makes it easy to open and edit documents created in Microsoft Office without any formatting issues. A law firm could benefit from smart documents by creating a single document where the application content remains the same, while the case summary changes for different clients. His plan involves using the resources of the Red Planet to fuel a sequence of manned and unmanned missions to build an infrastructure that would allow us to truly explore our celestial neighbor firsthand, while at the same time creating a redundancy in case any equipment or spacecraft malfunctioned.C. Some scientists question whether XO-3b is a planet at all. Like TrES-4, XO-3b puzzles scientists. The planet is mostly made up of hydrogen and is classified as a gas giant, like Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus in our solar system. In fact, no other planet this big has been found orbiting so close to a star. It has a very short, elliptical orbit — rather than the expected circular orbit — and completes a revolution in less than four days, meaning it’s very close to its parent star.

In 1974, astronomers intentionally transmitted a 210-byte message from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in the hopes of signaling a civilization in the globular star cluster M13. After years of searching and finding no ETs, many astronomers now think the values used in the Drake Equation should be ratcheted down. Besides finding out a planet’s mass, scientists can learn information about a planet’s size, chemistry and orbit. The technique also allows scientists to deduce a planet’s mass. Scientists generally define brown dwarfs as bodies that are less massive than stars but more massive than planets — or at least 13 Jupiter masses. Teams of scientists, often called planet hunters, use networks of telescopes around the world to seek out undiscovered celestial bodies. By the 1990s, NASA was doing a lot of research in women’s bodies and the effects of space to their bodies. For people who want to sit, work, learn and live better, wherever they are, whatever they’re doing. Q3: If the identity of the “proposing teams and institutions” is shrouded in secrecy, how then are proposing teams and institutions to discuss their track-record, ongoing work, complementary endeavors, institutional assets?

If intelligent life is out there, SETI decided, then it must have an understanding of radio waves and the electromagnetic spectrum. Looking at 60 civilizations that have existed on Earth since the dawn of humanity, Shermer came up with a value for L that ranged from 304.5 years to 420.6 years. Even the most enthusiastic SETI supporters are troubled by the lack of results produced by more than 40 years of “listening” to the cosmic airwaves. The results are often spectacular displays of energy and matter, although much different from something like the explosion caused by an atomic bomb. It’s almost like the universe is a giant pool table without any rail cushions. In early August 2007, scientists representing the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES) announced the discovery of the largest known planet in the universe. As experts understood more about the beginning of the universe and the Big Bang theory, they realized that galactic collisions were even more common in the early stages of time.

Are space collisions a rare and dangerous occurrence, or do they happen pretty frequently? A space collision might sound like perfect material for an expensive Hollywood summer blockbuster, but watching one take place would actually be much less exciting than you’d think. Simply nuking an asteroid might merely scatter the debris — turning a cosmic cannonball into cosmic buckshot. The message contained fundamental information about humans and our corner of the universe, such as the atomic numbers of key elements and the chemical structure of DNA. Tweak the numbers some more, and you can easily get N to fall to one or even lower. The idea is that students can count on a professor or T.A. The space agency has previously hinted which celestial objects space fans can look forward to seeing in these images. That will give it “great flexibility” to move around the inside and outside of the space station, according to NASA.