New Mexico homeowners told they can’t connect solar systems | KRQE News 13
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico has been called a ‘national leader in clean energy,’ with legislation putting the state on a path to renewable energy. However, some homeowners who want to install solar are being told they can’t.
“It seems like the system isn’t keeping up with the times, and the technology,” said Dan Monaghan, a New Mexico homeowner. “We bought this house assuming that it was fine for solar, we had no reason to think it wouldn’t be fine for solar,” he added.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Nasa's solar probe sends stunning image of Venus and its terrain | Hindustan Times
The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Nasa) on Thursday shared unseen pictures of the planet Venus captured by its Parker Solar probe. The Parker Solar probe flew close to the second planet of the solar system and provided pictures of what the space agency termed as 'unexpected views of the inner solar system.'
The Parker Solar probe's WISPR uses the gravity of the planet Venus to understand the dynamics of solar winds, take images of the solar corona and study the heliosphere. The heliosphere is the bubble which goes beyond the orbits of the planets and is created by solar winds. It moves with the Sun through interstellar space and is shaped like a long wind sock.
Could solar panels and batteries on your home help prevent the next grid disaster?
The power went out in Mauricio Montoya's snow-blanketed neighborhood at 5:30 on a Monday evening in February during the cold snap that devastated Texas. Night quickly fell, sinking his neighborhood in Pearland into eerie, near-complete darkness—except for his house. His lights stayed on, thanks to a solar panel array and a set of batteries that kept his home warm and lit until Thursday, when the power came back on for good.
Montoya's home became a retreat during the disaster; neighbors came to warm up, his extended family who lost power came to stay. His children slept in their own beds, safe and warm.
Radioactivity in meteorites sheds light on origin of heaviest elements in our solar system
Some of the nuclei produced by the r process are radioactive and take millions of years to decay into stable nuclei. Iodine-129 and curium-247 are two of such nuclei that were pro-duced before the formation of the sun. They were incorporated into solids that eventually fell on the earth's surface as meteorites. Inside these meteorites, the radioactive decay generat-ed an excess of stable nuclei.
Why are these two r-process nuclei are so special? They have a peculiar property in com-mon: they decay at almost exactly the same rate. In other words, the ratio between iodine-129 and curium-247 has not changed since their creation, billions of years ago.
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Meteorites remember conditions of stellar explosions: Radioactivity in meteorites sheds light on
A team of international researchers went back to the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago to gain new insights into the cosmic origin of the heaviest elements on the periodic table.
Led by scientists who collaborate as part of the International Research Network for Nuclear Astrophysics (IReNA) and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics -- Center for the Evolution of the Elements (JINA-CEE), the study is published in the latest issue of the journal Science .
TESS Research Updates: Hunting for Worlds Beyond Our Solar System
This illustration of a rocky super-Earth represents the type of planets future telescopes, such as followups to NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey (TESS), hope to find outside our solar system. Credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO
For researchers interested in planets beyond our solar system, the universe’s infinite array of stars and planets offer too many targets for study. How can scientists possibly narrow down the options and determine which planets to focus on?
A Review of ... by Prof. Avi Loeb - Universe Today
On October 19th, 2017 , astronomers from the Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii announced the first-ever detection of an interstellar object in our Solar System. In honor of the observatory that first spotted it, this object (designated 1I/2017 U1) was officially named ‘Oumuamua by the IAU – a Hawaiian term loosely translated as “Scout” (or, “a messenger from afar arriving first.”)
Multiple follow-up observations were made as ‘Oumuamua left our Solar System and countless research studies resulted. For the most part, these studies addressed the mystery of what ‘Oumuamua truly was: a comet, an asteroid, or something else entirely? Into this debate, Dr. Shmuel Bialy and Prof. Avi Loeb of the Harvard Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) argued that ‘Oumuamua could have been an extraterrestrial probe !
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