Showing posts with label star. Show all posts
Showing posts with label star. Show all posts

23 February 2017

7 Earth-size worlds found orbiting star; could hold life

This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows an artist's conception of what the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f may look like, based on available data about its diameter, mass and distances from the host star. The planets circle tightly around a dim dwarf star called Trappist-1, barely the size of Jupiter. Three are in the so-called habitable zone, where liquid water and, possibly life, might exist. The others are right on the doorstep.
For the first time, astronomers have discovered seven Earth-size planets orbiting a single nearby star — and these new worlds could hold life.
This cluster of planets is less than 40 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, according to NASA and the Belgian-led research team who announced the discovery Wednesday.

21 December 2015

Hollywood star Bloom arrives in India after visa delay

In this Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015, photo, British actor Orlando Bloom, front left, takes a selfie as Indian lawmaker Amar Singh, front right, watches on arrival at the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Indian officials say Bloom has arrived in New Delhi after being turned away a day earlier because he did not have a valid visa.
British actor Orlando Bloom has been allowed entry into India after being turned away a day earlier from New Delhi's international airport because he did not have a valid visa, officials said Monday.
The "Lord of the Rings" star was able to enter India after the External Affairs ministry intervened and gave him a special visa.

10 December 2015

Bollywood star Salman Khan acquitted in hit-and-run case

In this Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015 file photo, Bollywood actor Salman Khan attends a promotional event for his upcoming movie 'Prem Ratan Dhan Payo' in Mumbai, India. An appeal court acquitted Khan on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, in a drunken-driving hit-and-run case from more than a decade ago saying that prosecutors had failed to prove charges accusing Khan of running over five men sleeping on a sidewalk, killing one of them.
An appeal court acquitted Bollywood star Salman Khan on Thursday in a drunken-driving, hit-and-run case from more than a decade ago.

The Bombay High Court threw out an earlier conviction and five-year sentence given the 49-year-old actor.

"The trial court's verdict is quashed and set aside," Justice A.R. Joshi said in reading the verdict to a crowded courtroom, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. "Salman is acquitted of all charges."