
FROX
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FROX
@froxomg
Digital Trapper 📱 Crypto Artist 🎨 Bitcoin Renaissance ₿


Shake-up of arbiter of corporate climate plans on.ft.com/44UJLsu


Peace for all.

The last few months of 2024 are pivotal for the future of our planet. World leaders will gather on the international stage several times to address critical issues like plastic pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change.


JUST IN: 🇨🇭 Switzerland's fourth largest bank, Zurich Cantonal Bank, launches #Bitcoin & Ethereum trading.


buff.ly/4ebuUz9 Exoplanets, look out! Two NASA-funded teams of amateur astronomers are tracking you with their backyard telescopes. These two teams, called UNITE (UNISTELLAR Network Investigating TESS Exoplanets) and Exoplanet Watch, have combined forces to confirm a new planetary discovery—a toasty "warm Jupiter". Planets around other stars, called exoplanets, sometimes block the light from the stars they orbit. When this happens, it’s called a “transit”. Amateur astronomers can observe exoplanet transits with their own telescopes by watching for the light from a nearby star to dim. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) sees these dimming events, too—many thousands of them. But just seeing a star dim once is not enough. You need to catch multiple dimming events (and perform various other checks) to know that you’ve found a new exoplanet. That’s where volunteers from the UNITE and Exoplanet Watch projects come in. These two teams of amateur astronomers have collaborated with the SETI Institute to detect the transit of an object called TIC 393818343 b (aka TOI 6883 b)---proving to the world that this object does indeed contain a planet orbiting a star.












