User:Drbogdan/ScienceFacts
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- Astronomers estimate{{cite web |author=Staff |title=How many stars are there in the Universe? |url=https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Herschel/How_many_stars_are_there_in_the_Universe |date=2020 |work=European Space Agency |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://archive.ph/qq35Q |archivedate=January 17, 2020 |accessdate=December 1, 2023 }} that there are as many as "One Septillion" (1024 or, 1 with 24 zeros) stars in the observable Universe – more stars (and earth-like planets) than all the grains of beach sand on planet Earth{{cite web |last=Mackie |first=Glen |title=To see the Universe in a Grain of Taranaki Sand |url=http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~gmackie/billions.html |date=February 1, 2002 |work=Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing |access-date=January 28, 2017 |archive-date=August 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/60r7Xm9UZ?url=http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~gmackie/billions.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last=Mack |first=Eric |title=There may be more Earth-like planets than grains of sand on all our beaches - New research contends that the Milky Way alone is flush with billions of potentially habitable planets -- and that's just one sliver of the universe. |url=https://www.cnet.com/science/the-milky-way-is-flush-with-habitable-planets-study-says/ |date=19 March 2015 |work=CNET |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://archive.ph/wip/FsyQ4 |archivedate=1 December 2023 |accessdate=1 December 2023 }}{{cite journal |last1=T. Bovaird |first1=T. |last2=Lineweaver |first2=C.H. |last3=Jacobsen |first3=S.K. |title=Using the inclinations of Kepler systems to prioritize new Titius–Bode-based exoplanet predictions |url=https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/448/4/3608/970734 |date=13 March 2015 |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |volume=448 |issue=4 |pages=3608–3627 |doi=10.1093/mnras/stv221 |doi-access=free |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://archive.ph/wip/dJySt |archivedate=1 December 2023 |accessdate=1 December 2023 }} – many more stars, at an estimated 10100, may be contained in a Universe (observed and unobserved) considered Inflationary.{{cite journal |last=Totani |first=Tomonori |title=Emergence of life in an inflationary universe |date=February 3, 2020 |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=10 |number=1671 |page=1671 |doi=10.1038/s41598-020-58060-0 |pmid=32015390 |pmc=6997386 }}
- Astronomers confirm{{cite encyclopedia |author=Staff |title=The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia - Catalog |url=http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/ |date=2020 |encyclopedia=The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://archive.ph/wip/mlfuH |archivedate=December 3, 2023 |accessdate=December 3, 2023 }} (as of {{Extrasolar planet counts|asof|mdy}}) => {{Extrasolar planet counts|planet_count}} exoplanets (in {{Extrasolar planet counts|system_count}} exoplanet systems and {{Extrasolar planet counts|multiplanetsystem_count}} multi-exoplanetary systems) – after studying only a very, very small portion of the starry sky.
- The NASA probes currently active on the planet Mars (as of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}) are the following:
File:CuriosityIcon.png Perseverance rover & Ingenuity helicopter => {{Perseverance Mission Timer}} sols ({{age in days|2021|02|18}} days) ({{Age in years and days|18 February 2021}}) (landed February 18, 2021).
File:CuriosityIcon.png Curiosity rover => {{Curiosity Mission Timer}} sols ({{age in days|2012|08|06}} days) ({{Age in years and days|06 August 2012}}) (landed August 6, 2012).
(USA flag on Mars – Mars Weather: [https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/weather/ Perseverance]*[https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/ Curiosity]*[https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/ InSight] – Mars rocks – [https://1drv.ms/i/s!AqhU0NUItzpWgrgd6WtEs2_rMofSaw Martians found?]{{cite web |author=Staff |title=Martians on Mars found by the Curiosity rover |url=https://1drv.ms/i/s!AqhU0NUItzpWgrgd6WtEs2_rMofSaw |date=2020 |work=360cities.net |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/s6MOO |archivedate=December 3, 2023 |accessdate=December 3, 2023 }}).
- A spaceship from planet Earth speeding 165,000 miles an hour (as fast as our fastest one),{{cite web |last=Cofield |first=Calla |title=How We Could Visit the Possibly Earth-Like Planet Proxima b |url=https://www.space.com/33844-proxima-b-exoplanet-interstellar-mission.html |date=August 24, 2016 |work=Space.com |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://archive.ph/wip/mArCR |archivedate=December 3, 2023 |accessdate=December 3, 2023 }} would take nearly 20,000 years{{cite web |last=Bogdan |first=Dr. Dennis |title=Calculation - Time to nearest star |url=https://drbogdan.livejournal.com/1575.html#cutid2 |date=2020 |work=LiveJournal |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821004029/https://drbogdan.livejournal.com/1575.html |archivedate=August 21, 2020 |accessdate=August 20, 2020 }} to travel beyond our Solar System to the nearest star Proxima Centauri – with no worthy place to land.
- Spaceship planet Earth is speeding about "One Million" miles an hour{{cite web |last=Fraknoi |first=Andrew |title=How Fast Are You Moving When You Are Sitting Still? |url=https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/docs/HowFast.pdf |date=2007 |work=NASA |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://archive.ph/wip/7XpZ3 |archivedate=December 3, 2023 |accessdate=December 3, 2023 }} through outer space and, along with the rest of the Milky Way Galaxy, is traveling toward Andromeda Galaxy. (WikiTalk)
