New planets Earth? (Gliese 667C)

 

  • Trois planètes habitables découvertes (presque) tout près de la Terre

    Il y a quelques jours, des astronomes européens sont tombés sur des planètes potentiellement habitables. Elles sont situées dans la constellation du Scorpion, dans une zone idéale par rapport à “leur” Soleil. Cette découverte relance les chances de révéler, un jour peut-être, l’existence d’un monde comparable à celui de la Terre.

  • Three possibly habitable planets have been recently discovered (almost) close to Earth. In the past few days, European astronomers have fallen on these potentially habitable planets. They are situated in the Scorpion constellation, in an ideal zone and reportedly with ‘their own’ Sun.  This discovery re-activates the chances of realising, perhaps one day, of the existence of a world comparable to this Earth.
  •  Autour d’une étoile à peu près trois fois moins grosse que notre Soleil, Gliese 667C, les scientifiques ont repéré au moins trois planètes, peut-être même cinq, plus grosses que la Terre et qui pourraient abriter des formes de vie. Elles sont en effet situées à une distance idéale de “leur” Soleil, autorisant la présence d’eau à leur surface. L’eau étant l’un des éléments indispensables au développement de la vie.
  • The star is at least three times the size of our Sun, known as Gliese 667C, the scientists report there are at least three planets, perhaps even five. They are apparently situated at an ideal distance from ‘their’ Sun, bigger than the Earth, allowing the presence of water on their surface. Water is one of the essential elements for development of life. The Star is 22 light years from Earth and with current equipment would take 500,000 years to get there.

About bill

Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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