@saganworkshop fabrycky just showed light curves from a "contact binary" -- they merged! Very cool.

#saganworkshop Hot Jupiters are lonely -- no companions for hot Jupiters found by Kepler.

#saganworkshop the spin period of a star is proportionate to the square-root of its age.

#saganworkshop #keplermission should be able to detect 0.8 earth mass exomoon around a saturn in the habitable zone.

#saganworkshop Aussie paper (2006) on overlap of three circles for hyper-accurate Venn diagrams also solves #exomoon signaling problem!

Complete MSL Curiosity Descent Interpolated HD: youtu.be/fJgeoHBQpFQ via YouTube

changethis.com/manifesto/105.… pocket.co/sZtBd (via Eren Alpaslan) Essay on finding a mentor

Tired of PPT / Keynote? Check out this interesting new presentation software: goo.gl/068LDq.

Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Spitzer in the crosshairs of budget-constrained NASA: spaceflightnow.com/news/n1405/19s…

Ran across a new term this morning: "Electronic Display of Insensitivity" (#EDI), and the effect on meetings: crucialskills.com/2014/06/qa-dis…

I liked this article on #management and #conflict, and not just for the fencing pic and the martial arts refs: goo.gl/4HrHrU

very accessible discussion of some of the exoplanet search methods: goo.gl/DbR7jg

Undergrad media project on the subject of exoplanets: youtu.be/X9GCrtIM7D8

I have *always* wanted to see this experiment done. Spectacular! goo.gl/vYEoXK #gravity #ballfeatherdrop

I have *always* wanted to see this! Better than 2001 Space Odyssey: ift.tt/1Ce14lD #nasaorion #reentry

Nice summary of AWS Keynote on Bruce Berriman's blog: goo.gl/uxz9VM

CNN: NASA finds 'Earth's bigger, older cousin' cnn.it/1KmK9SE

overheard from a Millennial-generation scientist: "The search for extra-solar life is this generation's Apollo Mission"

IPAC Seminar on Trappist-1 Discovery “behind the scenes”: caltech.box.com/s/e0ixl8a1ex8f…

APOD has Gegenschein! apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170429.…