Daily Archives: September 18, 2012

The eternally starry skies of star cluster planets

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Invader Xan

Our sun sits in a rather lonely part of the Milky Way. Here in our quiet little home in a mundane part of the Orion Spur, a tiny offshoot from one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, we have few neighbours. … Continue reading →

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Texas Carbon?

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Invader Xan

This week I discovered one of the most faintly hilarious things I have for some time. It’s a fairly common mistake in chemistry to mis-draw a structure so that a carbon atom appears to have five bonds. It’s a fairly … Continue reading →

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