Astronomy student Sarah Ballard was flattered — starstruck, even — when her famous professor, Geoff Marcy, began meeting her outside of class in the spring of 2005 to discuss new planets and galaxies.
“It was exhilarating,” says Ballard, then a 20-year-old at the University of California at Berkeley, “and deeply affirming. He said I had promise to go really far.”
But in the end, it was Marcy who went way too far.
Their conversations soon became “sexual in nature,” Ballard, now 33, says, with Marcy divulging details about his sex life and asking about her own experiences. Then, later that summer after giving Ballard a ride home,...
“It was exhilarating,” says Ballard, then a 20-year-old at the University of California at Berkeley, “and deeply affirming. He said I had promise to go really far.”
But in the end, it was Marcy who went way too far.
Their conversations soon became “sexual in nature,” Ballard, now 33, says, with Marcy divulging details about his sex life and asking about her own experiences. Then, later that summer after giving Ballard a ride home,...
- 7/27/2017
- by Natasha Stoynoff
- PEOPLE.com
Meet Earth’s cousin planet, Kepler-186f, discovered by Nasa’s Kepler Space Telescope in mid-April.
First Earth-Sized Planet Discovered In Habitable Zone
Located 490 light-years away from Earth, Kepler-186f is the first Earth-sized planet discovered outside our solar system that sits within the “habitable zone” of the star it orbits. The habitable zone is the area around a star “where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet.” Other exoplanets have been discovered within habitable zones, but none of them have been Earth-sized.
“The discovery of Kepler-186f is a significant step toward finding worlds like our planet Earth. Future Nasa missions… will discover the nearest rocky exoplanets and determine their composition and atmospheric conditions, continuing humankind’s quest to find truly Earth-like worlds,” said Nasa’s Astrophysics Division Director Paul Hertz.
While Kepler-186f may seem a lot like Earth, many factors have yet to...
First Earth-Sized Planet Discovered In Habitable Zone
Located 490 light-years away from Earth, Kepler-186f is the first Earth-sized planet discovered outside our solar system that sits within the “habitable zone” of the star it orbits. The habitable zone is the area around a star “where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet.” Other exoplanets have been discovered within habitable zones, but none of them have been Earth-sized.
“The discovery of Kepler-186f is a significant step toward finding worlds like our planet Earth. Future Nasa missions… will discover the nearest rocky exoplanets and determine their composition and atmospheric conditions, continuing humankind’s quest to find truly Earth-like worlds,” said Nasa’s Astrophysics Division Director Paul Hertz.
While Kepler-186f may seem a lot like Earth, many factors have yet to...
- 4/21/2014
- Uinterview
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