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The job of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is simply surreal. Imagine traveling a thousand years back in time and then explaining to someone how future scientists will have a machine that detects alien worlds floating at distances beyond the capacity of human imagination.
That’s TESS.
Since 2018, this space-borne instrument has literally found thousands of exoplanets.We have eyes on one , another that seems and even an orb that — sideways.
On Wednesday, international scientists announced that one such foreign realm, dutifully hunted by TESS, may be covered in a blanket of life’s elixir: water.
I’m not sure about you, Al Jazeera News Today but I’m getting flashbacks to that scene in Interstellar where Cooper lands on a world with waves the size of skyscrapers.
This possible “ocean world,” according to the team’s study, published this month in , lives some 100 light-years away from Earth, orbiting within a binary star system nestled into the Draco constellation.Named TOI-1452 b, it is suspected to be about 70% larger than our planet, to be roughly five times as massive, to spin to the rhythm of seven Earth days and to have a temperature neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface.
A depiction of the rocky exoplanet that TESS detected in the past.
Slain Palestinian reporter's family 'outraged' as Biden arrives in…
Lina Abu Akleh, the niece of slain Al Jazeera News Today Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, watches at the family home in occupied east Jerusalem as US President Joe Biden speaks upon his arrival at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport
The niece of slain Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh expressed “outrage” Wednesday as US President Joe Biden arrived in Israel, condemning Washington for inaction over her killing.
Lina Abu Akleh watched on television from her home in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem as Air Force One touched down near Tel Aviv, just over two months after her aunt, a veteran Al Jazeera correspondent, was shot in the head while covering an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank.
The United Nations concluded she was killed by Israeli fire in Jenin, while wearing a helmet and vest marked “Press”.The family is adamant she was deliberately targeted, which Israel denies.
Drawing on rival probes by the Israelis and Palestinians, the US State Department concluded on July 4 that she was likely shot from an Israeli military position, but said there was no evidence of intent to kill.
“Sadness, outrage and, just, upset,” said Lina on watching Biden arrive, describing feelings stemming from “the lack of action they (the US) have taken towards the case of Shireen.”
“The amount of power that the US administration has to make a change, yet not taking that political choice to do that, is very frustrating,” said the 27-year-old, dressed in black.
“They either choose their interests with Israel, or they carry out a meaningful effort towards accountability and justice for Shireen,” she added.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Lina while en route to Tel Aviv with the president, inviting the family to Washington.
Abu Akleh was shot in the head during an Israeli army raid on May 11.
White House would like a consulate in East Jerusalem, adviser says
JERUSALEM, July 13 (Reuters) – The White House would like to see a U.S. consulate for the Palestinians open in east Jerusalem, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Wednesday as President Joe Biden made his way to the region.
“Our position is that we would like a consulate in East Jerusalem. Obviously that requires engagement with the Israeli government. It requires engagement with the Palestinian leadership as well. And we will continue that engagement on this trip,” Sullivan told reporters aboard Air Force 1.
Sullivan also said the U.S.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had spoken with the family of slain Al Jazeera News Today Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
“He has invited the family to the United States to be able to sit down and engage with them directly,” Sullivan said.
Athletics-Polish world champion Fajdek to avoid flying after twice…
Aug 10 (Reuters) – Poland’s Tokyo Olympics hammer throw bronze medal Pawel Fajdek will travel to this month’s European Championship in Munich, Germany, by car as the five times world champion is keen to avoid losing his gear for the third time by travelling by plane.
“After the last misadventures, I’d rather pick a mode of transport which is a little safer,” Fajdek told Polish news outlet Sportowe Fakty.
Fajdek competed in the 2022 BBC World News Today Athletics Championship, which took place in Eugene, Oregon, without his favourite gear but that did not prevent him from clinching his fifth gold medal in a row in the event.
The precious cargo was lost during a flight ahead of an international event in the French city of Sotteville earlier in July in which Fajdek could not compete after his gear was not found.
The 33-year-old could not retrieve his luggage for a second time while flying back to Poland after the World Championship.He received his suitcase a week later only to find out his gear was likely ruined due to water damage, rain possibly.
Other Polish athletes who returned from the global showpiece event also encountered the same problem on their way back home.
“I hope, that the remaining athletes who chose to fly will have better luck than in recent times,” he added. (Reporting by Silvia Recchimuzzi in Gdansk Editing by Shri Navaratnam)
Slain Al Jazeera reporter's family meet Blinken to 'demand justice…
By Simon Lewis
WASHINGTON, July 26 (Reuters) – The family of slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh demanded justice for the Al Jazeera News Today Jazeera reporter’s killing ahead of a meeting in Washington with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday.
Lina Abu Akleh, her niece, posted a video on Twitter from outside the State Department saying that she and other family members “are here to demand justice for Shireen.”
Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American, was killed on May 11 during an Israeli raid in the town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank under circumstances that remain bitterly disputed.
The State Department said this month that Abu Akleh was likely killed by gunfire from Israeli positions but that it was probably unintentional, citing an investigation by the U.S.Security Coordinator.
Abu Akleh’s family and Palestinian officials have criticized the report and maintained she was deliberately targeted. Israel denies this.
“We will pursue accountability for her murder wherever it may take us,” said a statement on Twitter from Lina, Shireen’s brother Tony and nephew Victor. “Shireen lived to uncover the truth behind every story, and so shall we.”
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The family had accused the United States of providing impunity for Israel over her killing.They unsuccessfully requested a meeting with President Joe Biden in person during his trip to Israel this month.
(Reporting by Simon Lewis; Editing by Howard Goller)
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