Science proceeds at a boring routine. Scientists are working on research and proofs that sometimes last for decades, but there are stories in science that are very strange and break the scientific routine.
New Zealand professor Christoph Bartnik received an email inviting him to submit a research paper on nuclear physics to a conference in the United States. Set out to write your paper in a new way: with iOS AutoComplete! He started each sentence with the word “atomic” or “nuclear” and left his phone to fill in the rest, then put the title “Atomic energy will be available to a single source” and was accepted in less than three hours and invited to the conference for an oral presentation!
This is here on Earth, and space has its share of oddities. Scientists have discovered a planet they called HD 131399ab, which is 320 light-years away from us in the constellation Centaurus. It has characteristics not seen anywhere else in the universe so far: It has four times the mass of Jupiter, and it travels In a unique orbit influenced by the gravitational pull of three suns. Scientists have always thought that any planet that falls into such a scenario would either be torn apart or expelled from its orbit, but this did not happen to it, and although it is relatively young (regarding 16 million years old), its survival so long is a strange exception. Astronomers continue to monitor the stability of its orbit, and they saw that it contains two long seasons, one in which the day and night alternate (and you see the three suns in the day) and the other season in which two suns rise while the third sets.
