The Week In Numbers: NASA Shuts Down, The First Artificial Pancreas, And More
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 19:00
in Astronomy & Space
The Year In Science Jesse Lenz 97 percent: the portion of NASA employees who were furloughed by the government shutdown this week. Happy 55th birthday, NASA. 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit: the estimated temperature of Kepler-7b, the first planet outside of our solar system on which scientists have been able to map out clouds Artist’s conception of a cloud map of Kepler-7b (left) in comparison to Jupiter (right) NASA/JPL-Caltech/MIT Via Universe Today 5: the number of times an astronaut who floated away from the International Space Station would see the sun rise and set before running out of breathable air 320 trillion: the number of particles in each of the Large Hadron Collider's two proton beams (here's what would happen if you...