The Week In Numbers: A Planet That Rains Glass, NASA's New Hunt For Life, And More
Illustration of HD 189733b NASA, ESA, M. Kornmesser 63 light-years: the distance from Earth to the blue exoplanet HD 189773b, which looks like a cozy place to live-except its surface temperature is 1,000 degrees Celsius and it rains glass. Sideways. 5.5 million square feet: the floor space of the new world's largest building, which could fit 20 Sydney Opera Houses inside it and has its own artificial sun 1980: the year the American Helicopter Society offered $250,000 to anyone who could build and fly a human-powered aircraft for longer than a minute. After 33 years, a team has finally claimed the prize! 23 million years: the age of this whole lizard preserved in amber, just discovered in Chiapas, Mexico 260 feet by 260 feet: the size of 3-D printer needed to print a private jet 100 percent: the accuracy with which this electronic pee sniffer detected bladder cancer in a recent test $600: the price of...