The Week In Numbers: An Asteroid-Zapping Space Laser, The Worst Planets In The Universe, And More
Exoplanet COROT-7b It rains rocks here ESO/L. Calçada 4,580 degrees Fahrenheit: the surface temperature on exoplanet COROT-7b, one of the 10 worst places to live in the universe, according to NASA scientists 600 miles: the diameter of the largest known asteroid, Ceres (could an asteroid impact knock the moon into Earth?) 70 gigawatts: the power of a concept space laser that would vaporize incoming asteroids 50 percent: the reduction in suicide risk for men who drank two to four cups of coffee daily, in a new study .001 millimeters: the smallest motion that the Leap Motion controller can track (see how two grade-school friends created the technology that could kill the computer interface as we know it) 11.5 million light-years: the distance to the spiral Sculptor Galaxy, which looks like a trippy watercolor painting in an image from the new Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter Array 10 days: the average time it took men to recover after heart surgery...