February 12, 2019 updates Posted on February 12, 2019June 28, 2020 by Doug Loss NASA minimizes threat of JWST delay from shutdown https://spacenews.com/nasa-minimizes-threat-of-jwst-delay-from-shutdown/ New NASA Team Tackles Next Challenges in Detecting Life Beyond Earth https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/new-nasa-team-tackles-next-challenges-in-detecting-life-beyond-earth The Network for Life Detection https://www.nfold.org/ The Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures https://www.agnosticbiosignatures.org/ Nexus for Exoplanet System Science https://nexss.info/ A water budget dichotomy of rocky protoplanets from 26Al-heating https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04026 Interstellar Travels On Board of Photon Rockets https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03869 Can a machine learn the outcome of planetary collisions? https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04052 Three transiting planet discoveries from the Wide Angle Search for Planets: WASP-85 A b; WASP-116 b, and WASP-149 b https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.7761 Thermo-compositional diabatic convection in the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03553 Should N-body integrators be symplectic everywhere in phase space? https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03684 Stellar energetic particles in the magnetically turbulent habitable zones of TRAPPIST-1-like planetary systems https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03732 Tidal Heating and the Habitability of the TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03867 A resonant pair of warm giant planets revealed by TESS https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03900 First observation of a planetary transit with the SPARC4 CCD: improved parameters for HATS-24b https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03924 The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Chromospheric modeling of M2-3 V stars with PHOENIX https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03992