August 5, 2021 updates Posted on August 5, 2021 by Doug Loss Warm terrestrial planet with half the mass of Venus transiting a nearby star https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140728 Giant white-light flares on fully convective stars occur at high latitudes https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2159/6339287 Habitable zones with an earth climate history model https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063321001574 Tidally distorted barytropes and their Roche limits, with application to WASP-12b https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01675 A Comparative Study of Atmospheric Chemistry with VULCAN https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01790 Intelligent Responses to Our Technological Signals Will Not Arrive In Fewer Than Three Millennia https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01690 Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01730 Solar sail with superconducting circular current-carrying wire https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01686