July 19, 2022 updates Posted on July 19, 2022 by Doug Loss Experimental characterization of a silicon nitride photonic crystal light sail https://opg.optica.org/ome/fulltext.cfm?uri=ome-12-8-3032&id=479128 A Search for Monochromatic Light Toward the Galactic Centre https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1933/6643331 ‘Oumuamua and meta-empirical confirmation https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10701-022-00587-5 NASA Seeks Public’s Designs to Throw Shade in Space https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-seeks-public-s-designs-to-throw-shade-in-space Meta-modelling the climate of dry tide-locked rocky planets https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa43099-22/aa43099-22.html Galactic Chemical Evolution of Exoplanet Hosting Stars: Are High-mass Planetary Systems Young? https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac756a Interstellar Probe: Humanity’s exploration of the Galaxy Begins https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522003484 On the Effects of Planetary Oblateness on Exoplanet Studies https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07670 Planetary systems with forces other than gravitational forces https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08084 Directional aspects of vegetation linear and circular polarization biosignatures https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08125 The bright side of the light curve: a general photometric model of non-transiting exorings https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08636