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Scientists Discover Four Intriguing Planets Around Closest Single-Star Solar System to Earth

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The team also used data from a 2024 study , which involved the ESPRESSO instrument at the European Southern Observatorys Very Large Telescope in Chile, to confirm the existence of one of the four exoplanets. Theyre in Chile; were in Hawaii. We observed at different times of night on different days," said Basant in the statement.

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Spice in space: Inside NASA’s groundbreaking zero-gravity chile pepper project

Digital Trends

Astronauts on the ISS are now growing and eating chile peppers in space, so we caught up with NASA to get some pointers on gardening in microgravity.

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Can You Help Jeff Jackson Find His Godson in Chile?

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Located the family I lived with in Chile. RT @JeffVallarta #Chile, help me find godson Amaro $ family: Eric Rojas e Ingrid Sepulveda, Melepilla, 601-5063, 8-568-5570, 9-423-1180. They were on a bus to Stgo during the night when the quake hit. Located best friends Carlos/Erika in Talca near the epicenter.

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Sports teams are getting cozy with their biggest rivals to sell more snacks

Fast Company Tech

And during the teams series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, hatch chile-braised chicken, chicharrons, and a spicy queso will load the nachos to represent the Dbacks. During the Nationalss series against the New York Mets, the nachos will be topped with everything-bagel chips, pastrami, and swiss cheese sauce to reflect NYCs famous foods.

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Scientists hunted for planets around our cosmic neighbor. They found 4.

Mashable Tech

After peering at Barnard's Star over 112 nights, scientists using a powerful telescope in Chile found compelling evidence of four particularly small exoplanets , each just some 20 to 30 percent the size of Earth. That makes them considerably smaller than Mars , which is about half Earth's size.

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Scientists just looked inside a truly sci-fi planet

Mashable Tech

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — packing a 128-foot-wide mirror that will make it the world's largest visible and infrared light telescope — is under construction and slated to start operating in 2028 atop Chile's Atacama Desert. What will we find in the clouds of more alien worlds?

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Chile-based Kredito raises $4M to help businesses get loans

TechCrunch

Today, Chile-based Kredito announced a $4 million pre-seed round. Robles explained that in Chile, when you open a business bank account, you don’t get a credit or debit card attached to it, so entrepreneurs usually have to use their personal cards. However, the business banking space seems like it’s also undergoing some changes.

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