Dinner Time for the Gecko & New Planets

Every night there is carnage on our kitchen window...the moths and bugs come for the light the geckos come for the moths and bugs...they sometimes even fight for a particular tasty morsel....we call it the gladiator ring...(the sparkly bits are moths dust). But more than anything the top part of the gecko is lovely but the underneath is absolutely fascinating and beautiful to me.

How exciting that new planets have been discovered....I mean really of course there is other life out there...we would be remiss and arrogant to think we are the only life forms in all of the universes...but I do think its exciting that some of those planets very likely have water on them.




A bumper crop of Earth-size planets huddled around an ultra-cool, red dwarf star could be little more than chunks of rock blasted by radiation, or cloud-covered worlds as broiling hot as Venus.
Or they could harbor exotic lifeforms, thriving under skies of ruddy twilight.
Scientists are pondering the possibilities after this week’s announcement: the discovery of seven worlds orbiting a small, cool star some 40 light-years away, all of them in the ballpark of our home planet in terms of their heft (mass) and size (diameter). Three of the planets reside in the “habitable zone” around their star, TRAPPIST-1, where calculations suggest that conditions might be right for liquid water to exist on their surfaces—though follow-up observations are needed to be sure.