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Celebrating New Year? This can make it more Amazing!

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 ORIGIN There are two stories about the origin of New Year:-   1st story - New Year wasn’t always celebrated on 1st Jan. The earliest New Year celebrations date back to about 4,000 years ago. At that time, the people of ancient Babylon began their New Year in March. They had an 11-day celebration at the beginning of Spring as the crops were being planted for the upcoming year. 2nd story - New Year on 1st January was declared by Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor. He declared 1st Jan as a national holiday after the name of the god Janus, the Roman God of doors and gates. Janus had two faces one looking forward and the other looking back. FACTS 1.) North America - People celebrate New Year by gathering family and friends for parties. Sometimes, meals and spectacular firework displays are also on. 2.) Greece - a gold or silver coin is mixed in the cake called a Vasilopita. The person receiving the piece of cake with the coin is said to be lucky for the rest of the year. 3.) Spain ...
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Some Potentially Habitable Exoplanets

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The Circumstellar Habitable Zone:- The Circumstellar Habitable Zone is the range of orbits around a star within which a planet can hold liquid water given enough atmospheric pressure. So here is the list of some Potentially Habitable Exoplanets:- 1.) Teegarden’s Star b. This is an exoplanet orbiting the Teegarden’s Star, about 12 light years away from our Solar System. It is the fourth closest potentially habitable exoplanet. This is the innermost known planet orbiting the Teegarden’s Star with an orbital period of just 4.91 days. This planet is likely to be rocky. It may even have an ocean of water on its surface. It orbits within the habitable zone of its host star. Teegarden’s star is inactive and quiet, increasing the chances that Teegarden’s Star b may be habitable.  2.) TRAPPIST-1d  TRAPPIST-1d was detected with the transit method. The density of TRAPPIST-1d indicates a manily rocky composition. TRAPPIST-1d is a closely orbiting planet which takes only 4.05 days (about 9...
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