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Solar Eclipses from Past to Future, Earth to Jupiter

Liz: Here’s another space-themed post from our friends at Wolfram Research , showing how the Wolfram Language can be used to visualize solar eclipses total and partial, past and present, and as seen from Earth, Mars and Jupiter. ____ You may have heard that on March 20 there was a solar eclipse. Depending on where you are geographically, a solar eclipse may or may not be visible

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Solar Eclipses from Past to Future, Earth to Jupiter

Liz: Here’s another space-themed post from our friends at Wolfram Research , showing how the Wolfram Language can be used to visualize solar eclipses total and partial, past and present, and as seen from Earth, Mars and Jupiter. ____ You may have heard that on March 20 there was a solar eclipse. Depending on where you are geographically, a solar eclipse may or may not be visible

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A Big Year for Dwarf Planets

Liz: For us, one of the most powerful features of the Wolfram Language is the way it understands real-world (or, in this case, real-solar-system) objects, making it easy to incorporate data on all kinds of things into your projects. In this rather lovely instance from the good people at Wolfram, you can calculate and visualise the relative size of a number of those things on your Raspberry Pi, including the state of Texas, the dwarf planet Ceres, the former dwarf planet Pluto, and the Moon.

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Star Wars Episode 3.14: A New Hope

Martin O’Hanlon is a co-author of Adventures in Minecraft which we featured back in November. The book’s full of incredible projects you can do with Minecraft, involving learning programming skills through building structures and interactive applications within the Minecraft world using the Python API provided in Minecraft: Pi Edition . We don’t know how he comes up with some of the ideas, and we’re amazed by what he shows can be achieved ( solar system in Minecraft , anyone?) but this one really blew us away

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