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266 Kgs of Gold found Missing from Shree Padmanabaswamy Temple

Rambo and Pranks are extremely surprised that 266 Kg Gold is missing from the famous Shree
Padmanabaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram, according to chief government auditor Vinod Rai in his
audit report submitted to the Supreme Court court.
It is declared that 893 kg gold was given out for various works, and only 627 kg has been returned to the
temple.

Other Planets Which May Have Life
Well, there’s good news for Earthlings, as it turns out that Earth isn’t the only planet with life. A team of
astronomers announced on January 6 that they have identified eight planets beyond our solar system. The
scientists say that three or four of those planets orbit in the Goldilocks Zone of their stars’. The Goldielocks zone
is the region where temperatures are not too hot and not too cold for water to exist in liquid form. Water is a
necessary ingredient for life, as we all know.
This data regarding the planets was collected by the Kepler Telescope, and studied by a team led byDr. Guillermo
Torres of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
NASA launched Kepler in 2009. Since then, the telescope has identified more than 1,000 planets outside of our
solar system. Torres and his team analyzed the data about the eight newly discovered worlds to determine which
ones are most likely to be similar to Earth.
Among the new discoveries, the scientists say the planets called Kepler 438b and 442b are the closest to Earth.
Kepler 438b is just about 10% larger than our planet, and gets 40% more of its energy from its star than Earth
receives from the Sun. Temperatures there would be about 140 degrees. Kepler 442b is about 33% larger than
Earth, but receives 30% less energy from its star. That would make it a potentially chillier world than our own.
Torres says it is possible for life to exist and survive in either of those temperatures. But for that to happen,
these planets would need to have another key ingredient for life: the heat-trapping atmosphere like Earth’s.
So, to think of it, the movie interstellar may actually turn true.