Hello, Deadpool here. We're very excited to be joining you, but we should set the table correctly.

We're mostly going to make enemies with Disney and make a lot of jokes at Hughes' expense.

Come again.

So sit back, relax, while we travel to a place where grown men and women walk around in tights and act like it's not a giant cultural cry for help.

Because this is cinema. Shaggy! Oh my God! This is Cinema

Cinema. Shut God.

Oh my God.

Marvel Studios Deadpool in Wolverine in Cinemas Thursday, July 25th.

This is Scientific American's 60 second science. I'm Christopher Intalyata. Got a minute?

Carl Sagan once referred to our home planet as...

A mode of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

And that poetic description holds true for a lot of exoplanets too.

In fact, one of the simplest ways we detect exoplanets is by looking at their sunbeam,

and measuring how it dims ever so slightly as the exoplanet passes across it, called a transit,

which raises an interesting question.

Thinking about, you know, the extraterrestrial observers, which of them would observe the Earth

moving across our own sun?

Ralph Pudritz, a theoretical astrophysicist at McMaster University in Canada.

He and his colleague Renee Heller quantified that narrow band of space from which any observers on other worlds would be able to see the Earth

transiting the Sun and they determined that this line of sight would be a plane

just a half a degree thick but that cuts through a slice of our galaxy that's estimated to contain a

hundred thousand sun-like stars along with their companion planets. The

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