Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in 'contact' with aliens. I am invited to ask them anything. And over the year's I've prepared a little list of questions. The aliens are very advanced remember. So I ask things like, 'Please provide a short proof of Fermat's Last Theorem'. I write out the simple theorem equation with the exponents. It's a simulating exercise to think of questions to which no human today knows the answers, but where a correct answer would be recognised as such. It's even more challenging to formulate such questions in fields other than mathematics. Perhaps we should hold a contest and collect the best responses in '10 Questions to Ask an Alien'.

/ Carl Sagan /

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WZ Cas (Variable star) Also known as: WZ Cassiopeiae Right ascension: 0h 1m Declination: 60° 21' Constellation: Cassiopeia Date/time: 2008.01.21 19:00 UT Equipment: 12" f/5 Newtonian FoV: 6' Magnification and filter(s): 167x Seeing: 5/10 Transparency: 3/5 Probably this is the most beautiful orange-coloured star I've ever seen. Located nearby the bright ß Cas, the star B of this binary has a colour index of 0.03 while star A has 3.12 which means that this is an extremely red star. The WZ Cas is a red giant star that is also a variable. Its colour can be best seen in magnifications under 100x. Location: Nádasdladány, Hungary Observer: Ferenc Lovró Hi-resolution image: [ reversed sketch | original sketch ]

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