[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the potential threat to the rings of Saturn by the dissipation of its ice over millions of years.


• Centauri Dreams notes the potential radical improvements in the imaging of exoplanets provided by the new generations of telescopes.


• D-Brief notes that the disk of massive star MM 1a is so dense with material that it is forming not companion planets--not visibly--but rather a companion star.


• JSTOR Daily reports on the achievements of Voyager 2, forty-one years after its launch.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money shares the argument of New Mexican Congresswoman Deb Haaland that the United States is neglecting the problems of Native people.


• Marginal Revolution notes the death of art critic Sister Wendy.


• The NYR Daily notes the terrible record of the Weekly Standard.


• Danielle Adams at the Planetary Society Blog writes about the stars and constellations identified by Arab astronomers.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that Colombia lacks birthright citizenship, posing a serious long-term threat of social exclusion given the influx of Venezuelans as likely as not to be permanent.


• Roads and Kingdoms features an interview with photographer Laurence Geai on the protests of the Gilets Jaunes in Paris.