Link Round-Up 10th November 2014

Welcome back to the link round-up! Here are a few things on the net that have caught my eye.

1. It's hopefully not crunch time for the Rosetta probe.
   
   It's nearly time for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta probe to send the Philae robot down onto the surface of the comet Rosetta has been orbiting for a while now. Starting tomorrow the ESA will be webcasting the landing process, which is scheduled to be completed on the 13th. Fingers crossed Philae will make it safely onto the comet! If you would like to find out when interesting things are happening keep an eye on @ESA_Rosetta on twitter.
2. The Your Life campaign launches.
   
   Today the BBC covered the launch of the Your Life campaign, which aims to increase the number of students taking maths and physics at A-Level by 50% over the next 3 years. Although the government backed campaign is looking to raise numbers across the board, they are particularly keen to boost the number of girls doing A-level maths and physics. At the moment all that the website seems to do is to give some interesting stories about where science and engineering might take you, but it suggests it's going to do more in the months ahead, so fingers crossed it'll engage and encourage people to do more science.
3. Watching the birth of a new solar system.
   
   Whilst testing out a new high resolution mode for the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope, astronomers have managed to capture a disc of planet formation around a young star in beautiful detail. What's particularly interested the scientists is that the star at the centre of this new planetary system would normally be thought of as too young for planets to form around it. Therefore, this one image could lead to a re-think on how planets form! Now, if that's not a great test run I don't know what is.

And finally, as season 8 of Doctor Who came to a pretty good conclusion this weekend here's a Fan Made 50th Anniversary Trailer from last year I'll be watching until Christmas.

Currently Listening to The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan, I've become an audio book junkie and its a really efficient way to listen to the ultimate fantasy epic that is the Wheel of Time.
Currently Watching nothing! I've finished my current series and I need to pick something new or an old favourite to re-watch.