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Post by satansrini on Jun 8, 2011 15:30:27 GMT -6
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110110/ap_on_sc/us_sci_space_blobHubble telescope zeroes in on green blob in space click on link to see photoBy SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer – Mon Jan 10, 6:21 pm ET WASHINGTON – The Hubble Space Telescope got its first peek at a mysterious giant green blob in outer space and found that it's strangely alive. The bizarre glowing blob is giving birth to new stars, some only a couple million years old, in remote areas of the universe where stars don't normally form. The blob of gas was first discovered by a Dutch school teacher in 2007 and is named Hanny's Voorwerp (HAN'-nee's-FOR'-vehrp). Voorwerp is Dutch for object. NASA released the new Hubble photo Monday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle. Parts of the green blob are collapsing and the resulting pressure from that is creating the stars. The stellar nurseries are outside of a normal galaxy, which is usually where stars live. That makes these "very lonely newborn stars" that are "in the middle of nowhere," said Bill Keel, the University of Alabama astronomer who examined the blob. The blob is the size of our own Milky Way galaxy and it is 650 million light years away. Each light year is about 6 trillion miles. The blob is mostly hydrogen gas swirling from a close encounter of two galaxies and it glows because it is illuminated by a quasar in one of the galaxies. A quasar is a bright object full of energy powered by a black hole. The blob was discovered by elementary school teacher Hanny van Arkel, who was 24 at the time, as part of a worldwide Galaxy Zoo project where everyday people can look at archived star photographs to catalog new objects. Van Arkel said when she first saw the odd object in 2007 it appeared blue and smaller. The Hubble photo provides a clear picture and better explanation for what is happening around the blob. "It actually looked like a blue smudge," van Arkel told The Associated Press. "Now it looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green." She says she can even see what passes for arms and eyes. Since van Arkel's discovery, astronomers have looked for similar gas blobs and found 18 of them. But all of them are about half the size of Hanny's Voorwerp, Keel said. As I was reading this, I got this thought. As stupid and naive as it may be. Humour me. The blob is spawning stars. It might be the origin of another universe in the making. The Big Bang Theory suggests that there was once infinitely dense object which exploded to create things as they are. What if, it was not the case and these green blobs actually create stars and matter as they collapse and the happen from time to time and different parts of the limitless space until they totally collapse and die out to have trillions of stars. What is now as big as the Milky Way in the process of expansion by means of spawning more and more bodies be as vast as to contain a billion galaxies... We are probably looking at another genesis for all we know. But we wouldn't last that long to know for sure. About the frog in the sky. Find some native people of some place who are still uneducated like those say a few 100 years ago. Show them the frog, tell them that is how we all came into being. A 1000 years later frog becomes their most sacred god. A frog head with 2 legs, 2 hands and a torso. All frogs become Gods. I think that is how we invented God wherever we come from. Probably even God does not know he exists.. he he.. Regards, Srinivas
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Post by auntym on Jun 13, 2011 17:07:56 GMT -6
THIS IS SOOO COOL.... ;D click below to explore the universe Neave Planetariumwww.neave.com/planetarium/"Explore the Stars & Planets through your web browser. Click & move your mouse to look around the sky. Point at Star or Planet to reveal its name, its constellation, its brightness (magnitude) & how far away it is in light years (LY) or astronomical units (AU). You can also adjust the time & your viewing location to see sky from any point around the world." Neave Planetarium
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Post by auntym on Jun 27, 2011 20:20:16 GMT -6
www.stumbleupon.com/su/27Q0dP/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/06/a-massive-volcanic-eruption-has-taken-place-in-eritrea-sunday-june-11-2011the-eruption-in-eritrea-could-be-the-biggest-volca.htmlJune 27, 2011 News Flash: House-Sized Asteroid Skims By Earth TodayThe Harvard Minor Planet Center announced that an asteroid the size of a large house--at least double the size of the asteroids that have previously been observed so close to Earth-- will zip within 12,900 kilometres of the Earth at about six p.m. EST on Monday. The asteroid, 2011 md was discovered late on Wednesday by an automated asteroid-hunting telescope run by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory's LINEAR program, which had already discovered well over 2000 near-Earth objects. Within 24 hours, four other groups confirmed the discovery. The Minor Planet Center at Harvard University does not rate 2011 MD as potentially hazardous because its size - estimated from its brightness - is only 8 to 18 metres. That would make an impressive explosion if it hit the atmosphere, but it wouldn't reach the ground. TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by auntym on Jun 29, 2011 12:26:13 GMT -6
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2009491/Close-encounter-Milky-Way-Incredible-image-natural-phenomenon-skies-Devils-Tower-recalls-sci-fi-classic.html?ito=feeds-newsxmlCrystal clear night: Amateur photographer Eric Hines' incredible image captures the Milky Way in all its glory above the haloed Devil's Tower landmark in Wyoming The crystal-clear result shows the Milky Way's galactic plane, which is made up of billions of stars and planets. Mr Hines, who has only been taking photographs for 18 months, was so desperate to capture a clear photo of the natural phenomenon that he travelled 1,400 miles west from his home in Indiana to be at Devil's Tower in Niobrara County, Wyoming. The journey was certainly worth the effort. Mr Hines said: 'The Milky Way has been something that I've wanted to photograph since I first started shooting. 'I was very happy when I saw the photos show up on my camera, and even more so when I was able to get them home and open them up on my computer. 'The results are something I'm definitely proud of.' Worth the effort: Mr Hines, who travelled 1,400 miles from his Indiana home to Wyoming, also took this amazing picture TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by skywalker on Jun 29, 2011 22:36:23 GMT -6
That one of Devil's Tower is sooooo cool!
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Post by auntym on Jun 29, 2011 22:48:22 GMT -6
That one of Devil's Tower is sooooo cool! i think both pictures are soooo beautiful....
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Post by swamprat on Jun 30, 2011 8:37:21 GMT -6
To me, the scary thing is, if the black hole was "2 billion times the mass of the Sun" almost 13 billion years ago, how big is it NOW?! The Brightest Object in the Early UniverseBy Charles Q. Choi Published June 30, 2011 | Space.com
Scientists have discovered the most brilliant object yet from the infancy of the cosmos, a super-bright galaxy that challenges notions of how extraordinarily massive black holes evolved. The brilliant enigma is a quasar, a stage that some galaxies go through when lots of material falls into the supermassive black holes at their cores, giving off light as it does so. The quasar, assigned the name ULAS J1120+0641, is the most distant one found to date. It is by far the brightest object discovered from the early universe, giving off 60 trillion times as much light as our sun. (A trillion is 1 million millions.) Most distant quasar yetThe distance to the quasar was then determined from observations made with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and the Gemini North Telescope. Based on how greatly the light from the quasar was stretched during its journey by the expansion of the universe, the scientists estimate the quasar existed only 770 million years after the Big Bang.By analyzing the light from ULAS J1120+0641, researchers estimate the quasar was powered by a black hole 2 billion times the mass of the sun. How black holes became so massive so soon after the Big Bang is difficult to explain. "While it's not the most massive quasar black hole known, it is seen so much earlier than the others that it is even harder to form in the time available," Mortlock told SPACE.com. The scientists detailed their findings in the June 30 issue of the journal Nature. Copyright © 2011 Space.com. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Read more: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/30/brightest-object-in-early-universe/#ixzz1Qlbsa1nI
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Post by auntym on Jul 8, 2011 22:33:50 GMT -6
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Picture Album: Abstract Art Found in the Orion Nebula [/size] Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team Picture Album: Sculpting the Landscape Credit: NASA,ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
Picture Album: Spitzer and Hubble Create Colorful Masterpiece [/size] Credit: NASA, ESA, T. Megeath (University of Toledo) and M. Robberto (STScI) TO SEE MORE OF THE 'PICTURE ALBUM' CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by auntym on Jul 10, 2011 12:30:53 GMT -6
thetruthbehindthescenes.wordpress.com/ Captured on Hawaii Telescope, Nibiru, 3 Planets, Strange Moon, UFOs?[/color] Posted on July 10, 2011 The CFH Telescope became operational in 1979 and The observatory is located atop the summit of Mauna Kea, a 4200 meter, dormant volcano located on the island of Hawaii. The mission of CFHT is to provide for its user community a versatile and state-of-the-art astronomical observing facility which is well matched to the scientific goals of that community and which fully exploits the potential of the Mauna Kea site. Besides the telescopes, they are ‘cloud cameras’ and cams. The cloud camera on the picture is pointed towards Hilo, Hawaii. In our previous post Mysterious exploding ball of light in space we reported that on June 22, 2011 the telescope captured a strange like bubble-like burst of light. Last week, the telescope and a ‘cloud camera captured another strange phenomena. Video 3: Asteroid,UFO or just a natural phenomenon?Uploaded by BeePeeOilDisaster on Jul 9, 2011 This was recorded on what is called a camera that is pointed towards Hilo, Hawaii... *ALERT* Strange Moon Activity Above Hawaii! *ALERT* Uploaded by BeePeeOilDisaster on Jul 9, 2011 Recorded with a stationary hi def camera. This is very strange pulsating and other anomalous activity happening to what is supposed to be our moon above Hawaii... TO SEE MORE VIDEO & CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by auntym on Jul 11, 2011 15:37:57 GMT -6
www.stumbleupon.com/su/2VQfhN/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/07/the-rare-earth-debate-are-we-the-sole-intelligent-life-in-the-milky-way.htmlJuly 11, 2011 The "Rare Earth" Debate: Are We the Sole Intelligent Life in the Milky Way?[/size] The "Rare Earth" hypothesis is the idea that life is a staggeringly unlikely event, and that the reason we haven't seen hide nor hair (nor scale nor weird gel-layer) of aliens is that there aren't any. It's had some time in the spotlight, it makes us sound very important, and it's wrong. The Rare Earth argument ignores a number of essential factors, the first being how staggeringly huge the numbers involved are. Even the Milky Way has 200 to 400 billion stars, and it's only one of a hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe, and there have been billions of years for things to happen. Countering "it's really unlikely" with "but there are lots of things!" might sound weak, but it's the Rare Earthers who are taking the burden of proof - claiming that nothing happens anywhere else ever. The more places there are, the worse their argument gets. Geologist Peter Ward and astrobiologist Donald Brownlee, both of the University of Washington have outlined a short list of conditions needed: Right distance from a star; habitat for complex life; liquid water near surface; far enough to avoid tidal lock; right mass of star with long enough lifetime and not too much ultraviolet; stable planetary orbits; right planet mass to maintain atmosphere and ocean with a solid molten core and enough heat for plate tectonics; a Jupiter-like neighbor to clear out comets and asteroids; plate tectonics to build up land mass, enhance bio-diversity, and enable a magnetic field; not too much, nor too little ocean; a large moon at the right distance to stabilize tilt; a small Mars-like neighbor as possible source to seed Earth-like planet; maintenance of adequate temperature, composition and pressure for plants and animals; a galaxy with enough heavy elements, not too small, ellipitcal or irregular; right position the galaxy; few giant impacts like had 65 million years ago; enough carbon for life, but not enough for runaway greenhouse effect; evolution of oxygen and photosynthesis; and, of course, biological evolution. Claims that there aren't many suitable planets over all these stars are like hiding in a closet and claiming there's no such thing as coffee tables - we're now detecting planets at an ever-increasing rate, because now we have technology actually capable of detecting planets. Almost as soon as we try any new planet-detecting technique it detects a whole bunch of the things. We're even edging into the ability to find Earth-size planets, and what do you know? There they are! And some even have water! TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by swamprat on Jul 11, 2011 20:44:08 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Jul 11, 2011 22:45:01 GMT -6
nice video swamprat.... .... it definitely puts things into perspective...
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Post by swamprat on Jul 28, 2011 14:03:23 GMT -6
Could Black Holes Help Treat Cancer Patients?Published July 28, 2011 Space.comAstronomers studying stars and black holes have made a discovery that could lead to safer, more effective cancer treatments down the road. Heavy metals emit low-energy electrons when exposed to X-rays at specific energies, the researchers found. This raises the possibility that implants made of gold or platinum could allow doctors to destroy tumors with low-energy electrons, while exposing healthy tissue to far less radiation than is possible today, researchers said. "As astronomers, we apply basic physics and chemistry to understand what's happening in stars," said astronomer Sultana Nahar of Ohio State University in a statement. "We're very excited to apply the same knowledge to potentially treat cancer." A new kind of radiation therapy?The researchers' computer simulations suggest that hitting a single gold or platinum atom with a small dose of X-rays at a narrow range of frequencies produces a flood of more than 20 low-energy electrons. These ejected electrons can kill cancer kills, shredding their DNA, researchers said. So doctors could embed many heavy-metal nanoparticles inside and around tumors, then hit them with a tailored shot of radiation. The resulting electron shower could obliterate a tumor. And the process would greatly reduce a patient's radiation exposure compared to most current radiation treatment methods, researchers said. Inspired by the heavensThe researchers came up with the new potential cancer treatment after studying the heavens. Specifically, they were trying to understand what different stars are made of, based on how radiation flows through them and emanates from them. The team constructed complex computer models to simulate these processes. The models clued them into how heavy metals such as iron behave when they absorb different types of radiation. Iron plays the dominant role in controlling radiation flow through stars. But it is also observed in some black hole environments, which produce some types of X-rays that can be detected from Earth, researchers said. "That's when we realized that the implications went way beyond atomic astrophysics," Pradhan said. "X-rays are used all the time in radiation treatments and imaging, and so are heavy metals — just not in this way. If we could target heavy metal nanoparticles to certain sites in the body, X-ray imaging and therapy could be more powerful, reduce radiation exposure and be much more precise." Copyright © 2011 Space.com. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Read more: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/28/could-black-holes-help-treat-cancer-patients/#ixzz1TQnAWBF9
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2011 17:30:06 GMT -6
Very fascinating article swamprat!
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Post by skywalker on Jul 28, 2011 19:18:11 GMT -6
Yup. I'm sure people will be rushing out trying to get cancer so they can have some gold and platinum shoved into them.
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Post by auntym on Jul 29, 2011 23:33:35 GMT -6
t.co/9i2NEzN Multiple Possible Universes and Extra Dimensions
Parallel Universes and the Theory of Everything[/color] Uploaded by BraveManNewWorld2 on Mar 4, 2011 Next Episode: Multiple Possible Universes and Extra Dimensions Parallel Universes and the Theory of EverythingThe multiverse is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes (including our universe) that together comprise everything that physically exists: the entirety of space and time, all forms of matter, energy and momentum, and the physical laws and constants that govern them. The term was coined in 1895 by the American philosopher and psychologist William James. The various universes within the multiverse are sometimes called parallel universes. The structure of the multiverse, the nature of each universe within it and the relationship between the various constituent universes, depend on the specific multiverse hypothesis considered. Multiverses have been hypothesized in cosmology, physics, astronomy, philosophy, transpersonal psychology and fiction, particularly in science fiction and fantasy. In these contexts, parallel universes are also called "alternative universes", "quantum universes", "interpenetrating dimensions", "parallel dimensions", "parallel worlds", "alternative realities", and "alternative timelines", among others. A multiverse of a somewhat different kind has been envisaged within the multi-dimensional extension of string theory known as M-theory, also known as Membrane Theory. CONTINUE READING: t.co/9i2NEzN
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Post by auntym on Aug 1, 2011 18:35:44 GMT -6
www.stumbleupon.com/su/5KcOGD/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/08/-the-stroke-of-luck-that-led-to-life-on-earth-exists-elsewhere-in-the-universe-richard-dawkins.htmlAugust 01, 2011 "The Stroke of Luck that Led to Life on Earth Exists Elsewhere in the Universe" --Richard Dawkins[/color] Another-earth It's no accident that we see stars in the sky, says famed Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins: they are a vital part of any universe capable of generating us. But, as Dawkins emphasizes, that does not mean that stars exists in order to make us."It is just that without stars there would be no atoms heavier than lithium in the periodic table," Dawkins wrote in The Ancestors Tale -A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, "and a chemistry of only three elements is too impoverished to support life. Seeing is the kind of activity that can go on only in the kind of universe where what you see is stars." "It's an astonishing stroke of luck that we are here." That was Dawkins' evolutionary message at a recent speech to a packed auditorium at the Christchurch, New Zealand. "Every animal owes its existence to an astonishing list of contingencies that might not have happened. With so much chance and luck it might be thought that evolution itself is a process of pure chance, but nothing could be further from the truth." It was predictable, for example, that eyes and ears would develop in different species, and they had done so independently several times over, Dawkins said. "Natural selection is the great engine of the predictable side of life, but it cannot start without certain prerequisites." CONTINUE READING: www.stumbleupon.com/su/5KcOGD/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/08/-the-stroke-of-luck-that-led-to-life-on-earth-exists-elsewhere-in-the-universe-richard-dawkins.html
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Post by auntym on Aug 3, 2011 22:35:55 GMT -6
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/03/oxygen-space-breathable-herschel_n_917277.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008Oxygen In Space? 'Breathable' Oxygen Molecules Found By Herschel Telescope Herschel found the molecules in a dense patch of gas and dust adjacent to star-forming regions in the Orion nebula. Astronomers suspect that newborn stars heated nearby icy grains, releasing water, which was then converted to oxygen. In other parts of clouds, where oxygen molecules are not detected, the oxygen may be locked up in the icy grains. The inset is an artist's concept of a collection of oxygen molecules, where two connected balls represent two oxygen atoms bound together as an oxygen Scientists are saying that for the first time, they've found proof of the oxygen molecule in space. This new find, some 230 years since the discovery of oxygen gas, marks the first time the life-giving molecule has ever been found in deep space, according to NASA. For decades, researchers have used balloons, as well as grounded and space-based telescopes, to try and spot the elusive molecule in space. From NASA: Individual atoms of oxygen are common in space, particularly around massive stars. But molecular oxygen, which makes up about 20 percent of the air we breathe, has eluded astronomers until now. In 2007, the Swedish Odin telescope may have also spotted the molecule, but the find could not be confirmed. This time, the Herschel Telescope seems to have definitively made the discovery. According to the BBC, the find will be published in The Astrophysical Journal. CONTINUE READING: www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/03/oxygen-space-breathable-herschel_n_917277.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008
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Post by swamprat on Aug 5, 2011 13:55:33 GMT -6
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Should We Respond to an Interstellar RSVP?Analysis by Ray Villard Fri Aug 5, 2011 Imagine surfing to your favorite science news website tomorrow to see headlines announcing the detection of a radio signal coming at us from an extraterrestrial civilization. Impossible? Not really. Yes, it’s true that over the past 50 years approximately 100 SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) programs have come up empty handed. But veteran SETI scientist Jill Tarter has pointed out that in terms of the volume of the Milky Way, we have only surveyed the equivalent volume of a Starbucks cup of coffee as compared to the volume of Earth’s oceans. The galaxy is a big place. Assuming there are other technological civilizations in our galaxy, and that some subset of them attempt interstellar communication via radio beacons, then detecting a signal is only a matter of when, not if. For example, the planned Square Kilometer Array radio telescope being built by an international consortium could detect a powerful pulsed beacon anywhere in the galaxy. But such beacons might simply be overlooked as anomalous pulsating neutron stars. But an unequivocally artificial transmission should eventually pop up. Once the shock and awe of at last realizing we're not alone in the universe has settled in, there will be a spirited debate over whether we should send a response to the aliens. But who speaks for Earth? John Billingham of the SETI Institute, and James Benford of Microwave Sciences in Lafayette, Calif., say that in anticipation of such a “Day the Earth Stood Still” moment, we need to establish an international symposium now to reach a consensus on how and if we should respond to E.T. They would like to see a moratorium on any METI (Message to Extraterrestrial Intelligence) broadcasts until such discussions take place. Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking made world headlines last year when he warned that contact with extraterrestrials would be dangerous. Hawking cited anthropological examples where an advanced culture crushes an inferior culture. But this is horribly simplistic when applied to alien minds evolved under alien suns. Hawking doesn’t know any more about the mindset and mores of extraterrestrial civilizations that anyone else on Earth does. It’s naïve to think that they would be bellicose or altruistic. Finally, I would argue that any number of curious civilization already know we are here by observing Earth passing in front of the sun, just as NASA’s Kepler space observatory is now doing in search of Earth clones across the galaxy. Alien astronomers who are not much more technologically advanced than us may have already spectroscopically sniffed Earth’s atmosphere and found that it screams of a planet covered with life -- especially methane polluting cows. More advanced alien observations might measure the glow of our city lights on the nighttime side of our planet. And, monstrous radio antenna arrays the size of the city of Chicago might have already picked up the faint whisper of TV, radio and radar signals leaking off of our planet. Bear in mind that this latter experiment can only work to a range of several dozen light years -- the length of time our civilization has had telecommunications. And, the leak off signals get so weak and jumbled they are quickly lost in galactic radio noise. It would be like trying to hear the sound of a penny dropped inside a bustling airport terminal. Finally, if E.T. has the same worries that Billingham, Benford, and Hawking have, then maybe nobody’s transmitting and everyone’s only listening..... news.discovery.com/space/should-we-respond-to-an-interstellar-greeting-110805.html - mkcpgn=emnws1
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Post by auntym on Aug 10, 2011 19:01:27 GMT -6
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/110809-other-universes-multiverse-big-bang-space-science-microwave/?source=link_tw20110810news-universe Other Universes Finally Detectable?[/color] New method might uncover "bruises" from run-ins with other universes.Dave Mosher for National Geographic News Published August 9, 2011 Big as it is, our universe may be just one of many, all floating in a nearly unfathomable "multiverse," scientists say. Problem is, there's been no way to test the idea. Now, though, physicists say they've devised a way to detect "bruises" from our cosmos's purported collisions with other universes. The international team has created a new computer algorithm to hunt for such irregularities in our universe, which they say would be disk-shaped—think of the temporary, circular flattening that happens when one beach ball bumps into another. (Related: " Space Circles Are Proof of a Pre-Big Bang Universe?") Because the multiverse would likely have expanded so fast that its universes would have been pulled far apart shortly after their creation, collisions would likely have occurred only during our universe's infancy. Luckily, modern telescopes are able to study a sort of faint baby picture of the universe: the cosmic microwave background. The CMB is radiation emitted by the hot plasma that dominated the universe up until about 380,000 years after the big bang, which is thought to have occurred more than 13 billion years ago. "For quite awhile, people have suspected there might be other bubble universes. But they thought this was completely untestable," said theoretical physicist Matthew Johnson of the Perimeter Institute. "We now have a way to look for signals predicted by the theory. That we're able to test these ideas, period, is huge"—and due largely to the development of the new software and improved mapping of the CMB, said Johnson, a co-author of two recent studies describing the new algorithm to be published in future issues of the journals Physical Review Letters and Physical Review D. (Related: "Universe Reborn Endlessly in New Model of the Cosmos.") Cosmic Dents or Random Patterns? The multiverse, if it exists, may have sprung out of a chaotic fluctuation of empty space. Several "bubble" universes similar to our own, but perhaps with slightly different physical laws, would have appeared at about the same time and bumped against each other before diffusing across the multiverse. The new algorithm offers a systematic, statistics-backed way to search for subtle evidence of these possible crashes in the mostly smooth pattern of the CMB—something that may be impossible for humans alone. While people are good at seeing hard-to-detect patterns, we're also prone to seeing things that aren't what they appear to be—a face on Mars, for example. "People tend to recognize patterns whether or not they are there. With something like the CMB that's very faint and very subtle, you need to know if [an anomaly] happened randomly or requires something extra" to have caused it, said cosmologist Sean Carroll of Caltech, who wasn't involved in the study. "This team doesn't want to be fooled into thinking a pattern is more than just random noise." CONTINUE READING: news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/110809-other-universes-multiverse-big-bang-space-science-microwave/?source=link_tw20110810news-universe
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Post by swamprat on Aug 12, 2011 19:10:14 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Aug 12, 2011 20:57:54 GMT -6
Should We Respond to an Interstellar RSVP?My first choice would be definitely yes. Making contact with an extraterrestrial civilization would be the biggest step mankind has ever taken and could have a dramatic impact on the world. My next choice would be maybe because we don't know what kind of an impact it would be. Maybe good, maybe bad. My last choice would be no. If they are not intelligent enough to know that we are here than it would be a waste of time to contact them. I guess it would depend on the situation.
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Post by auntym on Aug 17, 2011 17:34:57 GMT -6
Symphonies of the Planets 2 - NASA Voyager Recordings
Uploaded by blackberries69 on Oct 3, 2010
This 10 minute clip is taken from "Symphonies Of The Planets - NASA Voyager Recordings, Volume 2." There are 5 volumes total. It was released in 1992.
'Share the journey of a 5 billion mile trek to the outer limits of our solar system. Hear the beautiful songs of the planets. The complex interactions of the cosmic plasma of the universe, charged electromagnetic particles from the solar wind, planetary magnetosphere, rings and moons create vibration "soundscapes" which are at once utterly alien and deeply familiar to the ear. Some of these sounds are hauntingly like human voices singing, giant Tibetan bowls, wind, waves, birds and dolphins. Many are familiar in a way unique for each listener.'
"Voyager has left our Solar System forever. The sounds on this recording will never be made again in our lifetime."
- from the back of the CD.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2011 19:20:27 GMT -6
Wow... that's simply amazing!!!!
Forward it to 3:55 !!! It sounds like a choir singing a minor chord!!!!!
I hear both major and minor chords in this... this is soooo AMAZING!!!
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Post by auntym on Aug 21, 2011 10:52:00 GMT -6
www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/1770-ssc2007-07a-The-Seven-Sisters-Pose-for-SpitzerThe Seven Sisters Pose for SpitzerThe Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades, seem to float on a bed of feathers in a new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Clouds of dust sweep around the stars, swaddling them in a cushiony veil. The Pleiades, located more than 400 light-years away in the Taurus constellation, are the subject of many legends and writings. Greek mythology holds that the flock of stars was transformed into celestial doves by Zeus to save them from a pursuant Orion. The 19th-century poet Alfred Lord Tennyson described them as "glittering like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid." The star cluster was born when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth, about one hundred million years ago. It is significantly younger than our 5-billion-year-old sun. The brightest members of the cluster, also the highest-mass stars, are known in Greek mythology as two parents, Atlas and Pleione, and their seven daughters, Alcyone, Electra, Maia, Merope, Taygeta, Celaeno and Asterope. There are thousands of additional lower-mass members, including many stars like our sun. Some scientists believe that our sun grew up in a crowded region like the Pleiades, before migrating to its present, more isolated home. The new infrared image from Spitzer highlights the "tangled silver braid" mentioned in the poem by Tennyson. This spider-web like network of filaments, colored yellow, green and red in this view, is made up of dust associated with the cloud through which the cluster is traveling. The densest portion of the cloud appears in yellow and red, and the more diffuse outskirts appear in green hues. One of the parent stars, Atlas, can be seen at the bottom, while six of the sisters are visible at top. CONTINUE READING: www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/1770-ssc2007-07a-The-Seven-Sisters-Pose-for-Spitzer
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Post by auntym on Aug 26, 2011 12:35:56 GMT -6
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/25/black-hole-eats-star-video_n_937150.html?icid=maing-grid7 Black Hole Eats Star: Researchers Detail Astounding Cosmic Occurrence[/color] (VIDEO) Prepare to have your mind blown. Back in March, when NASA's Swift spacecraft first detected what scientists believed to be a black hole eating a star 3.8 billion light years from earth, many didn't quite know what it would mean. But now it seems the cosmic event not only sent a beam of X-rays shooting towards earth, but it also rejuvenated the black hole. NASA has put together a short video imagining the event, which you can see for yourself, below. (CLICK ON LINK TO SEE 2 VIDEOS) www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/25/black-hole-eats-star-video_n_937150.html?icid=maing-grid7"Incredibly, this source is still producing X-rays and may remain bright enough for Swift to observe into next year," said David Burrows, professor of astronomy at Penn State University and lead scientist for the mission's X-Ray Telescope instrument, told NASA. "It behaves unlike anything we've seen before." NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains why matter and X-rays are shooting out of the black hole: As a star falls toward a black hole, it is ripped apart by intense tides. The gas is corralled into a disk that swirls around the black hole and becomes rapidly heated to temperatures of millions of degrees.The black hole itself is enormous, potentially four times the size of the one at the center of the Milky Way, according to NASA. Even more incredibly, the massive hole seems to be shooting matter out of its center at 80 to 90 percent of the speed of light. An event like this has never before been seen by scientists. TO SEE VIDEO & CONTINUE TO READ: www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/25/black-hole-eats-star-video_n_937150.html?icid=maing-grid7
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Post by auntym on Aug 26, 2011 14:05:02 GMT -6
www.stumbleupon.com/su/2zuav7/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/08/a-diamond-bigger-than-earth-discovered-orbiting-a-pulsar.htmlA 'Diamond' Bigger than Earth Discovered Orbiting a Pulsar... Diamond_2_5 A once-massive star that's been transformed into a planet five times the size of Earth made of diamond. The pulsar and its planet are part of the Milky Way's plane of stars and lie 4,000 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens (the Snake). The system is about an eighth of the way towards the Galactic Center from the Earth. The researchers, from The University of Manchester as well as institutions in Australia, Germany, Italy, and the USA, first detected an unusual star called a pulsar using the Parkes radio telescope of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and followed up their discovery with the Lovell radio telescope, based at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, and one of the Keck telescopes in Hawaii. For the newly discovered pulsar, known as PSR J1719-1438, the astronomers noticed that the arrival times of the pulses were systematically modulated. They concluded that this was due to the gravitational pull of a small companion planet, orbiting the pulsar in a binary system. CONTINUE READING: www.stumbleupon.com/su/2zuav7/www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/08/a-diamond-bigger-than-earth-discovered-orbiting-a-pulsar.html
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Post by Steve on Aug 26, 2011 17:38:06 GMT -6
[/color] (VIDEO) Prepare to have your mind blown. Back in March, when NASA's Swift spacecraft first detected what scientists believed to be a black hole eating a star 3.8 billion light years from earth, many didn't quite know what it would mean. But now it seems the cosmic event not only sent a beam of X-rays shooting towards earth, but it also rejuvenated the black hole. NASA has put together a short video imagining the event, which you can see for yourself, below. (CLICK ON LINK TO SEE 2 VIDEOS) www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/25/black-hole-eats-star-video_n_937150.html?icid=maing-grid7"Incredibly, this source is still producing X-rays and may remain bright enough for Swift to observe into next year," said David Burrows, professor of astronomy at Penn State University and lead scientist for the mission's X-Ray Telescope instrument, told NASA. "It behaves unlike anything we've seen before." NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains why matter and X-rays are shooting out of the black hole: As a star falls toward a black hole, it is ripped apart by intense tides. The gas is corralled into a disk that swirls around the black hole and becomes rapidly heated to temperatures of millions of degrees.The black hole itself is enormous, potentially four times the size of the one at the center of the Milky Way, according to NASA. Even more incredibly, the massive hole seems to be shooting matter out of its center at 80 to 90 percent of the speed of light. An event like this has never before been seen by scientists. TO SEE VIDEO & CONTINUE TO READ: www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/25/black-hole-eats-star-video_n_937150.html?icid=maing-grid7[/quote]If that star had habitable planets around it, any life in that solar system would go the way the star did. What a violent event. Steve
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Post by auntym on Sept 9, 2011 11:03:00 GMT -6
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/08/invisible-planet-discover_n_954724.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003 'Invisible' Planet Discovered By NASA's Kepler Spacecraft [/color] Kepler-19c exists, but scientists have never seen it. It seems the planet can only be detected by the effect it has on another planet in the system, Kepler 19b. According to the press release, NASA's Kepler spacecraft spotted a delay in Kepler 19b's orbit, caused by the gravitational pull of another planet in its vicinity. This is the first time this method has been used to detect a new planet. "This invisible planet makes itself known by its influence on the planet we can see," said astronomer Sarah Ballard of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said in a press release. "It's like having someone play a prank on you by ringing your doorbell and running away. You know someone was there, even if you don't see them when you get outside." The entire solar system lies 650 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. According to the CfA, Kepler-19b's short orbit, just 9 days and 7 hours, makes it easy to detect the effect of a nearby planet. A five minute delay in its orbit signals a significant outside gravitational pull. CONTINUE READING: www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/08/invisible-planet-discover_n_954724.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
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