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3 Telescopes Combine for Stunning Milky Way Photo

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:50:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The "click to view" link takes you to a better pic

A giant composite image of the Milky Way's center has been taken by NASA's three Great Observatories — the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The image, unveiled by NASA today, was made to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy, 400 years after Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens.

The pictures of our galaxy's hub combines a near-infrared view from the Hubble Space Telescope, an infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope, and an X-ray view from the Chandra X-ray Observatory into one multiwavelength picture.

Experts from all three observatories carefully assembled the final image from large mosaic photo surveys taken by each telescope. This composite image provides one of the most detailed views ever of our galaxy's mysterious core.

More than 150 planetariums, museums, nature centers, libraries, and schools across the country have received a giant 6-foot-by-3-foot print of the stunning image.

Tags: astronomy

NASA tries to dispel 2012 film myths

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:28:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I guess that the believers have not had an education of any use. Sad that people are so gullible that they can think this true.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

The world is not coming to an end on December 21, 2012, US space agency NASA insists.

The latest big screen offering from Sony Pictures, 2012, arrives in theatres today.

The $US200 million production about the end of the world is based on internet rumours and myths backed by the Mayan calendar.

The film claims that the end of time will come when an obscure planet - Nibiru - heads toward and collides with Earth.

The planet was supposedly discovered by the Sumerians, according to claims by pseudo-scientists, paranormal activity enthusiasts and internet theorists.

Some websites accuse NASA of concealing the truth on the wayward planet's existence, but the US space agency has denounced such stories as an "internet hoax."

"There is no factual basis for these claims," NASA said in a question-and-answer post on its website.

If such a collision were real "astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye," it added.

Tags: education

Center of the Milky Way

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:09:03 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nasa.gov

A never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being unveiled by NASA on Nov. 10. This event will commemorate the 400 years since Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609.

The sites will unveil a giant, 6-foot-by-3-foot print of the bustling hub of our galaxy that combines a near-infrared view from the Hubble Space Telescope, an infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope and an X-ray view from the Chandra X-ray Observatory into one multi-wavelength picture. Experts from all three observatories carefully assembled the final image from large mosaic photo surveys taken by each telescope. This composite image provides one of the most detailed views ever of our galaxy's mysterious core.

twitter ana sayfadan alıntı

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:55:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: twitterde bir yenilik varmış nasa da tv den filan bahsediliyordu ilginç gördüm gönderdim.

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Plea deal for nappy-wearing astronaut

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:09:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I wouldn't be too happy with the call, if I was Shipman. Lot of angst caused and nothing to deter others.

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A former US astronaut who drove across the country to confront a suspected rival in a love triangle has pleaded guilty to minor charges, earning a two-day jail term.

Under the plea deal, charges of assault and kidnapping were dropped against Lisa Nowak, 46, after she admitted burglary and battery.

She was also sentenced to a year's probation and 50 hours community service.

The judge ordered Nowak to write a letter of apology to Colleen Shipman, a US Air Force captain whom Nowak believed was her rival for the affections of NASA shuttle pilot Bill Oefelein.

Captain Shipman told the hearing she was sure "100 per cent that Lisa Nowak came here to kill me. It was only by the grace of God and some quick footwork that saved my life".

Nowak, who allegedly wore adult nappies during her cross-country trip so she would not have to make bathroom breaks, was dismissed from the astronaut corps in 2007 after her arrest.

The judge gave her credit for time served so she will not go to jail.

Tags: justice

2009 Leonid Meteor Shower

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:43:57 GMT

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""We're predicting 20 to 30 meteors per hour over the Americas, and as many as 200 to 300 per hour over Asia," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "Our forecast is in good accord with independent theoretical work by other astronomers."

"A remarkable feature of this year's shower is that Leonids will appear to be shooting almost directly out of the planet Mars," notes Cooke.

It's just a coincidence. This year, Mars happens to be passing by the Leonid radiant at the time of the shower. The Red Planet is almost twice as bright as a first magnitude star, so it makes an eye-catching companion for the Leonids"

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The 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower

November 10, 2009: This year's Leonid meteor shower peaks on Tuesday, Nov. 17th. If forecasters are correct, the shower should produce a mild but pretty sprinkling of meteors over North America followed by a more intense outburst over Asia. The phase of the Moon will be new, setting the stage for what could be one of the best Leonid showers in years.

Leonids are bits of debris from Comet Tempel-Tuttle. Every 33 years the comet visits the inner solar system and leaves a stream of dusty debris in its wake. Many of these streams have drifted across the November portion of Earth's orbit. Whenever we hit one, meteors come flying out of the constellation Leo.

The first stream crossing on Nov. 17th comes around 0900 UT (4 a.m. EST, 1 a.m. PST). The debris is a diffuse mix of particles from several old streams that should produce a gentle display of two to three dozen meteors per hour over North America. Dark skies are recommended for full effect.

Space Launches As You’ve Never Seen Them Before

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:50:46 GMT

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Oh. My. Golly. What a shot. Taken in 1998, this awesome image shows NASA’s Lunar Prospector spacecraft shooting into the sky above Cape Canaveral, riding an Athena II rocket. Destination is in sight. Captured in time exposure, the fiery launch tail forms an arch in the foreground, while the moon, near its first quarter phase, looks on, some 250,000 miles away. Prospector will cover the distance in about 5 days. Prepare for blast-off as we explore stunning photos of space launches and wonder what it all means from an environmental point of view.

The Prospector mission carried an array of instruments to map the surface composition and other facets of the Earth’s only natural satellite. The results improved our understanding of the Moon’s origin, evolution and resources, yet we

Speaking of shots, check out the one above. It’s another stunner. According to NASA’s website: “Birds don’t fly this high. Airplanes

This next humdinger depicts

Shuttle launches undoubtedly affect the

Cosmic Hand

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:26:02 GMT

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NASA captures giant cosmic hand on photo!

Take a look at the photo below. What do you make out of the hand-shaped image captured on photos by NASA? It is telling us something or is it just a fluke shot? I stand in awe, I dare not make any comment as this is beyond me. The news shared here is taken from …….. (to read more, click at the red bar below) CNN.com/Technology.

(CNN) — New photographs released by NASA have captured images of a vast stellar formation resembling a human hand reaching across space.

NASA’s Chandra Observatory captured this hand-shaped image of an X-ray nebula.

It shows what appear to be ghostly blue fingers — thumb and pinky clearly discernible from index, ring and middle digits — reaching into a sparkling cloud of fiery red.

NASA says the display is caused by a young and powerful pulsar, known by the rather prosaic name of PSR B1509-58.

NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life in Laboratory

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:11:24 GMT

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NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life in Laboratory

NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life.

“We have demonstrated for the first time that we can make uracil, a component of RNA, non-biologically in a laboratory under conditions found in space,” said Michel Nuevo, research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. “We are showing that these laboratory processes, which simulate occurrences in outer space, can make a fundamental building block used by living organisms on Earth.”

Nuevo is the lead author of a research paper titled “Formation of Uracil from the Ultraviolet Photo-Irradiation of Pyrimidine in Pure Water Ices,” Astrobiology vol. 9 no. 7, published Oct. 1, 2009.

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09 November 2009

Tags: nasa, reproduces, 'building block of life', laboratory

How Ants Make Their Nest?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:32:48 GMT

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How Ants Make Their Nest?

Being a small creature with only 2 stomachs and 3 eyes, they can lift the burden of double of their weight. Let us see why the ants are very heralded by many people and cultures. This experiment has been carried out by the investigation unit at NASA in Florida, USA, in which NASA wants to see how ants make their nests

First, ants are placed in a closed container seen as an aquarium with only a light illuminated by ultra violet (light purple representing the sun) and the transparent medium gel (having the properties of minerals and nutrients as the soil

After a few minutes away passed, ants were beginning to work, making the holes of small colonies to help other ants move in the “land”. These ants from my opinion want to escape from the hot sun

As a result, it forms various types of small alleys connecting roads in the soil which is indeed a very unique arts

they are also seen to work closely together to achieve their goal of making their nests for comfortable.

Martian landscapes

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:49:46 GMT

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Since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel. Collected here is a group of images from HiRISE over the past few years, in either false color or grayscale, showing intricate details of landscapes both familiar and alien, from the surface of our neighboring planet, Mars. I invite you to take your time looking through these, imagining the settings - very cold, dry and distant, yet real. (35 photos total)

Sun's Rain?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:15:58 GMT

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The article is way too long to clip though you may find it fascinating.

THE sun’s million-degree outer atmosphere is the last place you would expect to find rain, yet a form of it does occur there. The stuff could help explain why the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, is much hotter than closer in.

Coronal rain is made of dense knots thousands of kilometres across consisting of relatively cold gas, at tens or hundreds of thousands of degrees C, which pours down towards the sun’s visible surface from the outer atmosphere at speeds exceeding 100 kilometres per second. “There’s just this constant rain of these blobs that seem to be coming down from high up,” says Judy Karpen of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

White Powder Gold,Ormus,Monatomic Gold:is it the fabled Alchemical Philosphers Stone?

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:47:38 GMT

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White Powder Gold, Ormus, MonatomicGold: is it the fabled Alchemical philosopher’s stone?

“Transmutation” is the key definition of alchemy. Alchemy is all about change and transformation from sickness to the state of well being, from old age to youth and also the passage from the material world into a more supernatural sate of being. The bass of alchemy is the transformation of metals into gold and the generation of an elixir of life or Manna.

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The Art and science of alchemy with reference to Ormus and Monatomic gold.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:46:42 GMT

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The Art and science of alchemy with reference to Ormus and Monatomic gold.

There are many things in life we don’t understand and alchemy is one of them. Even though Paulo Coelho made his millions with the book ‘The Alchemist’, alchemy is still a mystery. So what does alchemy signify? In the bigger picture it signifies the quest for a longer and more fulfilling life and the metamorphosis of base metals into the most revered metal of them all - gold!

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The Electric Universe

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:20:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer adds more evidence that our Sun, like all stars and the universe itself is electric in nature.

Clip Source: www.holoscience.com

NASA's IBEX (Interstellar Boundary Explorer) spacecraft has made the first all-sky maps of the boundary between the Sun’s environment (the heliosphere), and interstellar space.

The EU model is based on a hierarchy of repeated patterns of plasma behavior, from the size of a galaxy down to a few centimeters in the laboratory. Therefore it is subject to experimental confirmation, unlike most astrophysical theory today.

IBEX's recent results that have taken researchers by surprise have given yet more strength to the EU model, a model that confidently predicts that the shape of the Sun’s galactic plasma environment is the hourglass, Z-pinch shape of planetary nebulae and supernovae, aligned with the local interstellar magnetic field. The beautiful symmetrical patterns that arise in plasma discharges from very simple principles renders all modeling that ignores the electrical nature of matter and the universe worthless.