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Signals detected from beyond Solar System

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:48:50 GMT

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Scientists in South Africa have detected radio signals from beyond the solar system for the first time – prompting a wave of excitement over who, or what, might have sent it. The signal is the most significant of its kind since radio telescopes started operating in the 1960s.

A strong radio signal, possibly of alien origin, was detected at around 21:14 local time on July 28. It came from Sagittarius A, the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, approximately 30,000 light years away.

The received data will shortly be made available to experts who can use it to create a graph.

“We had made significant changes to the receiver to increase its sensitivity,”

“When we went in that morning to check the data, we found that it had detected a source. It’s unbelievable. It’s definitely a great relief for us because now we know that the radio telescope works.”

the hardware used in the radio telescope has been designed by students and constructed on campus, the receipt of the signal still needs confirmation.

WorldWide Telescope

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:04:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sweet!

Clip Source: technology.sympatico.msn.ca

The WorldWide Telescope launches

2008-05-22

Earlier this week, a new web application known as the WorldWide Telescope launched, giving users unprecedented access to imagery from space.

WorldWide Telescope
Launched earlier this month, the WorldWide Telescope is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground- and space-based telescopes to enable seamless exploration of the universe. Users can choose from a growing number of guided tours of the sky by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous observatories and planetariums in the country. WorldWide Telescope (credit: The WorldWide Telescope)

Beautiful Observatory of Kielder

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:12:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Visit sites. It looks like a friendly resource for all sarlovers. They have camps in spring. The Kielder Forest in beautiful Northumbria is a great place to enjoy an outdoor holiday.

Clip Source: www.kielderobservatory.org

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

It is the darkest place in England. The Kielder Forest, occupying 250 square miles and situated just where Northumberland brushes against Scotland, has the lowest levels of light pollution in the country - making it the perfect place to watch the stars. Here, far from towns and cities, where all that artificial light smogs up the skies, Charles Barclay, a young, London-based architect, has designed a gloriously inventive yet low-key observatory. It is a place where amateur stargazers and professional astronomers can share telescopes, viewing platforms, ideas and knowledge, beneath one of the most wonderful sights the country has to offer, as the sun sets on clear days and eyes adjust to the seemingly infinite expanse of stars above.

Clip Source: www.kielderobservatory.org

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

The observatory joins a growing cluster of unpretentious, low-cost British buildings by intelligent architects that offer something way beyond what money can buy

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NGC 1512

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:51:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: NGC 1512 in the southern constellation of Horologium is located 30 million light-years away, relatively nearby as galaxies go, it is bright enough to be seen with amateur telescopes.

Clip Source: www.nasa.gov

Are We Being Paged?

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:38:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Could this be the first signal detected from deep space? Or could it just be a college prank or programming error?

MT C

Clip Source: www.russiatoday.com

Aliens calling? Signals detected from beyond Solar System

Aliens calling?

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:50:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Could be very interesting if proven to actually be radio signals from outer space!

Clip Source: www.russiatoday.com

Tags: radio signals

Aliens calling? Signals detected

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:47:06 GMT

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Clip Source: www.russiatoday.com

Aliens calling? Signals detected from beyond Solar System

The received data will shortly be made available to experts who can use it to create a graph.

However, as the hardware used in the radio telescope has been designed by students and constructed on campus, the receipt of the signal still needs confirmation.

Tags: science

Views of Jupiter

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:25:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Amazing pics at the source!

Clip Source: jessicahardy.net

Clip Source: www.boston.com

Jupiter is in the news again, this time because its "Baby Red Spot" - a storm less than a year old - appears to have been swallowed up by the massive storm known as the Great Red Spot. This is good occasion to share some of the best photographs of Jupiter and its larger system of rings and moons, as seen by various probes and telescopes over the past 30 years. (16 photos total)

Tags: space, technology, photography, photos, pics, pictures, science

Blow Your Mind! Check Out the Worldwide Telescope

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:32:18 GMT

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Clip Source: worldwidetelescope.org

The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe.

Choose from a growing number of guided tours of the sky by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous observatories and planetariums in the country. Feel free at any time to pause the tour, explore on your own (with multiple information sources for objects at your fingertips), and rejoin the tour where you left off. Join Harvard Astronomer Alyssa Goodman on a journey showing how dust in the Milky Way Galaxy condenses into stars and planets. Take a tour with University of Chicago Cosmologist Mike Gladders two billion years into the past to see a gravitational lens bending the light from galaxies allowing you to see billions more years into the past.

Jupiter

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:59:20 GMT

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Clip Source: www.boston.com

Tags: jupiter, science, space, solar system, planet, photography

Humans to live on Mars 'within 25 years'

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:44:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What would it be like working for a mining company on Mars?

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

A professor of planetary science says humans could be living on Mars within 25 years.

Professor Jeff Taylor from Hawaii's Institute of Geophysics and Planetology is addressing a conference in Perth today.

He says humans could be living on the moon within 15 years, and if basic life supports like oxygen and water can be secured, humans could colonise Mars within 25 years.

Professor Taylor says it is human nature to want to explore and colonise new areas and humans may go to Mars for economic reasons, or to secure additional energy supplies.

He says once people start living on the moon, new businesses will be established.

"Whether that's going to be servicing and building telescopes or servicing satellites in orbit around the Earth, including communication satellites deep in synchronous orbits, or any other commercial ventures including space tourism," he said.

Professor Taylor says the first step would be to secure basic life supports on the planet.

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Memorial Park Lowering Device

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:39:29 GMT

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Clip Source: www.hollandsupplyinc.com

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Is a 'Dark Force' Pushing the Universe Apart?

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:14:41 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

"Reality is nothing but a collective hunch." Lily Tomlin -Comedian and philosopher.

Dark energy seems to differ from all forms of energy and matter previously known, in that its not associated with any particles or waves. It is just there.

What happened in 1998 was that observations of supernovas in distant galaxies indicated that the universe was accelerating in that could best be explained by the existence of a dark energy.

Recent measurements with telescopes and space probes of the distribution of mass in M31 -the largest galaxy in the neighborhood of the Milky Way- and other galaxies led to the recognition that galaxies are filled with dark matter and have shown that a mysterious force—a dark energy—fills the vacuum of empty space, accelerating the universe's expansion.

Astronomers now recognize that the eventual fate of the universe is inextricably tied to the presence of dark energy and dark matter.

Is a 'Dark Force' Pushing the Universe Apart?

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:33:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Astronomers now recognize that the eventual fate of the universe is inextricably tied to the presence of dark energy and dark matter.The current standard model for cosmology describes a universe that is 70 percent dark energy, 25 percent dark matter, and only 5 percent normal matter.

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

"Reality is nothing but a collective hunch." Lily Tomlin -Comedian and philosopher.

No observation in recent history of science has been more disturbing than the discovery of dark energy in 1998.

Dark energy seems to differ from all forms of energy and matter previously known, in that its not associated with any particles or waves. It is just there.

What happened in 1998 was that observations of supernovas in distant galaxies indicated that the universe was accelerating in that could best be explained by the existence of a dark energy.

Recent measurements with telescopes and space probes of the distribution of mass in M31 -the largest galaxy in the neighborhood of the Milky Way

have shown that a mysterious force—a dark energy—fills the vacuum of empty space, accelerating the universe's expansion.

We don't know what dark energy is, or why it exists.

A new theory of particle physics is required to explain this physical process.

Tags: astronomy, cosmology, dark energy

Bertrand Russell quotes

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:13:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: # This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organising a mass massacre of mankind.

# “Not enough evidence, God, not enough evidence.” (Russell’s reply when asked what he would say if he died and found himself confronted by God, demanding to know why Russell had not believed in him)

# Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of skeptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the p

Clip Source: talkingincircles.net

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

Most people would die sooner than think — in fact they do so.

The hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the Sermon on the Mount, but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.