Chinahand Posted September 5, 2014 Author Share Posted September 5, 2014 Vimeo has two really nice videos further explaining the results identifying the Laniakea Supercluster of Galaxies. http://vimeo.com/104910552 The distances and numbers involved are all a bit mind blowing if you ask me. Each dot is a Galaxy - which are pretty bit things, far beyond our ability to comprehend. But with patience, a budget probably running into the hundreds of millions and a head for maths what pretty images you can produce! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted October 14, 2014 Author Share Posted October 14, 2014 If you are willing to let an app have access to your phone's camera when it is charging you could turn your phone into a cosmic ray detector. http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/10/cosmic-ray-particle-shower-theres-an-app-for-that/ The report on the successful experiments showing how the detector in your camera can identify gamma rays etc is really interesting. I'm awaiting an app to make your phone a Geiger counter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbie Bobster Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 (edited) Revolutionary ALMA Image Reveals Planetary Genesis A new image from ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, reveals extraordinarily fine detail that has never been seen before in the planet-forming disc around a young star. ALMAs new high-resolution capabilities were achieved by spacing the antennas up to 15 kilometers apart. This new result represents an enormous step forward in the understanding of how protoplanetary discs develop and how planets form. (Image: Compares the size of the Solar System with HL Tauri and its surrounding protoplanetary disc.) ETA: If you think a winter in the IoM is a bit bleak, you wouldn't want a 6 month posting to the ALMA site: Edited November 7, 2014 by Bobbie Bobster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbie Bobster Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Philae on the surface! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolley Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 (edited) Mind boggling achievement. ETA: It takes the radio signal 28 minutes to cover the 300 million miles but they lost the link at the vital time between UK and Germany. Edited November 12, 2014 by woolley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Big freeze or a phase transition...dark matter and dark energy - and no big crunch! I just don't know how to spend the next 2000000 trillion years just waiting to be eventually swallowed by a black hole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sausages Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Philae on the surface! Fake. Those pictures were clearly taken in a studio somewhere. Yet another NASA conspiracy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbie Bobster Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Orion at apogee! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzzi Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Watched the launch, re-entry and splashdown on the NASA web-site. Enthralling. It looks just like Apollo. What is missing is the amazing tempo of the Apollo project, fuelled by cold-war/space-race angst and funding. Orion won't even fly again for 3 or 4 years, all a bit too slow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 You'd have to live 167,500,000 lives to age 80 to be the same age as the universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheldon Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 You'd have to live 167,500,000 lives to age 80 to be the same age as the universe. Does this calculation carry the Simon Singh seal of approval? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbie Bobster Posted December 7, 2014 Share Posted December 7, 2014 Watched the launch, re-entry and splashdown on the NASA web-site. Enthralling. It looks just like Apollo. What is missing is the amazing tempo of the Apollo project, fuelled by cold-war/space-race angst and funding. Orion won't even fly again for 3 or 4 years, all a bit too slow! Indeed, but what would you expect with roughly one ninth of their 1960's budget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 The news that Curiosity has recorded methane on Mars and it is varying over time is intriguing news - BBC link Here are the investigators explaining the results themselves at the American Geophysical Union meeting: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbie Bobster Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 ESA conducts asteroid impact exercise (via slashdot)During the 2013 Chelyabinsk event, for instance, the asteroid, with a mass of about 12 000 tonnes and a size of 19 m, hit the upper atmosphere at a shallow angle and a speed of about 18.6 km/s, exploding with the energy of 480 kilotons of TNT at an altitude of 25–30 km.While potentially a real hazard, no injuries due to falling fragments were reported. Instead, more than 1500 people were injured and 7300 buildings damaged by the intense overpressure generated by the shockwave at Earth’s surface.Many people were injured by shards of flying glass as they peered out of windows to see what was happening.“In such a case, an appropriate warning by civil authorities would include simply telling people to stay away from windows, and remain within the strongest portions of a building, such as the cellar, similar to standard practice during tornados in the USA,” says Gerhard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chinahand Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 Hubble has gone back and re-imaged the Pillars of Creation, the iconic image of a star forming area in the Eagle Nebular: Read more here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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