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08-24-2007, 04:53 PM
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Oannes
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Re: This week in Cosmology
And just when we all thought that the cosmos couldn't get any curiouser ?
flow....  Huge Hole Found in the Universe | LiveScience |
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09-03-2007, 05:06 PM
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Re: This week in Cosmology
Hey ! Here's something new to know about about old Sol. Enjoy !
flow....  Mysterious Solar Ripples Detected - Yahoo! News SPACE.com Video Player: Solar Waves in Action |
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09-04-2007, 12:25 PM
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This is a great new technology for anyone even with a small home telescope/camera and will allow them to take stunning photos only previously possible by the big institutions.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Clearest' images taken of space And this older piece is about the Hubble telescope's successor the James Web Space Telescope. If I had nothing left to live for waiting to see what this scope will see would keep me going!! BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | First stars in telescope's sights |
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09-06-2007, 03:28 AM
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Huge Hole Found in the Universe | LiveScience
I didn't do it! Don't look at me! |
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09-12-2007, 10:50 PM
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Oannes
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Hi Tao...have a great holiday. Here's a little something to think about while you're away.
flow.... http://www.livescience.com/space/sci...pace_rain.html |
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09-18-2007, 10:38 PM
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Hi....Here's a NY Times slide show of a fly by of one of Saturn's moons. I think that you'll find it fascinating.
flow.... http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/200...HOW_index.html |
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09-21-2007, 11:19 PM
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Even smaller telescopes, such as the 4" reflector I used in my youth, can show one the Magellanic clouds. This is a new slant on their nature. Just passers by it seems.
flow.... http://www.livescience.com/space/sci...ll_clouds.html |
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09-23-2007, 10:15 PM
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Hi and thanks for great links!! The equatorial mountain range on Iapetus is especially stunning.
Had the kind of holiday you need a holiday to recover from and I am glad to be back. |
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09-28-2007, 09:06 PM
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Hi all...The word "hobbit" is gaining increasing usage these days, besides Mr Tolkein's foundational literature. There are the Hobbit people, miniature human skeletons found on the Island of Flores in Indonesia. Scientific debate still rages as to whether or not they're a valid species deviation within the Homo Sapiens lineage, or perhaps just isolated and genetically diseased beings. However there are many folk tales and legends about the "small people" being on the island until a time many believe to be only a few hundred years ago.
Now we have a usage of the word to help describe possible sources of universal mass and dark matter. flow.... http://www.livescience.com/space/sci..._galaxies.html |
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10-03-2007, 06:10 PM
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Here are two amazing videos of our own sun. In the first you can see the tail of a comet being ripped off by a solar mass ejection. In the second we see footage from the new Japanese satellite "sunrise" which is forcing scientists to re-think everything they thought they knew. Following links to New Scientist will give you full story on both clips.
YouTube - Solar outburst rips tail off comet YouTube - Dazzling new images reveal the 'impossible' on the Sun |
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10-04-2007, 09:01 PM
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Hello all....if some really wanted to get away from it all in a few billion years, this might be just the place.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/200710...6vuNC6j.us0NUE flow....  |
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10-13-2007, 02:33 PM
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Another event defies explanation using current thinking:
Enigmatic supernova smashes brightness record - astronomy - 12 October 2007 - New Scientist Space And SETI at last goes full time New radio telescope begins search for alien signals - space - 11 October 2007 - New Scientist Space |
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10-13-2007, 07:00 PM
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Oannes
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Hi Tao...
We've heard quite a bit about the "Allen Array" over here also. But my question is, with the time and space fabric/continuum being what it is, non-linear, what's going to happen to our logical progression of scientific discovery when the Allen Array begins to pick up some of Benny Hill's original television programmes ? flow....  |
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