Pitch Black: Cosmic Clumps Cast the Darkest Shadows. Astronomers have found cosmic clumps so dark, dense and dusty that they throw the deepest shadows ever recorded.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Zurich› Full image and caption May 21, 2014 Astronomers have found cosmic clumps so dark, dense and dusty that they throw the deepest shadows ever recorded. Infrared observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of these blackest-of-black regions paradoxically light the way to understanding how the brightest stars form.
NASA lets enthusiasts reboot zombie 1970s spacecraft - space - 22 May 2014. (Image: NASA) A dormant spacecraft will swing past Earth in August, and private space flight enthusiasts have plans to put it back to work.
The International Sun/Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) was a joint US and European spacecraft launched in 1978. It was initially deployed to the L1 Lagrange point, a spot between the sun and Earth where the combined gravitational forces of the two massive objects effectively holds smaller objects in place. Dramatic new portrait helps define Milky Way's shape, contents. Using more than 2 million images collected by NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of Wisconsin scientists has stitched together a dramatic 360 degree portrait of the Milky Way, providing new details of our galaxy's structure and contents.
The new composite picture, using infrared images gathered over the last decade, was unveiled today (March 20, 2014) at a TED conference in Vancouver. The galactic portrait provides an unprecedented look at the plane of our galaxy, using the infrared imagers aboard Spitzer to cut through the interstellar dust that obscures the view in visible light. Space and NASA News – Universe and Deep Space Information. Cosmic Questions. Supermassive Black Hole’s Dizzying Spin Is Half The Speed Of Light. Want to stay on top of all the space news?
Follow @universetoday on Twitter This photo combination shows the quasar RX J1131-1231 imaged by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Michigan/R.C.Reis et al; Optical: NASA/STScI The spin rate of the most distant supermassive black hole has been measured directly, and wow, is it fast. X-rays From Other Galaxies Could Emanate From Particles of Dark Matter. X-rays of a specific wavelength emanating from the hearts of nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters could be signs of particles of dark matter decaying in space, two independent teams of astronomers report.
If that interpretation is correct, then dark matter could consist of strange particles called sterile neutrinos that weigh about 1/100 as much as an electron. However, some other researches are skeptical. For decades, astronomers and astrophysicists have thought that some sort of mysterious dark matter must provide the gravity that keeps individual galaxies from falling apart. In fact, the current standard model of cosmology indicates that a typical galaxy forms within a vast clump, or halo, of dark matter whose gravity keeps the stars from flying out into space.
The Black Knight Satellite, Bracewell Probes, and Philip K. Dick. Here follows one of the most interesting and complex stories of Space Conspiracy in existence.
It’s the story of the Black Knight satellite, and so much more. We’re about to go from a misreported news item from 1960, to theoretical science and radio transmission, to the writings of Philip K. Dick, but there’s much ground to cover in between. S Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon. MadMan's Astrophotography Site. Birth of black hole witnessed, marking watershed moment for astronomy. The virtual impossibility of observational astronomy has never been clearer.
With astronomers having recorded so many events, now that they’ve used so many different instruments to wring all possible insight from what little information somehow makes it all the way to Earth, simply pointing telescopes at stars is providing diminishing returns. To keep moving forward we need to make use of the universe’s most unusual and, in many cases, violent events so we can see some truly novel data. It’s not just a matter of patience, since the the space industry can’t possibly set up enough telescopes to look everywhere at once. Méteores, comètes et nous. De l'eau des comètes à celle des océans. Cet article est le 3e de notre série consacrée au télescope Herschel, après "Herschel, une nouvelle fenêtre sur l'Univers" et "le mystère de la naissance des étoiles géantes".
The Holographic Universe. The Holographic Universe The theory that reality, as we consciously experience it, is not real, goes back to the indigenous people who believed that we exist in a dream or illusion.
In our current timeline, we refer to the our virtual reality experience as a matrix, grids, simulation and hologram. There are those trying to prove the hologram exists and others who are trying to break us out of it. Theories about reality being a simulation are increasing. Scale of Universe - Interactive Scale of the Universe Tool. Did Our Universe Collide With Another When it was 380,000 Years Old? Credit: SLIM FILMS The multiverse is a hypothesis that has slowly been gaining credence in the world of cosmology.
To simplify the idea, the multiverse is basically the idea that there are other universes and we all exist in the same void ‘space’ region. Similar to how we see multiple planets, multiple solar systems, and multiple galaxies, some scientists believe multiple universes also exist. Only problem is proving the existence of something that has a unique set of natural laws existing outside of our own universe inside a region of voidness with little to no physical laws is… difficult.
ALMA sonde le mystère des jets issus des trous noirs géants. Ephemerides and Interactive Sky Chart for Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) Institute for Astronomy Press Release:Found: A Strange Lonely Planet without a Star. An international team of astronomers has discovered an exotic young planet that is not orbiting a star. This free-floating planet, dubbed PSO J318.5-22, is just 80 light-years away from Earth and has a mass only six times that of Jupiter. The planet formed a mere 12 million years ago—a newborn in planet lifetimes. Space Has an Up and Down After All. Astronomers love to remind us that there’s no up or down in space. Look out into the depths of the universe and you’ll see galaxies floating edge-on, face-on and at every angle in between. Look at planets circling stars within the Milky Way, and their orbits might be oriented in any direction at all. Astronomers Detect Subtle Twist in the Relic Radiation from the Big Bang. This illustration shows how photons in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are deflected by the gravitational lensing effect of massive cosmic structures as they travel across the Universe.
Copyright: ESA and the Planck Collaboration Using data from the National Science Foundation’s South Pole Telescope and ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have made the first detection of a subtle twist in the Cosmic Microwave Background, paving the way towards revealing the first moments of the Universe’s existence. Cosmologists have achieved a first detection of a long-sought component in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). This component, known as B-mode polarization, is caused by gravitational lensing, the bending of light by massive structures as it travels across the Universe.
SidClock by Darren Enns,SidClock. Enlightening stuff. Neat Stuff Ecstasy Drug-Crazed Ravers Are Like Chemical Buddhas Published on April 4th, 2014 | by Jason Louv Ecstasy drug-fueled Dutch ravers are by turns idiotic and profound in this hilarious video This video (via the Dutch magazine Flabber) captures partygoers out of their skulls on Ecstasy at Thunderdome, a hardcore techno / gabber festival that [&hellip... Read More → Environment & Health. Découverte d'une énorme planète formée de diamant. Des astronomes viennent de découvrir une planète de deux fois la taille de la Terre formée en grande partie de diamant.
Méteores, comètes et nous. Earth's Gold Came from Colliding Dead Stars. We value gold for many reasons: its beauty, its usefulness as jewelry, and its rarity. Gold is rare on Earth in part because it's also rare in the universe. Unlike elements like carbon or iron, it cannot be created within a star. FastSound Project Releases Its First 3D Map of the Far-Distant Universe. Figure 1: The FastSound project’s 3D map of the large-scale structure of a region in the Universe about 4.7 billion years after the Big Bang. This area covers 2.5 times 3 degrees of the sky, with a radial distance spanning 12-14.5 billion light years in comoving distance or 8-9.6 billion light years in light travel distance (Note 3). The colors of the galaxies indicate their star formation rate, i.e., the total mass of stars produced in a galaxy every year. 12 Billion Year Old Explosion Illuminates a Galaxy from the Dark Ages.
This artist’s illustration depicts a gamma-ray burst illuminating clouds of interstellar gas in its host galaxy. By analyzing a recent gamma-ray burst, astronomers were able to learn about the chemistry of a galaxy 12.7 billion light-years from Earth. Effect of Zero Gravity on Cosmonaut's Body. Voyager 1 spacecraft's latest find takes the edge off the solar system.
Primer Fields. Review: The Primer Fields. Saturn's north pole. NASA DISCOVERS HIDDEN PORTALS IN SPACE BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE SUN (JULY 2012) 741852main_GRB_111209A_Swift.jpg (Image JPEG, 2500x1408 pixels) - Redimensionnée (39%) #GrandUnified - Our Universe? Mapping the Chemistry Needed for Life at Europa. New Study Challenges Planck Results. Physique. Science. The helical model - our solar system is a vortex. BBC Horizon Order And Disorder With Jim AI.Khalili EP01. How Far is it to Mars? NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. Plutoïde. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. La notion de plutoïde ne doit pas être confondue avec celle de plutino. L'Union astronomique internationale s'est accordée sur le terme de « plutoïde » comme désignation pour les planètes naines comme Pluton lors d'une réunion de son comité exécutif à Oslo le 11 juin 2008[2].
Qu'est-ce qu'un plutoïde ? [modifier | modifier le code] Officiellement[3], « [les] plutoïdes sont des objets célestes en orbite autour du Soleil à un demi-grand axe supérieur à celui de Neptune qui possèdent une masse suffisante pour que leur gravité l'emporte sur les forces de cohésion du corps solide et le maintiennent en équilibre hydrostatique (sous une forme presque sphérique) et qui n'ont pas nettoyé leur voisinage[4] ». Propositions de dénomination officielle[modifier | modifier le code] Caractéristiques[modifier | modifier le code] Les objets de cette catégorie sont caractérisés par une orbite plus inclinée et plus elliptique que celles des planètes. Red Square Nebula. The Primer Fields Part 1. The Primer Fields Part 2. The Primer Fields Part 3. La théorie de la relativité - Théorie et exemples concrets.