Submitted by Coreburn
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I favorited a YouTube video: An animation put together using data collected by astronomers all over the world to examine the surroundings of the Black Hole suspected to be present at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. Credit to Andrew J. Hanson of the University of Indiana. Source- http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~hanson/. (Read More)
Recent articles in Astronomy and Astrophysics:
Authors: S. Witte, Ch. Helling and P. H. Hauschildt A&A 506, 1367 (2009) Received 11 December 2008 / Accepted 21 August 2009
Keywords: astrochemistry, methods: numerical, stars: atmospheres, stars: low-mass, brown dwarfs. (Read More)
Recent articles in Astronomy and Astrophysics:
Authors: F. M. Rieger and F. A. Aharonian A&A 506, L41 (2009) Received 25 May 2009 / Accepted 18 September 2009 Keywords: acceleration of particles, black hole physics, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, galaxies: active, galaxies: jets. (Read More)
StarDate:
In the November/December issue of StarDate, learn about space-based astronomy after Hubble Space Telescope. We'll also bring you a details on how astronomers are searching for supermassive black holes kicked out of galaxies after a galactic merger. . (Read More)
Geekdad:
Now here was a man who knew how to die. (image: 3D Realms)As a gamer, I play a lot of video games. In playing a lot of video games, I also die a lot. I mean all the freaking time. I think I “fell down” in Call of Duty: World at War at least 20 times last night before finally realizing that I should probably pick my shots be (Read More)
Recent articles in Astronomy and Astrophysics:
Authors: G. Gronoff, J. Lilensten, L. Desorgher and E. Flückiger A&A 506, 955 (2009) Received 22 April 2009 / Accepted 13 July 2009 Keywords: planets and satellites: individual: Titan, atmospheric effects, Sun: UV radiation, space vehicles: instruments, methods: numerical. (Read More)
Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog:
I’m delighted to announce that we’re now accepting registrations for the second Conscious Growth Workshop, January 15-17, 2010 at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. In fact, we already received the first registration while I was still editing the workshop pages. The first Conscious Growth Workshop earlier this month was such (Read More)
Submitted by Coreburn
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Sir Isaac Newton would be amazed by this awesome video, showing Saturn moons causing waves as they orbit near its F Ring. These images can only be taken every 15 years, during Saturn's equinox. Thankfully, Cassini is there now. In the video you can see Prometheus (in the inner side) and Pandora (on the outer side), disturbi (Read More)
information aesthetics:
The beautiful infographic "50 Years of Space Exploration" [nationalgeographic.com] shows exactly the content denoted in its title. A delimited line on the bottom shows the relative distances in interstellar space, and the current positions of our most distant spacecrafts, such as the Voyager 1 and Pioneer 10. However, the m (Read More)
Submitted by Jgmize
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I’ll be posting my long-delayed appraisal of the movie Surrogates, shortly. But meanwhile, here’s a raft of links and other cool items that remind us that -- despite efforts to turn civilization toward know-nothing foolishness, we still live in an era of enlightenment and wonders.See Shawn Otto -- one of the driving forces (Read More)
Submitted by Coreburn
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Back when I was a kid I found an old atlas that had been on the family shelves since the early 1900’s. I used to browse through it looking at all the places that had changed. The map of eastern Europe was, as you can imagine, a far cry from what it later became, with the pre-World War I world vividly sketched in those musty (Read More)
Submitted by Coreburn
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My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles.--Children everywhere, up until very recentlyTaking a look at the new ring discovered around Saturn made me realize something. Most of us don't realize how full of crap our Solar System is.I don't mean planets, or moons, or comets or asteroids, although there are certainl (Read More)
Submitted by Eemorningwood
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In tonight’s episode Raj works alongside Sheldon on “The Dark Matter Problem”. In my opinion this is the biggest problem in physics today that we have a hope of solving.Vera Rubin discovers galactic dark matter. Physicists love it when theories have problems. Like pulling a stray thread on a sweater, it might give you j (Read More)