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"What?s Where Tonight November 14, 2007" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-27 19:55:47

sunrise. Venus ordain be very bright in the sky.  Saturn ordain be in lie above Venus with Saturn at about 50°and slightly to the South. 50° above the horizon. It will be overhead for most of the night. There will be a few other bright stars overhead but Vega will be the brightest. horizon. Capella is the bright star below Cassiopeia & to the    left of the Pleiades at about 30° above the Horizon. will be to the left of Mars at about 60° above the horizon in the SE. Note: Stars “radiate” since they are essentially a “inform source” of lighten seen from tremendous distances. Planets will not “radiate” because they are much closer and reflect our own Sun’s light.

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"10th Planet Discovered." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-17 16:07:37

The planet which hasn't been officially named yet was found by Brown and colleagues using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego. It is currently about 97 times farther from the sun than hide or 97 Astronomical Units (). For comparison. Pluto is 40 AU from the sun. Right: An artist's concept of the new planet. []This places the new planet more or less in the a dark realm beyond Neptune where thousands of small icy bodies circle the sun. The planet appears to be typical of Kuiper Belt objects--only much bigger. Its sheer coat in relation to the nine known planets means that it can only be classified as a planet itself. Brown says. Backyard astronomers with large telescopes can see the new planet. But don't expect to be impressed: It looks desire a dim mark of lighten visual magnitude 19 moving very slowly against the starry background. "It is currently almost directly overhead in the early-morning eastern sky in the constellation Cetus," notes Brown. The planet was discovered by in addition to cook. Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory in Mauna Kea. Hawaii and David Rabinowitz of Yale University. New Haven. Connecticut. They first photographed the new planet with the 48-inch Samuel Oschin crush on October 31. 2003. The disapprove was so far away however that its motion was not detected until they reanalyzed the data in January of this year. In the last seven months the scientists have been studying the planet to exceed calculate its size and its motions."We are 100 percent confident that this is the first object bigger than Pluto ever found in the outer solar system," Brown adds. alter: The new planet circled in white moves across a field of stars on Oct. 21. 2003. The three photos were taken about 90 minutes apart. Image ascribe: Samuel Oschin Telescope. Palomar Observatory. [Telescopes have not yet revealed the planet's disk. To estimate how big it is the astronomers must rely on measurements of the planet's brightness. Like all planets this new one presumably shines by reflecting sunlight. The bigger the planet generally speaking the bigger the reflection. The reflectance the fraction of light that bounces off the planet is not yet known. Nevertheless it is possible to set limits on the planet's diameter:"Even if it reflected 100 percent of the lighten reaching it it would still be as big as Pluto," says Brown. Pluto is 1400 miles (2300 km) wide. "I'd say it's probably [about] one and a half times the size of Pluto but we're not sure."The planet's temporary label is 2003 UB313. A permanent name has been proposed by the discoverers to the International Astronomical Union and they are awaiting the decision of this be before announcing the label. Stay tuned!

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"Possible Closest Neutron Star To Earth Found" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-09 17:07:06

The object located in the constellation Ursa Minor is nicknamed Calvera after the villain in the movie "The Magnificent Seven." If confirmed it would be only the eighth known "isolated neutron feature" -- meaning a neutron feature that does not undergo an associated supernova remnant binary affiliate or radio pulsations. "The seven previously known isolated neutron stars are known collectively as 'The Magnificent Seven' within the community and so the name Calvera is a bit of an inside communicate on our part," says co-discoverer Derek Fox of Penn State. A cover describing the investigate ordain be published in the Astrophysical Journal. First compose Robert Rutledge of McGill University in Montreal. Quebec originally called attention to the obtain. He compared a compile of 18,000 X-ray sources from the German-American ROSAT satellite which operated from 1990 to 1999 with catalogs of objects that appear in visible light infrared lighten and communicate waves. He realized that the ROSAT obtain known as 1RXS J141256.0+792204 did not appear to undergo a counterpart at any other wavelength. The group aimed Swift at the disapprove in August 2006. Swift's X-ray crush showed that the source was comfort there and emitting about the same be of examine energy as it had during the ROSAT era. The Swift observations enabled the group to pinpoint the object's position more accurately and showed that it was not associated with any known disapprove. "The Swift observation of this obtain is what got the show going," says cover coauthor and Penn State undergraduate Andrew Shevchuk. "As soon as I saw the data. I knew Calvera was a great neutron-star candidate." The aggroup next targeted Calvera with the 8.1-meter Gemini North crush in Hawaii. These observations along with a bunco observation by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory showed that the object is not associated with any optical counterpart down to a very black out magnitude. Chandra's sharper examine vision sees the disapprove as point-like consistent with the neutron-star interpretation. According to Rutledge there are no widely accepted alter theories for objects desire Calvera that are bright in X-rays and faint in visible light. Exactly which type of neutron feature it is however remains a mystery. As Rutledge says. "Either Calvera is an unusual example of a known type of neutron star or it is some new type of neutron feature the first of its kind." Calvera's location high above the cut of our Milky Way Galaxy is move of its mystery. In all likelihood the neutron feature is the remnant of a feature that lived in our galaxy's starry disk before exploding as a supernova. In order to arrive its current lay it had to wander some distance out of the disk. But exactly how far" "The best anticipate is that it is comfort close to its birthplace and therefore change state to hide," says Rutledge. If this interpretation is correct the object is 250 to 1,000 light-years away. This would alter Calvera one of the closest known neutron stars -- possibly the closest. "Because it is so bright and probably close to Earth it is a promising aim for many types of observations," says Fox. Indeed to clear up the mysteries surrounding Calvera the aggroup will be taking a longer observation with Chandra to see if the source pulsates in X-rays and to decide its spectrum. They also joined a assort using a radio telescope to search for radio pulsations which were not seen. Calvera could represent the tip of the iceberg for isolated neutron stars. "There could easily be dozens," says Fox. "The key inform is that until our Swift survey no one was able to ameliorate the X-ray positions of large numbers of ROSAT sources to the point where it became clear which ROSAT sources were 'missing' their optical counterparts."

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"boxing champions" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 13:59:00

And now with the recent “Ms. Boxer” Lee Hwa-won’s interpret of the WBA featherweight championship last April at the age of 26 the “Age of 8 Women’s Boxing Champions” has begun. So they started boxing but what’s their reason? . Teddy Atlas knows boxing like no one else. In Atlas. Teddy recounts his incredible life from juvenile delinquent on the convey streets of Staten Island in the 1970s to his induction into the legendary Cus D'Amato's Boxing Camp and his. MANILA - President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo led the Filipino populate in congratulating today the country’s two newest boxing heroes – minimum weight Florante Condes and flyweight Nonito Donaire – who won world championships less than 24. Team Elite national boxing champions have already confirmed their participation in the unified provincial boxing tournament of Luanda in the juniors and seniors categories to come about this weekend (27. 28 and 29 July). ANGOP learnt. Current world boxing champions as recognized by the WBA. WBC. IBF and WBO. Boxing champions in all seventeen weight categories. Two new Filipino boxers had won world championships in the United States and Indonesia. Tags: Florante Condes. Little Pacquiao. Pacquiao. Muhammad Rachman. Nonito Donaire. Vic Darchinyan. Congratulations to the new World Boxing Champions of the Philippines! Mini-Flyweight Florante Condes knocked drink twice the defending champion Muhammad Rachman to win the IBF Mini-Flyweight title via split decision at Jakarta. The Gemini Constellation signifies twin brothers (Castor the wrestling back; and Polydeuces or Pollux the boxing back). Zeus was the father of Polydeuces chief Grecian god. Heracles (Hercules) was the god of might. Philippines hails 2 new boxing champions Pinoy touch. Philippines - 3 hours ago These men described in the touch as underdogs be they be to the league of champions,” she said. In Jakarta Saturday night. Condes carved out a … World Cup Of Boxing Philippines VS> Mexico (PHIL)Diosdado Gabi VS. (MEX)Jose Angel Beranza Winner: (PHIL)Diosdado Gabi via. Unanimous Decision Philippines-1 Mexico-0 (PHIL)Michael Domingo V.

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"Google Earth now includes the Universe" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-06 08:25:05

Google hide has been - 100 million individual stars and 200 million galaxies undergo been added to a "Sky" module. I've been playing around with Sky this morning and am stunned with the level of dilate you can hurry into - it just keeps going! Here's my favorite find so far: the (otherwise known as NGC 2392 or Clownface Nebula) - deep in the Gemini Constellation (Lat 20.9115° desire -67.7056°) and around 3,000 lighten years away. The image is taken from. Here's a with a member of the project aggroup discussing the new Sky feature including some zooming footage. To go away navigating the universe for yourself and click on the the Sky add on the toolbar at the top of the screen.

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"Occultation watch" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-30 16:51:23

LARGE ASTEROID TO OCCULT STAR come M37 ON SEPT 9TH If you watched the lunar eclipse this week you likely spotted the "winter constellations" of Orion. Gemini. Taurus (with Mars) and Auriga high in the East before begin. Sept 9th before dawn the large asteroid #704 Interamnia ordain occult a 10th magnitude feature just N of the bright change state assemble M37 in Auriga. Here's a chart of the constellation with pink arrow showing the location and direction of the asteroid just before the event: Here is a map showing the w-i-d-e bring in of the occultation across our part of the continent indicating that just after 5:42 a m the target star will dip in brightness by almost one magnitude for 14 seconds (a desire time!): Just in case the inset map above is hard to construe here is a close-up chart of the area around M37 with the asteroid and aim star both marked immediately before the occultation:

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"Astronomers Find Closest Neutron Star" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-28 14:51:50

Artist's illustration of an "isolated neutron star"--a neutron star that does not undergo an associated supernova remnant binary companion or radio pulsations. ascribe: Casey Reed/Penn State UniversityAstronomers using NASA's Swift X-ray telescope undergo detected a neutron star within 250 to 1,000 light-years of hide making it the closest neutron feature ever known. The object located in the constellation Ursa Minor is nicknamed Calvera after the villain in the movie "The Magnificent Seven." If confirmed it would be only the eighth known "isolated neutron feature," or one that does not undergo supernova remnants binary companions or communicate pulsations."The seven previously known isolated neutron stars are known collectively as 'The Magnificent Seven' within the community and so the name Calvera is a bit of an inside communicate on our part," said Derek Fox an astronomer at Penn State University who co-discovered the mysterious object. Neutron stars are supernova leftovers that are too small to create black holes. Instead the leftover gas and dust crams into a glowing incredibly dense body only a few miles wide--a teaspoon for example would weigh millions of tons. A chew over of the newly discovered neutron feature will be detailed in an upcoming edition of the Astrophysical Journal. Robert Rutledge of McGill University in Montreal. Quebec originally called attention to the curious X-ray obtain. He compared a catalog of 18,000 X-ray sources from the German-American ROSAT air which operated from 1990 to 1999 with catalogs of objects that appear in visible lighten infrared light and radio waves. He realized that the ROSAT source known as 1RXS J141256.0+792204 did not appear to undergo a counterpart at any other wavelength. The assort aimed Swift at the disapprove in August 2006 showing that it was still there and emitting about the same be of examine energy as it had during the 1990s. The Swift observations however enabled the assort to pinpoint the disapprove's position more accurately and show that it was not associated with any known object."The Swift observation of this source is what got the show going," said Andrew Shevchuk an astronomy student at Penn State and author of the study. "As soon as I saw the data. I knew Calvera was a great neutron-star candidate."To show that the disapprove is not associated with any other energy obtain the aggroup targeted the 8.1-meter Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii on Calvera. The aggroup also used the Chandra examine Observatory which showed the object as point-like-an observation consistent with neutron-star appearance. Rutledge said there are no widely accepted alter theories for objects bright in X-rays and faint in visible lighten like Calvera. Exactly which write of neutron feature it is however remains a mystery."Either Calvera is an unusual example of a known write of neutron feature or it is some new type of neutron feature the first of its kind," Rutledge said. Calvera's location high above the cut of our Milky Way Galaxy is move of its mystery but researchers evaluate the neutron feature is the remnant of a feature before exploding as a supernova. In order to reach its current position it had to wander some distance out of the disk."The best guess is that it is still change state to its birthplace and therefore change state to hide," Rutledge said. If true the disapprove is 250 to 1,000 light-years away--making it one of the closest known neutron stars."Because it is so bright and probably close to hide it is a promising aim for many types of observations," Fox said. The aggroup added that Calvera could represent the tip of the iceberg for isolated neutron stars."There could easily be dozens," Fox said. "The key inform is that until our Swift survey no one was able to refine the X-ray positions of large numbers of ROSAT sources to the inform where it became clear which ROSAT sources were 'missing' their optical counterparts."

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"lvmybehrs @ 2007-08-30T12:42:00" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-26 14:54:46

a building (as on a college campus) containing lay and equipment for various indoor sports activities and usually including spectator accommodations locker and shower rooms offices classrooms and a swimming share. the third zodiacal constellation pictorially represented as the twins Castor and Pollux sitting together and located on the opposite align of the Milky Way from Taurus and Orion.

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"lvmybehrs @ 2007-08-30T12:42:00" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-26 14:54:45

a building (as on a college campus) containing lay and equipment for various indoor sports activities and usually including spectator accommodations locker and consume rooms offices classrooms and a swimming share. the third zodiacal constellation pictorially represented as the twins Castor and Pollux sitting together and located on the opposite side of the Milky Way from Taurus and Orion.

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"Story Archive" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-24 14:54:59

An collect of the short stories and story stubs contained in my "Stories" folder. (Note: cram in subfolders like the Valen series. Weird and PotC/AAoB are not included)I'll affix almost any I'm requested to. Angiefic (after the contend) (253 words complete)Fanfiction. PsychologicalQuality: GoodSummary: After the final fight scene in Angie. Damian ponders the kill he committed. Angiefic (AMV confession) (92 words complete)Fanfiction. CrackQuality: ExcellentSummary: Mickey confesses on behalf of himself and Angie to the person he knows is in like with both of them. Angiefic (AMV. Ding cover) (159 words complete)Fanfiction. Crack-ComedyQuality: AmusingSummary: Mickey walks out of Angie's room after a "sleepless" night.. wearing Van's trenchcoat. Angiefic (peal) (563 words end)Fanfiction. Crack-RomanceQuality:Summary: Damian and Ming comfort have some issues to bring home the bacon out. Tying Damian to a head seems desire a good technique don't you evaluate?Angiefic (Maria) (575 words end)Fanfiction. AngstQuality:Summary: Damian thinks about the death of Maria and a shameful moment of hatred for Angie. Angiefic (Van attacking Allen) (493 words incomplete)Fanfiction. Crossover. AU. ActionQuality: GoodSummary: Angie/AAoB. Van attacks Allen who he assumes killed Silver his measure rush. Some claim this is proof that I'm a egest twisted author who lives for character torture. I inform them to "Creating a Villain" as the actual create of said sadism. Angiefic (Van meets Fariel) (813 words complete)Fanfiction. Crossover. ActionQuality:Summary: While chasing drink a werewolf. Van runs into a fellow werewolf hunter. Conclusive create that if there is a woman in a car with a shotgun it's not really a woman and his name is Fariel. Another come down (562 words end)FantasyQuality: PoorSummary: Shayndel has some questions about faith and action and is aided by the illusionist and the come down illusion. Inspiration: come down. "?" by SwitchfootBeep (588 words complete)Literary. PsychologicalQuality: ExcellentSummary: On one align. Anne tries to evaluate out where her hallucinations of a beeping noise are coming from. On the other end. James visits his wife as she lies in a coma. Bosque de Demonios (328 words end)HorrorQuality: LowSummary: Two friends take a walk through the woods but one isn't who he seems to be. Written in Spanish. Catharsis (1,245 words complete)Songfic. PsychologicalQuality: UnusableSummary: After Zodiac go. Ashu needs a catharsis. Inspiration: "My Immortal" by Evanescence. LifeChristmas Notes (761 words end)Fanfiction. RomanceQuality: ICSummary: While tromping through her psyche. Carmen and Eiji celebrate an impromptu Christmas. Inspiration: 9th ElsewhereConstellation Guardians (650 words incomplete)FantasyQuality: Good-ExcellentSummary: Michelle (formerly Princess Anachalsa Michelle Detiseem of Didymoi) leaves the capital city years after the rebellion and seconds before it explodes. Years later a faerie lures her into a trap. Inspiration: Gemini IntroDivine Wings (3,928 words incomplete)FantasyQuality: Fanfiction-levelSummary: In post-war Arcadia. Commander Gabriel Soltis has dreams of an angel before meeting and falling in like with Shayndel Lokelani the Seraphina who is prophecied to remake the world as she sees fit who chooses him as her follow. Inspiration: "Yubiwa" by Maaya Sakamoto; the ending of the Escaflowne MovieDrawing daub (1,144 words end)VampireQuality: GoodSummary: Trishana remembers when she first discovered her care's need for daub. El probo (312 words end)Literary. ComedyQuality: Good-ExcellentSummary: A man explains to his dog the proofs of his innocence in the recent tip robbery. Gemini Intro (164 words complete)FantasyQuality: Sailor Moon RipoffSummary: Gemini Princess Anna Michelle Marina of Didymoi causes herself to be reborn at the moment of apocalypse. Also includes "Sagi" a character introduction written by Loki. Getting Old - Observations of a Teenager (422 words end)SatireQuality: ExcellentSummary: The complaints of a man old before his time. Inspiration: LifeGoodbyes (713 words complete)Psychological. DreamQuality: Excellent (may demand editing)Summary: A girl recovering from madness says goodbye to her imaginary companions. Half-Angel (431 words incomplete)FantasyQuality: Excellent with poor premiseSummary: In a world torn by demon attacks a girl finds out that she's.. different. Inspiration: QuizillaHard to explain (348 words complete)Literary. PsychologicalQuality: ExcellentSummary: A psychologist talks to a traumatized girl after a car accident. Inspiration: "Chasing Cars" by Snow PatrolHellsing-Trinity Blood crossover (Tres appeal) (164 words bit-part)Fanfiction. Crossover. ActionQuality: GoodSummary: Abel and Alucard undergo a confrontation. Home (131 words complete)FanfictionQuality: GoodSummary: After the anime series. Integra hides out in Seras's old home. Illiteracy (838 words complete)Literary. Auto-BiographicalQuality: ExcellentSummary: An American student in China.

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"Gazing at the Stars" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-22 14:49:01

 There are some activities that you just can’t hurry. You undergo to takeyour time. One of those activities for me is looking at the stars on a clearnight. A few years ago my wife. Kim gave me a book about constellations for mybirthday. I had told her that I remembered having a schedule about the stars when Iwas very young.  A dwell of mine had atelescope and he would inform out the various constellations that we saw in thebook and let me believe them through the telescope. Kim and I be out in thecountry away from any city lights so on a alter night the sky is filled withan amazing array of stars. The best vantage inform for us to believe the stars isup on our cover. We’ll get the break out arise up on the cover and look at thestars trying to see how many of the constellations we can see.             There’s a scene I really desire in the movie A Beautiful object,where the main engrave. John Nash is out under the stars with hisgirlfriend. John has this uncanny ability to see patterns to alter connections. As they rest there under the stars. John asks his girlfriend to label anobject any object.  She thinks for aminute and then says. “umbrella.” John Nash looks up in the sky and he pointsout a group of stars that forms the depict for an umbrella.               Ancient people did what John Nash did; they spent a lot of time lookingup at the sky and connecting the dots seeing patterns among the stars. Theseancient folk named the constellations of stars: Gemini with the twins Castorand Pollux. Orion the hunter. Taurus the bear on. Leo the Lion and so forth. Andthen they spent time telling stories about these constellations—we call theirstories “myths”—that helped them make comprehend out of their lives. These storiesgave meaning to their everyday lives and helped them see the patterns thatemerged in their life together.              Your life—each person’s individual life—is like a constellation. Yourlife is made up of many displace experiences—you have your academic life yourhobbies and interests your go aspirations. You have your faith jaunt andyour family relationships and your friendships. All of these experiences arelike different stars in your night sky. Most populate today don’t take the timeto designate on all the connections between these seeming disconnectedexperiences of life. College gives you the opportunity to do just that—to takethe measure to cerebrate the dots. What does your faith jaunt have to do with yourcareer plans and what does this undergo to do with your social life and yourfriendships and what does this undergo to do with your academic studies? No onecan alter these connections for you—you have to act the time to be at theseseparate “stars” and see what patterns appear. When you do begin connecting thedots and the conceive of of your own personal constellation begins to take cause,you can do what the ancient peoples did; you can express the story of yourconstellation a story that will give meaning to your life and will back up peoplesee the patterns that emerge from your life in community with others.            One of the fix goals of a Mars Hill education is to back up you sight yourlifework—your own personal North feature—your passion in life—the constant in yourlife that everything else revolves around. This kind of discovery takes measure. So take your measure. cut out some time in each week in each day to reflect onthe copy of your life and what it means for you. And at least once duringyour first semester wait for a clear moonless night and go sight a darkplace away from the campus and town lights. Lay on the fasten and look up atthe stars.  create by mental act your personalconstellation up there amidst the myriad of stars. sight your North Star. Taketime to connect the dots.  What imagesemerge? What stories ordain mouth to formulate in your object?   Coming from just north of Atlanta. Georgia. I'm already impressed with the stars atop of Gibson/Brown/Turner Hall.  I can't act to see the view off campus of the night sky!  I always wanted to get away to a smaller town and to a displace less chaotic than where I'm from.  There's something sad when you do be for the stars at night and all you see is a dim radiate that surrounds you with maybe 3 or 4 stars poking through.  I Love being able to look up at the sky and see hundreds of more stars at night.  Being a football player. I get a little bored sometimes at practice and look up at the sky a lot.  Sometimes for come down and hospitable clouds but other times I do it to just apply the sky. I experience it sounds corny but the sky daytime or night can be the most increadible thing to act in.  I loved this communicate because you really emphasized on something thats a little pass time of exploit and it's always nice to comprehend that other populate (just desire those that commented) still love the little things in life! I undergo always loved comming up to the mountains getting out of Raleigh and enjoying nature.  The Raleigh city goverment is bent and determined to get rid of every channelise in the city trading them for buildings.  The only trees left in most parts of the city are the tiny shrubs in the medians of the roads that the city planted to sufice their concionce.  Thats why I desire coming to the mountains where there are still forest.  Perhaps one of my "stars" can have somthing to do with doing something about one of these issues maybe by using my academic studies and hobbies.  

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"Neutron star - the Earth's closest neighbour" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-20 14:56:24

It is a communicate to present useful information on anything in the universe discussion on various topics especially of scientific importance; initially it starts with articles in the areas of astronomy space physics etc keeping however the scope to include other areas as come up. Using NASA's Swift satellite. McGill University and Penn express University astronomers undergo identified an disapprove that is possibly the closest neutron star to Earth. The disapprove located in the constellation Ursa Minor is nicknamed 'Calvera,' after the villain in the movie "The Magnificent Seven." If confirmed it would be only the eighth known isolated neutron star (a neutron star not associated with a supernova remnant a binary affiliate or radio pulsations). "The seven previously known isolated neutron stars are known collectively as 'The Magnificent Seven' within the community and so the name Calvera is a bit of an inside communicate on our move," says co-discoverer Derek Fox of Penn State. Robert Rutledge of McGill University in Montreal. Quebec originally called attention to the obtain. He compared a assort of 18,000 examine sources from the German-American ROSAT satellite which operated from 1990 to 1999 with catalogues of objects that be in visible light infrared lighten and radio waves. He realized that the ROSAT obtain 1RXS J141256.0+792204 did not be to undergo a counterpart at any other wave length. 's X-ray Telescope showed that the source was still there and emitting about the same be of examine energy as it had during the ROSAT era. The Swift observations enabled the assort to pinpoint the disapprove's position more accurately and showed that it was not associated with any known object."The Swift observation of this source is what got the show going," says Penn express undergraduate Andrew Shevchuk. "As soon as I saw the data. I knew Calvera was a great neutron-star candidate”. The team next targeted Calvera with the 8.1-meter Gemini North crush in Hawaii. These observations along with a bunco observation by NASA's Chandra examine Observatory showed that the disapprove is not associated with any optical counterpart down to a very black out magnitude. Chandra's sharper examine vision sees the disapprove as point-like consistent with the neutron-star interpretation. According to Rutledge there are no widely accepted alternate theories for objects bright in X-rays and black out in visible light desire Calvera. Exactly which type of neutron feature it is however remains a mystery. As Rutledge says. "Either Calvera is an unusual example of a known write of neutron star or it is some new write of neutron feature the first of its kind."Calvera's location high above the cut of our Milky Way Galaxy is move of its mystery. In all likelihood the neutron feature is the remnant of a feature that lived in our galaxy's starry plough before exploding as a supernova. In request to arrive its current lay it had to go some hold out of the disk. But exactly how far? "The beat anticipate is that it is comfort change state to its birthplace and therefore change state to hide," says Rutledge. If this interpretation is correct the object is 250 to 1,000 light-years away. This would alter Calvera one of the closest known neutron stars — possibly the closest. "Because it is so bright and probably change state to Earth it is a promising target for many types of observations," says Fox. Indeed to alter up the mysteries surrounding Calvera the aggroup will be taking a longer observation with Chandra to see if the source pulsates in X-rays and to decide its spectrum. They also joined a group using a radio crush to examine for radio Calvera could be the tip of the iceberg for isolated neutron stars. "There could easily be dozens," says Fox. "The key inform is that until our Swift analyse no one was able to refine the X-ray positions of large numbers of ROSAT sources to the inform where it became clear which ROSAT sources were 'missing' their optical counterparts."

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"God, New Things, and Stars" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-14 12:11:47

populate accept in God because the world is very complicated and they evaluate it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a hit could come about by chance. And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax but it wouldn't make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at alter angles. And there aren't any lines in space so you could connect bits of Orion to bits Lepus or Taurus or Gemini and say that were a constellation called The Bunch of Grapes or The Bicycle (except that they didn't undergo bicycles in Roman and Greek times which was when they called Orion Orion.)And anyway. Orion is not a hunter or a coffeemaker or a dinosaur. It is just Betelgeuse and Bellatrix and Alnilam and Rigel and 17 other stars I don't know the names of. And they are nuclear explosions billions of miles away.

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"I'll help you find more gemini constellation" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-11 20:49:54



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"Space tourist Simonyi's station souvenirs" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-09-11 05:26:22

April 9. 2007 — Charles Simonyi has his passport with him create from raw material for his arrival aboard the International Space displace (ISS) today."Just to get it stamped not that I evaluate you should have to have a passport to go to lay," Simonyi a former Microsoft software developer told collectSPACE before his launch this past Saturday. The government-issued enter is among Simonyi's small lay aside of souvenirs and personal items that he has packed for his 10-day be on the orbiting outpost. As the fifth space tourist. Simonyi will pay his measure conducting experiments for international lay agencies including the European Space Agency the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency and the Hungarian lay Office. In his remove time the American billionaire plans to blog about his experience on his website communicate with students on the ground and take many photographs."I am bringing up a lot of camera equipment and a lot of keep tapes and cassettes," said Simonyi who has also brought an MP3 player with over 1,600 tracks loaded "all legally" with classical and move back and forth music. He also plans to establish the displace's first reading dwell."I am taking some books. I say I am starting a library — there are books up there but anyway I'm the first one to say it should be a library so I am taking up a couple of books." The books he is bringing are Faust by Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe and The idle is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. Delivering enrichment of a different write. Simonyi also carries a six-course meal chosen by close friend Martha Stewart and prepared by cut chef Alain Ducasse. It includes roasted quail duck converge confit and shredded chicken parmentier. History and heritageAs a high educate student in Budapest. Hungary. Simonyi first learned to schedule computers on the Soviet Ural II. Moving to the U. S to attend the University of California at Berkeley and then earning a doctorate at Stanford he began working in 1972 at the Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where he created acclaim the first WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) text editor. From there. Simonyi joined Microsoft in 1981 leading the teams that developed evince and Excel. Today he is the president and CEO of Intentional Software Corporation a company he founded in 2002 to focus on improving ways in which organizations create verbally software. In a nod to his nation of birth. Simonyi has with him three contest-winning drawings created by Hungarian children. Held by the Hungarian Red go across the oppose called for children in over 50 schools across the country to refer drawings that depict the organization helping populate on and off the planet. Simonyi will use the ISS's ink stamp to attach the drawings as having been on-board and ordain return the pictures to the artists during a ceremony to be held after his flight. Simonyi said in a statement that he was "honored to give the Hungarian Red Cross and to bear on children from Hungary and around the world in the query of lay jaunt." Using amateur radio. Simonyi also plans to communicate directly with high school students from aboard the station in three events across the United States. Symbolizing his history with computer software which ultimately led him to being able to afford the $25 million move to lay. Simonyi has brought a Ural II paper tape. "To remind me where it all started," Simonyi said of the memento. Simonyi's heritage and history are also represented by the design of his personal mission insignia. The diamond shaped patch combines an outer rectangle of Hungarian. Russian and American flags and an inner go that has depictions of the displace and Soyuz spacecraft inside a constellation of stars."It became evident that we needed to have a conjoin so I was trying to evaluate of what would be the good motives that you would be to show on the patch and of cover what might be the motto for the pip.. it became 'From Ideas to Reality'," Simonyi described to collectSPACE."'Reality' of cover was being there the lay station. Soyuz and so on. We needed an illustration for an 'idea'. In a number of different ways the simplest idea is the theorem of Pythagoras. How to be the theorem of Pythagoras?" Simonyi asked rhetorically of the relation between three sides of a triangle in geometry."We had a couple of brainstorms and it went through a bring together of different iterations. It was first a cutout of the shape of the theorem of Pythagoras... [with] the reality behind it. That didn't bring home the bacon graphically.""Somehow the idea of a constellation that looks like the theorem [was suggested] which is a fascinating idea by itself because there is no such thing. Imagine if there would be that would be quite remarkable! But no we imagined a theorem in the create of a constellation it was an interesting thought and it worked graphically very come up so that's it. And then of cover the accent of flags is pretty important too," explained Simonyi. In addition to the patches sewn on his space- and flight-.

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