So I purchased a Solar System for my kids. I am quite into space and wanted a model which I could use for a school homework project which showed the planets in their orbits during their journey around our nearest star, The Sun.
On a well known shopping site I came across the Learning Resources Geosafari Motorised Solar System, quite a large kids model in fact where the planets attach to metal rods which in-turn are fed into a motor which drives the orbits.
Now some people will gripe that this solar system is not really accurate in a number of different ways, lets take a look at these moans because in fairness, it is really low cost so great when on a budget and you get what you pay for. If you want a scientifically accurate solar system model with different orbital speeds and solid brass planets, then you know where your bank card is – go for it. If on the other hand you want something ideal for teaching your kids with, then this is for you.
Some people whinge that the solar systems planets aren’t realistic looking. Well, in truth, they aren’t. They are badly painted, for example the planet Jupiter doesn’t even have a great red spot on it. Earth is basically a blue ball with no detail at all and some of the others look like they just had a few blobs slung on them. But do not let this worry you – painting the planets is a project in its own right, and getting a book out or searching the Nasa website for Hubble space telescope planetary images provides you with more than enough information about how you can make the planets look more realistic. If you can be bothered that is. I’ve noticed more and more these days that many people seem to want spoon feeding (to put it politely) – well if thats how it is, then you will have to make do with the planets as they are provided, or go and spend hundreds on a different model. Personally I found painting the planets with my children both educational, fun and entertaining – but that’s just me, other people may not enjoy doing such things with their kids.
I saw a review where someone was complaining that it was noisy. Well, you can hear the motor going round – so what? Have a look at our video and you will hear the slight noise this model gives out when the planets are orbiting the Sun. Big deal.
On another note, the actual sphere of the Sun comes with two tops. One is plain yellow, thus representing the Sun, however another is clear plastic and has some star constellations printed in black on it. At first I was sceptical that these would show on a ceiling, but they do, and in a totally dark room, the bulb inside the orrery lights up bright enough to project fantastic sharp shadows on the ceiling, not of the planets of the Solar System, naturally, but of the stars which are printed on the dome. So when you read up that someone couldn’t see the projection, just ignore them.
A small switch allows the owner to set the planets moving on their own with no light, or with light, or just have a light on for the stars. To power the solar systems planets and get them going round the sun, and to operate the bright bulb, you will need 4 type C batteries. There is also an adapter port on it which allows you to use some kind of mains power adaptor – although I haven’t tried this.
The model Solar System will be taken into school by one of my boys for a homework project they are working on. Having spent time explaining that the planets orbit at different speeds and their distance from the Sun is not to scale, i’m confident he will give a good presentation and be able to inform his classmates all about space and the planets. I highly recommend this item, because despite its paintwork on the planets, the model works well and a bit of fun handywork gets round this issue whilst providing fun and education at the same time.
As another quick note, there are no moons on any of our heavenly fiends – so as a next project I am going to make a moon for the planet Earth and for Jupiter I will do the four moons which Galileo Galilei spotted when he first look through his telescope at the stars and found out that there were other planets out there. These would be Io, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. Also note that there is a Pluto on it aswell as Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Now some will argue about Pluto and whether it’s a planet – officially it is not, but hey, what better way to teach the kids than to show them a bit of history, and for the real pedantic idiots out there – guess what – you can unplug its metal rod if you don’t want it so you have the best of both worlds!!!
Well worth the paltry amount I paid for it.


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Spacecraft Escape Capsule
Monday, January 29 2007
A report discusses the Gumdrop capsule — a conceptual spacecraft that would enable the crew to escape safely in the event of a major equipment failure at any time from launch through atmospheric re-entry. The scaleable Gumdrop capsule would comprise a command module (CM), a service module (SM), and a crew escape system (CES). The CM would contain a pressurized crew environment that would include avionic, life-support, thermal control, propulsive attitude control, and recovery systems. The SM would provide the primary propulsion and would also supply electrical power, life-support resources, and active thermal control to the CM. The CES would include a solid rocket motor, embedded within the SM, for pushing the CM away from the SM in the event of a critical thermal-protection system failure or loss of control. The CM and SM would normally remain integrated with each other from launch through recovery, but could be separated using the CES, if necessary, to enable the safe recovery of the crew in the CM. The crew escape motor could be used, alternatively, as a redundant means of de-orbit propulsion for the CM in the event of a major system failure in the SM.


May 11, 2019
Sponsored by The DuPont Planetarium,
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center, and University of South Carolina Aiken.
Come join us at the Ruth Patrick Science Center (RPSEC) at USC Aiken for a fun filled evening as we celebrate Family Earth and Sky Night. Events include planetarium shows, hands-on activities, night-sky viewing, and viewing through the Bechtel Telescope.
Planetarium Shows: 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 p.m.
- BIg Bird's Adventure: One World One Sky - 6:00 & 7:00p.m.
- Defying Gravity: It IS Rocket Science! - 8:00 p.m.
- Engineering the International Space Station - 9:00 p.m.
Availability and Pricing: Shows are available on a first-come, first-served basis. The admission fees are: Adults $6.50, Senior Citizens $5.50, 4K-12 Students $4.50, USCA Students and Staff $2.00. Children under 4 are not admitted in the planetarium but are welcome at the other activities. Tickets are available during Earth & Sky Night. Reservations are not available for shows this evening.
Hands-on Activities: 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. - FREE
A variety of hands-on activities will be available from 6:30 - 9:30 to allow people to experience the wonders of earth and space science. Many activities will have materials you can take home with you to remember this wonderful night, and live animals will be on display, including snakes, turtles, alligators, and owls.
Night-Sky Viewing: 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. - FREE
Local amateur astronomers will host naked-eye, binocular, and telescope observing of the moon, planets, and stars this evening on the lawn. Bring a blanket, towel or reclining lounge chair! There will be opportunity to get comfortable and observe the night sky. People can stand or lie back and observe the stars appear as our patch of Earth turns away from the Sun. See the marvels of the night sky with help from knowledgeable and engaging people.
Amateur astronomers will have a number of telescopes available for use by the public. Take advantage of this opportunity to see sky objects in detail, compare different telescopes in use, and to learn about the models available for amateur astronomers. The Bechtel Telescope in the RPSEC Observatory will also be available for viewing the wonders of the sky.
For more information call 641-3313 (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm)
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May 21-23, 2021
NEW to 2021!
Who doesn't love stars, planets and our Solar System?!
Activities planned this weekend include:
Kids Crafts- DIY bottle rockets. If you have 2 liter soda bottles, please bring with you! All ages welcome.
Rocket Launching- let's launch our rockets and watch them soar into space!
Moon Rock Scavenger Hunt- ages 3+, parents may have to help the younger ones.
Star Gazing & Popcorn- all ages. Join us in the Ball Field to see how many constellations you can find & enjoy some popcorn on us!


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What. If the world is on the apocalypse. A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. HOW HUMAN SURVIVE. and how we resolve it. That my what if. What if there is really a parallel world?
If you go to the past you can change the future or will you create another future?
The U.S. did not have the capability to send anything to the moon in 1958. That’s probably why the idea was scrubbed. I want this episode. Could easily be your longest and most debated.
What if there were no religions ever created. A nuclear explosion is dampened out in our mostly nitrogen atmosphere but what happens if it explodes in a hydrogen atmosphere like Saturn or Jupiter? Will it ignite a new sun?
Now I mean I did not read everybody’s comment but if there was so much radiation and there was no landing on the moon doesn’t that make sense so they’re saying there was no moon landing by an American!
What if our climate changed so drastically that places like Florida became like Michigan and places like Michigan became like Florida.
Woooorst Jean Ralphio Three Moon shirt What if you crossover through the black hole and enter a parallel universe in which u are there but back as a child?
I don’t believe the Moon is responsible for Earth’s seasons as stated; the orbit of Earth around the Sun is.
I do not include myself in the craziness of the “We.” For the “We” who choose to be destructive; “Their Days are Numbered!” Psalms All I wanted to know was weather we would be able to see it and how many megatons would we need to make it happen. What If
There was no such thing as an illegal alien and we were able to live in any country in the world?
So many untruths. Woooorst Jean Ralphio Three Moon shirt. Stop misinforming people and do a little research before you launch into this crap.
What if, the aliens we talk about are not from outer space, they are the people from the future! (Time-travelling).
What if there is no time ..? I’m not talking that time stop I’m talking about what if the time it doesn’t exist from starting…of the universe.
Bro, love the series, but you gotta fix this. Sputnik was a low earth orbit mission, it did not orbit the moon.
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I was out again checking set up time and doing another test.- Ten minutes to get all set up.
The rest of the test consisted of checking camera automation plan and the sun drift caused by using a fixed mount.
Automation plan -
Exposure 1/2000 sec, ISO 200
Exposure 1/200 sec, ISO 200
Exposure 1/20 sec, ISO 200
Exposure 1/2 sec, ISO 200
I plan to set this sequence do a continuous loop starting 2 minutes prior to totality until 2 minutes after totality. Total time of 5 or 6 minutes depending on our exact location.
- The Explore Scientific Twilight I mount is very sturdy and able to preform fine adjustments.
- Using a fixed tripod with a 400 mm focal length telescope limits the exposure to 1/2 second. I tried a 1 second exposure and the sun started to look oblong.
- The 4 exposure sequence takes approximately 16 seconds using Backyard EOS saving to the camera.
- The sun is really bright! No kidding Sherlock. Notice the first 3 exposures compared to the 1/2 second exposure. I did not change the size or zoom in, brightness is just that it masks the surface. That's why you need solar filters to look at the sun.
- I may miss Bailey's Beads or the diamond effect as the sun enters totality due to the amount of time it takes for the exposure sequence but I am very familiar with this procedure and it is automated so I can enjoy seeing the eclipse (HOPING NO CLOUDS GET IN THE WAY)!


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Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1977. Wraps. Good. Item #013747
Illustrated wraps. 185 pp. Color illustrations throughout depicting artist's conceptions of what space settlements may look like. A somewhat technical study on space colonies or settlements, considering effects of space on humans, and what design elements are needed in space, as well as different alternatives to building and design, what the colony may look like, and what the effects of colonies may be in the future. GOOD+ condition. Minor fading and edgewear, with a light curl/crease to the lower front cover corner. Owner's name and date in ink on the first endpaper.
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Sweden is often mentioned as one of many high-tech countries in the world. Through decades of industrial development they have achieved a solid reputation worldwide through renowned brands such as Volvo, Saab and Ericsson. Additionally, excellent work within the field of space activities has further demonstrated an outstanding ability to develop, build and manage highly advanced space projects, not to mention small satellites. Industrial companies such as Volvo Aero, Saab Space and Swedish Space Corporation were once leading in their special fields of rocket engines, space qualified electronic and separation systems, and for developing and building small satellites.
Generally speaking, it is a fair assumption that the sun is a blessing for Mother Earth and without this source of light and heat no life would have exited here. For most people there are few serious dangers when it comes to the sun, because through generations and increased solar research humans adjusted. Having said that, it is equally true that our modern way of life is sensitive for some of the effects of the sun, although most commonly used devices of today's modern society can be adjusted accordingly.
Developing, building and launching satellites is only a small part of the job. Operating satellites in space is another, and most certainly not always a routine job.
Not all satellites function perfectly during their expected life span; some have different lacks during launch, some are in a wrong orbit, some stop functioning before the end of their expected lifetime, whereas others have flawed sensors or processors etc. The challenges are many and complicated and - without physical contact with the satellite.
Satellites for Meteorological DataDue to the launch of three new earth observation satellites this summer, European meteorologists will gain access to better weather forecasts, in addition to improved knowledge about the physical phenomena at Earth
Europe "Steps Up"
List of articles:
Satellites for Meteorological Data - Europe "Steps Up"
EUMETSAT - Today and Tomorrow
Meteorological Data for All
ESA's Living Planet Programme
SAF - What Is That?
Norway - a Meteorologically Pioneer
Improving the forecasting
- Creating a Weather Report
- Internet Based Forecasting
- StormGeo - the Alternative
- Knowledge to the People
The USA is known as the high technology stronghold regarding nearly all fields of science. No other part of the world can refer to as many winners of the Nobel Prizes as the Americans and a very large part of the technological development is related to research carried out at American institutes. Space research and technology are no exception. Through the space race and the competition with the former Soviet Union, the USA took the lead in almost all fields.
Erik Tandberg - Following the whole space era
The region of Øresund, common for Sweden and Denmark, marks itself more and more as a region for science and research. Two universities, the University of Copenhagen and the University of Lund lay the groundwork for this collaboration and the European Spallation Source is on its way to be built on the Swedish side of the Øresund Strait.
Finnish research and innovation is well- known in the world, not least through the Nokia adventure, an adventure that also showed the Finnish ability to change from times with traditional industry, which the old Nokia represents, to the modern high technology society we now live in. Nokia is not the only example of Finnish high technology companies with large international success. However, it is all based on a very well reputed educational system and a well reputed research community.
The Onsala Space Observatory by the coast of western Sweden expands further, and with inauguration of the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) late in September, the observatory becomes a part of the world's largest radio telescope. The 192 new radio antennas, at an area like a football field, is not very imposing, but together with 47 other arrays in Europe the radio telescope can map radio signals from several billions light years back in the Universe to only few hundred light years after the Big Bang.
The polar area does not have the same satellite coverage as the more central parts of the world, mainly because much of the services the satellites provide are based on use of geostationary satellites. Due to the orbit geometry, parts of the Canadian territory cannot be covered at all by the GEO satellites.
Swedish Institute of Space Physics – Built at Old Research Tradition.Space Physics Research at high latitudes has a tradition in Sweden that extends back several hundred years. In the 1740s the famous Swedish scientists Celcius and Hiorter discovered the connection between the Aurora Borealis and disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field. However, it was not until 1902 that the first research station was set up north of the Polar Circle, near the railways between Sweden and Norway and near their common border. After a catastrophic fire the station was rebuilt at Abisko, some kilometres closer to Kiruna, mainly a place for biologists and geologists, but the geomagnetician, Bruno Rolf, stayed here for long periods and he discovered the "Giant Pulsations" in the geomagnetic fields.
In 1944 the Swedish government had set up a committee in order to make proposal to bring together the physical observations in a common geophysical observatory. The report from the committee proposed to build an observatory at a site eight kilometres east of the populated area of Kiruna.
Through a planning and financing phase the necessary area for the research activities was established and the construction of the first facilities started. The main building was inaugurated the 2 July 1957 and is still the core of the research facilities we know today.
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Remote Sensing for the Northern AreasRemote sensing from satellites is a very valuable tool for monitoring and managing sparsely populated area as the Arctic, the far islands in the north and forest areas that cover much of the Nordic mainland and not least the large oceans around the countries.
The Remote Sensing Days in Tromsø show some of today's possibilities and applications and what future sensors in space may provide.
We have collected some different articles about this topic:
Remote Sensing - Invaluable for Inaccessible Areas
Remote Sensing Applications
Barents Watch - where Remote Sensing Play the Main Role
Tromsø - a Centre for Arctic Research
Equipment and Service for Data Sampling
When the American Juno probe enters the orbit around Jupiter in 2016, one of the key elements to secure a successful mission is the small Advanced Stellar Compass from Denmark Technical University (DTU Space).
EGNOS Safety-of-Life – declared available for aviation, a new milestone at the "European Single Sky" has passed.
Accurate positioning and navigation has been a must, and for centuries it has been applied by ships, however, today more and more areas apply it in our modern society. The reason is the introduction of satellites.


Pierre-Damien is the co-founder of Loft Orbital Solutions, a Silicon Valley company with the mission to build the new standard for data collection from space. By offering a simple and affordable end-to-end solution to deploy and operate sensors in space, it unleashes a wave of new possible space-based applications. Pierre-Damien Vaujour is an aerospace engineer who has dedicated his career to bringing entrepreneurship to the space sector and creating new opportunities that were once thought impossible. He experienced first-hand the early developments of space tourism when jumpstarting the Google Lunar X PRIZE. After some time at the European Space Agency and NASA, he became one of the very first employees at Spire, where he contributed to establishing the satellite data company as a global leader of the growing New Space industry.


According to Greek mythology, Callisto was a and a follower of . Zeus developed an attraction to Callisto and turned himself into Artemis to lure Callisto. After Callisto became pregnant, she was expelled from Artemis’ hunting group. Once Hera found out, she turned Callisto into a bear. As she was about to be hunted by her son, they were was set among the stars as Ursa Major and Minor (“the Great Bear” and “the Little Bear” constellations) by Zeus.
Above is an image of Hera turning Callisto into a bear.
Callisto probably favoured the same foods as Artemis.
Greek goddess of the hunt and the moon


Each winter we are welcoming increased number of people coming to Iceland in search of the famous Aurora Borealis. This fascinating natural phenomenon, otherwise known as the northern lights, is one of the most mesmerizing sights you will ever come across in your life. The dancing colors and shapes in the dark arctic sky will simply leave you awestruck.
You will be picked up at your hotel in a custom-built 4×4 super jeep by our expert northern lights guide. We leave the lights of the city behind and head into the darkness for our adventure. On the search for the northern lights, we might travel through some of Iceland’s most spectacular natural sights without knowing but your guide is sure to let you know what the night is hiding. The super jeep gives us the flexibility to go off of the beaten path to locations the big buses can not reach. Giving us a greater chance to enjoy the northern lights and the wonders of the night sky without the discomfort of big crowds. In the cold night, there is nothing like some hot chocolate to keep warm and the brave ones can even add some Icelandic Brennivín to theirs!
- Northern lights
- Super Jeep
- Small group setting
- Pick-up from Reykjavík
- Hot chocolate and biscuits
- Expert guidance
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Hot chocolate and biscuits
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Remember to bring: Warm and waterproof outdoor clothing, head wear, gloves and sturdy shoes. Bathing suit & towel are also essential.
What if I don’t own all of these clothing necessaries?
Hiking shoes, waterproof jacket and waterproof pants can be rented for a small fee.


Anarchists and Space
April 7, 2009
I must admit, I wasn’t that excited when I first heard that the topic for this year’s Finding Our Roots anarchist theory conference in Chicago was going to be “space” — as in, the anarchist use of locations, territory, or idea/cultural space. Now that the conference is just a few weeks away, however, I’ve been toying with the idea of putting together a guerrilla workshop on anarchists _in_ space — as in, outer space.
An obvious starting point for a discussion of this sort would be the Association of Autonomous Astronauts, and similar groups like Red Giant, that tackled issues like the demilitarization and (non-)corporate colonization of outer space. On the more abstract/theoretical level, we could discuss science fiction portrayals of anarchists in space — Robinson’s Mars books, LeGuin’s Dispossessed, Ian Banks’s Culture books, MacLeod’s Fall Revolution, etc. — and how anarchists could play a role in expanding outward from Earth and potentially use it to claim autonomous anarchist space.
While such sci-fi and speculative fiction is often dismissed, it does open the door for anarchists to talk about these issues with people unfamiliar to anarchism.
Anyone reading this going to FOR? Anyone potentially interested in such a guerrilla workshop?


I ventured down to DC to capture the full moon rise over Washington DC this evening. The full moon in Sept usually lines up nicely with the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and Capitol building, creating a wonderful shot. I was hesitant to make the trip because of all the clouds, and it was quite cloudy so that we couldn't see the moon until about 15 minutes after it rose. Thankfully, the moon peaked out from behind the clouds for a few minutes.
As I said in my post last year, the best place to capture this image is from in front of the Netherlands Carillon
Update: Check out my next post where I show a 5 second time lapse video of the moon rise


Solar Energy and Solar Wind: what do they have in Common?
You hear virtually nothing about the solar wind but a lot about solar energy or solar power these days. It has been blasted all over the radio and now TV, at least here in Southern California. The last year or so in 2015 and so far in 2016 I’ll bet we received at least a few hundred calls soliciting solar systems.
We also had well over a dozen people knocking on our door promoting their solar power installation. If you read my previous posts about solar power you know I wanted to use solar power/solar energy. I wanted to replace my total dependence on Southern California Edison (SCE), our electric company. In fact, the only electric company for millions of Southern Californians.
Solar Power was a Bust
Well as it turned out solar power was a bust and not for me. I really wanted to do something for keeping the earth green. What about solar wind?
You don’t hear much about it unless you are a physicist or maybe a student majoring in physics. Then there are people like me that thrive on almost anything technical. Also involving physics or astronomy, which involves an awful lot of physics.
The Sun Powers Solar Energy and the Solar Wind
About the only thing in common between solar energy and the solar wind is both are deriving their source from the sun. Actually that’s really a major thing in common, even though we are about 93 million miles away from the sun.
If you have read or heard on TV that Voyager I spacecraft was nearing or about at the point where the solar wind diminishes to almost nothing. Interstellar space is right next door to the spacecraft. It was 18 billion kilometers (11 billion miles) from the sun last August, in its journey since its launch in 1977.
I saw an announcement about the solar wind when Voyager would enter it. I just had to read all about it. Basically it is about the solar wind and why it gets hotter in space. All normal thinking says it should be getting cooler as it flows in space.
In addition to that, it speeds up, when it definitely shouldn’t be doing that either. Apparently the source of the solar wind is causing these unusual phenomena to occur.
The Solar Wind
The Solar Wind energy source has finally been discovered. I won’t bore you with the details, which you can read, if interested. They were published in NASA Science| Science News on March 8, 2013.
Using data from an aging NASA spacecraft, researchers have found signs of an energy source in the solar wind. It has caught the attention of fusion researchers. NASA will be able to test the theory later this decade when it sends a new probe into the sun for a closer look.
The discovery was made by a group of astronomers trying to solve a decades-old mystery: What heats and accelerates the solar wind?The solar wind is a hot and fast flow of magnetized gas that streams away from the sun’s upper atmosphere. It is made of hydrogen and helium ions with a sprinkling of heavier elements. Researchers liken it to the steam from a pot of water boiling on a stove. The sun is literally boiling itself away.
“But,” says Adam Szabo of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, “solar wind does something that steam in your kitchen never does. As steam rises from a pot, it slows and cools. As solar wind leaves the sun, it accelerates, tripling in speed as it passes through the corona. Furthermore, something inside the solar wind continues to add heat even as it blows into the cold of space.”
Old Equipment and Solar Power
It’s amazing that there is still a spacecraft up there with reels of tape still sending data back. Useful data, the source of the information unraveling the source of the solar wind. That sounds like when I started programming a few years before launch of Voyager I and Voyager II. Both took off for parts unknown (after their solar system voyage).
Back to solar power – I am hopeful the day will come soon that the cost of solar power will be low enough to convert to it. Right now my electric bill is not high enough to justify it. Does about $52,000 cost over 18 years for solar power sound like a savings to you?
It would also help if SCE would do like some other electric utility companies. Some pay you for the excess energy (electricity) you feed into their grid. Edison has some sort of non-monetary compensation. But according to what I read solar power fed back to SCE only gets some credit and it expires at the end of the year.
I am not totally sure about this sort of rebate and it may have changed. So if anyone needs to correct me please enter a comment. Better yet contact me from the contact form.


On Friday, we went to the Nottingham Trent University Astronomical Observatory.
It was a truly inspiring trip, we learned so much! We went inside a planetarium and looked at Jupiter, Mars and the moon close up. What was especially interesting was that these planets and our moon are currently visible in the night sky right now, with a pair of binoculars we can look at them for ourselves! We also learned about the constellations and the myths that inspired the constellations.We had an interesting presentaion all about the moon and another about Astronaurts and the history of space travel. We were especially interested in the toileting logistics in spacesuits!
We got to go inside the observatory and look at all the high tech equipment, we all got to control the telescope whilst learning about what it is used for at the university. Afterwards, we were invited to look at the sun through a special, safe telescope and saw sun flares!
A great day was had by all!


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The creature we call man is basically a universal phenomenon that he is not only unique in our earth. This statement can be found in different sources in literature. Speaking of the universe, one way to look at it may go something like the following. Suppose we have 2 points A and B in space. Actually there are innumerable numbers of such points so that the whole universe is filed with this point. This is to say that the whole universe has equal quality throughout. This is the most logical supposition we consider seriously.
If point A happens to be the location of our earth, a planet inhabited by the phenomenon man, certainly the universe will contain similar points. But now science goes to say that this is not so, that in all the vastness of space and the infinity of the universe, point A is uniquely the only 1 where life is to be found.
This conclusion prefers the particular rather than general which in itself is unscientific. This is the first fallacy. Another one is the assumption that matter has no origin, it’s just there, made out of nothing, which also is against science. Though the Einsteinian equation E=MC2 points to the reversibility of energy and matter, science and technology have only been to able convert energy into matter.
This imply that what God has assembled should not be torn lightly apart by a man in his ignorance plays with still unknown qualities or the atom. This warning comes from esoteric literature in a rather serious tone.
What is still not discovered by science is the fact that matter and what goes for the physical world, are but the lowest point in a chain of celestial manipulation of certain energies of which we know very little. Science has busied itself with but a small part of a much bigger whole, much of which is hidden to science.


- How much of space is empty?
- Can humans walk through walls?
- Why can’t we walk through walls?
- Is the universe empty?
- What is the emptiness of space?
- What percentage of the human body is empty space?
- Are we mostly empty space?
- Why is the universe mostly empty?
- What keeps space empty?
- Do we ever actually touch anything?
- What fills the empty space in your body?
- Are humans made of energy?
- Are humans made of stardust?
How much of space is empty?
0.0000000000000000000042 percentSo all of the matter in the universe would fit into about 1 billion cubic light years, or a cube that’s approximately 1,000 light years on each side.
That means that only about 0.0000000000000000000042 percent of the universe contains any matter.
The universe is a pretty empty place!.
Can humans walk through walls?
If you’ve ever tried the experiment, you know you can’t walk through a wall. But subatomic particles can pull off similar feats through a weird process called quantum tunneling. … Tunneling would be an even bigger achievement.
Why can’t we walk through walls?
Here’s The Reason You Can’t Actually Walk Through Walls, According to Science. You’ve probably heard that the atoms that make up your body and all other normal matter in the Universe are mostly empty space. … Solid enough the elements in our atoms can’t just pass through the empty spaces of other atoms, and vice versa.
Is the universe empty?
SPACE-TIME is mostly empty. Though there are at least 100 billion galaxies – each home to around 100 billion stars – and lots of galactic dust, the universe is so vast that there are huge tracts of space-time between every star and more still between every galaxy.
What is the emptiness of space?
The space that fills the gap between us and those stars, is perceived by us to be empty. … We could define emptiness as a volume of space which contains ‘nothing’ in the truest sense of the word. No atoms, no elements, molecules, protons, neutrons, quarks, electrons, you get the picture.
What percentage of the human body is empty space?
99.9999999%99.9999999% of Your Body Is Empty Space. Some days, you might feel like a pretty substantial person.
Are we mostly empty space?
Every human on planet Earth is made up of millions and millions of atoms which all are 99% empty space. If you were to remove all of the empty space contained in every atom in every person on planet earth and compress us all together, then the overall volume of our particles would be smaller than a sugar cube.
Why is the universe mostly empty?
Looking outward, there is a vast amount of space between planets, solar systems, and galaxies. … But even when we look inward, deep within atoms and molecules, we find an enormous empty space between the electrons circling the nucleus of atoms.
What keeps space empty?
Space is not empty. A point in outer space is filled with gas, dust, a wind of charged particles from the stars, light from stars, cosmic rays, radiation left over from the Big Bang, gravity, electric and magnetic fields, and neutrinos from nuclear reactions.
Do we ever actually touch anything?
Particles are, by their very nature, attracted to particles with an opposite charge, and they repel other similarly charged particles. This prevents electrons from ever coming in direct contact (in an atomic sense and literal sense). Their wave packets, on the other hand, can overlap, but never touch.
What fills the empty space in your body?
The interstitium in the submucosae of visceral organs, the dermis, superficial fascia and perivascular adventitia are fluid filled spaces supported by a collagen bundle lattice.
Are humans made of energy?
all matter and psychological processes — thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and attitudes — are composed of energy. When applied to the human body, every atom, molecule, cell, tissue and body system is composed of energy that when superimposed on each other create what is known as the human energy field.
Are humans made of stardust?
Stars that go supernova are responsible for creating many of the elements of the periodic table, including those that make up the human body. ‘It is totally 100% true: nearly all the elements in the human body were made in a star and many have come through several supernovas. …


NASA Masonic Conpsiracy
Apollo Mission's Masonic Symbols
In 1961, William Branham said: "I tell you now, it's a program that'll take you a hundred billion, billion, million light years beyond the moon. That's right. And there if you go to the moon you couldn't set down because see, you'd jump right back up unless you had some magnet to hold you there. You couldn't stay over night; you'd freeze to death. In the daytime you'd burn up. What you going to do when you get there?" (Basis of Fellowship 61-0214).
The following article is an excerpt from Wm. Cooper's site
NASA was created to make interstellar travel believable. The Apollo Space Program foisted the idea that man could travel to, and walk upon, the moon. Every Apollo mission was carefully rehearsed and then filmed in large sound stages at the Atomic Energy Commission's Top Secret test site in the Nevada Desert and in a secured and guarded sound stage at the Walt Disney Studios within which was a huge scale mock-up of the moon.
All of the names, missions, landing sites, and events in the Apollo Space Program echoed the occult metaphors, rituals, and symbology of the Illuminati's secret religion: The most transparent was the faked explosion on the spacecraft Apollo 13, named "Aquarius" (new age) at 1:13 (1313 military time) on April 13, 1970 which was the metaphor for the initiation ceremony involving the death (explosion), placement in the coffin (period of uncertainty of their survival), communion with the spiritual world and the imparting of esoteric knowledge to the candidate (orbit and observation of the moon without physical contact), rebirth of the initiate (solution of problem and repairs), and the raising up (of the Phoenix, the new age of Aquarius) by the grip of the lions paw (reentry and recovery of Apollo 13). 13 is the (occult) number of death and rebirth, death and reincarnation, sacrifice, the Phoenix, the Christ (perfected soul imprisoned in matter), and the transition from the old to the new. Another revelation to those who understand the symbolic language of the Illuminati is the hidden meaning of the names of the Space Shuttles, "A Colombian Enterprise to Endeavor for the Discovery of Atlantis. . . and all Challengers shall be destroyed."
Exploration of the moon stopped because it was impossible to continue the hoax without ultimately being discovered: And of course they ran out of pre-filmed episodes.
No man has ever ascended higher than 300 miles, if that high, above the Earth's surface. No man has ever orbited, landed on, or walked upon the moon in any publicly known space program. If man has ever truly been to the moon it has been done in secret and with a far different technology.
The tremendous radiation encountered in the Van Allen Belt, solar radiation, cosmic radiation, temperature control, and many other problems connected with space travel prevent living organisms leaving our atmosphere with our known level of technology. Any intelligent high school student with a basic physics book can prove NASA faked the Apollo moon landings.
If you doubt this please explain how the astronauts walked upon the moon's surface enclosed in a space suit in full sunlight absorbing a minimum of 265 degrees of heat surrounded by a vacuum. NASA tells us the moon has no atmosphere and that the astronauts were surrounded by the vacuum of space.
Heat is defined as the vibration or movement of molecules within matter. The faster the molecular motion the higher the temperature. The slower the molecular motion the colder the temperature. Absolute zero is that point where all molecular motion ceases. In order to have hot or cold molecules must be present.
A vacuum is a condition of nothingness where there are no molecules. Vacuums exist in degrees. Some scientists tell us that there is no such thing as an absolute vacuum. Space is the closest thing to an absolute vacuum that is known to us. There are so few molecules present in most areas of what we know as "space" that any concept of "hot" or "cold" is impossible to measure. A vacuum is a perfect insulator. That is why a "Thermos" or vacuum bottle is used to store hot or cold liquids in order to maintain the temperature for the longest time possible without re-heating or re-cooling.
Radiation of all types will travel through a vacuum but will not affect the vacuum. Radiant heat from the sun travels through the vacuum of space but does not "warm" space. In fact the radiant heat of the sun has no affect whatsoever until it strikes matter. Molecular movement will increase in direct proportion to the radiant energy which is absorbed by matter. The time it takes to heat matter exposed to direct sunlight in space is determined by its color, its elemental properties, its distance from the sun, and its rate of absorption of radiant heat energy. Space is NOT hot. Space is NOT cold.
Objects which are heated cannot be cooled by space. In order for an object to cool it must first be removed from direct sunlight. Objects which are in the shadow of another object will eventually cool but not because space is "cold." Space is not cold. Hot and cold do not exist in the vacuum of space. Objects cool because the laws of motion dictate that the molecules of the object will slow down due to the resistance resulting from striking other molecules until eventually all motion will stop provided the object is sheltered from the direct and/or indirect radiation of the sun and that there is no other source of heat. Since the vacuum of space is the perfect insulator objects take a very long time to cool even when removed from all sources of heat, radiated or otherwise.
NASA insists the space suits the astronauts supposedly wore on the lunar surface were air conditioned. An air conditioner cannot, and will not work without a heat exchanger. A heat exchanger simply takes heat gathered in a medium such as freon from one place and transfers it to another place. This requires a medium of molecules which can absorb and transfer the heat such as an atmosphere or water. An air conditioner will not and cannot work in a vacuum. A space suit surrounded by a vacuum cannot transfer heat from the inside of the suit to any other place. The vacuum, remember, is a perfect insulator. A man would roast in his suit in such a circumstance.
NASA claims the spacesuits were cooled by a water system which was piped around the body, then through a system of coils sheltered from the sun in the backpack. NASA claims that water was sprayed on the coils causing a coating of ice to form. The ice then supposedly absorbed the tremendous heat collected in the water and evaporated into space. There are two problems with this that cannot be explained away. 1) The amount of water needed to be carried by the astronauts in order to make this work for even a very small length of time in the direct 55 oover the boiling point of water (210oF at sea level on Earth) heat of the sun could not have possibly been carried by the astronauts. 2) NASA has since claimed that they found ice in moon craters. NASA claims that ice sheltered from the direct rays of the sun will NOT evaporate, destroying their own bogus "air conditioning" explanation.
Remember this. Think about it the next time you go off in the morning with a "vacuum bottle" filled with hot coffee. Think about it long and hard when you sit down and pour a piping hot cup from your thermos to drink with your lunch four hours later. . . and then think about it again when you pour the last still very warm cup of coffee at the end of the day.
The same laws of physics apply to any vehicle traveling through space. NASA claims that the spacecraft was slowly rotated causing the shadowed side to be cooled by the intense cold of space . . . an intense cold that DOES NOT EXIST. In fact the only thing that could have been accomplished by a rotation of the spacecraft is a more even and constant heating such as that obtained by rotating a hot dog on a spit. In reality a dish called Astronaut a la Apollo would have been served. At the very least you would not want to open the hatch upon the crafts return.
NASA knows better than to claim, in addition, that a water cooling apparatus such as that which they claim cooled the astronauts suits cooled the spacecraft. No rocket could ever have been launched with the amount of water needed to work such a system for even a very short period of time. Fresh water weighs a little over 62lbs. per cubic foot. Space and weight capacity were critical given the lift capability of the rockets used in the Apollo Space Program. No such extra water was carried by any mission whatsoever for suits or for cooling the spacecraft.
On the tapes the Astronauts complained bitterly of the cold during their journey and while on the surface of the moon. They spoke of using heaters that did not give off enough heat to overcome the intense cold of space. It was imperative that NASA use this ruse because to tell the truth would TELL THE TRUTH. It is also proof of the arrogance and contempt in which the Illuminati holds the common man.
What we heard is in reality indicative of an over zealous cooling system in the props used during the filming of the missions at the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada desert test site, where it is common to see temperatures well over 100o. In the glaring unfiltered direct heat of the sun the Astronauts could never have been cold at any time whatsoever in the perfect insulating vacuum of space.
NASA claims that the space suits worn by the astronauts were pressurized at 5 psi over the ambient pressure (0 psi vacuum) on the moon's surface. We have examined the gloves NASA claims the astronauts wore and find they are made of pliable material containing no mechanical, hydraulic, or electrical devices which would aid the astronauts in the dexterous use of their fingers and hands while wearing the gloves. Experiments prove absolutely that such gloves are impossible to use and that the wearer cannot bend the wrist or fingers to do any dexterous work whatsoever when filled with 5 psi over ambient pressure either in a vacuum or in the earth's atmosphere. NASA actually showed film and television footage of astronauts using their hands and fingers normally during their EVAs on the so-called lunar surface. The films show clearly that there is no pressure whatsoever within the gloves . . . a condition that would have caused explosive decompression of the astronauts resulting in almost immediate death if they had really been surrounded by the vacuum of space.
If you don't believe it try it yourself . . . it is a very simple experiment and does not require a rocket scientist to perform. These are just two of over a hundred very simple and very easy to prove valid scientific reasons why NASA and the Apollo Space Program are two of the biggest lies ever foisted upon the unsuspecting and trusting People of the world.
Most, if not all, of the photos, films, and videotape of the Apollo Moon Missions are easily proven to be fake. Anyone with the slightest knowledge of photography, lighting, and physics can easily prove that NASA faked the visual records of the Apollo Space Program. Some are so obviously fake that when the discrepancies are pointed out to unsuspecting viewers an audible gasp has been heard. Some have actually gone into a mild state of shock. Some People break down and cry. I have seen others become so angry that they have ripped the offending photos to shreds while screaming incoherently.
C. Fred Kleinknect, head of NASA at the time of the Apollo Space Program, is now the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Council of the 33rd Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of the Southern Jurisdiction. It was his reward for pulling it off. All of the first astronauts were Freemasons. There is a photograph in the House of the Temple in Washington DC of Neil Armstrong on the moon's surface (supposedly) in his spacesuit holding his Masonic Apron in front of his groin.
The effect upon the people of the world was, that if we could go to the moon other creatures from other worlds could travel to our Earth. The escalation of the artificial alien threat scenario since that time is obvious.
The recent revelations of the fraudulent nature of NASA and the Apollo space program by the Intelligence Service and others has resulted in a flood of propaganda, television programs, and films designed to keep the sheople trapped in a deep ignorant sleep. The most ambitious are "Apollo 13" and "From the Earth to the Moon," both involving the actor/producer Tom Hanks. The latter opens with a monologue by Mr. Hanks who walks forward revealing a huge representation of the "God" Apollo (Sun, Osiris, lost word, etc.) guiding his chariot pulled by 4 horses through the heavens.
(End of excerpt from William Cooper's Recent Conspiracy Overview
Apollo is "Lucifer." And remember, that the international flag of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry is the United Nations Flag (according to their own site). As Bill Cooper points out, the United Nations Flag depicts the nations of the world encircled by the laurel of Apollo. masonapo.htm


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A global ice age… pushes humanity to the brink of extinction.
As ice spreads across the planet, scientists race to figure out why the Earth is cooling.
They send probes into space–and make a shocking discovery: there’s a mysterious object drifting toward the sun.
Could it save us from the ice age?
Or is it the cause?
With time running out, NASA launches a desperate mission to make contact with the object. But it isn’t what they expected.
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From A.G. Riddle, the worldwide bestselling author of The Atlantis Gene and Departure, comes a new sci-fi thriller that will change the way you look at Earth’s place in the solar system forever.
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Each month, Earth grows colder. Snow falls in summer. Glaciers trample cities across North America, Europe, and Asia. The new ice age gripping the planet shows no signs of stopping.
Chaos erupts. Around the world, people abandon their homes, fleeing the cold, flocking to regions where they can survive.
Nations prepare to go to war for the world’s last habitable zones.
NASA and other scientific organizations race to discover why the world is cooling. They send probes into the solar system to collect readings. Near Mars, one of the probes finds something no one expected: a mysterious object, drifting toward the sun. Could it be responsible for the new ice age? And if so, can we stop it? Or is the artifact merely an observer? Or neither? Could it be a relic from a long-extinct civilization? One thing is certain: investigating the artifact is humanity’s best hope of survival.
As the ice age claims more lives and the world slides into anarchy, an international consortium launches a mission into space to study the object and make contact. But the first contact mission doesn’t go as planned. What the crew discovers out there is beyond anyone’s imagination.
Two members of the first contact mission may hold the keys to humanity’s salvation.
Dr. Emma Matthews is the commander aboard the International Space Station. For months, she has watched the world below freeze and civilization unravel. The headlines tell only half of the story. The messages from her sister tell the rest, of a world witnessing mass migrations, fighting for survival, struggling to provide a future for their children. When a catastrophe strikes the ISS, Emma faces her own fight for survival.
Dr. James Sinclair is one of the greatest scientists alive. A mind before his time. Years ago, he invented something with the potential to change the world–an invention that would upset the balance of power in the world forever. Fearing that change, his enemies sent him to prison for a crime he didn’t commit. But with humanity’s future at stake, NASA asks him to join the first contact mission. His expertise is vital to the mission’s success–and to saving Emma. With the clock ticking down to humanity’s final days on Earth, James makes a decision that will change his life forever and may determine the fate of the entire human race.
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Praise for A.G. Riddle
“…reads like a superior collaboration between Dan Brown and Michael Crichton.”
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“I finished the book fast because I just couldn’t wait…”
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“Riddle… keep(s) the focus on his characters… rather than the technological marvels”
— Publisher’s Weekly on Departure.


Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. He profoundly changed astronomers' understanding of the nature of the universe by demonstrating the existence of other galaxies besides the Milky Way. He also discovered that the degree of redshift observed in light coming from a galaxy increased in proportion to the distance of that galaxy from the Milky Way. This became known as Hubble's law, and would help establish that the universe is expanding.
He was born to an insurance executive in Marshfield, Missouri and moved to Wheaton, Illinois in 1898. In his younger days he was noted more for his athletic prowess than his intellectual abilities, although he did earn good grades in every subject except for spelling. He won seven first places and a third place in a single high school track meet in 1906. That year he also set a state record for high jump in Illinois.
His studies at the University of Chicago concentrated on mathematics and astronomy and philosophy which led to a BS degree in 1910. Hubble also became a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity and in 1948 was named Kappa Sigma "Man of the Year". He spent the next three years as one of Oxford's first Rhodes Scholars, where he originally studied jurisprudence, before switching his major to Spanish and receiving the MA degree, after which he returned to the United States. Some of his British mannerisms and dress stayed with him all his life, occasionally irritating his more American colleagues.
Returning to the United States he worked as a high school teacher and a basketball coach at New Albany High School in New Albany, Indiana (near Louisville), and was a member of the Kentucky bar, although he reportedly never actually practiced law in Kentucky. He served in World War I and quickly advanced to the rank of major. He returned to astronomy at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago, where he earned a PhD in 1917 with a dissertation entitled "Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae".
In 1919 Hubble was offered a staff position by George Ellery Hale, the founder and director of Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson Observatory, near Pasadena, California, where he remained until his death. He also served in the US Army at the Aberdeen Proving Ground during World War II. For his work there he received the Legion of Merit. Shortly before his death, Palomar's 200-inch Hale Telescope was completed; Hubble was the first to use it. Hubble continued his researches at the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, where he remained active until his death.
He died of a cerebral thrombosis on September 28, 1953, in San Marino, California. His wife, Grace, did not have a funeral for him and never revealed what was done with his body--it was apparently Hubble's wish to have no funeral service and be buried in an unmarked grave, or that he wanted to be cremated. As of now, the whereabouts of his remains are unknown.
The universe goes beyond the Milky Way galaxy
Hubble's arrival at Mount Wilson in 1919 coincided roughly with the completion of the 100-inch Hooker Telescope, then the world's largest telescope. At that time, the prevailing view of the cosmos was that the universe consists entirely of the Milky Way galaxy. Using the Hooker Telescope, Hubble identified Cepheid variables (a kind of star; see also standard candle) in several objects, including the Andromeda Galaxy, which at that time were known as "nebulae" and had been assumed to lie within the Milky Way. His observations in 1922–1923 conclusively proved that these objects were much more distant than previously thought and were hence galaxies themselves, rather than constituents of the Milky Way. Announced on January 1, 1925, this discovery fundamentally changed the view of the universe.
Hubble also devised the most commonly used system for classifying galaxies, grouping them according to their appearance in photographic images. He arranged the different groups of galaxies in what became known as the Hubble sequence.
Redshift increases with distance
This discovery was the first observational support for the Big Bang theory which had been proposed by Alexander Friedmann in 1922. The observed velocities of distant galaxies, taken together with the cosmological principle appeared to show that the Universe was expanding in a manner consistent with the Friedmann-Lemaître model of general relativity. In 1931 Hubble wrote a letter to the Dutch cosmologist Willem De Sitter expressing his opinion on the theoretical interpretation of the redshift-distance relation:
"... we use the term 'apparent velocities' in order to emphasize the empirical feature of the correlation. The interpretation, we feel, should be left to you and the very few others who are competent to discuss the matter with authority."
Today, the 'apparent velocities' in question are considered to be artifacts of a coordinate transformation that occurs in an expanding space. Light traveling through stretching space will experience a Hubble-type redshift, a mechanism different from the Doppler effect.
In the 1930s Hubble was involved in determining the distribution of galaxies and spatial curvature. These data seemed to indicate that the universe was flat and homogeneous, but there was a deviation from flatness at large redshifts. According to Allan Sandage,
"Hubble believed that his count data gave a more reasonable result concerning spatial curvature if the redshift correction was made assuming no recession. To the very end of his writings he maintained this position, favouring (or at the very least keeping open) the model where no true expansion exists, and therefore that the redshift "represents a hitherto unrecognized principle of nature."
There were methodological problems with Hubble's survey technique that showed a deviation from flatness at large redshifts. In particular the technique did not account for changes in luminosity of galaxies due to galaxy evolution.
Earlier, in 1917, Albert Einstein had found that his newly developed theory of general relativity indicated that the universe must be either expanding or contracting. Unable to believe what his own equations were telling him, Einstein introduced a cosmological constant (a "fudge factor") to the equations to avoid this "problem". When Einstein heard of Hubble's discovery, he said that changing his equations was "the biggest blunder of [his] life".
Hubble discovered the asteroid 1373 Cincinnati on August 30, 1935. He also wrote The Observational Approach to Cosmology and The Realm of the Nebulae around this time.
Hubble spent much of the later part of his career attempting to have astronomy considered an area of physics, instead of being its own science. He did this largely so that astronomers - including himself - could be recognized by the Nobel Prize Committee for their valuable contributions to astrophysics. This campaign was unsuccessful for a long time. The Nobel Prize Committee eventually decided that astronomical work would be eligible for the physics prize.
* Bruce Medal in 1938.
* Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1940.
* Medal of Merit for outstanding contribution to ballistics research in 1946--ARP
Named after him
* Asteroid 2069 Hubble.
1. ^ For the record, these were discus, hammer throw, pole vault, standing and running high jump, shot put, mile-relay. The third-placing was for broad jump.
2. ^ Who Was Edwin Hubble?
3. ^ This had actually been observed by Vesto Slipher in the 1910s, but the world was largely unaware. Ref: Slipher (1917): Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., 56, 403.
4. ^ Distance determination in astronomy continues to be an active area of research, see the article on cosmic distance ladder for more details.
5. ^ Galaxy redshifts reconsidered - The Astronomy Cafe, Dr. Sten Odenwald
6. ^ EDWIN HUBBLE 1889-1953 By Allan Sandage (1989, JRASC Vol. 83, No.6)
7. ^ Cosmological Constant from Stephen Hawking's Universe on PBS
* Christianson, Gale; Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) (New York, August 1995.)
* Hubble E.P., The Observational Approach to Cosmology (Oxford, 1937.)
* Hubble E.P., The Realm of the Nebulae (New Haven, 1936.)
* Hubble, A relation between distance and radial velocity among extra-galactic nebulae, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Volume 15 (1929)
o Hubble sequence
* Expansion of the universe
o Big bang
* Edwin Hubble House, residence and National Historic Landmark in San Marino, California
* O'Connor, John J; Edmund F. Robertson "Edwin Hubble". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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By Sarah CR Clark
On what felt like the umpteenth day of Gov. Tim Walz’s stay-at-home order, Bill Prouty posted a video on the St. Anthony Park Neighbors Facebook page introducing a free, kid-friendly activity created by his family.
“We built a little neighborhood science project, the SAP City Space Walk,” he stated. “It is hard to imagine just how huge and spread out our solar system is, so we made a scale model in our neighborhood that you can walk through.”
The Prouty Drajkó family describes their Space Walk as “a science project, a scavenger hunt, street art and a neighborhood experiment.” Participants begin their journey at the Sun, located on Knapp Street in front of the elementary school, and proceed to locate each planet as one’s smart phone directs.
Lilli Prouty, a St. Anthony Park Elementary second-grade student, advises in the video, “Walking between the inner planets only takes a few minutes, but you might want a bike to travel beyond Jupiter.”
Bill noted, “Picking a scale (for the solar system) was a little tricky. Too big and you end up in Stillwater; too small, and all the planets end up the size of grains of sand.” In the Space Walk’s final scale, Pluto is in Como Park and Earth is the size of a green pea.
The family’s idea for the Space Walk project came from a visit to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Bill explained, “Last summer, Julianna and I took a trip to Washington, D.C., to celebrate her becoming an American citizen.” (Julianna, Bill’s wife is a native of Hungary.) While there, they visited a similar scale model of the solar system called “Voyage,” which spans the length of the National Mall.
“It really demonstrated to me how vast our solar system is in a way that books and multimedia can’t,” Bill said. “Ever since that trip to the Capitol (in Washington, D.C.) I’ve wanted to install a similar model somewhere in Minnesota. The pandemic gave us an excuse to work on a family science project.”
Lilli participated in the family’s science project, designing the signs and zip-tying them to posts. She also helped write the script for the video and wore her old Halloween costume as an astronaut for recording. She was most surprised to learn that Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun.
“We hope the project checks a few boxes for our neighbors during the pandemic,” Bill said, noting that it is free, fun for all ages, educational and helps get people outside and moving. The Space Walk scavenger hunt will continue through the summer.
Bill concluded, “On the sign for Earth we excerpted one of my favorite quotes that celebrates our connectedness in this moment of social distancing:
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives . . .” —Carl Sagan, 1994.


“National Students’ Space Challenge 2018”: October 5th to 7th at IIT Kharagpur
In the wake of tremendous success in the field of space science and technology, the world has witnessed the birth of a new era. As the world realized the importance of space technology, Space Technology Students’ Society, IIT Kharagpur took the initiative of starting National Students’ Space Challenge, which is a unique blend of space science and technology.
Every year, many budding space enthusiasts showcase their talents in this fest which also happens to be India’s first and largest Space Technology fest. The commencement of Octber 2018 brings with it the 8th edition of the National Students’ Space Challenge presented by IIT Kharagpur in association with Indian Space Research Organization. During the fest, participants from all across the country compete in amazing set of space themed robotic and astronomy based events which will challenge participant’s engineering and innovation skills. Participants also get to witness amazing guest lectures by eminent scientists, astronomers and professors from deemed institutions across the globe, and develop your technical skills through various workshops.This fest includes many online pre-fest events which happen to be rage in the world of internet. The main motto of this fun packed space themed fest is to raise the standards of space technology and encourage young minds.
- The fest comprises of the following events:
- Pixelation: Image Processing Competition.
- Aciquor: Autonomous robotic Competition.
- Voyager: Manual robotic Competition
- Case Study
- Paper Presentation
- The Braitenberg Challenge: Onspot Hardware coding event
- Lift-off: Water Rocketry Competition
- Hoverpod: Hover-Craft making competition
- The Science of Paper Folding: Onspot origami competition
- Studex: Innovation and Product designing Challenge
- Designeer: Onspot CAD competition
- Astrophotography competition: Online photography Competition
- Tshirt Designing competition: Online designing competition
- Space Quiz: Online quiz competition.
Enjoy some cool online pre-fest events visit www.nssc.in and www.fb.com/nssc.iit. This October book your tickets to Kharagpur to enjoy and explore 3 fun packed days in 2200-acre campus of IIT Khargpur. See you there! Space Technology Students’ Society (spAts) is the organising team of NSSC. Officially, spAts is the student body of Kalpana Chawala Space Technology Cell (KCSTC), the contact point of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), at IIT Kharagpur. With the aim of spreading the awareness of the importance of space technology, the team ensures an extravaganza this October.”
Eligibility: Ongoing Undergraduate and Graduate Students from any stream in India.
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The want to explore space started whenever people looked at the sky and wondered, “Hey, I wonder what’s beyond what I can see?” In fact, by looking at the sky you are already exploring space, you are just limited to what you could see at night with your naked eye.
In the 1600’s, the first telescope allowed people to investigate the sky. Then in 1903, the wright brothers built the first plane, which other inventors quickly improved on, and then WW1 saw planes getting more efficient and effective. In WW2, the Nazi’s were on cutting edge technology and built a jet engine plane that influenced a new generation of Ariel technology. The V2 rocket was developed by the germans, and that was the first man-made object capable of crossing the boundary of space. It was a long-range missile that had a maximum altitude of 128 miles, equivalent to 206 km. Therefore, at the end of WW2 the US and USSR each tried to capture as many V2 rockets and German engineers as possible.
Let us start by setting a definition of space travel. The space line is known as the Karman line, which is 100 km above the earth’s surface. At this point, the air becomes too thin to support aeronautical flight due to the lack of lift generation. A section called the low Earth Orbit starts around 160 km and continues up to 2000 km high. This is where most manned space flights happen and are also where most satellites orbit. In 1947, the soviets with the help of some German teams launched the R-1, and also made some radiation and animal experiments on some flights. But suborbital experiments only allowed a very short time in space which limited their usefulness. Also, intercontinental ballistic missiles were developed by both countries, the US and USSR, and were deployed to different bases which were practically missile launchers. This created a situation known by scientists as the “Mutually assured destruction” situation. Which is the same as the name suggests, if one country shoots a missile, then the other will retaliate, causing mutual destruction.
Then, there was a Soviet Success, they had the first living being in orbit in 1957, the first human spaceflight in 1961, the first spacewalk on March 18, 1965, and the first automatic landing on another celestial body in 1966. After this, the US started NASA and responded with several firsts of their own, the first human-piloted space flight in 1961, the first orbital solar observatory in1962, and the first piloted orbital mission of another celestial body in 1968. But the biggest thing was that they landed a man on the moon and returned him back to earth alive. They did a manned landing, but before that did several unmanned tests called the Apollo missions, using the Saturn V rocket. At the Kennedy space center on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission left the earth and succeeded in landing on the moon on July 20. Another 5 Apollo missions landed on the moon in the next 3 years, and then the Apollo mission was discontinued. America has also sent out the Hubble telescope and voyager space probes, and the Voyager 1 has left the solar system for the first time ever in 2012.
Space exploration has let us know so much and has proven multiple times how the is a creator behind us, God. It also proves to us how special earth is, and how everything is so perfectly made.