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AGU Fall Meeting 2021
December 13, 2021 - December 17, 2021
#AGU21: Science is Society
AGU Fall Meeting is the primary gathering for Earth and space scientists, students, and those in affiliated fields to share scientific findings and identify innovative solutions. With in-person and worldwide online participation, attendees will have numerous opportunities to network with government regulators, scientific visionaries, and industry thought-leaders. Join our diverse community in New Orleans and Online Everywhere. 13 – 17 December 2021.
Come see Sequoia Scientific, Inc., Jim Decker, Gino Washington and Dr. Ole Mikkelsen at Booth #947, just across from NASA!


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What is Matariki?
A time of renewal and celebration in Aotearoa, New Zealand, that begins with the rising of the Matariki star cluster signifying Matariki, the Māori New Year.
When is it?
Matariki is a star cluster which appears in the night sky during mid-winter. According to the Maramataka (Māori Lunar Calendar), the reappearance of Matariki brings the old lunar year to a close and marks the beginning of the new year. Hence, Matariki is associated with the Māori New Year.
It’s a tradition that festivities are conducted to celebrate Matariki. Following the harvesting of crops when the pātaka (food storehouses) were full, allowing free time for family and leisure. The festivities included the making offerings, lighting of ritual fires and celebrations of various kinds to farewell the dead, honour ancestors, and celebrate life.
Ngā kai a Matariki, nāna i ao ake ki runga.
The foods of Matariki, gathered up by her.
How are you celebrating?
The twinkling of the Matariki stars in the pre-dawn sky signals a special celebration for the old and young. Across Aotearoa, families and communities will come together to remember their ancestors, share food, sing, tell stories and play music! Gathering with your loved ones together during the long, cold nights of Matariki for learning and entertainment is the go!
Whare tapere (House of entertainment), which included tākaro (games) and haka (dance), is an important part of Matariki celebrations.
Ka puta Matariki ka rere Whānui. Ko te tohu tēnā o te tau e!
Matariki reappears, Vega starts its flight. The new year begins!
Over the Matariki long weekend you can offer your blessings by sharing these words, “Mānawatia a Matariki” – honour, acknowledge and welcome in Matariki.


Haulotte gets closer to the stars
On 29 April 2021, China successfully launched the core module of its space station, known as CSS (China Space Station), into orbit. Haulotte (mobile) elevated work platforms ((M)EWP) have been working at the Wenchang spacecraft launch site for the assembly and testing stage of this central piece of the future station.
The construction of China’s space station is underway. Haulotte MEWPs contributed to the success of the mission during the assembly process of the 16.6m module, named Tianhe.
With smooth elevating and driving functions due to its AC motors, the Star 10 vertical mast lets operators work comfortably. Control and manoeuvring while elevated is intuitive and precise. Because of the narrow turning radius, operators can manoeuvre in the most restricted spaces. The 3m outreach vertical jib allows access to the most difficult-to-reach worksites.
Robust, the HA15 IP electric articulating boom has a compact size which allows easy driving and operation in the tightest spaces. A horizontal outreach of 8.65m and fully proportional controls provides this mobile elevating work platform with productivity and comfort up to 15m high.
Tim Mo, marketing manager at Haulotte China says, “We are pleased to be part of this historic project, which highlights the performance and reliability of our equipment.”
This is not the first time that the Haulotte has participated in a Chinese space programme. In 2003, Haulotte’s articulating booms had contributed to the success of the first Chinese manned flight – the Shenzhou 5 mission.


A pair of the best binoculars you can afford is a formidable rival to telescopes in the astronomer’s toolbox. For many people, they’re also a cost-effective choice. Check out the best binoculars for stargazing here.
Binoculars for stargazing commonly come in 8x, 10x, and 12x magnifications, but larger models can achieve 20x and 25x magnifications or even more! Higher magnifications aren’t always better views, so keep this in mind. The size of the objective lens should be taken into account because the brightness decreases with magnification. You’ll be able to see the night sky in all its glory thanks to binoculars’ larger objective lenses, which capture more light than the human eye can.
In addition to increasing in size and weight, magnification and objective lens size have a direct correlation. We recommend looking at models with multi-coated optics and BAK-4 prisms as a minimum for optical quality. You’ll be able to see clearly what you’re looking for thanks to these features and a large objective lens if weather and atmospheric conditions allow.
In order to compile a list of the best binoculars for 2022, we’ve scoured the stores to find the most current models. You can use this detailed guide to help you find what you need. In addition, we’ve included links to the best places to buy the models listed.
Amazon Prime Day Binoculars 2022
BEBANG 10×50 High Power Binoculars for Kids and Adults, with Phone Adapter
In order to ensure stable and clear images, the BEBANG Binoculars use Porro BAK4 Prism Len Multilayer-Coated Lenses, strong moisture-proof armour, and high-quality portable storage case. A clear field of view of 168 ft/1000 yds is ideal for binoculars outdoor adventure, such as birdwatching and fishing, as well as for large gatherings.
Bissot 12×42 Binoculars for Adults HD Day Light Night Vision Binoculars with BAK4
A clear face or signage can be seen from 650 feet away with these waterproof Bissot binoculars’ 12X magnification. BAK4 prism, multi-coated objective lens and eyepiece are the key components of HD vision, a brighter view and crisp images. ” They increase light transmission by up to 99.5%, allowing objects to regain their original colour and high-quality optics. Even in low-light conditions like twilight or cloudy days, Bissot binoculars can be used for night vision with some light. Right eye cup and centre wheel adjustment allows for a wide range of eye widths, making them suitable for a variety of activities, such as hunting, hiking and exploring the outdoors.
People also ask
What strength of binoculars is best?
While binoculars with a magnification of 6 to 10x are generally easier to use, 8 to 10x magnification is best for birdwatching, tracking moving objects, and minimizing shaking. The portability and ease of use of a lower magnification are important considerations when attending a theatre performance.
Can I see planets with binoculars?
It’s possible to see both of the outer planets through binoculars, but they appear star like because of their diminutive size.


3-2-1..... BLASTOFF! This Space Explorer Playscape is full of possibilities, to infinity and beyond!
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- 11 handmade marbles from Seattle based Moon Marbles that are modeled after the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, the Moon, and even Pluto!
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The Outer Space Dough Collection is full of solar surprises! With 4 exciting new doughs, you can make your playscape come to life!
- Our Night Sky (S'more) dough is midnight black with UFOs, space men, and planets glistening amongst the stars.
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Pondering the Universe:
Physics 103 Goes on a Cosmic Adventure
Galileo saw the phases of the moon through a makeshift telescope 400 years ago. What he saw of the moon and planets eventually would lead him to challenge common beliefs about the universe.
Today, students in Associate Professor Duilia de Mello’s astronomy class study the phases of the moon in the night sky above Catholic University’s campus. What they see leads them to better understand the universe in which they live.
Each night for a month, students in Physics 103 observe the moon in a project that requires them to sketch the phases and make notations about the moon’s altitude and the direction from which they view it.
Much to De Mello’s dismay, she finds that many young people never look up to see the beauty that she has studied for more than 20 years. “The moon project gives students an awareness of the sky,” she says.
“As with all Dr. De Mello's assignments,” says freshman John McCarthy, “it is not about the theory, but rather what you take from it. After that project, every student was able to look at the moon with new appreciation.”
Physics 103, an astronomy course for nonscience majors, is an overview of the universe that begins with a history of astronomy and telescopes and covers the solar system, stars and evolution of the universe.
De Mello was nicknamed “Mulher das Estrelas” by the media in her native Brazil after she discovered a supernova in 1997. In a Hannan Hall classroom, this “Woman of the Stars” extends her arms in what seems like an embrace of the universe as she lectures to 40 students. “Brilliant!” she proclaims as an image of our own Milky Way galaxy is displayed. She leads students on an exploration of the galaxy, describing its halo and disk, as well as the location of our sun.
“Our galaxy is a cannibal,” De Mello announces, explaining that the Milky Way is gradually swallowing the nearby Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy.
Then she gives students something else to consider: “Five billion years from now, our galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy.” Later she tells students, “Astronomy is the science of catastrophes.”
Throughout the semester, De Mello holds students’ attention with her passion for astronomy and interactive exercises. She passes around “space rocks,” coin-sized pieces of meteorite found in Argentina, Brazil, Arizona and China. Starburst candy and Milky Way bars are given out for Halloween, and — just days before the Vatican convenes a conference on the question of life on other planets — she dons an alien mask and encourages students to consider the origins and evolution of life in the universe and the possibility of life beyond the Earth.
Students also get hands-on experience being astronomers when De Mello assigns them to participate in the Galaxy Zoo project, an Internet-based galactic census that is using volunteers to classify a million galaxies by their shape.
She devotes one meeting of the course to what she calls “The Day of Why.” Dressed in black and sporting a necklace pendant imprinted with the image of a star, she invites students to ask questions that begin with the word “why.”
“Why is Pluto no longer a planet?” a student asks. Because of its small size, Pluto was reclassified a dwarf planet, De Mello explains.
“Why aren’t we sucked into the black hole at the center of the Milky Way?” another student asks. The black hole’s gravity does not pull in objects that are far away, the professor explains. “A black hole is not a vacuum cleaner. It will only pull objects that are really close to it.”
“Why did you become an astronomer?” asks McCarthy, a politics major from Keansburg, N.J.
“When I was 12 or 13 years old,” De Mello responds, “I became fascinated with space missions. I did not learn enough about space in high school. I decided I would become an astronomer so I could learn more.”
An extragalactic astronomer, De Mello studies objects beyond the Milky Way, including galaxies that are some eight billion light-years from Earth. Specializing in the evolution of galaxies, she is a research associate at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., as part of the ongoing collaboration between NASA and CUA’s Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences.
In 2008, De Mello made news by using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to identify “blue blobs,” clusters of mostly young stars 12 million light-years away. NASA has awarded her research grants of more than $300,000 over the past few years.
She is committed to public outreach, as well, especially to teens. For two years, she blogged about discoveries in astronomy for the popular Brazilian science magazine Superinteressante. Her book Living With Stars was written to inspire teens — especially young women — to consider careers in science. It was published in Brazil last year.
“What really motivates me to do astronomy is to learn about things and to discover things,” she says. “But if you don’t pass this to anybody else, it’s a waste.”
De Mello’s ability to teach nonscience majors seems effortless. But she says this introductory astronomy class, which she has taught twice, is difficult because of the need to take complicated scientific detail and break it into easy-to-understand terms.
To Katie Hoffman, a sophomore politics major from San Antonio, De Mello’s approach works. “I know that I will gain from this class because it was interesting,” says the student. “I suddenly began to learn things I never even thought were possible for me to learn.”
Late in the semester, De Mello hosts a class debate about space exploration, focused on a question being considered by NASA: Should humans explore Mars? With a show of hands, a majority of students says yes.
Then she poses a second, more challenging, question: Should we send astronauts to Mars without a guaranteed return to Earth, as some have suggested? The ethical issue is a deal-breaker for some students as they form teams to debate the economics, practicality and science of exploring Mars.
The debate ends with a show of hands on two more questions. Who would go to Mars if there were a guaranteed return to Earth? More than a dozen students raise their hands. And who would go if it were only a one-way ticket? Eight potential space pioneers raise their hands.
De Mello was more interested in the critical-thinking skills displayed by students than what position they took in the debate. “This is a science class in the sense that you have to think of the consequences and you have to justify things,” she explains.
By the end of the course, she says, students should “know our space in the universe — where our planet is, the environment of our planet, the environment of our galaxy.”
That lesson is not lost on McCarthy. “My generation has lost the ability to look into the sky with wonder and awe,” he says. “Dr. De Mello constantly pushes her students to appreciate the galaxy and universe around us and understand our place in it all.”


I had no clue what the difference between meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites was. Since I'm gearing up to watch the Perseids meteor shower tonight, I figured it would be a good time to sort it out.
The difference between the three objects is actually just where they are.
- Meteoroids are in the solar system, far from Earth
- Meteors are falling down to Earth (filling the sky with streaks as they break up in the atmosphere)
- Meteorites have landed on Earth
In the end, they always start out as stony or metallic debris in the sky. Luckily for us (as long as they aren't too big!), we get to see the beauty they create when they break up in the sky.


10 million Indians watched the launch of Chandrayaan 2 with pride. Their heart thumping and adrenaline rushing through their veins. It took 7 years of hard work to complete this project. Imagine you make a very complex volcano for the school science fair and when the day you’re come and everybody is interested in your work , the volcano starts bubbling and you have the feeling that now will surely win. That’s the feeling when the India saw the Chandrayaan 2 launched.Chandrayaan 2 is an Indian lunar mission that will boldly go where no country has ever gone before — the Moon’s south polar region. Through this effort, the aim is to improve our understanding of the Moon — discoveries that will benefit India and humanity as a whole. These insights and experiences aim at a paradigm shift in how lunar expeditions are approached for years to come — propelling further voyages into the farthest frontiers.The lunar South Pole is especially interesting because of the lunar surface area here that remains in shadow is much larger than that at the North Pole. There is a possibility of the presence of water in permanently shadowed areas around it. In addition, South Pole region has craters that are cold traps and contain a fossil record of the early Solar System. It is the 1st space mission to conduct a soft landing on the Moon’s south polar region,1st Indian expedition to attempt a soft landing on the lunar surface with home-grown technology, 1st Indian mission to explore the lunar terrain with home-grown technology, 4th country ever to soft land on the lunar surface. I as indian was very proud of this project. But tragically the Chandrayaan 2 failed just by 2 km and lost touch with the base.
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For youth 2020: The first Hungarian space flight was 40 years ago
It is now 40 years since the first Hungarian flew in space and Magyar Posta is marking this anniversary with a stamp issue. The amount of the surcharge to support youth stamp collecting on two of the stamps of the miniature sheet totalling HUF 150 is devoted to promoting philately among young people. Fifteen thousand copies of the commemorative miniature sheet of four stamps designed by the graphic artist Barnabás Baticz were produced by ANY Security Printing Company. The new issue is available from Filaposta, philately specialist services, certain post offices and www.posta.hu-n.
Thanks to the Interkosmos Programme, Hungary had the opportunity to take part in the Soviet Union’s international space research programme for peaceful purposes. Rigorous tests to evaluate medical, intellectual and psychological suitability preceded the selection of the cosmonauts. Among the 95 fighter pilots considered for the space mission, the two most suitable were Bertalan Farkas and Béla Magyari. Based on the decision of the state committee, Bertalan Farkas and Valery Kubasov were chosen for the space flight. Soyuz 36 lifted off on 26 May 1980 and docked with the Salyut 6 space station, manned by V Ryumin and L Popov, on 27 May. The Soviet-Hungarian pair of cosmonauts returned to Earth in the re-entry capsule of Soyuz 35 on 3 June 1980.
The designs of the stamps of the commemorative miniature sheet show the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, the launch of Soyuz 36, the Salyut 6 space station and the returning cabin of Soyuz 35.
On the first day cover, proceeding from left to right, Bertalan Farkas, Leonid Ivanovich Popov, Valery Victorovich Ryumin and Valery Nikolayevich Kubasov appear. The special postmark shows the moment the spacecraft lifted off.


I hope we'll see robots landing on Mars tomorrow. I have my boarding pass and will be travelling virtually alongside. Scheduled arrival beginning 11:15am Thursday February 18 2021 with touchdown at 12:55pm PST. After nearly 300 million miles, our Perseverance rover completes its journey to Mars on Thursday, Feb. 18. To reach the surface of … Continue reading Happy Mars Day!
Kiwi robot band grabbed for Paris gig
Kiwi robot band The Trons grabbed for Paris gig by Mercedes-Benz. Jeff Neems September 30, 2008 - 10:40AM To view the entire article, click on: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/09/30/1222651039707.html


I’ve already seen some chatter on social media about pet safety during the Great American Eclipse of 2017, and some of it has been quite off-base. So let’s talk about safety!
First, unless you’ve been living in a cave (perhaps a reasonable choice, given the recent socio-political climate), you’ve probably heard about the eclipse predicted for August 21, 2017. This will be a total solar eclipse, particularly notable for many Americans for its convenient path of travel right through the center of the continental US. I myself will be traveling to observe totality.
There are a lot of myths about eclipses and safety. The first is that an eclipse is dangerous for pregnant women and children, which is wholly untrue. I haven’t been able to track down the origin of this myth (your suggestions welcome!) so I can’t figure out if it’s from a misunderstanding of a legitimate warning or just plain hogwash, but at any rate, don’t worry about it. It’s fine to go outside during the eclipse, whatever your life stage or condition.
What isn’t a myth: Don’t look directly at the sun. This can cause temporary or permanent blindness, and it’s most likely you won’t know you’ve damaged your eyes until the next day or so, when it’s too late to do anything about it. Observations of the eclipse should be done through certified eclipse glasses only or via indirect means, such as pinhole cameras. (Note that the market has been flooded with counterfeit eclipse glasses due to demand, so be careful about where you buy.)
And that caution about protective eyewear is what leads some people to worry about their pets’ safety. “I don’t think I can keep eclipse glasses securely on my dog, so I’m not going to let her outside that day,” reported one concerned owner.
No worries! The sun is no more intense or dangerous on the day of an eclipse than normal — if anything, we get a brief break from the sun’s radiation! The difference is that curious humans are more likely to look at the sun during an eclipse than on a normal day, and that must be done with protection.
Our dogs, cats, and other critters haven’t been paying attention to the social media buzz and are not particularly likely to look at the sun, however. Unless your dog is starring in an educational children’s book, he’s not going to stare directly into the sun, and thus he’s at no more risk of damage than any other day. He has no need of eclipse glasses or other protective gear. (Actually, since eclipse glasses block all normal vision, it’s probably much more dangerous to try to use them on a pet.)
You might well see some unusual animal activity, in both domestic animals and wildlife, as the sudden twilight during totality may prompt some animals to go into evening routines. But this is normal behavior based on environmental cues (quantity and quality of light), and they will revert to normal behavior in a few minutes when the sunlight returns to normal.
So enjoy the eclipse (with safety precautions) for yourself, but don’t worry about your pets’ vision. They’ll be fine as long as they’re not staring directly into the sun.


Book Review: "Big Bang" by Simon Singh
This was actually given to me as a gift by the same relative who has The Undercover Economist. I will also say that I have read The Code Book, one of Simon Singh's other books, but it has been a few years since I read it, so I will not be reviewing it any time soon.
Singh starts with an overview of creation myths and the use of reason and science to determine whether the sun goes around the Earth or vice versa. He continues with the heightening and resolution of the debate between the geocentric universe and heliocentric universe camps, and introduces the debate between those who believed in an eternal universe and those who believed the universe had a moment of creation. He brings in the developments of relativity and the atomic model, the measurement of the speed of light, and the rise and fall of the ether hypothesis to lay the foundations for the theory of the Big Bang. He also discusses the debate between whether the Milky Way is our only galaxy or whether there are many galaxies separate from the Milky Way and its subsequent resolution, and connects this to the use of spectroscopy to show redshifting of galaxies to bolster the case for the Big Bang over the eternal universe theory. He continues with further developments in atomic theory and the postulation of CMB radiation (radiation coming from the farthest reaches of the universe dating back to 300000 years after the Big Bang) to frame the debate now between supporters of the Big Bang theory and supporters of the eternal universe theory, which had by then morphed into the Steady State theory (which held that the universe was expanding, but galaxies were forming in the voids as expansion happened, so the overall composition of the universe remained constant). He concludes with the solution of the nucleosynthesis problem (how elements heavier than helium could be formed in the early stages of the universe), the detection of CMB radiation, and the detection of tiny density variations in the early particle soup as the final pieces of evidence necessary to secure the Big Bang theory as the correct one. In the epilogue, he discusses some missing parts of the Big Bang theory, as well as its religious/philosophical implications.
In a sentence, I really like this book. (That was the sentence. The rest is extra.) It's a great overview of all of the science that led to the acceptance of the Big Bang as the dominant theory regarding the origin and state of the universe, and on top of that, it talks about all of the characters involved in its development. It is a fairly large book, but any formulae used are clearly explained in layperson's terms, and there are a lot of helpful illustrations tied with such formulae. More interesting than that, though, is the presence of a brief, illustrated summary section at the end of each chapter (because each chapter is approximately 80 pages long). This really helps to remind one of what one has read at the beginning of the chapter and how it ties in to later parts of the chapter. I also like how it talks about the arguments between people without just focusing on the science, as this adds a more human element to the history of it all. I would recommend this to anyone even remotely interested in the subject.
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Some of you may also know that Simon Singh was sued by the British Chiropractic Association for making critical remarks about their profession in print (i.e. libel). The suit was dropped in April of this year. I just wanted to add that this, thankfully, will not be able to happen to writers in the US thanks to this new bill (AFP via Google) that forbids US courts from enforcing foreign libel/slander judgments when it conflicts with the First Amendment rights of the defendant (of the libel/slander judgment). Anyway, I hope Simon Singh doesn't have to experience this ordeal again.


Walking Tours and Bus Site Tours allow you to take a closer look around Siding Spring Observatory. Join our tour guide and explore normally restricted areas within Australia’s premier astronomical research facility. Learn about the importance of this area to astronomy research and the natural environment. Enjoy a walk with breathtaking views of the Warrumbungle National Park. Learn more about the various telescopes and international organisations that reside on site and what it is they observe.
Please note: Siding Spring Observatory (SSO) is a working research facility and as such we are not open at night for public viewing. Siding Spring Observatory is closed to the general public after 4pm.
Walking tours are 1.5 to 2 hours and involve up to 2km of walking on sealed but sometimes steep roads. Regular fitness is required, as are comfortable, covered shoes.
The weather here can be quite variable. It can be quite warm one moment, and quite cool the next. Sunscreen, a hat, water and a warm coat/jacket are advisable.
The walking tours are not recommended for children under 6 and are subject to weather conditions.


NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is once again hosting the fifth annual International Space Apps Challenge, a global, mass collaboration event that gathers volunteer participants to work on specific NASA challenges.
Glenn has teamed up with OHTec, a technology talent, growth and advocacy association, in offering this year’s Space Apps Challenge, April 22 – 24 at Glenn’s state-of-the-art Mission Integration Center. The event is just one of OHTec’s 2016 Tech Week activities that is rapidly growing in popularity. In 2015, the Cleveland site reported the fourth highest number of attendees in the United States.
“For the last four years, the energetic teams of northeast Ohio have provided creative solutions to some of NASA’s tougher challenges,” said Sean Gallagher, Glenn’s chief information officer. “This year, we’re again excited to welcome problem solvers and innovators of all ages to join us in this event.”
This year, NASA is offering 26 challenges in six mission-related categories: Aeronautics, Earth, International Space Station, Journey to Mars, Solar System and Beyond and Space Technology. Participants are asked to develop mobile applications, software, hardware, data visualizations and platform solutions that could contribute to space exploration missions and help improve life on Earth.
Space Apps Challenge activities include a social gathering on Friday, April 22, and work time on Saturday, April 23 and Sunday, April 24. For a limited time on Saturday, NASA librarians will be available to help participants find information and data. Team presentations and awards are presented on Sunday.
In addition to tackling NASA’s challenges, participants will hear from exciting speakers and have an opportunity to tour Glenn’s Graphics and Visualization and Simulated Lunar Operations labs.
To register for this year’s event at Glenn, visit:
For information about Tech Week 2016 activities, visit:
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Eid al-Adha in 2018 is on Wednesday, the 22nd of August (22/8/2018).
Note that in the Muslim calander, an occasion starts on the dusk of the earlier day, so watching Muslims will observe Eid al-Adha on the nightfall of Tuesday, the 21st of August. Eid al-Adha celebrates the Koranic story of the Prophet Abraham's eagerness to forfeit his child Ishmael as a demonstration of acquiescence to God.
Despite the fact that Eid al-Adha is dependably around the same time of the Islamic date-book, the date on the Gregorian schedule shifts from year to year, since the Gregorian date-book is a sun powered logbook and the Islamic timetable is a lunar date-book. This distinction implies Eid al-Adha moves in the Gregorian date-book roughly 11 days consistently. The date of Eid al-Adha may likewise shift from nation to nation contingent upon whether the moon has been located or not. People love to share greetings on this occasion and huge number of people search for Eid al Adha wishes in English and Hindi language.
The dates gave here depend on the dates received by the Fiqh Council of North America for the festival of Eid al-Adha. Note that these dates depend on galactic estimations to attest each date, and not on the real locating of the moon with the exposed eyes. This approach is acknowledged by many, however is as yet being fervently.


Instant Guide to Stars and Planets Author:Pamela Forey, Christopher Fitzsimons An Instant Guide to Stars and Planets is an ideal compact identification guide to our night sky. A system of season-by-season star charts enables the reader to identify quickly and easily the major constellations visible in the Northern Hemisphere. The Solar System and its planets are described and illustrated using data from the Voyag... more »er and Mariner missions. Information on stars, star clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and black holes provides the background needed to understand the structure of the universe and how it functions.
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When and How to See August’s Supermoons and Rare Blue Moon
Supermoons and Rare Blue Moon : The primary full moon of Admirable, too known as the “Sturgeon Moon,” will sparkle within the sky on Tuesday night. It’ll show up brighter and bigger than the normal full moon.
The Eminent 1st full moon is the moment of four successive supermoons, which happen when the Moon’s circle is closest to Soil and at the same time the Moon is full.
A supermoon is approximately 16% brighter than an normal moon.
The supermoon will be indeed closer on the night of Admirable 30 because it will be a uncommon blue moon, which occurs when two full moons happen within the same month. Concurring to NASA, blue moon isn’t blue in colour.
Space science fans as it were get to see a blue moon once each three a long time, on normal. The following Blue Moon after Eminent 30 will be in May 2026.
The last of four continuous supermoons this year will be a “Collect Moon” on September 28.
Concurring to the Farmer’s Chronicle, the primary full moon of Admirable is called the “sturgeon moon” since sturgeon were most effortlessly caught amid this part of the summer within the Awesome Lakes and Lake Champlain. The “Buck Moon” came some time recently the “Sturgeon Moon” this year.
The moonrise of the primary supermoon of Eminent will be obvious after 8 pm on Tuesday night. A Kisan Panchang web page appears particular times for distinctive zip codes.
August’s first supermoon will moreover influence Perseid meteor showers, with 50–100 “shooting stars” per hour at its stature.
On August 12 and 13, the downpours will top. Be that as it may, due to the brightness of the Moon, it’ll be troublesome to see it.
“Tragically, this year’s Perseids summit will be the most noticeably awful it’ll see for spotters,” NASA cosmologist Charge Cook, who leads the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, said in a web journal post. ”
“Most of us in North America ordinarily see 50 or 60 meteors per hour, but this year, amid the ordinary top, the complete moon will diminish that to a greatest of 10-20 per hour,” Cook said.


As one of the few VR films, “2nd Step” has been selected to screen at SIGGRAPH 2019. In this intriguing VR film the viewer gets the outstanding opportunity to set off for a fascinating VR journey into space, visiting a number of thrilling settings of current and future space missions, such as the landing spot of Apollo 11, the planned Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway and the Shackleton-Crater at the South Pole of the Moon.
The film conveys an authentic sensation of how it must feel to actually be on the moon, climaxing in the visit of Mars – a desert planet of superlatives, with the most immense volcanoes and the deepest canyon in the solar system, perfectly reconstructed in 3D in an unique richness of detail.
Faber Courtial is one of Germany’s leading VFX studios & provider of premium VR films. With their top-level animations, they have been inspiring viewers since 1998, both in museums and on TV. The company established itself as VR pioneer on the international market with “Volcanos VR”, the first fully immersive VR documentary for German TV. Since then, their award-winning VR films have screened on numerous festivals.


“The Eagle has landed”, in 1969, and the now famous line was coined – “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind!” (Armstrong has said in interviews he was misquoted and did say the “a”). It seems we got to the moon and lost our way, like the challenge of space was over, instead of just beginning. After taking an extended break we seem to be back at it again. There are those that feel the rewards are not worth the cost and effort, maybe that’s true… but what if it isn’t? Those doubters once thought that the world was flat and that they would find nothing by sailing the seas, that sailors would just fall off the edge eventually and drift off into a sky filled with nothing. Those doubters were wrong. So what might we discover in space? Who knows but if we can figure out a way to get there, we should at least try.
How to celebrate – Read about what space exploration has already taken place. Watch all the new space launches. Become an astronaut.
Today commemorates the Spacecraft Mariner 4 closing to within 6,118 miles of Mars, a planet named after the mythical War of God, Ares. The date was, November 28th, 1964. The mission took 228 days and sent back photos of the Red Planet, red because of the filter on the lens of the camera on the spacecraft.
The temperatures on Mars run from -207 degrees F to +81. Not exactly the temperatures one might like to spend the winters in. It has two moons, Deimos and Phobos and it requires 687 days to circle the sun.
Mars is often visible to the naked eye from earth and as such many have dreamed and had fantasies about Mars. However it is just a planet, too cold to support life and of little use to those on earth.
Perhaps there may be life below the surface, we will not know until we set foot on the planet. If this is what you are waiting for, you might have to wait a while since we no longer have a space program pf our own. Since profits now lead the program from the private sector, there seems little worth landing on Mars for.
Space, the final frontier. Who knows what we may find out there, what may save our planet from destruction. We know little of what may be out there but logic dictates there is very little there.
How to celebrate – Look in the nigh sky for Mars. Study the photos sent back by Mariner 4. Learn more about Ares.


I have been fascinated by the night sky since I was a child.
I remember lying down in the cool grass, holding hands with my girlfriend, and staring up at the stars, late into the night.
Now that I am a grown up Nature Photographer, I try to capture the night sky on camera, in order to share the experience with others.
There is one problem, though.
It is extremely hard to take exceptional moon photographs.
I have tried many different ways to bring out the detail of the terrain on the moon surface.
The particular phase of the moon, local weather and atmospheric conditions, camera steadiness and shutter settings greatly affect the resulting photographs.
I have found that it is best to take many photographs at different settings and hope that one of two of them turn out really great.
This is one of my better moon photographs.
It is a shot of the Waning Gibbous Moon, showing decent detail of the "Sea of Crisis" near the top, with some cool craters on the right side of the moon.
|Waning Gibbous Moon|
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On Tuesday evening NASA will attempt to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid 7 million miles away in the hopes of knocking it off its course. Its target is Dimorphos, a moonlet that orbits the asteroid Didymos.
NASA claims the pair pose no threat to Earth, so think of it as a practice run for the real deal. You know, just in case landing a crew of hotshot blue-collar deep core oil drillers to blow it up with a nuke (opens in new tab) isn’t an option.
As reported by Space.com (opens in new tab), success or not, the mission will provide important data so that scientists and engineers can use it for planetary defense in the off-chance a future asteroid is on a collision course with Earth. However, I’m pretty sure Kerbal Space Program already has an elegant way of redirecting asteroids (opens in new tab).
DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) is NASA’s vending machine-sized spacecraft charged with the critical mission. Didymos (opens in new tab), which is 780 meters, orbits the sun, and the smaller Dimorphos orbits Didymos every 11 hours and 55 minutes. The goal is to hit Dimorphus so hard it’ll speed up the orbit around its larger twin by ten minutes, proving that the impact altered the path of the rock.
DART hitched a ride on top of the SpaceX Falcon 9 last November and traveled roughly 7 million miles before disembarking on its one-way mission towards the asteroid pair. Onboard is a CubeSat (a tiny satellite) that will detach and film the impact from a safe distance, in addition to the onboard camera that is expected to go dark once it crashes into the asteroid.
At 170 meters, Dimorphos is considered a “tiny asteroid,” according to Tom Statler, NASA mission program specialist in a press conference. He also added that “hitting an asteroid is a tough thing to do.”
You can watch the live feed (opens in new tab) of NASA’s DART Spacecraft smack into Asteroid Dimorphos at 7:14 pm ET. According to NASA, the feed should mostly be black with a single point of light. As the DART spacecraft gets closer to Dimorphos, the light point is expected to get bigger, giving a more detailed look of the asteroid right up to impact. There will be an expected delay as the images are being beamed to Earth from millions of miles away.


I had some fun photo projects this week. Firstly I finally got my first chance to try photographing the northern lights. It was very interesting because there weren't the usual flowing waves that you usually see photos of northern lights but instead the entire sky was lit up with green and you could see clouds moving over that green. That is why the land also looks green in the photograph because it was being lit by the northern lights. It was so amazing and the entier sky north and south was glowing.
I also took a walk to a nearby lake and ended up making some nice photographs of the first flowers of the season. It was really fun reenforcing what I already knew about depth of field and being able to see its effect so clearly. It is amazing how it can change a photograph and one is not necessarily better than the other.


Working with PI on Gas planets
The most troublesome planetary colonies that Aeon has had to manage so far have always been on gas planets. And for good reason: these planets are a lot bigger than their solid matter based counterparts. This means that distances when placing structures are not what they seem: that extractor one centimetre away from your main base in the planetary user interface is actually thousands of kilometres away, much farther than that same centimetre represents on, say, a barren planet. This is due to the fact that the user interface does not convey the dimensions of the planets at all.
Technical blurb aside, fact is that links to extractors far away from your main base are just way too expensive on gas planets. The solution is simply to make do without linking your extractors. To illustrate how this works, I have created an explanation sheet:
So to sum this up:
- Build your main consisting of only the spaceport and the advanced industry facilities.
- For each material you wish to extract, create independent secondary bases.
- Each secondary base has an extractor, a storage unit and basic factories to process the materials.
- When the extractors finish their cycle, decommission the secondary bases except for the storage.
- Create links from the spaceport to the storage units (made possible by the power and CPU freed up).
- Transfer the processed materials to the spaceport, so the advanced industry can start.
- Decommission the leftover storage units.
- Rinse and repeat: rebuild the secondary bases in new material hotspots.
Obviously this works best if you use longer extraction cycles, so you do not have to do a wild clickfest every few hours to rebuild the secondary bases.


A group of over 20 WINGS’ members, families and friends enjoyed a superb visit to Whangarei’s Planetarium on Tuesday evening. We were treated to a spectacular sight of a full moon and myriad stars twinkling in the dark, winter’s sky. The planets of Jupiter, Venus and Mars were visible to the naked eye. Looking though the outdoor telescope, we could see clearly the four moons of Jupiter.
Inside the Planetarium the light dimmed to virtual blackness, the stars in our galaxy and beyond were displayed on the dome above. Our guide, Peter, gave us an informative and amusing talk on the stars and planets in our solar system; all unimaginably distant light years away from earth. We are fortunate to be living at 35 degrees south so that the center of the Milky Way passes overhead in the winter-time. It resembles a trail of steam; sacred in Maori teaching as male and female creation. Matariki, when Pleiades, the twinkling eyes of God appear, heralds the New Year. It sees Jupiter, Saturn and Mars all sitting around the Scorpion whose tail is the ‘sting’ or the ‘fish-hook’ according to you cultural story.
He told us about Greek and Roman myths surrounding the signs of the zodiac and how these ancient mariners were able to navigate across vast oceans using the stars. For Maori and Pacific Islanders setting out across the Pacific, their point of reference would be the Southern Cross showing them due south. For those in the northern hemisphere, the North Star was their guiding light.
A chilly but clear night provided us with an opportunity to learn and appreciate the wonders of the sky. With a fantastic view of the Saturn’s rings through a break in the cloud.
Many thanks to KC, Peter and Jeremy who made such a brilliant visit possible.


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MaxUSee Kids Telescope 400x40mm with Tripod & Finder Scope
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MESIXI Astronomical Telescope + Monocular Travel Scope 70mm Aperture 400mm AZ Mount Astronomical Refractor Telescopes for Kids Adults Beginners
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Two more place cards at the Periodic Table
Scientists have officially named two elements whose discoveries were announced last year. Element 114, first detected in 1999 by scientists at Russia’s Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), will be called Flerovium (symbol Fl) after the Institute’s founder, Georgy Flyorov. Element 116 will become Livermorium (symbol Lv) in honour of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California, which teamed up with the JINR to discover the element.
Both elements were made by colliding atoms of lighter elements together – neither is stable enough to occur naturally. Although this means they are unlikely to find any applications outside of the lab, the hunt for heavier atoms pushes the boundaries of our understanding of quantum physics.
Chemists make world’s smallest Olympic rings
Scientists from the University of Warwick have made a molecular version of the famous rings just in time for this summer’s Games. The molecule, dubbed olympicene, is only 1.2 nanometres wide – so small, that its structure cannot be visualised using the traditional method of scanning tunnelling microscopy. Instead the group turned to IBM Research – Zurich, pioneers in a technique known as noncontact atomic force spectroscopy, to produce this image of a single olympicene molecule.
While the molecule’s similarity to graphene may give it useful electronic properties – similar molecules are being tested in solar cells and LEDs – the challenge was devised as a way to celebrate the arrival of the Olympics in the UK, and to inspire young people to take an interest in science.
Venus transits the Sun for last time this century
The planet Venus passed between the Earth and the Sun last week, offering millions of people a glimpse of a phenomenon that won’t been seen again until 2117. Those living around the Pacific were able to see the entire seven-hour event, but people across the world watched as it was broadcast live over the Internet – only the second time in history that this has been possible.
Much rarer than solar eclipses, but predictable down to the day, transits of Venus are also scientifically important – they gave astronomers the first reliable estimates of the distance to the Sun. Centuries later, with astronomers now able to observe planets transiting other stars, they offer a way to check our estimates of these planets’ size and atmospheric composition, by comparing them to the known values for Venus.
SpaceX Dragon capsule returns to Earth
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule has splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean after its nine-day mission to the International Space Station. The vessel made history last month after becoming the first commercial cargo ship to dock with the ISS, taking half a tonne of food and supplies to the orbiting astronauts. Following the successful mission, the SpaceX company has been awarded a £1 bn contract with NASA for a further 12 expeditions, in a move that NASA hopes will free up funding for missions to Mars and beyond. The company is also developing the capability for human spaceflight, with the aim of launching a crewed flight in 2015.
Confirmed: neutrinos did not break speed limit
In September 2011, a team at CERN shocked the world when they announced that neutrinos might travel faster than the speed of light. Now at a conference in Kyoto, Japan, they’ve confirmed what many had suspected – that faulty wiring was to blame.
The original data suggested that neutrinos fired from the OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) lab in Geneva arrived in a lab 450 miles (720 km) away in Italy around 60 nanoseconds too early. After a number of teams failed to replicate the result, two faults were discovered that eventually accounted for the discrepancy.
Despite this, the researchers announced they were pleased to see the scientific method in action. They also confirmed that their original goal of observing muon neutrinos morphing into tau neutrinos was a step closer, after seeing only the second-ever instance of this change. If confirmed, this could indicate that neutrinos have mass – something that has so far been difficult to prove.
VIDEO: Flerovium and Livermorium by periodicvideos
IMAGE 1: Olympicene by University of Warwick
IMAGE 2: Hinode Views the 2012 Venus Transit by JAXA/NASA/Lockheed Martin
IMAGE 3: The Dragon has (Splash) Landed by SpaceX
IMAGE 4: Bubble Chamber by CERN


I was able to get a few good pictures of last night’s Hunter’s Moon which, while beautiful, still didn’t look quite as impressive as the pictures I took the night before.
Still, it was lovely, and made me wish I was out there in the wild with the bugling elk that we could hear in the distance.
Or beneath the antler arch which was lit up last night and framed beautifully by the golden glow of the autumn trees.
We’ll be back again there soon, since we’ll be celebrating our anniversary at the Bentwood Inn, which I am so looking forward to!
It was hard to decide where to go but I’ve been wanting to stay there for ages and right now we are at that magical time of year when the prices are at their lowest between major tourist seasons so we got a great deal on a gorgeous suite for a few days.
Hopefully we will see a lot of moose since they love that areas and hopefully the fall colors will hang in there just a few weeks more…


The thing that this does to me… unf.
Oh girl I didn’t even notice
My name is Amy Pond. When I was seven I had an imaginary friend. Last night was the night before my wedding. My imaginary friend came back.
Remember when Romney lost the election so somebody created White People Mourning Romney and collected various people crying over Romney’s loss?
I could have used this information over the last 29 years of my god damn life
My mom taught me to pack like this and she gets mad when I come to visit and sees that I don’t use it.
I need to remember this for uniforms.
Oh my god, I am learning this ASAP. HOW DID I NOT KNOW OF THIS BEFORE?!
Hubble has spotted an ancient galaxy that shouldn’t exist
This galaxy is so large, so fully-formed, astronomers say it shouldn’t exist at all. It’s called a “grand-design” spiral galaxy, and unlike most galaxies of its kind, this one is old. Like, really, really old. According to a new study conducted by researchers using NASA’s Hubble Telescope, it dates back roughly 10.7-billion years — and that makes it the most ancient spiral galaxy we’ve ever discovered.
"The vast majority of old galaxies look like train wrecks," said UCLA astrophysicist Alice Shapley in a press release. "Our first thought was, why is this one so different, and so beautiful?"
Read more: here
if i ever stop reblogging this assume I am dead
OH MY GOD
…I’m not touching that pizza…
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Arete STEM and Blue Origin are now partnering to help student experiments reach the STARS! Imagine being able to conduct an experiment in space.
"My goal was to design and develop a program to inspire young students about their futures by showing them that science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) can lead to exciting and rewarding careers for the 21st century workforce. We are developing a STEM
educational space program for our country and bringing the benefits of space closer to our students."
- Steve Heck, President & Founder
Imagine being able to conduct an experiment in space.
This new and exciting partnership provides a unique educational (STEAM) program where students and schools design and develop experiments to fly in space. These student payloads are sent into space on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket and then returned directly to the student or school.
Space is still available for the 2020 school year, so contact Arete STEM for more information and to reserve your spot.
Contact us at: email@example.com
Student teams will design, build and test an experimental payload for suborbital flight that meet Payload User Guide requirements. They will be assisted by expert mentors, complete an engineering design process class and receive classroom instruction. Milestones will be established for each phase to ensure that students accomplish their mission goals.
Student scientists will develop a further understanding of atmospheric science, physics, microgravity research, planetary science, earth observation and life sciences. They will implement a proposed design using the NASA BEST process cumulating in a suborbital flght. When the suborbital flight phase is complete, students will perform data analysis and publish the results of their experiments.


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New crew arrives at ISS
Posted: Mon, Nov 24 5:44 AM ET (1044 GMT)
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three people launched from Kazakhstan early Monday and arrived at the International Space Station less than six hours later. The Soyuz rocket carrying the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 4:01 pm EST Sunday (2101 GMT Sunday, 3:01 am local time Monday) and placed the spacecraft into orbit. The Soyuz spacecraft, making a "fast track" four-orbit approach, docked with the ISS's Rassvet module at 9:48 pm EST Sunday (0248 GMT Monday). On board the Soyuz were three new ISS crewmembers: Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, American astronaut Terry Virts, and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. The three will remain on the station until May 2015. They join the two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut already on the station.
China launches two satellites within 24 hours
Posted: Fri, Nov 21 6:40 AM ET (1140 GMT)
Two Chinese launches placed into orbit Earth observation and disaster monitoring satellites in less than 24 hours on Thursday and Friday. A Long March 2D rocket lifted off from the Jiquan Satellite Launch Center in China at 2:12 am EST (0712 GMT, 3:12 pm Beijing time) Thursday and placed the Yaogan-24 satellite into orbit. The satellite, launched less than a week after Yaogan-23, is reported to be used for civil remote sensing and scientific experiments, but is widely perceived in the West to be a military reconnaissance satellite. At 1:37 am EST (0637 GMT, 2:37 pm Beijing time) Friday, a Kuaizhou rocket placed the Kuaizhou-2 satellite into orbit. The satellite is said by Chinese media to provide information on natural disasters. The Kuaizhou rocket is a small solid-fuel vehicle based on a ballistic missile.
British company announced crowdfunded lunar mission plan
Posted: Thu, Nov 20 7:18 AM ET (1218 GMT)
A British company announced plans Wednesday to raise nearly $1 million through a crowdfunding campaign in the next month in the first phase of a...
ATK and Orbital postpone vote to approve merger
Posted: Thu, Nov 20 7:03 AM ET (1203 GMT)
ATK and Orbital Sciences Corp. announced this week that they have pushed back shareholder votes on their planned merger until late January in response to...
Russia considering new space station
Posted: Tue, Nov 18 8:50 AM ET (1350 GMT)
Russian media reported Monday that Russia was considering the development of its own space station and could withdraw from the International Space Station after 2020....


The Ames Vertical Gun Range as it looked in the 1960’s. The gun (center) is used to fire tiny pellets into a surface at speeds resembling a collision between asteroids.
Scientists literally brought out the big gun to study the origins of water
Water is everywhere on our planet. If it’s not crashing against the shore, it’s pounding on the roof, or dripping from the faucet, or pooling right in that spot where you just stepped. But how did all that water get here?
It’s a question that has preoccupied planetary scientists for years. Did planets like Earth, Mars, Venus, and Mercury form dry out of the dust and heat of the inner solar system, only to be drenched in water delivered from ice-laden comets later on? Or did drier asteroids and asteroid collisions bring the wet stuff?
“Water is critical to life as we know it, and it’s also essential to the evolution of planets. Water changes the way rocks behave, so the timing of when water arrives on Earth really affects its geological evolution,” says Terik Daly, a planetary geologist. “We’ve known for awhile that asteroids and comets carry water, and that’s probably how water came to Earth. But the details of that process have kind of been a black box.”
Computer models are starting to give us answers to those questions. But the models only go so far. To really understand how this water delivery system works, you need to watch it happen. But meteorite strikes are notoriously unpredictable, so researchers decided to create their own with the help of a super-sized gun at NASA’s Ames Research Center. The research, led by Daly, was just published in this week’s Science Advances.
“Impact models tell us that impactors should completely devolatilize at many of the impact speeds common in the solar system, meaning all the water they contain just boils off in the heat of the impact,” study co-author and geoscientist Pete Schultz said in a statement. “But nature has a tendency to be more interesting than our models, which is why we need to do experiments.”
NASA built the Ames Vertical Gun Range in the 1960s to help researchers working on the Apollo program who were trying to figure out what the surface of the moon was like. Scientists still use it to slam things together in order to get a real-world look at what is typically only modeled by computers.
To simulate a water-rich asteroid slamming into the surface of another asteroid, the team fired pellets of rock no larger than a bb pellet into a thin bed of pumice powder. Pumice is a glass that forms when lava cools very quickly, and the powdery substance might be similar to the surface of an asteroid. They superheated the pumice for an hour and a half at temperatures over 1500 degrees Fahrenheit to bake off any water within.
Delivering the water to this dry powder were pellets of serpentine, a mineral found on Earth that already has plenty of water tied into its molecular structure—it’s also found in meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites.
The vertical gun is loaded, the tray of ultra-dried pumice lined up underneath it, and then… bang! It’s all over in a second.
Instead of simply boiling off in the impact, some of the water stuck around. Part of it stayed trapped in bits of the projectile blown apart as it hit the pumice surface, but plenty of it got mixed in with the molten glass. If that had been a real asteroid impact, it means that there would still be plenty of water delivered to the target.
The results only show how an asteroid impacting another asteroid would have looked, not an asteroid impacting a larger object like the Earth or Moon. To simulate those impacts would require vastly more powerful equipment, but this tells us a lot about how this process might operate on larger bodies.
“The experiments that we do in the lab are small and planets and asteroids are very big. But we take what we see in the lab and we try to understand that very well, and we take what we know about how impacts operate at large scales and use those principles to guide the results of how we interpret those experiments,” Daly says.
For example, the geoscientists know that on the Moon the impact speeds are a lot higher than what they do in the lab. And they also know that impacts that happen at higher speeds produce more melted material. If the impact melt on the Moon traps water in the same way as the melt in the experiments, then the experimental mechanisms should hold up on even larger scales.
Ideally, Daly and colleagues would like to take a closer look at asteroids in the solar system with signatures of water on their surface, to see if the percentage of water trapped there matches their experimental results. It could help researchers understand some of the basic dynamics of the solar system today, and also give some insights into how our solar system and planet formed.
“The whole question of the origin of water and where it came from and how it got here is really essential to understanding the formation and evolution of Earth, and on the largest scale, how it got to be the place where we are today,” Daly says.


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NASA announced June 20, astronomers have discovered the youngest fully formed exoplanet ever detected. The discovery of the planet outside our solar system was made using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The newfound planet is a bit larger
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Aliens have fascinated humans for a very long time and daily due to the fact that there is massively possibility of them exiting, so in this video i have showed 5 real life aliens caught on tape? the most believable footage. Thanks for watching as always and
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Around 13 times per century, Mercury passes between Earth and the sun in a rare astronomical event known as a planetary transit. The 2016 Mercury transit occurred on May 9, between roughly 7:12 a.m. and 2:42 p.m. EDT. The images in this video are from NASA’s Solar
Understanding what consciousness is, and why and how it evolved, is perhaps the greatest mystery known to science.
From sexy cat aliens to various head injuries we count 10 people who genuinely believe they had sex with one or more aliens.
From Amazons to mythical dragons, this top 10 video will take a look at 10 mythical things that at first were thought to be figments of our imagination.
Jason-3, a U.S.-European oceanography satellite mission with NASA participation that will continue a nearly quarter-century record of tracking global sea level rise, lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Sunday, Jan. 17, at 1:42 p.m. EST aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Jason-3 is an


Full Snow Moon Ceremony
Saturday, February 27, 2021 6:00 – 7::30 p.m.
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February’s Full Snow Moon reminds us that much of our continent is covered in a thick layer of snow now.
In this early part of our new year, we are invited to step out from under the snow. This is an amazing time of movement, of thinking outside the box and finding new solutions to old challenges.
It is time to refine, re-examine and organize our lives anew. This Full Moon is in Virgo, a sign of purification of Body, Mind & Soul.
Welcome to Full Snow Moon Ceremony!


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This beautiful photo of the Earth is the first of it’s kind. Photography students from Harrington College set out on August 29th 2013 with one goal in mind – to go where no toy camera has gone before. Armed with four Holga cameras, and a weather balloon, they launched them to the edge of space.
Out of the four, one camera returned with the photograph. This inspiring video shows us the suspenseful journey to the limits of the atmosphere, and just how challenging it was to get such a photograph. This was the second of two launches, the project taking a couple of weeks longer than the students semester at Harrington.


A rocket cr*shed back to Earth shortly after liftoff Monday in the first launch accident for Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, but the capsule carrying experiments managed to parachute to safety.No one was aboard the Blue Origin flight, which used the same kind of rocket as the one that sends paying customers to the edge of space. The rockets are now grounded pending the outcome of an investigation, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The New Shepard rocket was barely a minute into its flight from West Texas when bright yellow flames shot out from around the single engine at the bottom. The capsule’s emergency launch abort system immediately kicked in, lifting the craft off the top. Several minutes later, the capsule parachuted onto the remote desert floor.The rocket came crashing down, with no injuries or damage reported, said the FAA, which is in charge of public safety during commercial space launches and landings.
Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket crashes after liftoff
A rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after liftoff Monday in the first launch accident for Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, but the capsule carrying experiments managed to parachute to safety.Blue Origin shows a capsule containing science experiments after a launch failure and parachuting onto the desert floor on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has suffered its first launch failure. No one was aboard, only science experiments. The Blue Origin rocket veered off course over West Texas about 1 1/2 minutes after liftoff Monda.
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30 Days Wild Challenge: On Thursday 29th of June The Herts and Essex community farm has challenged you members of the public to stargaze!
We all like to look up at all the pretty stars and admire the wonders of the sky. However many of us have no clue what a constellation is or how to find one, or you could be the percentage that knows where to look but would like to know the meaning behind June’s stars. Well then look no further, the images below are of the constellations that you could see this month, along with some information about them.
Boötes a.k.a The Herdsman is visible in the northern hemisphere from spring through the summer. It is a large constellation covering an area of 907 square degrees. This makes it the 13th largest constellation in the night sky.
Boötes is one of the 48 constellations listed by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the second century. Its name comes from a Greek word that means ox driver, plowman, or herdsman. It is typically depicted as a herdsman. It is an ancient constellation that has been known since the time of the Babylonians. They depicted it as their god Enlil, who was the leader of the Babylonian pantheon and the patron of farmers. The ancient Greeks once called this constellation Arctophylax, which means “the protector of the Bear”. The Romans called it Venator Ursae, “the Bear Hunter”. The name Boötes first appeared in The Odyssey, written by the Greek author Homer almost three thousand years ago.
Libra a.k.a The scales is a medium-sized constellation occupying an area of 538 square degrees. It ranks 29th in size among the 88 constellations in the night sky. It is one of the thirteen constellations of the zodiac. This means it lies along the path the Sun travels in the sky during the year. It is the only constellation of the zodiac that represents an object instead of an animal or a person from mythology.
Libra is one of the 48 constellations first cataloged by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the second century. Its name means “the weighing scales” in Latin. It is usually depicted as the scales held by the Greek goddess of justice Astrea, which is represented by the neighboring constellation Virgo. Virgo is an ancient constellation with its roots in many early cultures. The ancient Babylonians saw it as the Balance of Heaven. In ancient Greece, it represented the claws of the scorpion, and was considered to be part of the constellation Scorpius. In ancient Egypt the three brightest stars formed a constellation that was viewed as a boat. To the early Romans, it was the golden chariot of Pluto, god of the Underworld. It eventually came to be associated with the scales. Today it is seen as a universal symbol of balance, harmony, and justice.
Lupus a.ka The Wolf is located in the southern hemisphere of the sky. It is best seen in the northern hemisphere in June. It is a mid-sized constellation filling 334 square degrees of the sky. It ranks 46th in size among the 88 constellations of the night sky.
Lupus is one of the 48 constellations first identified by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the second century. Its name means “the wolf” in Latin. Even though it is one of the older constellations, it is not associated with any mythology. The stars that make up this constellation were originally a part of the constellation Centaurus. They represented an animal that had been killed by the centaur. It was separated from Centaurus by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus in the third century BC. No particular animal was associated with it. The ancient Greeks knew it as Therium, a wild animal. The Romans called it Bestia, the beast. A later Latin translation of Ptolemy’s work finally identified it as a wolf.
And Last but not least The Ursa Minor a.ka. The Little Bear. This Constellation is visible in the northern hemisphere all year long. It is a small constellation covering an area of 256 square degrees. It ranks 56th in size among the 88 constellations in the night sky. It is famous for a group of stars known as the Little Dipper and for Polaris, the North Star, which is located at the tip of the dipper’s handle. Polaris is called the North Star because it is the closest star to the north celestial pole. This means that as the Earth rotates, Polaris appears to remain stationary in the sky while all of the other stars rotate around it. Because the Earth wobbles slightly as it rotates on its axis, Polaris will not always be the North Star.
Ursa Minor is one of the 48 constellations identified by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the second century. Its name means “lesser bear” in Latin. It is an ancient constellation with roots in many cultures. To the ancient Babylonians it was known as the Wagon of Heaven. In Greek mythology, this constellation was associated with two different myths. In one, it represented Ida and her sister Adrasteia, the nymphs who took care of Zeus on the island of Crete when he was small. Zeus rewarded them by placing them in the heavens. In another, it represented Arcas, who was the son of Zeus and the nymph Callisto. Arcas and his mother were transformed into bears and placed in the night sky.
On your hunt look out for these three Constellations, when your out star gazing with friends or family you’ll be able to impress them with you knowledge. Don’t forget to send in pictures of your time and any constellations you see. We would love to see how you got on and all the fun you’ve had.


Year 6 children researched the life of Stephen Hawking and wondered at the amazing and complex ideas he discovered about time, the origins of the Universe and black holes.
It wasn't possible to investigate a black hole. That is just as well - we don't want to get spaghettified.
Nevertheless, Year 6 did have a go at demonstrating the link between electricity and magnetism, two of the natural phenomena that Hawking hoped to unify with the force of gravity.
With just a few simple components it is possible to make an electromagnet.
Industrial electromagnets are used to move heavy metal objects, for example, in scrap yards. They are just a bigger, more powerful version of what we made in class. If you have access, you can see one in action in this YouTube video.
If you want to make another one, here's the "How-To" video.


Structure in the Tail of Comet 12P/Pons Brooks
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Explanation: Heading for its next perihelion passage on April 21, Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is growing brighter. The greenish coma of this periodic Halley-type comet has become relatively easy to observe in small telescopes. But the bluish ion tail now streaming from the active comet's coma and buffeted by the solar wind, is faint and difficult to follow. Still, in this image stacked exposures made on the night of February 11 reveal the fainter tail's detailed structures. The frame spans over two degrees across a background of faint stars and background galaxies toward the northern constellation Lacerta. Of course Comet 12P's April 21 perihelion passage will be only two weeks after the April 8 total solar eclipse, putting the comet in planet Earth's sky along with a totally eclipsed Sun.
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Webb Telescope Experience
Designed entryway and common spaces of Redondo Beach manufacturing facility
(Northrop Grumman Corporation, 2014)
Redondo Beach, California — Tucked away in the NE corner of Northrop Grumman's Space Park lies the rapidly progressing production of the most technologically advanced telescope known to man, the James Webb Space Telescope. Regularly toured by outside groups ranging from girl scouts to Congressional Reps., this design team aimed to create a space that would welcome guests and accommodate group photos without the risk of exposing sensitive areas of the building or distracting the engineers who are busy building the spacecraft.
I'm unable to share the extensive work that our team put into the guts of this building, however the lobby pictured above met these requirements, not only by offering tour groups an exciting focal point for their photos, but also providing a mind-blowing demonstration of the telescope's magnification capabilities by looking directly into the display mirror. Guests can also see the elaborate craftsmanship and mechanical components of the telescope by walking behind the mirror, and perhaps even pick up on the room's subtle design details such as the identical aluminum finishes on the ceiling, walls, and furniture, matching carpet colors and wall graphics, and identical perforation in the ceiling lighting and mirror display case.
As the launching point of Aerospace Systems' Webb Telescope tour, the room amply accommodates a large number of people, provides seating for parties waiting to be escorted into the high-bays, and most importantly, through generous use of the company's signature blue, screams "Northrop Grumman" as one enters the building.