Imagine ascending 300 kilometers above the Earth, soaring over the snowy peaks of the Himalayas or the majestic pyramids of Giza, watching city lights glow across the globe or observing your hometown from a seat among the stars. The year is 2021—and you no longer have to imagine. The commercial space flight industry is taking off, inspiring travelers and investors to reach for the stars with content strategy centered around aspiration.
While advancing revolutionary technology, marketing in commercial space revolves around a single question: what kind of future do you believe possible—and are you willing to step on board?
Language of possibility and perspective
“You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great—and that’s what being a spacefaring civilization is all about. It’s about believing in the future and thinking that the future will be better than the past. And I can’t think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars.”
South African entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, describes a simple, starry-eyed sentiment regarding space exploration: hope for a better future. This promising future begins “among the stars.”
The copy is simple yet evocative—it acknowledges groundbreaking possibilities with romanticism and confidence. From “experiencing the blue planet from above,” “returning to our lunar neighbor,” and “making humanity multiplanetary,” the possibilities are as endless as the universe itself.
There’s no question that visiting the Moon or inhabiting Mars will happen—the only question is if you are coming along for the ride: “To start planning your journey, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org.”
Competitors of SpaceX like Virgin Galactic, launched by Richard Branson, and Blue Origin, created by Jeff Bezos, are using similar tactics to inspire audiences towards a new future of space exploration.
Blue Origin’s tagline, “This seat will change how you see the world,” and Virgin Galactic’s mission to “make it possible to see our beautiful home planet from a new perspective” are slightly less bold than SpaceX’s tone, but equally invested in the language of possibility and perspective. It’s clear these tactics are lucrative too: UBS expects the broader space industry, which is already worth about $400 billion, will double to $805 billion by 2030.
Yet while all three companies fuel their campaigns with aspiration, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic’s copy diverges slightly. Blue Origin, for its part, emphasizes that as humanity continues to grow, it’s essential that we expand, explore, and find new resources outside of Earth. On the other hand, Virgin Galactic specifically reinforces safety precautions and invites kids to “apply the space perspective to Earth’s greatest challenges” with interactive activities and learning opportunities at home.
These slightly different approaches reveal how companies in the field are differentiating themselves by exploring otherworldly resources to sustain human life—or educational opportunities for young minds.
Discovering home from a new vantage point
While encouraging audiences to explore the possibilities of outer space, leaders in the commercial space flight field are also interested in using space to shorten earthbound trips too.
SpaceX, for example, proposes personalized flight paths: “Fly over your hometown, famous landmarks and other places meaningful to you,” to help you see who you are and where you came from at a new vantage point. This kind of aspirational marketing appeals to a personal sense of belonging, by giving audiences a greater sense of their place in a vast world.
Beyond personalized flight paths, the commercial space industry is on a mission to make long-distance international trips significantly faster. SpaceX describes this possibility in layman’s terms:
“In addition to vastly increased speed, one great benefit to traveling in space outside of Earth’s atmosphere is the lack of friction as well as turbulence and weather. Imagine most journeys taking less than 30 minutes with access to anywhere in the world in an hour or less.”
The language is accessible and energizing: imagine if traveling across the world only took thirty minutes. Not only is it aspirational, it’s on the way—a recent study by UBS reveals that in a decade, high speed travel via outer space will represent an annual market of at least $20 billion, and will compete with long-distance airline flights.
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The future of private, commercial space travel will likely have huge implications on the travel industry—especially for long-distance airlines. It will revolutionize how and why we travel—both across the world and out of this world.
And yet, the commercial space field is already exploding in the world of marketing, reminding us that aspiration sells—by encouraging broad audiences to expand their sense of what is possible and chase aspiration. This dynamic industry is here to stay, and only time will tell where they land next.
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Planetarium was conceived in 2001 after attending a lecture at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
The idea was to create representations of planetary orbits in a “musical” way so they could be sensed or (in this case) heard. Each planets’ size (diameter) is represented by a tone (sine) within a fixed spectrum. Initially, this spectrum was too large (first experiments were set at 40-10k Hz) and resulted in sounds (even) I thought to be unlistenable. I decided to limit the spectrum to the current 2-octave range of 415-1660 Hz (Jupiter and Pluto being the extremes). The “years” are reduced to 1/10,000,000.
Note: This was before Pluto’s reclassification and exile to the Kuiper belt.
Many iterations of this project happened in the last 10 years. Tone duration was once a/2 and in the original spectrum of 40-10k? 6 minutes of 10k = not pleasant. There were planet specific “remixes”. The original “piece” represented 2 Plutonian years (approx. 496 Earth years), divided the Earth year (3.16s) into a 2-bar phrase and had 1/4-note kicks. At 151.89 BPM, a 1/4-note would equal about 45 days + 8 hrs.
I decided to re-examine the whole idea recently; I just couldn’t let it go. The expression of “music” didn’t seem to serve the concept. The intent is philosophic, not musical. To remove boundaries of macro/micro/faith/science. Kubrickian Zen.
I added two other (new) attributes to the tone-loops: Pan is assigned in relation to each planet’s average distance from the Sun (3.67 billion miles : 127). Gain is assigned based on a fixed range of 40 dB and each planet’s average distance from Earth (Earth = 0 dB). Durations are: a/4 + linear fade.
So now you know. This is why Planetarium is now (completed and) an online installation that loops forever if you want.
Start time is chaotic re: loading tone-loops. Consider it a Big Bang.
Above: Original graphics for Planetarium.
Above: At Meteor Crater, Arizona 2001.


The new moon in Aquarius on January 27, 2017 opened the door to a breath of fresh air. If you have an activist bone in your body, you will began to hear the call this month as the sign of the revolutionary, the genius, the activist and the humanitarian takes center stage.
Aquarius will also be supported this month by the element of FIRE! Both Venus and Mars are in Aries (Mars moves into its home sign tonight) throughout February with a Full Moon eclipse in Leo on February 11 . This Full Moon features 5 out of 10 planets amplifying the already considerable power of this lunar extraganza.


History was set to be made in Carrollton this morning, but Mother Nature had different plans.
Students and facility members gathered outside Carrollton High School to witness Carrollton’s first-ever space launch. Unfortunately, the mission never got a chance to succeed as high gusting winds pushed the launch capsule straight into nearby trees, destroying the balloon.
Carrollton math and engineering teacher Pat Dugas has assisted with the project from Day One and says everything was going to plan until the winds started to pick up. He explains the equipment on the capsule.
“The weather balloon was designed to go over 100,000 feet in altitude and qualifies as near space,” says Dugas.
“We have a video camera that takes high resolution video as it goes up in the air. We also have a parachute after it reaches it’s altitude and begins to go down.”
A temperature sensor on board would have collected data which could be used for research in math and science classes. Software traveling with the capsule estimated the balloon would have landed around Taylorville.
Even though the launch wasn’t a success, Dugas is extremely proud of his students for coming up with this creative project.
“The greatest thing about this is our students completely came up with idea,” says Dugas.
“They have run with whole project and I am very excited for this to work for them.”
Local firefighters assisted in getting the capsule out of the trees. The capsule equipment was still intact and is prepared for the relaunch scheduled in two weeks.
The balloon project was led by Carrollton High students Colton Miller, Travis Alexander, Riley Lewis, Nick Robinson and Jacob Lovel. Anyone who is interested in sponsoring or donating future launches can make donations to Carrollton High School to the balloon project.


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THE EARTH OBSERVATION HANDBOOK: The CEOS Earth Observation Handbook presents the main capabilities of satellite Earth observations, their applications and a systematic overview of present and planned CEOS agency Earth observation satellite missions and their instruments. Dec 29, · His illusory result led to Bradley's discovery of aberration. These experiments formed the subject of Hooke's Cutlerian lectures in , published in as ‘An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth by Observations.’ The first observation of a star by daylight was recorded in this little work (p. 27).
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This article aims to re-evaluate the scope of Hooke’s agenda by reading the preface to his text in its broader, poetic, context, as a critique of the traditional ways of writing natural Author: Frédérique Aït-Touati.
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I’m an ephemeral collection of ten billion billion billion atoms from Denmark, the happiest country on Earth, home to Hans Christian Andersen, Niels Bohr, and ice cube bags. I currently appear to be sticking together nicely in New York City, where I work at a technology company.
I’m also a sucker for technology, astronomy, and physics—so if you enjoy science (astronomy and cosmology in particular) and random, anti-philosophical ramblings about our place in a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people, chances are you’ll be able to kill some time with my blog. If you’re looking for something that is actually useful, you might find something of interest among my various projects.
But, most of all, remember to be happy, and to look at the night sky every once in a while—because somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.


They realized something was there after comet orbits provided telltale evidence of a vast nesting ground for comets beyond Neptune. The first recognized Kuiper Belt Objects were not discovered until the early s. NTOs bear that label because they cross the orbit of Neptune as they orbit the Sun. The recent discoveries of large bodies in the Kuiper Belt drove astronomers to see if Pluto was not the only planet out there. They imagined more bodies larger and more distant than Pluto would be found, and they were.
Such objects are hard to find. Because the illumination of the Sun is so far away, light reflecting from them is extremely faint.
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Also, they have very dark surfaces reflecting very little light. The spacecraft will arrive in the vicinity of Pluto about The robot explorer would swing by Pluto and then travel on out into the Kuiper Belt. While the probe will have the capability to visit one or more Kuiper objects, some of the recently-discovered mysterious bodies probably won't be in a convenient position for a flyby.
When a large object is found, the International Astronomical Union decides what it will be named officially. Planets, moons and minor planets are given names from Greek and Roman mythology. For instance, Venus was named for the Roman god of love because it was said to be the most beautiful planet. Mars was named for the Roman god of war because of its blood red color. If the IAU were to name VB12 something other than Sedna, it wouldn't be the first time names proposed by astronomers have been changed.
Thursday, June 20 Observers of the outer solar system get their first good views of Uranus before dawn in late June. The best time to look for it is shortly before twilight begins around a.
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The Outer Worlds; Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Beyond
EDT, when the Sun reaches its farthest point north in the sky. This marks the official beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and the day of the solstice has more hours of sunlight than any other.
For astronomy buffs, however, long days translate into short nights and extended twilight, which limit our time under the stars. This so-called stationary point marks the beginning of the best period to observe any outer planet. Neptune rises around a. The magnitude 7. M5, whose , stars glow at a combined magnitude of 5. You can locate it just 0. Binoculars show the cluster as a hazy ball of light punctuated by a bright core.
Sunday, June 23 Mercury reaches greatest elongation at 7 p. EDT, so today marks the peak of its current evening apparition. The Moon reaches apogee, the farthest point in its orbit around Earth, at a. Baby stars found twisting planet-forming disks into a pretzel. The Andromeda Galaxy has swallowed up multiple dwarf galaxies, study finds.
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Want to leave a comment? The path of Oumuamua since it entered the solar system in Astronomers have long predicted that objects from other solar systems get shot out into space and arrive in our system.
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While originally classified as a comet, observations revealed no signs of cometary activity after it was slingshotted around the sun at a remarkable , miles per hour. Researchers hypothesize that the shape and size suggest that the object has been wandering through the Milky Way, unattached to any star system, for hundreds of millions of years. Karen Meech of the University of Hawaii first identified Oumuamua. Here she is giving a TED Talk. Avi Loeb, chair of the Harvard Astronomy Department and an advocate of thinking way outside the box about Oumuamua.
No known asteroid or comet from our solar system varies so widely in brightness, with such a large ratio between length and width. The most elongated objects we have seen to date are no more than three times longer than they are wide. And with its odd shape and features, it clearly remains something of a mystery. Especially due to the remarkably fast speed with which Oumuamua entered the solar system, he argues that a probe sent by intelligent others cannot be ruled out, that science must be open minded. Others strongly disagree. But the views of the chairman of the Harvard astronomy department are nonetheless an intriguing part of the story.
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U.S. Senators Ask GAO To Review FCC's Decision to Exempt Broadband Satellites from Enviro Review
Not only will thousands of low orbit broadband satellites blanket our planet in harmful wireless radiation, but they also pose a risk to astronomers and their ability to study the night sky.
"Two senators have asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office to review the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to exempt satellite constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink from an environmental review, given those satellites’ effect on the night sky.
In an April 2 letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) asked the GAO to examine the FCC’s decision, made decades ago, to not subject satellite systems seeking FCC licenses from environmental assessments." Read the news here.


Gigha’s night sky on a clear night is exceptional with a Bortle rating of 2 (1 is the darkest skies and 9 corresponds with inner city skies). Thousands of stars are visible from the island and our galaxy, the Milky Way, is visible from horizon to horizon.
DARK SKIES GIGHA
Dark Skies Gigha is a non-profit community group based on the Isle of Gigha which aims to promote and facilitate an interest in observing the night sky as well as providing educational experiences through regular events covering all age groups. The group also encourages islanders and visitors to become aware of the detrimental effects of light pollution on wildlife, humans and the night sky.
DARK SKY THEATRE
Thanks to the hard work of the Dark Skies Gigha group, the huge expanse of dark sky and minimal light pollution, a site at the north of the island has been named as a Dark Sky Discovery Site by the UK Dark Sky Discovery Partnership. Gigha’s site is Milky Way class, the highest designation, because it is possible to see our galaxy, the Milky Way, very clearly on a dark cloudless night. This award makes the Isle of Gigha one of the top twenty most remote zones in Scotland which have been designated as a Dark Sky Discovery Site in the Milky Way class.
The group have created a Dark Sky Theatre at the Dark Sky Discovery Site at the north of the island which features a night sky interpretation board, benches and stargazing pamphlets for islanders and visitors.
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The group write regular ‘Seeing Stars’ reports that appear in the Gigha Newsletter and the group also posts stargazing information on social media. Stargazing Guide pamphlets are also available below and on the island.
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Rocky Worlds Ice Cream
In this adventure we set out to explore the rocky worlds of our solar system, and some of the interesting features we have found on those worlds. All while using one of our favorite past times, ice cream. From the understanding of that delicious dessert, we can help to explain many of those exciting and compelling places in the solar system.
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The Little Star That Could
"The Little Star That Could" is a story about Little Star, an average yellow star in search for planets of his own to protect and warm. Along the way, he meets other stars, learns what makes each star special, and discovers that stars combine to form star clusters and galaxies. Eventually, Little Star finds his planets. Each planet is introduced to your audiences with basic information about our Solar System.


Want to own a little piece of heaven? It's yours, starting at $19.99 an acre--on the moon. If you prefer, you can buy property on Venus--or Mercury. Mercury is nice this time of year.If that's still too close to the hustle and bustle of Earth, there's Mars--33.9 million miles from Times Square. A deed, with your name on it, to a prime-view one acre lot on Mars will set you back $22.49, plus tax, plus shipping (not from Mars) and handling.The man selling these lots is Dennis Hope, founder and owner of Lunar Embassy Corp of Gardnerville, Nevada, which claims to hold the property rights to several heavenly bodies. How many? "Nine altogether," says Hope brightly. "When we started, Pluto was still considered a planet."


The recent total eclipse that we experienced in Oregon and all across the United States was one of those things that come along perhaps only once in a lifetime. It definitely took me out of my ordinary, business-as-usual, lifestyle.
Amazing as the experience was, I think most people don’t realize just how unique eclipses here on Earth really are.
I’m amused every time I hear someone say that something was “more unique” or “the most unique.” The word ‘unique’ means that there is only one of whatever is being described. There are no degrees of uniqueness. It’s not possible for something to be more unique than something else. A unique experience is one that cannot be duplicated.
Having said that, and knowing that a total eclipse of the sun happens somewhere on the surface of the Earth once every eighteen months, there is a sense that a total eclipse of the sun, as seen from the Earth, is really unique.
The fact that we can see total eclipses at all is due to a freak coincidence that is so unlikely that it probably does not occur anywhere else in the entire Milky Way galaxy.
The Milky Way contains somewhere between 300 billion and 400 billion stars, and just about every one of them has at least one planet orbiting it. An eclipse happens when something, such as a moon or another planet, comes between a planet and its star.
A partial eclipse occurs when something comes between a star and an observer on a planet, when something comes between the two that does not completely block the light from the star. This slide shows what the sun looks like when Venus comes between the Earth and the Sun.
This is called a transit of Venus, because Venus appears to move across the face of the sun. You wouldn’t even know this was happening if you weren’t looking for it because the dimming caused by the transit is so slight.
Another example of an eclipse, but from the surface of Mars rather than Earth is the eclipse of the Sun by Mars’ moon Phobos. As is the case with the transit of Venus, Phobos is too small to completely eclipse the sun, so there is a ring of brightness around it.
I mentioned that the total eclipses that we see on Earth are due to a freak coincidence. That coincidence is the fact that the sun is 400 times larger in diameter than the moon, and the moon is 400 times closer to the Earth than is the sun. That means that during a total eclipse, the moon EXACTLY covers the disk of the sun, known as the chromosphere. This allows us to see the sun’s corona, which at any other time is too dim to see because of the overpowering brightness of the chromosphere.
What does it take for a total eclipse to be observed from the surface of a planet?
- The planet must have a moon that orbits in the same plane as the line of sight between the planet and its star.
- The ratio of the distance between the planet and the moon, and the planet and its star, must be the same as the ratio of the diameter of the moon to the diameter of the star.
- The planet must be habitable, with a solid surface, a breathable atmosphere, and be in the star’s “Goldilocks” zone where the temperature is such that liquid water can exist on the surface, not too hot and not to cold.
- Intelligent beings, capable of experiencing a sense of wonder, must exist to appreciate the eclipse.
- All the above conditions must occur at the same time.
What are the odds that these conditions will be met? The odds are VERY long. In fact, out of the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way, it is most likely that there is only one planet in one star system, out of all those hundreds of billions, that satisfies ALL those conditions. It’s the planet you are on right now. On the scale of the Milky Way galaxy, a total eclipse of a star is indeed a UNIQUE experience. Next time you get a chance to see one, go for it.


Yousuf Karsh, master photographer of the 20th century
Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, on July 16, 1969, and the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. Karsh photographed the crew, Michael Collins, Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong, in September of that year.
Karsh photographed the three Apollo 8 astronauts, William Anders, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, in April, 1969. Anders took the beloved “Earthrise” photograph on that mission. Read more.
Six years prior, Karsh had a sitting with Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, who was photographed during Karsh’s trip to the USSR. Read more.


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One beautiful night Lily Luna is looking up at the night sky and dreams to travel to the stars. When a bright shooting star is falling through the sky she makes a wish. Later that night she wakes up dressed in a space suit and her bed transformed into a flying capsule. Together with her furry friend Pollux, the ginger cat, they embark on a beautiful and adventurous journey through space.


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A SpaceX Falcon9 rocket launching in 2012
Sibling US nets Discovery Channel and Science Channel will share live coverage of next week’s launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule, America’s first crewed orbital space mission since 2011.
Space Launch Live: America Returns to Space will be a live multiplatform event that will take viewers along on the mission to launch veteran astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station via the rocket and capsule manufactured by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Discovery and Science’s coverage will feature commentary from astronauts and engineers, and will also include special guests such as pop-star Katy Perry, Mythbusters’ Adam Savage and former NASA engineer Mark Rober.
Space Launch Live: America Returns to Space is being produced by US prodco Storied Media Group. Exec producers for Storied Media Group are Aaron Fishman, Todd Hoffman and Michael Miller, while Wyatt Channell, Gretchen Eisele, Scott Lewers and Caroline Perez exec produce for Discovery.
The live broadcast will also be accompanied by two-hour documentary NASA & SpaceX: Journey to the Future. The doc goes behind the scenes with SpaceX and NASA employees as they prepare for the launch, and provides unprecedented access to launch control and the NASA and SpaceX headquarters.
NASA & SpaceX: Journey to the Future is produced alongside The Washington Post and journalist Christian Davenport. It will premiere on May 25 on Science Channel and will air the following day on Discovery Channel.


Upon completing the first part of our DJW symposium back in May 2022 discussing aerospace industry, we are looking forward to focus particularly on space industry in Japan and Germany with the second part of the symposium to be held in November 2022. We would like to deepen the discussion on this promising industry as it provides positive impact of advanced technologies on conventional industries and serves as blueprint for sustainable applications to be used on earth as well.
The dream of flying is as old as mankind itself. Today, technologies allow us not only to take to the skies, but also to reach for the stars. In space travel, satellites enable us to conduct global research, collect data, navigate, and communicate. Innovative materials, regenerative energies and the recycling of resources are essential for human spaceflight and for the future on our planet. Technologies that are initially developed for space travel often find their way into our daily lives, examples include digital photography and GPS navigation.
As space travel and R&D developments within this industry are to be addressed globally, international relationships among companies with technological capabilities including non-space industries as well as research institutions is of utmost importance. At the same time, sustainable development of the space industry is a challenge not only but most certainly mainly due to today’s serious fragmentation and energy crisis in the world.
Nevertheless, particularly Germany and Japan cooperate closely on research missions in space: German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) signed a cooperation agreement in 2020 for a bilateral asteroid mission to be launched in 2024.
With our DJW symposium, we would like to invite representatives from research institutions and companies in both countries that have contributed significantly to the development of the space industry in Japan and Germany to discuss how space technologies can serve as guiding example for innovative material usage on our planet as well.
- 15:30 Doors open, Registration, Networking
- 16:00 Opening and Welcome
- 16:20 Keynote
- 16:55 Panel Discussion
- 18:00 Q&A Session including audience
- 18:25 Closing Remarks
- 18:30 Close of Symposium
- 18:30 Dinner Reception, Networking
- 19:45 Closing of Dinner Reception
- 20:00 Guiding all Participants to Exit
German-Japanese in simultaneous interpretation


3 edition of Self-regulating galaxy formation. found in the catalog.
Self-regulating galaxy formation.
Donald P. Cox
1984 by Space Physics and Astronomy Dept., Rice University in [Houston, Tex.?] .
Written in English
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Now we believe in a Big Bang in a blinding flash of light followed by "inflation" followed by expansion and condensation of stars and formation of galaxies, etc. Jolly good story, I'd say. Did you know that our Milky Way galaxy has completed about 13 revolutions since the Big Bang? I know: is that all? Aug 07, · The entire cycle is a self-regulating feedback mechanism, like the thermostat on a house's heating and cooling system, because the "puddle" of gas around the black hole provides the fuel that. Cobra Interview Transcript from July 3, URGENT MESSAGE: HISTORICAL UNSTOPPABLE DEFEAT OF THE DA How to Attract Fairies in your Home.
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Get this from a library. Self-regulating galaxy formation. I, HII disk and Lyman alpha pressure. [Donald P Cox; Rice University.
Space Physics and Astronomy Department.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.]. We show that star formation in galaxy bulges is self-regulating through momentum feedback, limiting the stellar bulge mass to M_b ~ sigma^4.
Together with a black hole mass M_BH ~ sigma^4 set by. The self regulating star formation of gas rich dwarf galaxies in quiescent phase.
galaxy formation and evolution, massive star formation, stellar winds, chemical yields, outflows and inflows. Aug 10, · Hubble reveals galaxy gas flow and star birth regulated by black-hole jets. The Space Telescope Science Institute Press Release.
10 August Astronomy Now. This artist’s rendering shows a central black hole interacting with gas in the galaxy’s halo to create a self-regulating cycle. In this cycle, high-energy jets shooting out of the. A Pea galaxy, also referred to as a Pea or Green Pea, might be a type of Luminous Blue Compact Galaxy which is undergoing very high rates of Self-regulating galaxy formation.
book formation. Pea galaxies are so-named because of their small size and greenish appearance in the images taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This book, Hubble Focus: Galaxies through Space and Time, Sparkling with new star formation, spiral galaxy NGC is similar in shape to our Milky Way galaxy but is more than double the size.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) team all parts of a self-regulating cycle. Cool gas is necessary to form stars. Aug 07, · Using the Hubble Space Telescope, two independent teams have found that an elliptical galaxy's black hole, jets, and newborn stars are all parts of a self-regulating cycle of star formation.
SELF-REGULATING STELLAR FEEDBACK Galaxy sizes and gas fractions The star formation rate in the I model does not de-pend on the gas mass.
Instead, we compute the mass of star forming gas by assuming a star formation law. Taking the Kennicutt-Schmidt (Kennicutt) star formation law and assuming that star forming gas is in an exponential Cited by: 4. Sep 10, · By Peter N. Spotts Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor; contract, clump, and begin the star- and galaxy-formation process.
We're getting a hint of self-regulating mechanisms [to. Sep 07, · Subscribe Book Shop Travel With Us SmartNews History pace of star formation creating a self-regulating mechanism that keeps the galaxy from Author: Jason Daley.
Terraforming or terraformation (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable by Earth-like life.
The concept of terraforming developed from both science fiction and actual science. The Gaia hypothesis was an influence on the deep ecology movement.
Details. The Gaia hypothesis posits that the Earth is a self-regulating complex system involving the biosphere, the atmosphere, the hydrospheres and the pedosphere, tightly coupled as an evolving system. The hypothesis contends that this system as a whole, called Gaia, seeks a.
Zones to Self Regulation book for Behaviour ManagementI've created this self regulation product, making tools individually accessible for my students to masternode-world.com of my kiddos have popped their name on a booklet and use the visuals to remind themselves of the positive behaviour needed, with supports.
THE TECHNIUM AND THE 7TH KINGDOM OF LIFE It's part of the same line that I call extropic systems that extend back through living systems, self-regulating planets, auto-coalescing star systems and so on. We see extropic systems in galaxy formation, planet formation, life formation, intelligence formation, and I believe, in technology.
In this way star formation in galaxies is self-regulating. But, in COSMOS-AzTEC-1, the pressure is far weaker than the gravity and hard to balance. Therefore this galaxy shows runaway star. Indeed, one can hardly name an observational datum in any wavelength range on any kind of celestial object that does not provide a useful clue to galaxy formation and evolution.
Although internal processes in galaxies until recently occupied most of our attention, we now know that it is also vital to relate galaxies to their environment. Oct 07, · New book chronicles the space program; looking at how much the supermassive black hole’s activity influenced the amount of star formation in the galaxy, and how the galaxy’s growth.
In “normal” galaxies, star formation is self regulating, in a sense, balancing the inward pull of gravity in dense molecular clouds with the outward pressure generated by stellar ignition, supernova blasts and related phenomena.
But in a starburst galaxy, the clouds are unstable, gravity dominates and runway star formation results. May 08, · Watch the Universe Evolve Over 13 Billion Years that the evolution of features in space “is a self-regulating processes such as star-formation-driven galactic winds, and black hole Author: Mohi Kumar.
Feb 09, · Given To Me For An Honest Review Woman King, Second Edition (Dark horse Trilogy Book 1) by Evette Davis is a real fun book to read. Be sure that you are sitting down when you start because once you open it, it will grab your attention and won't let it go until the end/5(6).
The first mechanism invoked to explain the existence of the thick disk in the Milky Way Galaxy was the spiral arms. Up-to-date work summons several other possibilities that together seem to better explain this component of our Galaxy.
All these processes must affect distinct types of galaxies. Life and the Evolution of Earth’s Atmosphere Stephen J. Mojzsis Stephen J. Mojzsis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
What’s Life to a Geochemist. Thinking about it, there’s a subtle kind of poetry involved with its scientific definition. Formation of Giant Molecular Clouds by Coagulation of Small Molecular Clouds in a Spiral Gravitational Potential.- How Many Star-Forming Regions are there in the Milky Way?.- Abundances of Classical Cepheids and Evidence for Secondary Star-Formation.- New Results on the Coagulation Equation.- A Model for Self-Regulating Star Formation Radical centrism, also called the radical center, the radical centre or the radical middle, is a political ideology that arose in the Western nations in the late 20th century.
At first, it was defined in a variety of ways, but at the beginning of the 21st century a number of. Galaxy collisions may trigger the formation of a large fraction of all the stars ever formed, and play a key role in fueling active galactic nuclei.
Current understanding of the processes involved is reviewed. Plate Tectonics Is Self-Regulating. Plate Tectonics Seems Not to Operate on Mars or Venus.
Building the Solar System. Planet Formation Is Contingent. Planets Formed by Accretion from the Solar Nebula. The Solar Nebula Was a Dynamic Environment. The Milky Way Is a Spiral Galaxy. Galactic Chemistry Influences Habitability.
Aug 10, · Black hole 'fountain' gives birth to stars: 'Thunderstorms' of hot jets and cooling gas explain mystery of how galaxies grow. The central black hole in. Abstract Modern star counts at high Galactic latitudes played a major role in revealing the existence of a thick disk as the third stellar component of the Milky Way Galaxy in addition to the old thin disk and halo.
Moreover, gradients with metallicity decreasing with radius seem to be common in local disc galaxies. These observations suggest that galaxy formation is a self-regulating process, and provide constraints for galaxy evolution. The cabbie then has a moral right to use force to collect it.
Chapter 3, The Self-Regulating Market, states that state interference causes the buyer, the seller, or both in a transaction to lose and that only a voluntary trade can be a completely satisfactory trade. Hubble finds evidence of galaxy star birth regulated by black-hole fountain jets, and newborn stars are all parts of a self-regulating cycle.
High-energy jets shooting from the black hole heat a halo of surrounding gas, controlling the rate at which the gas cools and falls into the galaxy. Author: Kyle Mcdermott. Have you taken a whole course on literary criticism but are still feeling lost. Here's the book you need to sort it all out--and enjoy doing so.
In Literary Theory For Beginners, Mary Klages takes you into her classroom, cuts through the jargon, and explains the ABCs (and the DEFs as well) in terms you can get your head around. Her breadth of Brand: For Beginners. Titled The Greening of Mars, the novel explores the formation and evolution of planets, the origin of life, and Earth’s biosphere.
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Spiral galaxies. Global relations for spirals: the Tully-Fisher relation. same sort of global scaling relations as the fundamental plane is observed in spiral galaxies - for spirals, the relation is that, known as the Tully-Fisher masternode-world.com, is the maximum rotation velocity observed in a spiral disk; sometimes observed via HI line widths, and sometimes via optical rotation curves.
Jan 04, · Galaxy formation entails the hierarchical assembly of mass, along with the condensation of baryons and the ensuing, selfregulating star formation1,2. The stars form a collisionless system whose orbit distribution retains dynamical memory that self- regulating star formation1,2.
The stars form a collisionless sys- tem whose orbit. NGCa grand design spiral galaxy with high rate of star formation (evidence also by 5 SNII outbursts) and with numerous bright star complexes along spiral arms.
n Spiral Galaxies This fact needs explanation in any theory of galaxy formation, and we will return to this issue masternode-world.com by: Star Formation Triggered by Black-Hole Jets. This artist's rendering shows a central black hole interacting with gas in the galaxy's halo to create a self-regulating cycle.
In this cycle, jets shooting out of the galaxy's center heat a halo of surrounding gas, controlling the rate at which the gas cools and falls into the galaxy to form stars.
Jan 01, · The Life of the Cosmos book. Read 44 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. This is the first of many weak, philosophical arguments in the book. I'm interested in the formation and evolution of stars. galaxies, and galaxy clusters, resemble a self-regulating lifeform.
Then Smolin applies the concept of evolution to the /5. Oct 03, · Johannes Zabl - Mini Workshop 3 October. Abstract: "A strong body of indirect observational evidence suggests that galaxies need to accrete gas from their surrounding medium.
It is very much an ongoing challenge, though, to directly observe the accreting gas around individual galaxies. A children’s book by Girton College graduate Sandi Toksvig is the one millionth book to take its place in Cambridge University Library’s Ely storage facility, 18 months after ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ (written by fellow Cambridge alumnus Douglas Adams) became the first book to be placed in the facility.Astrobiology: An Introduction - CRC Press Book Astrobiology is a multidisciplinary pursuit that in various guises encompasses astronomy, chemistry, planetary and Earth sciences, and biology.
It relies on mathematical, statistical, and computer modeling for theory, and space science, engineering, and computing to implement observational and exper.Star formation in the universe's largest galaxies—the ones at the centers of galaxy clusters—depends critically on the thermodynamic state of their hot gaseous atmospheres.
Central galaxies with low-entropy, high-density atmospheres frequently contain multiphase star-forming gas, while those with high-entropy, low-density atmospheres never masternode-world.com: Lieu, Richard.


Stars collision in astronomy
Astronomers announced an important breakthrough on 16th October, 2017. They detected the collision of two neutron stars on this day. This breakthrough was significant enough in the sense that these collisions would not lead to γ-ray bursts along with the creation of heavier elements in the Universe, such as gold and uranium.
Astronomers detected the gravitational waves, which were dissipated as ripples during the collision. This project was carried out by a team of 70 astronomers at Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) based in the USA. Using sophisticated telescopes, scientists observed these γ-rays and radio-frequency spectrum.
Another important feat of 2017 was advancements in quantum communications. On 15th June, 2017, researchers in China made an important public announcement: they had shot pairs of photons from Micius satellite to two ground stations; the distance of separation between these two stations was 1200 kms. This experiment was a breakthrough event as it broke the record of the distance over which particles are associated with each other in an “entangled” state. This was a major breakthrough for Chinese researchers who are trying to develop “quantum internet” in the near future.
Breakthroughs in Genetics
In 2017, a sophisticated treatment for cancer received its first approval: CAR-T cell therapy. In this approach, the immune cells of a patient were genetically engineered to destroy tumor cells of the target. Although the scientific community is not yet clear about the safety of this novel approach, the method did receive its approval from US FDA. This method was approved for treating acute leukemia in children and young adults.
Organ transplantation may soon become a reality given the path-breaking breakthrough in January, 2017. In a peer-reviewed report, scientist claimed to have developed fetuses with both pig and human cells. These hybrids would then be used for developing animals with organs, which are compatible with that of humans. Then, these organs could then be transplanted into people.
Assisted reproduction received a major boost in 2017 as gene editing was now approved for clinical use in six peer-reviewed studies. For the first time, a team of scientists announced in August 2017 that they had developed an innovative CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing system that repairs pathogenic (disease-causing) mutation in human embryos. The researchers proved that the method was safe for clinical use as this method did not lead to any unwanted mutations. Another innovative study was published in September 2017. In this study, scientists fixed the gene associated with recessive blood disease in human embryos, which contained unwanted mutations. These researchers had used human skin cells to clone embryos. Then, they corrected the defects by editing single bases of the DNA.
Another important breakthrough in genetics occurred in July 2017. Genomic data of more than 500, 000 participants was released by the UK Biobank; this genetic data is considered to be one of the largest troves till date. Complete information about the health and traits of 500, 000 participants was provided by UK Biobank to approved scientists. Using this genetic data, a team of scientists carried out a study on 2,000 genomes to understand the inheritance of diseases and traits.
Breakthroughs in space science
Cassini spacecraft launched by NASA got burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere on 15th September 2017. At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, scientists and engineers recorded the dwindling and death of incoming radio signals from Cassini spacecraft. This spacecraft had explored the Saturn planet was almost 13 years, and it crashed out as its fuel supply was exhausted completely; therefore, engineers at NASA steered this spacecraft for a crash and prevented it from bumping into one of the moons of Saturn planet. Cassini spacecraft provided important information about the powerful storms and constantly-changing rings of Saturn planet. Moreover, the spacecraft discovered a mammoth sea of hydrocarbon on Titan, which is the moon of Saturn planet.
In October 2017, astronomers observed a fast-moving asteroid whose orbit was unlike anything seen earlier. This important asteroid was spotted by astronomers in Hawaii. They christened this celestial body as “Oumuamua”; it was 400 meters in length and was believed to have originated from interstellar space. This celestial body zipped back toward the Sun and deep space no sooner it was observed. Such an object was observed for the first time ever in space.
In February 2017, astronomers discovered that seven planets (these plants were of the size of Earth) were orbiting around a star named TRAPPIST-1; this star was about 41 light years away from the Sun. This system was peculiar in terms of the number of small planets; all these planets were rotating in temperate orbits. This is an important breakthrough that paves the way for interplanetary visits.


15 Feb 2021
Here’s the information concerning our two races coming up. I am going to be a little long winded since we have had a few new members join very recently. We hope to see them out on the bay. If you are racing for the first time with the SPSA, please send me a note and we will have a handicap for you. TreinenRich@aol.com If you can figure out how to register on our web page, even better. http://spsa.us/ On the blue bar click on the RACING button and select REGATTAS from the the drop down menu. There is no entry fee. The best performances of the day in the spinnaker fleet and the cruising fleet are rewarded with a liquid trophy at the post race gathering. The post race gatherings are held under the tree at approximately 3:30 or 4:00. That under the tree is the Centennial Oak Tree at the east end of Demen’s Landing. To find us drive east on Demen’s Landing as far as you can go. Eventually you drive all the way around the Centennial Oak Tree.
20 Feb 2021 Spring Series Race Day #2 11 AM Start. This is the second of four races days. Two races are scheduled for each day. Monitor VHF 72. We plan plan to meet up under the tree after the race. We had 14 boats in the January race, we expect a few more to be joining us. Tack Tick is our committee, a Martin 243.
27 Feb 2021 Full Moon Pursuit Race 6 PM 1st Start. We really should call this a Sunset and Snow Moon Pursuit Race. The sun sets at 6:30 and the moon rises at 7:04. The full moon of every month has a name. In January it’s called a Wolf Moon in February it’s the Snow Moon. Sail declarations, that would be for cruising chute boats, need to be declared a couple of days early, it’s in the Notice of Race. You’ll find the NOR in the Docs on the Regatta page. Your start time and the course will be posted and emailed out on the Thursday before the race. Our post race gathering will be in the Sailing Center Parking lot. Drive right in and park.
The best place to see a glorious moon rise is on the bay.


Even if you’re not into Twitter, the messages from Soichi Noguchi are worth a look. He’s currently aboard the International Space Station and regularly updates Twitter with photos he takes from orbit. I want his job, check out the Arora !
Chris Harris drives a Jaguar Formula 1 car at Silverstone with Martin Brundle.
Whats the progress of Mike Gascoignes new Lotus F1 Team (Lotus Cosworth)?
Working for a company that designs some pretty impressive buildings this video of the Burj Dubai caught my eye. Whilst it isn’t one of ours, it’s equally impressive and this video shows just how tall the building is. I’m not sure how much I’d like being up there!
From a fantastic set of pictures from Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on the Boston Globe’s Big Picture site. The MRO has been orbiting Mars for a few years now sending back hi-res images of the planets surface. The images are a real mixture of familiar looking landscapes and alien details like the swirls in the image above.


Eric Weingarten, a second year Ph.D. student in Dr. Colin Jackson’s lab, has been named a 2017-18 NASA/Mississippi Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellow. The Mississippi Space Grant Consortium (MSSGC) is a NASA-supported organization of 16 state universities and colleges with the goal of, “enhancing and supporting aerospace science and technology efforts and activities in Mississippi as well as promoting a strong science, mathematics, and technology base at precollege, undergraduate, and graduate levels.”
Weingarten studies microbial ecophysiology, particularly bacterial community response to stresses such as high salinity which are common in the extreme environments of Mars, the ocean moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and Earth environments impacted by climate change.
Weingarten was one of only eight award recipients across the state, is the only awardee from the University of Mississippi, and is also the only biologist represented.
In addition to supporting continued graduate research, the award calls on fellows to engage in K-12 outreach. Weingarten plans to work with the science faculty at Oxford High School to design classroom activities that will prepare and encourage students to pursue STEM in college and in their careers.
“I look forward to spreading awareness of NASA’s ongoing missions and sharing with students what STEM research they can be involved with early in their career,” said Weingarten. “Having been a teaching assistant for several of the undergraduate biology courses, I also want to help students better prepare for their college curriculum.”
To learn more about the Mississippi Space Grant Consortium, visit msspacegrant.org.


Pros: Brad Pitt’s acting; a generally realistic demonstration of space flight; good cinematography and good special effects Cons: Very slow pace and overall length of the picture; the film only briefly touches on the interesting aspects of space exploration; some episodes of the film grossly violate the laws of physics and logic Ad Astra / “To the Stars”
Director James Gray
Starring: Brad Pitt (Roy McBride), Tommy Lee Jones (Clifford McBride), Ruth Negga (Helen Lantos), Liv Tyler (Eve McBride), Donald Sutherland (Colonel Pruitt), etc.
Студии 20th Century Fox, Plan B Entertainment
Year of release 2019
The main thing is on Earth. The main thing always remains on Earth…
“Trainees”, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Critics greeted Ad Astra warmly, noting the undeniably strong acting work of Brad Pitt and calling the role of Major Roy McBride almost the best of his career. The film is being promoted by NASA itself, praising the realism of the space technologies shown in the film. You can agree with both the first and second statements, but with a lot of reservations, which ultimately nullify all compliments.
So, after a series of devastating disasters on Earth and other planets in the solar system, the US Space Command sends Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) on a mission to Neptune, where the ship of his father, the legendary astronaut Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones), who disappeared many years ago, may be located. . Experts suggest that the cause of disasters that threaten life on Earth is the ship of McBride Sr. Roy, who has very complex feelings for his father, goes first to the Moon, then to Mars, and then to Neptune, as it turns out, only to realize at the end of a long and difficult journey that the main thing is not at all in space, the main thing he forgot on the ground.
Ad Astra is a film about loneliness. And not even about the loneliness of an astronaut in deep space, which is only a metaphor here. A film about the loneliness of a person in a crowd, about the loneliness of someone who sacrificed everything to work, to achieve a goal. In this regard, the picture has something in common with First Man by Damien Chazelle.
In general, in Ad Astra there are so many quotes from other films, sometimes frankly direct, that it seems as if the film does not have its own face. The opening scene is pure Gravity. The flight to Neptune and the meticulousness in demonstrating realistic space technologies are reminiscent of the Europa Report. The flight to the Moon on a scheduled ship is an almost frame-by-frame quote from a similar flight in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the only thing missing is symphonic music. In general, with its leisurely pace and self-absorption of the character, Ad Astra is very close to the famous Kubrick film, it seems that James Gray (The Lost City of Z, The Immigrant) wanted to make his own version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, mixed with the classic “Odyssey” Homer. The hero goes far, far from home to understand that Penelope is most important to him. How unusual this is!
Moreover, Major McBride’s journey does quote Homer’s Odyssey. The brave major overcomes the space between space islands, fights powerful opponents, loses comrades, runs away from strict guards, and faces his own fears. It is interesting that many episodes of this journey touch on really interesting problems of space exploration, but the authors touch on them only in passing, without delving into the details, and this is very disappointing. After all, we would be really interested to know why the war started on the Moon and what is happening in the gray zone. Take a closer look at the lunar spaceport. Discuss the problem of illegal medical experiments outside the jurisdiction of the Earth. To understand how a Martian colony lives… Alas, in Ad Astra this is just a background to show the emotional tossing of the main character.
Yes, Brad Pitt gives a truly impressive performance in Ad Astra, especially considering that his character is a man of few words and spends a lot of time alone. However, the actor plays most of the film with the same facial expression, and the depth of the hero’s experiences is conveyed mainly through static close-ups.
As for the realistic demonstration of space technology, there are also questions about it. Yes, flights to the Moon, Mars and Neptune, as well as the insides of ships and stations, are shown very realistically, with an emphasis on technologies available today or in development. But the traditional cinematic ignorance of signal time delays, the very controversial maneuvering of ships in interplanetary orbits and, of course, the final jump through the ring of Neptune, completely neutralize the realism of the technology demonstrated in the film. Jumping through a ring is generally something beyond good and evil; even Armageddon (1998) did not stoop to this in its time.
Ad Astra is hard to watch – it is very leisurely, dreary, literally exhausting the viewer. And most importantly, after the end of the session, all that will remain in your memory is Brad Pitt’s hazy, self-absorbed gaze, a $150 blanket, a lunar rover race and a blurry silhouette of Liv Tyler (saying hello to Armageddon) in the background. Family is the main thing, loneliness is scary. Thank you, Major Obvious!
Space fiction, where a fantastic setting is just a background for talking about loneliness


Leo Moon Meditation and Singing Bowls with Rachel
Sunday Feb 12 6pm-7pm
A guided meditation and singing bowl session celebrating the Full Moon in Leo. A special joining of the sun and moon, light and dark, fire and water, reflection and revelation!
Pre-registration preferred but last minute walk-ins welcome with space permitting. Follow the link above for the Registration Form. Then for payment, continue to the link to Paypal.
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Space exploration has long captivated the imagination of humanity, driving us to push the boundaries of what is possible and explore the unknown reaches of the cosmos. With advancements in technology and a renewed focus on space exploration by governments and private entities alike, we stand at the precipice of a new era of discovery and innovation in space.
One of the most exciting aspects of space exploration is the continual expansion of our understanding of the universe. Through missions to distant planets, moons, and asteroids, scientists have gained valuable insights into the formation of our solar system and the potential for life beyond Earth. These missions are made possible by a wide range of technologies, from advanced propulsion systems to sophisticated imaging equipment.
One area of particular interest in space exploration is the search for exoplanets – planets orbiting stars outside our solar system. With the development of powerful telescopes and observational techniques, astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets in recent years, many of which may have conditions conducive to life. This ongoing exploration of distant worlds holds the promise of answering fundamental questions about the origins of life in the universe.
In addition to exploring distant planets, space agencies and private companies are also focused on returning humans to the Moon and sending crewed missions to Mars. These ambitious goals require the development of new spacecraft, habitats, and life support systems capable of sustaining human life in the harsh environment of space for extended periods. Organizations like NASA and SpaceX are leading the way in developing the technologies needed to make these missions a reality.
Key to the success of space exploration missions is international cooperation and standardization. Organizations such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) play a crucial role in developing standards for spacecraft design, communication protocols, and safety procedures. By adhering to these standards, space agencies and companies can ensure interoperability and reliability across missions.
For example, ISO standards govern everything from the materials used in spacecraft construction to the procedures for testing and launching rockets. By following these standards, space agencies can minimize the risk of mission failure and ensure the safety of astronauts and equipment in space.
Similarly, IEEE standards play a vital role in the design and operation of spacecraft communication systems. These standards define protocols for transmitting data between spacecraft and ground stations, ensuring reliable communication over vast distances. By adhering to IEEE standards, space missions can maintain constant contact with Earth and transmit valuable scientific data back to researchers. Change the way you interact with the world, read more in the Augmented Reality article.
In addition to ISO and IEEE standards, organizations like Wikipedia provide valuable resources for researchers and space enthusiasts alike. Wikipedia offers a wealth of information on topics ranging from the history of space exploration to the latest developments in spacecraft technology. With its collaborative editing model, Wikipedia serves as a comprehensive and up-to-date repository of knowledge on all things related to space.
In conclusion, space exploration is entering a new era of discovery and innovation, driven by advancements in technology and international cooperation. From the search for exoplanets to crewed missions to Mars, the possibilities for exploration are endless. By adhering to international standards and leveraging resources like Wikipedia, space agencies and companies can ensure the success of their missions and unlock the mysteries of the universe.
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3 days before blue moon, group takes night hike to Jane Bald
Published 9:30 am Monday, August 3, 2015
On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon, and mankind walked on a celestial body other than Earth for the first time ever.
Forty-six years later, people still look up and wonder at the bright object that glows in the night sky.
Tuesday night in Roan Mountain, a group of curious and excited hikers got a lesson on the moon as Roan Mountain State Park hosted a Full Moon Balds Hike guided by park ranger Meg Guy.
The name of the hike was somewhat of a misnomer since the full moon did not occur until Friday. However, there was a reason for holding the hike on Tuesday instead of Friday, explained Guy. On the night of the full moon, the moon will rise at the same time the sun sets, making it hard to see in the sky from the Balds. However, on Tuesday night, the moon had risen before the sun set, allowing for good viewing.
“So, if the clouds are not in the way, the moon will already be up as the sun goes down as we start hiking,” Guy said to the group. “… Also, with the topography of the mountains, moonrise and when you can actually see the moon are quite different. I wanted to ensure that we had enough time that we would actual see the moon on our hike.”
At 8:30 p.m., roughly 15 moongazers piled into cars at Roan Mountain State Park headquarters and drove eight miles up to Carvers Gap, where at twilight, geared with head lamps and flashlights, they started their hike up the Appalachian Trail en route to the top of Jane Bald. The Roan Mountain Balds are ideal for moon- and stargazing because they are treeless, lending to an unobscured view of the sky.
As the group hiked up through the rhododendron that line the AT at Carvers Gap, the trail was still quite visible and easily traversed without help from a lamp or flashlight. As the trekkers entered into one of the rarest ecosystems in Roan Mountain, however, the flashlights came on.
The hikers had entered the spruce-fir forest of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. The forest covered the AT for a short section, before opening back up into the bald. While in the middle of the forest, Guy stopped the group and described to them why they were standing in rare surroundings.
“The reason it is so rare is because you do not think of balsam species and you do not think of fir species being this far South,” Guy said. “This is a boreal forest. This is a species you would find up north and in Canada. There was a time that the spruce-fir forest extended all the way south to Louisiana, when the climate was cooler. As the climate warmed and the glaciers retreated, the forest and ecosystems retreated northward to high latitudes where it remained cool.
“However, these little pockets of high elevation, sprinkled here throughout the Southern Appalachians, remained cool enough for these ecosystems to thrive.”
Out of the forest, the moongazers kept on hiking up the ascending trail before stopping again under the glow of the moon, which had came out from behind some clouds. With the group stopped, Guy picked out three participants, one who acted as the sun, one who acted as the moon and one who acted as Earth. With her three make-shift celestial bodies, Guy showed that full moons happen when the sun and moon are at exact opposites of each other, with Earth setting between the two.
“This is a full moon,” Guy said as she placed her three volunteers where she needed them. “I bet you are saying to yourself, ‘Well, wouldn’t Earth be casting a shadow on the moon, if the earth is in between the sun and the moon?’ What makes the difference is the fact that Earth’s orbital plane and the moon’s orbital plane are offset by five degrees, so the moon is either five degrees higher or five degrees lower than Earth, usually.”
After Guy finished her explanation, the group continued hiking. They would take one more rest stop before reaching the summit of Jane Bald.
During the last break, Guy talked about the many old wives’ tales people believe about the moon. One of the beliefs dates back to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who postulated the theory that the moon and its gravitational pull had a direct effect on human brains, explaining why it seems that crime and crazy behavior increase during full moons. It is this thinking that led to the origin of the word lunatic.
With everyone feeling a little crazier, the hike went on, finishing at the summit, where the final lesson of the night commenced. Guy talked about the most prevalent scientific theory of how the moon came into existence. According to NASA scientist, the moon was formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago after a massive collision between Earth and a Mars sized planetoid. Debris from the collision was thrown into orbit and slowly collected into what now is the moon.
After the last talk of the night, the group wandered around on top of the bald, before, with the light of the moon shining down, making their way back down to where the journey began.


Following her retirement from NASA, Kathy Lueders could also be becoming a member of the darkish aspect of the spaceflight trade. SpaceX reportedly employed the previous head of NASA’s human spaceflight workplace in a transfer that would grant the corporate extra functionality— and credibility—forward of its try and land astronauts on the Moon.
Lueders stepped down from her place as affiliate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate in April. This week, CNBC reported that the previous NASA chief will be a part of SpaceX as a basic supervisor, in accordance with nameless sources.
At SpaceX, Lueders will reportedly oversee the corporate’s growth of its Starship rocket, getting ready it to hold a crew to the Moon’s floor as early as 2025 for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission. Primarily based on the CNBC report, Lueders will work at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, and report on to SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell.
Throughout her time at NASA, Lueders labored intently with SpaceX as a part of the corporate’s Cargo and Crew Dragon missions to the Worldwide House Station (ISS). She oversaw the event of NASA’s ongoing partnership with SpaceX, by means of which the corporate has launched six crews to the house station to date. Lueders is credited for being among the many NASA officers who pushed for public-private contracts, shifting the house company in direction of utilizing industrial spacecraft to launch its astronauts; the transfer helped the house company minimize prices when it got here to constructing and proudly owning its personal launch autos and spacecraft.
As a NASA official, Lueders additionally chosen Starship for a $2.89 billion contract to make use of the megarocket in landing humans on the Moon for the Artemis 3 mission, after which again for Artemis 4 in 2028, below a separate $1.15 billion contract signed final 12 months.
SpaceX has transported astronauts to the ISS and again, however carrying a crew of astronauts to land on the Moon is rather more difficult. The corporate is counting on its Starship rocket, which has to date undergone one fully-integrated test flight that resulted in an explosion. Following the rocket’s disintegration within the skies, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson dismissed concerns regarding the SpaceX rocket, reassuring that Starship could be able to delivering astronauts to the floor of the Moon in two years’ time.
The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded Starship pending an ongoing investigation into its explosion and there’s looming doubt surrounding SpaceX’s capacity to get its large rocket off the bottom once more quickly.
Because it prepares its Starship rocket for the Moon, SpaceX’s Lueders rent is perhaps precisely what the corporate wants proper now. Lueders had been with NASA for greater than 30 years, accumulating a heap of expertise within the spaceflight area. She is going to undoubtedly serve because the trusted supply for spaceflight data that SpaceX may use to assist it acquire extra credibility with its authorities clients, together with NASA. Her contributions may additionally increase the Starship program, however solely time will inform.
SpaceX has scouted NASA officers earlier than, particularly Lueders’ successor William Gerstenmaier, who served because the company’s affiliate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations between 2005 and 2019 earlier than becoming a member of SpaceX in 2020, in accordance with CNBC. Gerstenmaier is now the corporate’s vp of its Construct and Flight Reliability group.
Lueders becoming a member of the SpaceX group is unquestionably an asset to the corporate. Whether or not or not SpaceX may have its Starship rocket prepared for liftoff to the Moon in a just some years’ time, that continues to be to be seen.


Once upon a time, in the land of Georgia, there existed a tiny little program called the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts, or “NIAC.” NIAC was not directly concerned with shuttles or satellites or space-stations. NIAC was about the future, and by “future” I mean the far future. I mean “Antimatter Driven Sails for Deep-Space Missions.” I mean “Redesigning Living Organisms to Live on Mars.” I mean “Controlling the Global Weather.”
Now, that all sounds very science-fiction-y (and it is no coincidence that the Chair of the NIAC Science Council was Dr. Donna Shirley, the founding Director of the Science Fiction Museum), but NIAC was actually quite selective about the work it funded, or, in their own words:
Most important, while NIAC sought advanced concept proposals that stretch the imagination, these concepts were based on sound scientific principles and attainable within a 10 to 40-year time frame.
NIAC followed a model similar to the Federal SBIR/STTR program, in which innovative (and sometimes quite unusual) concepts competed for fairly meager “Phase I” grants that would fund one year of feasibility studies. Only a few of those projects succeeded, and the best were invited to compete for a much larger “Phase II” grant that would support another two years of more intensive research.
During its brief life NIAC funded just shy of two hundred revolutionary projects, including force fields and chameleon space suits. The most prominent success was probably the University of Colorado’s New World Imager. That all came to an end, though, on August 31, 2007 when NASA pulled the plug on NIAC due to the budgetary changes necessary to implement the 2004 “Vision for Space Exploration“, which had refocused NASA on manned exploration of the Moon and Mars.
UPDATE: The deadline has been extended to May 16, 2011 because of the April 27 super-outbreak of tornadoes throughout the southern United States.


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Besides the political changes, the technical changes are amazing.
The Age of Altair in Aquarius is the electrical age. All this technology we live with and depend on is electric and was non-existent before The revolution of Regulus in Virgo lies ahead and promises even more amazing things. According to reports on the internet, Cold Fusion is the next big thing.
It is going into production this year. Scientists who live on grants from the power industry have been attacking CF for years and slandering its developers. Governments controlled by this industry have been denying patents even when working models are available. There is reason for this terror because CF is a very disruptive technology that will sweep the current energy infrastructure into oblivion. For certain they are not going down without a battle.
However, the stars are now on the side of massive change and we must all be prepared for what is coming. Regulus is not "changing signs" as anyone can verify for themselves by going out and observing the early degrees of the constellation of Leo on a clear night :smile:. Well, all of your comments simply reflect the truth that there are no absolutes, everything is relative and our own projection. Regulus has shifted from the tropical sign of Leo to the tropical sign of Virgo, as of November ; Regulus is and always will remain, in the starry constellation of Leo, its is Cor Leonis, the Heart of the Lion.
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And, for many of us, it is and always will remain the Sun behind our Sun. In my practical delineations, in addition to using the Parallel of declination for Regulus, I also use it via its longitudinal connections in tropical signs: and tropically Regulus is now in the 0 longitude of tropical Virgo, and brings in a strong new world current since it has left tropical Leo and has entered this new sign tropical Virgo. Exactly In my practical delineations, in addition to using the Parallel of declination for Regulus, I also use it via its longitudinal connections in tropical signs: and tropically Regulus is now in the 0 longitude of tropical Virgo, and brings in a strong new world current since it has left tropical Leo and has entered this new sign tropical Virgo Nevertheless, delineating using tropical 'signs' in connection with a fixed star is a non sequitor - the tropical zodiac is entirely disconnected from the fixed stars :smile:.
In my opinion you are incorrect in stating that fixed stars cannot be used in their tropical longitudinal projections: this has been applied since the time of the Hellenists, through the Islamic-transitional era and into the Renaissance, in Western tropical matrix astrology, with only the best of delineative and predictive results; heck, my very successful application of fixed stars through their tropical longitudinal projection connections with planets and degrees and Lots in their tropical zodiacal longitudinal framework, is precisely why I am "fixed star Farr"!
In my opinion you are incorrect in stating that fixed stars cannot be used in their tropical longitudinal projections: this has been applied since the time of the Hellenists, through the Islamic-transitional era and into the Renaissance, in Western tropical matrix astrology, with only the best of delineative and predictive results; That is not quite what I said dr.
In any event, it is common knowledge that at the time of Hipparchus et al the tropical zodiac was more in sync with the constellations than it is today so your contention is not unexpected:smile: heck, my very successful application of fixed stars through their tropical longitudinal projection connections with planets and degrees and Lots in their tropical zodiacal longitudinal framework, is precisely why I am "fixed star Farr"!
It is obvious the OP and commentators were talking about a tropical perspective of Regulus. Also, fixed stars do "move" in the tropical zodiac along with everything else. Everyone knows the constellations are a sidereal matter.
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No one was implying Regulus was actually flying out of the constellation of Leo. Just curious, what does that mean? When I was little we had these little plastic dolls with wild hair and luminous eyes called trolls. Think of a spinning top, where the top of its spinning axis gradually moves around in a circle. The tropical zodiac shifts "backwards" anti-zodiacal direction through the sidereal zodiac, a phenomenon called Precession.
This means that zero degrees of Aries in the tropical system is no longer aligned with the constellation of Aries, but with Pisces, known as the Age of Pisces. Soon, the zero Aries point will reach the constellation of Aquarius, known as the Age of Aquarius. When this actually happens is a matter of considerable debate among astrologers.
It all depends on how you measure signs and constellations, for which there is no shortage of options! In any case, as the tropical zodiac precesses backwards through the sidereal zodiac, the sidereal fixed stars seem to move forward through the tropical zodiac.
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As a result, occasionally a star in a sidereal constellation becomes aligned with the next tropical zodiac sign. Precession, and therefore the fixed stars, "move" veeeeery slowly, at a rate of just 1 degree every 72 years. So when a fixed star moves into a different sign, it's a rare and noteworthy event. And yet, with so many stars in the heavens, this sign change actually happens on a fairly regular, if infrequent, basis several years apart, on average.
For example, from to CE, there were only 18 sign changes of major stars using the Bernadette Brady collection of 50 stars, used in Solar Fire astrology software. The most recent sign changes happened in Alcyone of the Taurus constellation, into tropical Gemini and Mirach of the Andromeda constellation, into tropical Taurus , and nothing until Altair of the Aquila constellation, into tropical Aquarius. So you see how rare it is!
What makes this particular change of sign so remarkable? It's Regulus —one of the best known and most highly regarded stars in the visible sky. Many cultures over millennia have considered this star very important and often associate it with royalty, military honours and so on. So with it changing signs, this is a very significant event, and is bound to have vast implications for the way we experience and express the archetype of authority and leadership.
Regulus has been aligned with the tropical sign of Leo since around BCE. Now—virtually as we speak—it is moving from Leo into Virgo. Exactly when this happens depends on where you look for the information.
Protected: thoughts on regulus: leo or virgo?
Calculations can vary slightly from one computer program to another, and since the fixed stars move so slowly, it can be a real challenge to pinpoint a precise date. Some sources say it's already there, since Sep. Others say it doesn't happen until sometime in According to my research using Solar Fire Gold v. Perhaps all we really know—and all that's really important—is that the Regulus energy is currently in transition from the Leo archetype into the Virgo archetype. There are a number of implications that make this especially significant for our times.
The first one is that Leo is associated with masculine energy. It is ruled by the Sun, the dominant male archetypal energy in our solar system. And it has long been associated with Kings and positions of authority that historically were held only by men. Virgo , on the other hand, is a distinctly feminine energy. It has the only female symbol in the zodiac—a maiden holding a sheaf of harvested grain.
This is Goddess energy! The Sacred Feminine. This is the Universe as the bountiful, fertile Mother who gives birth to the world, feeds and protects her children, and nurtures them to maturity. Our world is now at a point in its evolution when it is waking up to the fact that feminine energy, and women themselves, have long been misunderstood, oppressed, abused and maligned. For the last years, and especially the last 50, women have been collectively reclaiming their power in the Western world, and more recently other regions have begun to show signs of change as well.
The Goddess as a spiritual archetype is gradually beginning to be embraced and integrated into many religious traditions which for millennia have been dominated by a male God archetype. Regulus moving into the feminine sign of Virgo at this time seems to reflect the changes that we have already been seeing for a century or so. It might seem at first glance like the timing is off, but these changes evolve glacially. After all, we're talking about changing attitudes that have persisted for many millennia. It's going to take time.
How will you notice or experience the difference between a Leo Regulus and a Virgo Regulus? Well, you might not notice anything at all, personally. It's not like a light switch where one day it's off and the next day it's on. The effects are gradual, but just look at our changing world!
Just a hundred years ago, or thereabouts, women didn't have the vote in most countries, weren't allowed to own property, and were treated literally or figuratively as property. Although in many countries there still exists a double standard by which women are judged by different rules than are men, awareness about this is gradually shifting collective attitudes. At the other end of the scale, in many countries around the world women are being elected to positions of political power.
Quite a change from not having the right to vote just a short time ago! Perhaps the better question is: how do we each move in sync with this changing energy and invite it into our lives?
Start with observation. Watch for times when you become aware of a receptive, deep, feeling nature inside you or in others.
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