Claudius Ptolemy, an astronomer who lived in Rome about 100 AD asserted that the sun orbited the earth. It was logical to presume the sun was orbiting the earth, since the sun seemed to arrive in the morning and leave at night, return the next day and leave that night.
Many centuries after Ptolemy’s model was formulated, Polish mathematician and astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus revealed a different way of seeing things, a different way of perceiving consciousness.
In 1543 he introduced the idea that the sun was the centre of the solar system. At the time Copernicus’ sun-centred theory was considered radical thought that went unproven until science eventually had the tools to confirm his reality.
Although centuries ago it was commonplace to hold the belief that the sun orbited the earth, no one asserts that old reality now.
The story of the shift from the belief of an earth-centred to sun-centred universe is an example of the summation over time of our experiences. Even culturally, when we accept new and contradictory information, the old reality or program of thought is pruned away.


Feast of the Setting Sun
A Solstice Dinner and Celebration
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Sponsored by the Arc of Appalachia
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Bring a blanket or folding chairs for dinner and to watch the setting sun.
Through the Eyes of the Ancients
In many ancient cultures around the world, people sought to align their daily earthly lives with the grand impersonal rhythms of the cosmos, as revealed in the night sky. The two celestial events that most closely align with the earth’s seasonal cycles are the summer solstice and the winter solstice – the summer solstice being the time of the year when the cold has the least power over our lives, and light reigns over darkness. Our universe has lost neither scale nor grandeur during the years of scientific inquiry that now separate us from the Serpent’s original architects. The summer solstice celebration at Serpent Mound is an opportunity to anchor our personal connection to the peoples of our past, and the infinity and majesty of our ever mysterious universe.


Large world found beyond Pluto
Monday, 7 October, 2002, 15:33 GMT 16:33 UK
By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor
A new planet-like object has been found circling the Sun more than one and a half billion kilometres beyond Pluto.
We may discover Kuiper Belt objects bigger than Pluto
Quaoar, as it has been dubbed, is about 1,280 kilometres across (800 miles) and is the biggest find in the Solar System since Pluto itself 72 years ago.
The object is about one-tenth the diameter of Earth and circles the Sun every 288 years. It is half Pluto's size, but apparently larger than the ninth planet's moon, Charon.
"It's about the size of all the asteroids put together," Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, US, told BBC News Online. "So this thing is really quite big."
Brown and colleague Chadwick Trujillo discovered the new world on 4 June. They used a telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California and followed-up their discovery with the Hubble Space Telescope. Quaoar, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena
Quaoar lies in the so-called Kuiper Belt
Astronomers named the new object Quaoar, after the creation myth of the Tongva people who inhabited the Los Angeles area before the arrival of the Spanish and other European settlers. To the indigenous peoples, Quaoar was the great force of nature that summoned all other things into being. However, Quaoar is not an official name - at least not yet. In a few months, the International Astronomical Union, astronomy's governing body, will vote on it.
For the moment, the object carries the designation 2002 LM60.
Disc of debris
Images of Quaoar had been captured as long ago as 1982, but it was not recognised as a new world. These past observations are being used to pin down its orbit.
"It could easily have been detected 20 years ago, but it wasn't," said Brown.
A good idea of the size of the new world can be gained from the fact that if all the 50,000 numbered asteroids were combined, the resulting body would still be smaller than Quaoar. Quaoar lies in the so-called Kuiper Belt, a swarm of objects made of ice and rock that orbit the Sun beyond Neptune. They are considered remnants of the swirling disc of debris that coalesced to form the Solar System about five billion years ago.
"This new discovery fits right in with our expectation that there should be a handful of objects as large as Pluto," said astronomer David Jewitt, of the University of Hawaii.
More out there
Jewitt, with then-colleague Jane Luu, discovered the first Kuiper Belt object just a decade ago. Researchers say that as larger Kuiper Belt objects turn up, the case for regarding Pluto as a fully fledged planet weakens.
Pluto lies within the Kuiper Belt and is considered by many to be merely among the largest of the bunch, and not a planet in its own right.
"It's pretty clear, if we discovered Pluto today, knowing what we know about other objects in the Kuiper Belt, we wouldn't even consider it a planet," said Brown.
Frank Summers, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, added: "An observation like this just confirms that; that we may discover Kuiper Belt objects bigger than Pluto."
However, there are a great many astronomers who would oppose any notion that Pluto be demoted.


Challenges are more likely if you stubbornly resist change, or have engaged in some habit that is destructive to yourself or others. The lunar eclipse July 2019 astrology is powerful and confrontational because of a close conjunction to Pluto. The that swept across 14 U. The of the eclipse is 0. This happens when the Earth moves between the Sun and Moon but the three do not form a perfectly straight line. However, solar eclipses more tightly restrict where you can see them because the Moon casts a smaller shadow than Earth does. Outside of it observers see only a partial cover-up.
Moon semisextile Saturn makes you feel protective of your family and partner. This full moon opens the lines of communication and encourages you to speak your truth, from the heart. The longest total lunar eclipses of the 20th and 21st centuries both take place in July, which is of consequence. How to Photograph the Lunar Eclipse 2019 Photographing a lunar eclipse is much easier than photographing a solar eclipse, partially because it lasts much longer! Skimlinks is just one of several of these programs. This too, could be a very painful experience. Earth's air also scatters more shorter-wavelength light in colors such as green or blue ; what's left is the longer-wavelength, redder end of the spectrum. The lunar eclipse July 2018 astrology is mainly influenced by Mars, making this an emotionally challenging eclipse.
Adjust these to get those for your time zone: for example. This particular eclipse occurred during moonrise for much of Europe so many could look for a nice landscape picture with an eclipsed Moon backdrop. The event begins at dawn north of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, with 2 m 59 s of annularity. May be hard to see due to brightness and line of sight. Bathing in the sea of collective heart centred grief.
This may be related to abuse of power or due to a self-destructive character trait such as addiction, spying or stubbornness. Overall, it can prompt a major re-think of whether you want your pride to get in the way of your life and the decisions you make, she says. Feelings of commitment, respect and loyalty to family may not be as strong as your anger and resentment, but they may stop you from taking rash actions that you would soon regret. Weather permitting, everyone in the U. How will the solar eclipse affect me? According to Nick Anthony Fiorenza: Eris challenges patriarchal authority.
For this July 2018 full moon eclipse, we here on earth are being put right smack in the middle of the sun and Aquarius moon, striking a balance between our social conscience and our desire to be seen. These alignments don't happen at every new and full Moon because the lunar orbit is tipped about 5° to Earth's orbital plane — only occasionally do the Sun, Earth, and Moon line up exactly enough for an eclipse to occur. First eclipse this season: Third eclipse this season:. What more could you be doing to help others in your community feel secure? The next time that will happen is on March 31. At this full moon, the most loving thing you can do for your partner is to see them as they truly are—not a reflection or extension of yourself, but a separate individual. The mix of five events occurring in 2019 is especially interesting, because no two will be alike! Total eclipse begins 4:41 8:41 p. Besides writing, Elizabeth teaches communications at the university and community college level.
After that, the next total lunar eclipse will be May 26. But that eclipse won't be visible from North America. The time of greatest eclipse will be 4:21 p. The entire eclipse will be visible from Africa, the Middle East and countries in central Asia. Make sure you have free line of sight.
It is also a blood Moon eclipse and is close by as well. Mercury is in apparent retrograde in the chart. However there are more factors at play here read more below. Why are blood moons red? About twice every 11 months, those crossings are timed such that the Earth, moon and sun all end up in a line with one another. You are likely to lash out and rebel against anyone who tries to tie you down or forces you to do something. He's a sundial aficionado, whose love for the heavens has taken him to Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and sailing in the North Atlantic, where he earned his celestial navigation certificate through the School of Ocean Sailing and Navigation.
She also holds a bachelor of journalism degree from Carleton University. There could be issues with pensions, taxes, and insurance. But if any sign stands a chance of making it happen, Aquarius is the one! More Aspects Mars square Uranus gives a strong urge to break free from restriction and rebel against authority. It will be late afternoon when the Moon's umbra crosses these countries at sub-tropical latitudes near 30° south. The Five Eclipses in 2019 Below are brief descriptions of this eclipses in 2019 of the Sun and Moon. At the personal level, expect the calling out of sexual abuse and misogyny to result in more criminal cases.
Shades of darkness Night, moon high up in sky. So Lunar Eclipse July 2019 is a good for joining a charity or some other organization to help less fortunate people. On 21 January 2019 the moon will also be close to perigee, the closest point to Earth in its orbit. This full moon known as the Thunder Moon or the Full Buck Moon also coincides with a total lunar eclipse — which, at one hour and 43 minutes, will be the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century! Recognising and Honouring our shared loss. This means that as it travels around the Earth it also moves up and down in its orbit. The higher potential of Mars is to access a version of the masculine beyond the rules and norms of social convention, a Mars that reflects the Aquarian Age ideals of equality and freedom for all.
A retrograde usually brings up old issues you need to deal with, Joyce adds, and an eclipse is trying to get your attention. That was the case during the which marked the conclusion of a series of four consecutive total lunar eclipses in 2014—15! Greatest eclipse with a central duration lasting 3 m 39 s comes in eastern Sumatra. Fated events and repeating themes will reinforce which of your strong desires need more background work before being acted upon. On 27th July, a total lunar eclipse occurred. Total lunar eclipses are much rarer from one particular location. Conversely, a lunar eclipse takes place during full Moon, when our satellite passes through Earth's shadow.


Final call for Ireland’s best astronomy photographs
Astronomy and photography fans from Tipperary are getting a final reminder to enter the ‘Reach for the Stars’ competition, organised by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS). The competition, seeking the best astro-photographs taken in Ireland over the period January 1st, 2020 to March 31st, 2021, will close for entries on April 2nd..
Commenting on the entries received to date, Professor Peter Gallagher, Head of DIAS Astrophysics, said: “The standard of entries to date has been excellent. It is fantastic to see so many people in Ireland interested in astronomy and capturing beautiful images of the night sky.
“There are a number of exciting opportunities for people to capture quality images in the coming weeks, before the closing date – Mars is still visible in the evening sky, while Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn occupy the morning sky.
“I would encourage people to get out with their cameras or phones over the next few weeks. Whether you are an amateur or a professional, anyone with an interest in astronomy can enter. Our only stipulations are that entrants must be over 18; they must have taken their photograph on the island of Ireland during the time period specified; and – obviously – their photograph must depict something of astronomical interest.”
Entries to the ‘Reach for the Stars’ competition will be judged by Professor Gallagher, along with Brenda Fitzsimons, Picture Editor of The Irish Times; John Flannery, Vice-President of the Irish Astronomical Society; and Martina Quinn, Managing Director of Alice PR & Events.
Entrants may submit up to three images to the competition. The winning entrant will receive a prize package that includes:
Publication of their images on the DIAS and Irish Times websites;
A VIP tour of DIAS Dunsink Observatory – with the opportunity to peer through Ireland’s largest refractor telescope.
A €500 voucher for photographic / telescopic equipment; and
A 12-month Premium Digital subscription to The Irish Times.
DIAS also intends to stage an exhibition of the winning and highly commended images, if circumstances allow.
Further information, including the competition guidelines and entry form, is available at https://dias.ie/reachforthestars.


Maori Myths: How Maui Slowed the Sun
There is a rich tradition of storytelling in Maori culture, with many a rip-roaring legend that describes the world in a magical way. Because Maunga Hikurangi is the first place in the world to see the sun every day, one of our favourite legends is of course Te Hopu a Maui i a te Ra, or How Maui Slowed the Sun.
Read the story below and then come to the Te Urunga-Tu Sunrise experience for the real deal with one of our master storytellers.
Many years ago, the sun raced so fast across the sky that every day the earth was plunged into darkness in no time at all. One evening Maui and his brothers could barely even see their evening meal, a hangi (where hot stones are buried with food, and cooked with the trapped heat) – they were not too happy about this. So Maui announced the idea to his brothers that he’d catch the sun and make it travel more slowly. Maui was a demi-god and had pulled off amazing feats already, like catching the largest fish in the world (the North Island of New Zealand). His brothers still laughed, however: the sun was huge and much too hot to catch.
A special tool and flax ropes
But Maui had a trick up his sleeve – he had the magical jawbone of his ancestor, Murirangawhenua. He convinced the others that it would allow him to catch the sun.
The next day, Maui asked his village to collect flax, and with it they plaited a pile of long ropes that they could use to catch the sun. Maui chanted a karakia (prayer) over the ropes for protection. That night, ropes and supplies in hand, Maui and his brothers set off on the long journey under the cover of darkness, to the place where the sun rose. During the days, they would hide under trees so that the sun wouldn’t see them coming. Along the way, they collected water in calabashes.
Eventually they came to a deep, scorched pit in the earth where the sun was sleeping. Maui instructed his brothers to soften the surrounding clay so that they could build clay huts, to protect themselves from the sun’s fiery heat when it rose. They then arranged the ropes into a noose around the pit and waited.
A skirmish with the sun
Soon morning came – the sun woke and started to rise. The heat was so great the brothers screamed in fear and tried to run away, but Maui commanded them to stay. It was a matter of staying to fight the sun or being killed by the sun’s fireballs as they tried to escape.
So the brothers pulled on the ropes and trapped the sun as it rose, which grew angry when it realised what was happening.
Maui then pulled out the jawbone and, braving the heat, struck the sun powerfully. The sun roared and thrashed in anger.
Maui commanded the sun to slow down – “No longer will you dictate the length of our days – from now on you will travel slowly across the sky!”
After a long and violent fight, and a few more jawbone strikes, the sun finally gave up – and agreed to slow down. The brothers let go of the ropes, and the tired sun drifted slowly to the sky.
The days grew longer
From then on, Maui and his people had more than enough time to fish, work and gather food, and the sun continued to travel slowly across the sky.
And that is the story of how Maui slowed the sun – a legend that is brought to life among the 9 carved pillars and the stories of the guides, when you visit Maunga Hikurangi for the world’s first sunrise.


Home OTA mirror cell-movable mirror dimensions and specifications equatorial mount motorize
I had the mirror made by one vendor and tested with an interferometer by another This independent testing led to the return of the first mirror for a refund. I then had the mirror fabricated by a different mirror maker (Steve Swayze) with these results.
The process of having a mirror fabricated and then rejecting it took quite a lot longer than I had planned, but the wait was well worth it. The mirror from Swayze Optical is excellent. Maybe better than that. Below are the interferometer test results.
Residual Wavefront Variations Over Uniform Grid (in waves)
Number of points 2970
P-V .199 (1/5 wave)
RMS P-V .029 (1/34 wave)
Strehl Ratio 0.968
CHOOSING THE f RATIO
Keep in mind:
1. The smaller the f-ratio, the larger the diagonal will need to be to maintain a given 100% image plane.
2. The smaller the f-ratio, the shorter the OTA and the closer the eyepiece is to the ground.
3. The smaller the f-ratio, the shorter the exposure time for imaging.
4. The smaller the f-ratio, the smaller the coma-free image plane and the harder the telescope is to collimate..
5. For a given mirror maker, the larger the f-ratio the better the mirror.
6. For a given mirror maker, the larger the f-ratio the better the mirror. (this probably should be #7 as well)


Therefore, there certainly would have been points which moved faster than the speed of light with respect to each other during inflation. So when we ask whether the universe is "expanding faster than the speed of light," I am going to interpret that to mean, "Are there any two galaxies in the universe which are moving faster than the speed of light with respect to each other? The expansion of the Universe is a "growth" of the spacetime itself; this spacetime may move faster than the speed of light relative to some other location, as long as the two locations can't communicate with each other (or, in terms of light rays, these two parts of the Universe can't see each other). July 19, 2000 -- Scientists have apparently broken the universe’s speed limit. Answer #8 | 24/02 2015 18:20 I know something faster than the speed of light: Gravity. (Intermediate), Why do the planets orbit the sun? What’s special about inflation is that the universe is accelerating. If we keep our eyes on an individual galaxy as it moves away from us, we will see it accelerate, but if we keep our eyes on a fixed point in space and watch many different galaxies go past that point, each galaxy's speed will be slower than the one before it. How can the universe expand faster than light travels? But a galaxy on the far side of the universe? The bottom line is that different pairs of galaxies are moving at different speeds with respect to each other; the further the galaxies are, the faster they move apart. (Advanced), Are there telescopes that can see the flag and lunar rover on the Moon? (Intermediate), At what speed does the Earth move around the Sun? That means that you will never, ever watch a rocket ship blast by your face faster than the speed of light. (Intermediate), How do you measure the distance between Earth and the Sun? Inhomogeneities in the early universe cause the formation of walls and bubbles, where the inside of a bubble has less matter than on average. This meant the Enterprise was travelling faster than the speed of light. Since we know that the speed of light is around 300,000 kilometers per second, it is easy to calculate how far away two galaxies must be in order to be moving away from each other faster than the speed of light. However, this statement is akin to statements like “green is bigger than happy”. We have 1304 guests and no members online. Three megaparsec away? Discussion in 'Mayberry Lounge' started by tonil, Dec 30, 2020 at 6:40 AM. It's true that in special relativity, nothing can move faster than light. Concepts like a well-defined "velocity" make sense only in local regions of space. The fact that galaxies we see now are moving away from us faster than the speed of light has some bleak consequences, however. Does this contradict relativity? So it's easy enough to compute: At some point, at some obscene distance, the speed tips over the scales and exceeds the speed of light, all from the natural, regular expansion of space. So not everything is relative to the speed of light in a vacuum. For generations, physicists believed there is nothing faster than light moving through a vacuum -- a speed of 186,000 miles per second. (Beginner), How does the position of Moonrise and Moonset change? That galaxy can have any speed it wants, as long as it stays way far away, and not up next to your face. Distance moved divided by time equals speed, and I guarantee you that the speed you measure can be faster than light. That's the domain of general relativity, and general relativity says: who cares! Done. What gives? Thank you for signing up to Space. Still, within any specific region of spacetime, the speed limitations imposed by relativity do hold. Science. It is impossible for matter to travel at light speed as it would gain an incredible amount of mass. (Intermediate), What kind of eyepieces do I need to look at planets? But that's not the whole story. (This light is referred to as the Cosmic Microwave Background and was emitted around 380,000 years after the Big Bang, right after the Universe had cooled down enough for light to get through all the intervening matter.) Faster-than-light travel, then, remains a fantasy at the moment. That is, if we imagine that there are aliens living in these galaxies who hope to make contact with us, which galaxies are running up against their deadline right at this moment? As dark energy causes the universe to expand ever-faster, it may spur some very distant galaxies to apparently move faster than the speed of light. Yes, galaxies outside of our Hubble sphere are receding from us faster than the speed of light. (Beginner), Why is Earth's core molten? Tachyons are particles that can travel faster than light. many other distances that can be defined in cosmology, Can two galaxies move away from each other faster than the speed of light? Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer. Physicists are also testing light’s speed limit in cases without the “trick” of quantum tunneling. Learn more by listening to the episode "How can the universe expand faster than light?" As time goes by (billions of years in the future), we will see these galaxies freeze and fade, never to be heard from again. Now, let's jump to the universe. If you're a topical expert — researcher, business leader, author or innovator — and would like to contribute an op-ed piece. For example, here are some pictures of quasars (galaxies with extremely active black holes in their centers) with redshifts around 5. Thanks to Mihail Etropolski, Nicolas Gregori, chris, and @archerelliott for the question that inspired this piece. Astronomers now have strong evidence that we live in an "accelerating universe," which means that the speed of each individual galaxy with respect to us will increase as time goes on. We can even see light (although not individual objects) all the way back to a redshift of 1000 or so. The number he got was way wrong, so I won't bother mentioning it, but good on him for trying. Faster than light, 10,000 times faster. Thus, the particle travels faster than light. Science. (Intermediate), How long could life on Earth survive if the Sun stopped shining? (Intermediate), How are galaxy distances inferred from their recessional velocities? To give people the impression that what’s special about inflation is that the universe is expanding faster than light is a crime against comprehension and good taste. Squaring something does not make it bigger.
Can two galaxies move away from each other faster than light? Ask an Astronomer is run by volunteers in the Astronomy Department at Cornell University. Electrons:. First, the universe doesn’t expand at a particular speed, it expands at a speed per distance. After that, we will observe them to freeze and fade, never to be seen again. There was a problem. Roughly speaking, this is correct, but a detailed calculation (such as the one contained in this paper) shows that for the simplest viable model of the universe's acceleration, it is actually galaxies at a distance of 4,740 megaparsecs and redshift of 1.69 that are just now reaching the critical point, while galaxies at a redshift of 1.4 are still emitting light that will eventually reach us. It's as if a bunch of folks are at the edge of the cosmos, gently tugging at the fabric of space-time, stretching it. You might be wondering how we could possibly see a galaxy that is moving away from us faster than the speed of light! Such speeding waves could actually be possible. After the explosion, the universe expanded at the rate of 10¹⁶ in a fraction of a second, during a period of inflation that occurred at a velocity faster than the speed of light. In the Universe of Star Trek, humanity ventures out into the Galaxy on 5 April 2063 with the first ever journey on a ship capable of faster-than-light travel.The newly-invented ‘warp drive’ not only lets humans explore the cosmos, but attracts the attention of … the speed of the particle (v particle, faster than light in the medium but slower than light in a vacuum), and the speed of light in the medium (v light ). The light doesn't care what the galaxy is doing; it just cares about the stretching of space between its current location and us. Page 3 of ... as far as I'm aware the idea of an infinite universe doesn't contradict the idea of an expanding universe. Why does the universe contain something rather than nothing? After the explosion, the universe expanded at the rate of 10¹⁶ in a fraction of a second, during a period of inflation that occurred at a velocity faster than the speed of light. (Intermediate), Can artificial gravity be created in space? Imagine a bunch of folks standing around the edges of a stretchy piece of fabric, tugging at it. But while that may sound disappointing, light is anything but. “In our theory, if you go back to the early universe, there’s a temperature when everything becomes faster. (Intermediate), What will happen to Earth's tides as the moon moves away from us? The speed of light is one of the most important and fundamental properties of our universe. Note: For a briefer discussion of a similar question see: Can two galaxies move away from each other faster than light? Dave is a former graduate student and postdoctoral researcher at Cornell who used infrared and X-ray observations and theoretical computer models to study accreting black holes in our Galaxy. Some of the misunderstandings surrounding this topic might come from confusion over what is meant by the universe "expanding faster than the speed of light." It is capable of faster-than-light travel without entering hyperspace.FTL has also become a Tau'ri expression for an engine capable of travel at speeds greater than that of light, whether it is through use of hyperspace or not. The more modern value is 68 kilometers per second per megaparsec, plus or minus a couple, but close enough. Faster-than-light travel, then, remains a fantasy at the moment. In some instances, darkness moves faster than light. There are many other distances that can be defined in cosmology, but this is the most useful one for the current question.). Sutter is also host of the podcasts Ask a Spaceman and RealSpace, and the YouTube series Space In Your Face. The name Tachyon was coined from the Greek name tachus, whose literal translation is “speedy”. (Intermediate), What's going to happen on December 21st 2012? Current theory states the universe is 14 billion years old and 46 billion light years radius. Light is not the fastest thing. It seems like it should be illegal, doesn’t it? [Watch as I explain in this video.]. © Well, we could just answer this question by "cheating": Since current cosmological theories state that the universe is infinitely big, then there certainly are a bunch of galaxies which are more than 4,200 megaparsecs away from each other -- in fact, an infinite number of them! The universe's limits, in regards to how fast matter can travel, is the light barrier and if anything surpasses that barrier, then it would usher in catastrophic consequences. Cosmic inflation is a faster-than-light expansion of the universe that spawned many others. Please refresh the page and try again. Light itself is massless. Though the universe is only 13.8 billion years old, it is also 93 billion light-years wide, which confuses some because nothing is supposed to be able to travel faster than the speed of light. (Beginner), What is the significance of the Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Arctic Circle and Antarctic Circle? But practically, in our Universe, there’s an even more restrictive speed limit for matter, and it’s lower than the speed of light. Over and over (and over and over) we're told the supreme iron law of the universe: Nothing — absolutely nothing — can go faster than the speed of light. For generations, physicists believed there is nothing faster than light … Keeping in mind what we learned above -- that farther objects recede faster in a proportionally stretching universe -- we can immediately see that right after the light is emitted, the galaxy is moving away from us faster than the point at which the light is located, and that this disparity will only increase as time goes on and the galaxy and light separate even more. (Beginner), What happened to the Arecibo Telescope? It means that if you look at a galaxy 1 megaparsec away, it will appear to be receding away from us at 68 km/s. (Beginner), (Intermediate) >" onclick="window.open(this.href,'win2','status=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,titlebar=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes,width=640,height=480,directories=no,location=no'); return false;" rel="nofollow">. If waves within the relativistic jets that produce gamma-ray bursts travel faster than light - at 'superluminal' speeds - one of the effects could be time reversibility. While light moves at the fastest speed ever recorded by man, there is speculation that there is something else that moves faster. It also assumes that when we talk about the "distance" between two galaxies, we are referring to the distance between them right now -- that is, the distance we would measure if we somehow "pressed the freeze-frame button" on the universe, thereby stopping the expansion, and then extended a really long tape measure between the two galaxies and read off the distance. If we assume that this acceleration continues indefinitely, then galaxies which are currently moving away from us faster than the speed of light will always be moving away from us faster than the speed of light and will eventually reach a point where the space between us and them is stretching so rapidly that any light they emit after that point will never be able to reach us. Copyright © 1997 -
Since it doesn't have any mass, it can travel at, but not faster than the speed of light. It's a distance: One megaparsec is 1 million parsec, which is 3.26 million light-years. The universe is not a collection of galaxies sitting in space, all moving away from a central point. The speed of light in a vacuum is 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second), and in theory nothing can travel faster than light. In the context of this article, FTL is the transmission of information or matter faster than c, a constant equal to the speed of light in vacuum, which is 299,792,458 m/s (by definition of the meter ) or about 186,282.397 miles per second. That's what a team of physicists led by Juan Yin at the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai found in … (Beginner), How does the location of sunrise and sunset change throughout the year? And that’s just the start of it.The speed at which light travels through a vacuum — 299,792 kilometers (186,282 miles) per second — is static and unchanging. Or in other words, it's a law of local physics. (Intermediate), Do galaxies that are receding from us faster than the speed of light disappear from our observations? If we use the definition of distance given above (and only if we use this definition and no other), then the Hubble constant tells us that for every megaparsec of distance between two galaxies, the apparent speed at which the galaxies move apart from each other is greater by 71 kilometers per second. "How can the universe expand faster than light? on the Ask A Spaceman podcast, available on iTunes and on the web at http://www.askaspaceman.com. They come barging in with a simple observation: Some galaxies are moving away from us…wait for it…faster than the speed of light. You were probably following along just fine until that odd "per megaparsec" popped up. 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The 2021 Winter Solstice was yesterday, December 21, 2021. A new year starts! The Sun comes back. Stormy and I have celebrated the winter solstice since we first learned about solstices in an astronomy course Stormy took at Santa Barbara City College many years ago. The winter solstice always seemed to me to be a more natural marker of time than the calendar new year. Solstices are related to something physical—something real. The winter solstice (in the Northern Hemisphere) is when the Earth’s axis reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun. As a result, the Sun stays low in the sky all day long. Yesterday, in Colorado Springs, the Sun never got more than 28° above the horizon. After the winter solstice, the days get longer, and Sun gets higher in the sky every day.
Tracking the Sun
A few years ago, during the winter solstice, Stormy and I talked about how long the shadows were at midday. We decided to see if we could see the change in the length of midday shadows from day to day. So we mounted a gnomon (otherwise known as a long stick) in our back yard and measured the length of its shadow at midday every day we were home. Sure enough, we found the shadows got shorter every day. Okay, we weren’t surprised, but it’s always nice to actually see that the world behaves as expected.
Like many of you, the pandemic forced Stormy and me to be home every day during 2020. As a result, we had an opportunity to pretend to be druid astronomers. We could carefully measure the location of the tip of the gnomon’s shadow every day at 12:00 noon MST. Stormy drew the line at wearing golden robes while we executed our observations. (She would have worn a pointy hat with stars, though.)
The movie below is a time-lapse taken on the Winter Solstice 2020. Part way through the video, you see us mark the shadow and make our measurements.
I felt like a character out of Neal Stephenson’s book Anathem as we measured the shadow and marked its position on the ground. Like the characters in the book, we were charting the position of the Sun with crude astronomical instruments—a stick and a ruler. On the cover of that book is a figure-eight-shaped pattern. That pattern is called an analemma. An analemma shows the Sun’s position in the sky at a fixed time, as seen from a fixed location. That is precisely the shape we created when we connected the dots from our measurements.
This is really fascinating to read, Shane and Stormy! Thank you so much for including me in this email I have not been in what I would consider a true academic world since I graduated from Syracuse University in 1962! That is what made this so much fun for me to read – I guess I have been away from academia for far too long!
Loved it. Wanna do it, too.
I love that you both did this project together of marking the sun. I’m with Stormy; no golden robes, but definitely a pointy hat with stars!!


Cinespace 2017 Finalists
Alex Moreno, Apizaco
(Mexico, 7:36 minutes)
Without high-tech and with limited resources, a group of teenage girls from Apizaco, a small rural town in Mexico, learned math, science, and robotics together with the passion and dedication of their middle school teacher, and managed to win the top prizes at NASA’s Mars Trekker Global Teen Summit.
Jonathan Grace, Eight-ball
(Australia, 2:53 minutes)
A routine night of bar pool turns into a tour of the cosmos.
David Hermans, Gift of Life
(Belgium, 2:41 minutes)
A journey about the beauty of our Earth, described with breathtaking views from and above our planet. The search for a similar home has begun.
Jacob Carlsson, The Great Portals of Cyberspace: Doomsday
(Sweden/France, 3:23 minutes)
An alien space ship in the form of a giant phone attacks earth, replicates and takes over people’s minds. The alien phones become portals to the cyberspace, through which they gain powers, enough to take over the entire universe.
David Regos, I’m Here Now Somehow
(Germany, 10:00 minutes)
Aziz Dyab spent his teenage years growing up amidst the bombings and violence of the war in Syria. With no electricity at night, Aziz started taking an interest in space, watching the stars and constellations. He longed for a better, peaceful life. When he decided to escape, he used his knowledge of the stars to help navigate his way out of trouble.
Shannan Leigh Reeve & Chelese Belmont, The Invisible Border
(California, USA, 9:35 minutes)
In the not so distant future, renown scientist and inexperienced astronaut Dr. Annie Tennant has beaten the odds and successfully returned home from an unprecedented solo space mission. During her first exclusive interview, the crucial importance of her journey and its emotional impact on her views of humanity are revealed.
Christian Stangl, Lunar
(Austria, 7:20 minutes)
In a process that took 18 months, this animated collage brings together thousands of original NASA photographs. Using different techniques, the artists bring the stills to life in a celebration of peaceful exploration.
Patrick Morgan, Miss Baker’s Ride
(UK, 6:45 minutes)
After a decade of launching monkeys into space, NASA had yet to return any alive and had fallen behind the Soviet Union in the race for space travel. This film is inspired by the true story of Miss Baker and Able, the first primates ever to return home safely from space.
Pedro de Filippis, Nadir
(Hungary, 9:17 minutes)
In an observatory in Budapest, a 55-year-old astrophysicist plans to go to the moon. In his small dome, the micro-universe turns into macro, giving life to his plans.
Bill Sebastian, Planet, California
(USA, 10:00 minutes)
A husband buys his wife a planet for their anniversary. Five years later, they are surprised to find the national space agency at their door.
Jesse Vogelaar, The Space Between Us
(Australia, 8:10 minutes)
A jaded astronaut is left drifting alone in space. His only point of contact is a sarcastic helpline technician who has very little power to help him.
Daniela Clementi, To the Sky
(Chile, 9:58 minutes)
Elizabeth has Alzheimer’s Disease, and she is progressively losing her memory. To the Sky is a recommendation film/letter sent to the Sky, because she is ready to go there.
Vincent Wilson, Transmitter Receiver
(Canada, 8:59 minutes)
In order to escape the monotony and boredom of the end of the school year, a young boy fabricates a transceiver-receiver to communicate with strangers in the sky.


DR FABIO SILVA, a lecturer in the Sophia Centre at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s Lampeter campus, and Dr Daniel Brown, an astronomy lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, have caused a world-wide media sensation with their theory on the use of prehistoric tombs as ‘telescopes’.
After examining 6,000 year old passage graves in Portugal, Silva concluded they functioned like telescopes without a lens.
Viewers within the tunnels would have had a chance to spot the first appearance of Aldebaran, the red star that is the brightest object in the constellation of Taurus before those outside. This was crucial for the rituals which timed seasonal migrations, such as taking sheep to higher pastures. The annual event, Silva argues, could have coincided with the star’s first appearance in the morning twilight each year. “This first rising of Aldebaran occurred at the end of April or beginning of May 6,000 years ago, so it would be a very good, very precise calendrical marker for the move to higher ground,” he said.
“The key thing is that a passage grave with its long corridor acts like a telescope that does not have a lens – it is similar to a long tube that restricts views to the sky close to the horizon.” Dr Daniel Brown added: “Seeing only a small portion of the sky while in a dark environment could help the eye fixate and prolong dark adaptation.”
These astronomical observations could have been linked to ancient rituals in which individuals were left on their own in the tomb with the remains of their ancestors. “There is a wealth of evidence now that these passage graves were not only used as tombs for burials, but they could also be used for rites of passage,” said Dr Silva. Such rituals, he adds, often involve the revelation of an astronomical secret to the initiate. “Could the secret be that the initiate could see the star rising days, if not a full week, before everybody else that was outside the passage grave could see it?” he said.
Dr Silva and the team are currently testing these ideas by simulating the conditions of celestial visibility from within the passage graves in the laboratory.
Dr Silva and the team‘s work was presented at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting 2016 at a dedicated cultural astronomy session coordinated by Dr Brown. It was reported in the UK in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, New Scientist and Astronomy Now, and around the world on the BBC World Service; Der Spiegel (Germany); Archaeology magazine, WIRED magazine, CBS News, FOX News and The Washington Post (USA); New Zealand Herald (NZ); The Hindu (India); Jibada (China); and Globo (Brazil).
Dr Silva teaches the course on Skyscapes, Cosmology and Archaeology in the University’s Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture.


A new space mission simulator at Texas State Technical College’s Waco campus will give students a hands-on outlet where they can put classroom lessons into practice.
The new Challenger Learning Center will put students through a full mission simulation.
The Challenger Center for Space Science Education will run the program. Families of astronauts killed in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion worked to form the nonprofit agency, which is dedicated to continuing the educational mission of the crew. The Challenger crew included high school teacher Christa McAuliffe, who would have been the first teacher in space. She planned to teach two 15-minute lessons from space, according to the organization.
“The technology, the science, the engineering and the mathematics, all those things fit well with the TSTC mission,” TSTC Waco Provost Adam Hutchison said. “So when the opportunity came to have a destination on our campus to bring K-12 students here, it was a great fit.”
The Challenger Center runs more than 40 educational simulators in four countries.
TSTC will celebrate the grand opening at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at 901 Airline Drive. Group rates range between $400 and $500 for a two-hour mission at the former Air Force building.
Hutchison said the center cost more than $500,000, and donations from the Cooper Foundation and The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Foundation made the two-year project possible.
“We are absolutely thrilled with the Challenger Learning Center and the opportunities it brings for TSTC and the city of Waco, economic development and a number of other things on many fronts,” Rapoport Foundation executive director Tom Stanton said.
Up to 32 students start in the briefing room, where they learn about the Challenger mission and the death of its seven crew members.
“When NASA started speaking with the families about how they wanted to memorialize the loved ones lost, they wanted to really continue the mission of education,” center director Trey Pearson said.
Half of the students are then sent to simulated mission control, and the other half are sent to the simulated shuttle, where they experience the shuttle’s liftoff and connection to the International Space Station.
“This is the fun thing,” Pearson said of the shuttle in the center. “It’s an attention grabber. It’s interactive and, it’s kind of shocking when the seats rumble.”
Students in mission control and the space station will work in conjunction to navigate star fields, examine space rocks and conduct experiments to accomplish the mission.
‘Meant to inspire’
“Everything here is meant to inspire them and get them started thinking about space, about STEM, and to get them in that mindset,” Pearson said. “The success or the failure of the mission they’re going to fly really depends on the students. They have task cards and they have jobs. We’re here to help them here and there, but they’re here to man the experience.”
The response to another Challenger Center at TSTC’s Harlingen campus inspired the Waco project, said Neri Balli, TSTC state director of pre-college programs.
“We had so many (independent school districts) excited and started bringing in students right away,” Balli said of the Harlingen center. “We opened up in December and by January we were booked, completely booked, without us promoting. So it was a really big impact on the ISDs.”
Lessons learned throughout the missions reinforce the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills standards, Hutchison said. He already has spoken with local high school teachers excited to spend a day there with students, Hutchison said.
“We’re thrilled,” he said. “We’re honored to be a part of what the challenger center is doing and the way they honor those astronauts. We think it’s an exciting thing in the Greater Waco area, especially for students, to help them see they can get involved in science, technology, engineering and mathematics right here in Waco. They get that hands-on experience.”
If you go
What: Grand opening of the Challenger Learning Center
When: 5:30 p.m. Thursday
Where: 901 Airline Drive at TSTC
Who: Provost Adam Hutchison, TSTC Chancellor and CEO Michael Reeser, Challenger Center President and CEO Lance Bush


The port of Los Angeles will be the designated location for the development of a BFR rocket and a spaceship system after voting Commissioners with a board that governs the Harbor gave a unanimous vote for the program on Thursday.
The approval came on the heels of an earlier announcement made by city mayor Eric Garcetti, informing the public that SpaceX would soon begin construction on a large-scale project at the Southwest Marine Shipyard.
Bruce McHugh, who directs construction for SpaceX estimates that the project could take as long as three years to complete. McHugh also explained that once the spaceship is placed on top of the rocket that the combined height of the two pieces of machinery could measure more than 340 feet high.
McHugh had earlier explained to the commissioners at a meeting that the rocket will measure 35 feet across and be constructed from composite materials. McHugh went on to explain that the size of the spaceship and rocket will require that they are transported with the use of barge along a route traveling through the Panama Canal on its way to Cape Canaveral, Florida, where the rocket and spaceship will be readied for launch.
Chief executive for SpaceX, Elon Musk, says that the BFR is slated to replace earlier rocket models used by SpaceX. BFR is said to be key to the company’s future plans to one day colonize the planet of mars. BFR is also expected to be used for moon missions.
The initial lease of the 19-acre area at the port by SpaceX will have a ten-year duration with two additional options which are also ten years each. The base rent SpaceX will pay is $1.38 million and will be adjusted annually based on the Consumer Price Index. A provision of the contract will also allow SpaceX the ability to offset more than $44 million in rent by making approvements to the site within 20 years of inhabiting the location.
SpaceX first approached the port with the proposal to use the site to build the rocket and spaceship in 2015. Locations in both Texas and Louisiana were also considered.
The site at Terminal Island has not been in use since 2005 and was once used to construct WWII era Navy vessels reports the Los Angeles Conservatory.


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Last Tuesday we took a look at Anita Yasuda, but today we’re going to take a more in depth look at Anita’s books, and what’s going on in her neck of the woods. First, here is a description of Anita’s book Explore The Solar System!
Looking up at the sun in the sky it’s hard to imagine that it’s just another one of those stars we see at night. In fact, the whole solar system, the grouping of planets and other bodies revolving around the sun, is pretty amazing. And hard to understand. After all, the world feels huge, how can kids comprehend the sheer size of outer space?
Explore the Solar System! introduces kids ages 6–9 to the planets, moons, and other celestial bodies that surround our star, the sun, as well as the universe beyond. Combining a hands-on element with history and science, kids investigate solar eclipses, phases of the moon, Jupiter’s rings, and what astronauts wear. Who named the stars? What is the Milky Way? Why is there night? While discovering the answers to these questions and more, kids will have lots of fun with activities that range from creating an origami model of the solar system to playing a race-to-the-moon board game. Projects are easy-to-follow, require minimal adult supervision, and use primarily common household products and recycled supplies. By combining a hands-on element with riddles, jokes, fun facts, and comic cartoons, kids Explore the Solar System!, and have a blast along the way.
Sounds like an awesome way for kids to learn about the solar system, I know as a kid I had quite an interest in the solar system and I really would have appreciated this book, and now I think my little brother would love this book. At this point I believe that Anita has written something for everyone. Now, here’s some reviews followed by helpful links of Explore the Solar System!
"Explore the Solar System! is chock-full of fun and detailed facts and activities about planets, moons, asteroids, and comets. Experiment and learn!--Jim Bell, lead camera scientist for the Mars rover Spirit and Opportunity and Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University
"Full of great information, lively illustrations, and activities, well suited for upper elementary and middle school students."--David Hagan, Science Museum of Virginia
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Rahu and Ketu – two important planets in the zodiac and often called up together. With the origin of these two planets, there is a mythological story backed up to Samudra Manthan. Rahu and Ketu put a certain influence on the natal chart. In planetary combos, Rahu teams up well with Saturn, Venus and Mercury, and is known as an enemy planet for Moon, Mars and Sun. If you are a believer of astrology and prefer taking astrological advice from a horoscope reader, you must have come across the term Rahu Ketu’s influence on the zodiac.


Jantar's first two SF novels packaged together and sent postage-free, world-wide. The first ever SF titles written in Czech and Slovak.
1. Newton's Brain by Jakub Arbes. Translated from Czech by David Short
A genius and trickster, apparently dies at the Battle of Königgrätz in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. However, he has not died and instead is able to procure the brain of Isaac Newton to replace his own. Subsequently, he uses Newton's knowledge of the laws of nature to overcome them, using a strange device to travel faster than the speed of light, and also to photograph the past. Newton's Brain was published 18 years before H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, and has been considered a strong influence on Wells.
2. The Science of the Stars by Gustáv Reuss. Translated from Slovak by David Short
Written in 1856, ten years before the publication of Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon, Krutohlav and his friends set off to explore the solar system in a mototised ‘dragon’ powered by gunpowder taking with them many kinds of sausage, cheeses, pickled cabbage and wine.
Krutohlav, a country gentleman from rural Central Europe sets off to explore the solar system. His first attempt to travel to the moon in a balloon ends in failure after crashlanding in the Egyptian desert. Instead of giving up, Krutohlav builds a new craft powered by gunpowder and travels with his neighbours around our solar system. These are his collected memoirs.
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Final Fantasy 14 is preparing to launch a new feature, Cosmic Exploration, that aims to further immerse players in an intergalactic journey. The upcoming mode promises a cooperative experience, taking players on a journey across multiple planets, working on various projects. This addition to the game follows in the footsteps of the popular Animal Crossing-inspired Island Sanctuary and the community-focused Ishgardian Restoration effort that rebuilt the Firmament district.
Cosmic Exploration is primarily a collaborative affair, with players encouraged to work together, similar to the mass cooperative aspect of Ishgardian Restoration. While individual gameplay is possible, the game’s director, Naoki Yoshida, emphasizes that progress will primarily be collective. The feature, described as “expansive” and apart from the game’s main scenario, will involve players working on a changing star. This will transport players to a range of planets across the universe, developing a sense of progress and enhancing the game’s visual variety.
More information about the Cosmic Exploration and other future features will be announced during forthcoming Letter from the Producer Live events. These discussions will coincide with the anticipation for Final Fantasy 14’s new expansion, Dawntrail, releasing this summer, offering new jobs, quests, and more exciting content to the already rich gameplay universe.


Berkeley’s Geoff Marcy brings the Kepler expedition to life for UCOP
You’ve heard about Kepler, the space-borne telescope that has revealed hundreds of exoplanets, planets outside our solar system revolving around their own suns.
But did you know that one of the minds behind Team Kepler is right here at UC, an alum of UCLA and UC Santa Cruz, professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley and director of Berkeley’s Center for Integrative Planetary Science?
He is Geoff Marcy, and despite his rock star status in the world of astrophysics, he sometimes acts like a little kid in a toy store when he gets talking about Kepler and its findings. Which is exactly what he did at UCOP for 60 star-studded minutes in his March 16 talk, “The Hunt for Another Earth,” part of the President’s Speaker Series.
“This is an amazing moment in science history,” Marcy said, animatedly narrating a slide show full of time-lapse charts, home video, artists’ renderings of new planets and other celestial treats. “We’re in an incredible era where we can study systems of multiple stars and planets and ask, ‘How does our solar system fit in?’”
Describing the diversity of planet types out there — rocky, gaseous, giant waterworlds, and how they compare with the planet we know best — he speculated whether some of them might harbor microbes or even intelligent, “technological” life.
“The human connection to this science is so compelling,” Marcy said. “The galaxy might be teeming with life, but where is everybody? Why haven’t they found us?”
Kepler, a 95-megapixel telescope with a 10 X 10-degree field of view, can measure brightness to within 0.01 percent. As sophisticated as the instrument is, the science behind it is simple, Marcy explained.
When Kepler, trained on a particular star, visualizes a blot that moves across that star along a plane and follows a cyclical pattern, a planet is revealed. The frequency of its cycle reveals the planet’s orbital period, and the amount of dimming of the star reveals the planet’s size.
“The beauty of this telescope is that you can get data 24/7,” he added, data so granular that a given planet’s density can also be extrapolated. Kepler is yielding a wealth of information about thousands of planets, despite the fact that “we have absolutely no idea what these planets actually look like,” Marcy said.
His home video footage of the March 2009 Kepler launch from Kennedy Space Center — accompanied by squeals and shouts of “You go, baby!” from the 25 or so colleagues who shared the moment — was one of the highlights of the talk. The team was naturally excited, Marcy explained, but had been apprehensive about the mission’s success due to the failure a few weeks before of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission just 17 minutes into its launch.
Another highlight was the Kepler Orrery, recently created by Marcy’s colleague D. Fabrycky, an animated graphic illustrating the hundreds of multiple-planet systems Kepler has discovered so far. The dizzying array of tiny balls spinning at various speeds around multiple solar systems makes you feel minuscule indeed.
With all those planets out there, what are the chances that some of them support intelligent life? There are several possible explanations for why we have not yet encountered even one, despite our efforts, Marcy posited.
“Microbial life is probably common, but intelligence is probably rare,” Marcy said. “We like to think of ourselves as representing the pinnacle of Darwinian evolution, but does evolution favor intelligence?” The dinosaur, with its walnut-sized brain, and the cockroach, with its primitive nervous system, Marcy suggested, are just two examples of how lower forms of intelligence can still possess prodigious survival skills.
The President’s Speaker Series, “On California,” was initiated by President Mark Yudof last year to showcase the talent and public contributions of UC faculty, alumni and other prominent Californians in the areas of education, policy/politics and research.
Upcoming speakers include:
- Thursday, April 19: Russell Rumberger, Vice Provost, Education Partnerships, and author of Dropping Out: Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can Be Done About It
- Thursday, May 3: Haile T. Debas, M.D., Director, UC Global Health Institute, and former chancellor, UCSF, and dean, UCSF School of Medicine
All events take place 12 to 1 p.m. in Franklin’s Lobby One Conference Room.


“If you look at Earth’s atmosphere from orbit, you can see it “on edge” ... And what you see is the most exquisite, luminous, delicate glow of a layered azure haze holding the Earth like an ethereal eggshell. “That’s it?!” I thought.”
Dear Future Robinsons,
Back around the turn of the century, flying to space was a rare human privilege, a dream come true, the stuff of movies (look it up), and an almost impossible ambition for children the world around.
But I was one of those fortunates. And what I saw from the cold, thick, protective windows of the Space Shuttle is something that, despite my 40 years of dreaming (I was never a young astronaut), I never remotely imagined.
Not that I was new to imagining things. As you may know, I was somehow born with a passion for the sky, for flight, and for the mysteries of the atmosphere. I built and flew death-defying gliders, learned to fly properly, earned university degrees in the science of flight, and then spent the rest of my life exploring Earth’s atmosphere from below it, within it, and above it. My hunger was never satisfied, and my love of flight never waned at all, even though it tried to kill me many times.
As I learned to fly in gliders, then small aircraft, then military jets, I always had the secure feeling that the atmosphere was the infinite “long delirious burning blue” of Magee’s poem, even though of all people, I well knew about space and its nearness. It seemed impossible to believe that with just a little more power and a little more bravery, I couldn’t continue to climb higher and higher on “laughter-silvered wings.” My life was a celebration of the infinite gift of sky, atmosphere, and flight.
But what I saw in the first minutes of entering space, following that violent, life-changing rocket-ride, shocked me.
If you look at Earth’s atmosphere from orbit, you can see it “on edge”—gazing towards the horizon, with the black of space above and the gentle curve of the yes-it’s-round planet below. And what you see is the most exquisite, luminous, delicate glow of a layered azure haze holding the Earth like an ethereal eggshell. “That’s it?!” I thought. The entire sky—MY endless sky—was only a paper-thin, blue wrapping of the planet, and looking as tentative as frost.
And this is the truth. Our Earth’s atmosphere is fragile and shockingly tiny—maybe 4 percent of the planet’s volume. Of all the life we know about, only one species has the responsibility to protect that precious blue planet-wrap. I hope we did, and I hope you do.
Stephen K. Robinson


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I, like many people, remember being captivated by the man in the turtleneck sweater, who told us we were children of the stars and made you believe that one day we might return. It was a time before the Internet and cable television, when science programming was a rarity. As a young boy, I sat and watched, mesmerized as much by the man as by the unfolding universe he introduced to us. We were beginning our first steps into the outer solar system with the Pioneer and Voyager programs, and it seemed that humanity’s future was just on the horizon. Sagan brought these new worlds to our living rooms, in a way that educated, but also inspired us as well.
It would not be until much later that I would realize the full scope of the man’s work. He was not only an astronomer and television host, but an educator, author, and advocate of science and reason. As a professor at Cornell, he was involved with the scientific exploration of the solar system from the early days of NASA, with the highlight of his academic career undoubtedly being his scientific contributions to the exploration of the four gas giants and their moons.
His efforts at outreach were at first strongly criticized by many in the scientific community, however. Like many pioneers, he challenged the status quo of his time. Similarly, his support and research into the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence were met with derision in some camps. Sagan was a fervent critic of pseudo-science, and ruffled many feathers by debunking extraordinary and unsupported claims of supernatural abilities, especially astrology. His warnings about global warming were largely ignored, despite demonstrating that this was the same greenhouse effect that had turned Venus into an inhospitable wasteland. His greatest and most lasting legacy, though, is the children he inspired to embrace science and the children-at-heart who learned to appreciate the world of which they were a part.
We should all hope to live a life as full of wonder at the vastness and beauty of the universe as he did.
- The cosmos is also within us, we’re made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos, to know itself. (metafilter.com)
- A Universe Not Made For Us HD: Carl Sagan on religion, geocentrism [Carl Sagan Tribute Series] – YouTube (sustainabilityandbeauty.wordpress.com)
- The Green Universe: Carl Sagan (sierraclub.typepad.com)
- Carl Sagan Day 2012 Approaches! (skepticalteacher.wordpress.com)


The Manhattan Project is over ... The Space Race hasn't begun
01 Apr 2009Project Orion - a real life science fiction story.
Here's a great idea for a science fiction movie straight out of the 1950's: It's before the era of sputnik. The space race hasn't quite started yet. A bunch of premier rocket scientists are looking for something to do. World War II is over. The bomb has been built. The Manhattan Project has come and gone. A bunch of nuclear physicists are looking for something to do. Let's make it interesting. We don't want just any scientists working on this new top secret project. Let's start a project using Freeman Dyson, Stanislaw Ulam, Theodore Taylor, and Cornelius Everett. After a while, we'll even bring Wernher Von Braun into the picture. Who are these men? Freeman Dyson is an English-born American physicist and mathematician. In one of his scientific papers, Dyson theorized that a technologically advanced society could completely surround its native star in order to maximize the capture of the star's available energy. (Remember the Dyson Sphere episode of Star Trek the Next Generation? That was straight from Dyson's paper). He was awarded the Max Planck medal in 1969, and winner of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 2000. Currently he is the president of the Space Studies Institute. Not a bad resume. (Available from: wikipedia.org [Accessed 23rd Feb 2005]) "Stanislaw Ulam was a gifted mathematician who, during the course of his career, made significant contributions to set theory, topology, ergodic theory, probability, cellular automata theory, the study of nonlinear processes, the function of real variables, mathematical logic, and number theory. Perhaps his greatest achievement was the development of the Monte Carlo method for solving complex mathematical problems by electronic random sampling, but he made equally noteworthy contributions in hydrodynamics (three-dimensional fluid flow), ... and in fields as disparate as physics, biology and astronomy. Yet despite the breadth of his scholarship, Ulam is most often remembered for the central role he played in the early development of the American hydrogen bomb." He had a long life that reached across continents, oceans and universities; and that spanned the end of the last European empire, two world wars, and the age of nuclear weapons, which his genius helped make possible. (Available from: aulam.org [Accessed 23rd Feb 2005]) Dr. Theodore Taylor, who worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory at the height of the cold war, was renowned as a designer of fission bombs of minimal size and maximal bang. "He was the first man in the world to understand what you can do with three or four kilograms of plutonium, that making bombs is an easy thing to do, that you can, so to speak, design them freehand." Preternaturally inept at ordinary tasks (parking a car defeated him), he became an artist of the fission bomb, taking the massive nuclear weapons developed for the Manhattan Project and making them smaller and lighter without sacrificing explosive power. Over the next seven years, he designed a series of ever-smaller bombs, whose cunning names - Scorpion, Wasp, Bee, Hornet - captured both their size and their sting. (Available from: wagingpeace.org [Accessed 23rd Feb 2005]) Cornelius Everett wrote a paper in 1955 that was immediately classified. It purported to detail how to use nuclear propulsion to power a spacecraft. Perfect - that will fit right into the story. Wernher Von Braun was one of the world's first and foremost rocket engineers and a leading authority on space travel. Mr. Braun joined NASA and helped make mankind's journey to the moon possible. Now that we have some notable scientists and interesting ideas, why not come up with a story? Let's call it Project Orion. In fact, as you can probably guess, this is in fact a true story. Project Orion really happened. "Like cheap, shiny space suits and bug-eyed rubber monsters, nuclear-powered spaceships today seem like little more than laughably na? 1950s science fiction tropes." However, "[if Orion has gone forward] it would have made our current space shuttle and space station projects look like covered wagons in the age of autos. If history had taken just a slightly different direction, we could have had several building size bases on the moon by the early seventies, probably sent manned expeditions to Mars and even beyond by the 80's." (Available from: amazon.com [Accessed 23rd Feb 2005]) "The race to the moon, in the forms of Project Apollo and the still-shadowy Soviet lunar program, dominated manned space flight during the decade of the 1960's. In the United States, the project sequence Mercury-Gemini-Apollo succeeded in putting roughly sixty people into space, twelve of them on the moon. Yet, during the late 1950's and early 1960's, the U.S. government sponsored a project that could possibly have placed 150 people, most of them professional scientists, on the moon, and could even have sent expeditions to Mars and Saturn. This feat could conceivably have been accomplished during the same period of time as Apollo, and possibly for about the same amount of money. The code name of the project was Orion." "The idea of an 'atomic drive' was a science-fiction cliche by the 1930's, but it appears that Stanislaw Ulam and Frederick de Hoffman conducted the first serious investigation of atomic propulsion for space flight in 1944, while they were working on the Manhattan Project." "Taylor and Dyson were convinced that the approach to space flight being pursued by NASA (which had just been created in January 1958) was the wrong one. Von Braun's chemical rockets in their opinion were very expensive, had very limited payloads, and were essentially useless for flights beyond the moon. The Orion workers wanted a spaceship that was simple, rugged, capacious, and above all affordable. Taylor originally called for a ground launch, probably from the U.S. nuclear test site at Jackass Flats, Nevada. The vehicle has been described as looking like a bishop's miter or the tip of a bullet, sixteen stories high" "At a time when the U.S. was struggling to put a single man into orbit aboard a modified military rocket, Taylor and Dyson were developing plans for a manned voyage of exploration through much of the solar system. The original Orion design called for 2000 pulse units, far more than enough to attain Earth escape velocity. "Our motto was 'Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970'", recalls Dyson. Orion would have been more akin to the rocket ships of science fiction than to the cramped capsules of Gagarin and Glenn. One hundred and fifty people could have lived aboard in relative comfort; the useful payload would have been measured in thousands of tons. Orion would have been built like a battleship, with no need for the excruciating weight-saving measures adopted by chemically-propelled spacecraft." "Von Braun became an enthusiastic Orion supporter, but he was able to make little headway among higher-level administration officials." (Available from: islandone.org [Accessed 23rd Feb 2005]) So why didn't it ever take off, if Orion was such a great idea? One was a fear that the nuclear bombs would contaminate the atmosphere during takeoff. Another obstacle was the anti nuclear proliferation treaty which made it illegal to explode nuclear weapons in the atmosphere. And of course there was the space race, in full swing. "Overshadowed by the moon race, Orion was forgotten by almost everybody." After seven years of work, political obstacles brought the effort to a halt. It's too bad; i'd have really liked to lived in that world.


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The Canadian Space Agency (CSA), established in 1989 by the Canadian Space Agency Act, has recognized B-Con Engineering "for outstanding performance and lasting contribution to the success of the Phoenix MET Instrument". The Phoenix Mars mission is due to land on Mars on May 25, 2008. B-Con Engineering made a significant contribution to its Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) instrumentation, part of the lander's Meteorological Station (MET).


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The star is a tiny point of light in the deep that is the night heavens. Its distant neighbors are more distant than the farthest thing on earth we know.
The star is surrounded by an infinite number of other stars in a stream of light that is the galaxy.
The galaxy is a point of light and its closest neighbors are other galaxies in a cluster.
The galactic cluster is a point of light forming a sea of membranes and strings wound and coiled inward and outward.
The strings and membranes recede into a point of light that is but one in a shower of the sparks hitting the grate of your fireplace.


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I arrived at the Snaefellsnes peninsula yesterday, the final leg of my tour. The sky was clear yesterday and that meant some great photos but since the sun is so low in the sky all day it was quite challenging to drive.
I didn’t complain about clear skies last night since the northern lights were out in their full glory! I saw several shooting stars and while a little cool outside, I was quite warm in my new Icelandic wool sweater.
Awesome photography last night! I can’t wait to edit my photos!!