5 edition of Flare stars found in the catalog.
G. A. GurzadiНЎan
|Statement||G. A. Gurzadyan ; rev. and essentially updated by the author ; edited by Yervant Terzian ; translated by H. A. van Herk-Kluyver.|
|Series||International series in natural philosophy ;, v. 101|
|Contributions||Terzian, Yervant, 1939-|
|LC Classifications||QB843.F55 G8713 1980|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||xiv, 344 p. :|
|Number of Pages||344|
|LC Control Number||79041746|
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Flare Stars covers the significant progress in photoelectric, photographic, and spectral observations of flare stars. Flare star is a variable star that can undergo unpredictable dramatic increases in brightness for a few minutes believed to be due to extremely intense flares.
This book is composed of 16 chapters and begins with an overview of This book is composed of 16 chapters and begins with an overview of flare stars and the hypothesis of infrared photon transformation. The succeeding chapters deal with the inverse Compton Effect, X-ray radiation and the theory of the transition radiation and its importance to the T Tauri type stars and peculiar :// A flare star is a variable star that becomes very much brighter unpredictably for a few minutes at a time.
Flares happen on flare stars in a similar way to solar are magnetic disturbances in the atmosphere of brightness increases across the spectrum, from X rays to radio waves. The first known flare stars were discovered inthey were V Cygni and AT Additional Physical Format: Online version: Gurzadi︠a︡n, G.A.
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The autumnal equinox usually happens on Sept. 22 or 23.
September 22 usually marks the autumnal equinox, the first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s the day when the earth is perfectly angled sideways to the sun and so day and night are of equal length. Well, sort of. We’ll set the record straight on this and four other facts about the day that kicks off fall.
1. It’s Not a Day-Long Thing
Although the autumnal equinox is observed, maybe even celebrated, all day on Sept. 22, it’s really just a moment in time — to be exact it’s when the sun crosses the celestial equator, an imaginary line in the sky above Earth’s equator. Normally, Earth orbits tilted on its axis by 23.5 degrees. But at this precise instant, its rotational axis is neither tilting toward nor away from the sun.
For 2017, that takes place at 4:02 p.m. EDT or 20:02 UTC. After this time, the sun will start rising later and setting earlier for those in the Northern Hemisphere. Those living in the Southern Hemisphere will see the opposite. In fact, people in the Southern Hemisphere refer to Sept. 22 as the spring equinox, a signal that the days will start getting longer.
2. Day and Night are Not Exactly Equal
The word “equinox” comes from the Latin words aequus (meaning “equal”) and nox (meaning “night”) but day and night are not exactly 12 hours each on Sept. 22. Due to the refraction of sunlight (i.e. bending of the sun’s light rays), the sun will appear to be above the horizon in some places when it’s actually still below it. Also, those who live far from the equator will have slightly longer days because the sun takes longer to rise and set from their vantage point. On the days close to the equinox, the sun might be visible for between 12 hours and 6 minutes and 12 hours and 16 minutes, depending on latitude. On Sept. 22, the sun will rise at 6:43 a.m. EDT and set at 6:53 p.m., giving nine extra minutes of daylight.
3. The Equinox Date Can Vary
Although the autumnal equinox is generally Sept. 22 or 23, occasionally it falls on Sept. 21 or 24. That’s because the calendar used in the West (the Gregorian calendar) defines a year as 365 days, or the length of time it takes for Earth to orbit the sun. In actuality, Earth takes 365.25 days to go around the sun. So, this means that the September equinox will be six hours later than it was the year before. (The inclusion of leap years sort of resets the date.) In 2092 and 2096, the autumnal equinox will be on Sept. 21. The last time it was on this date was 1000 C.E.! You can see the exact dates of the autumnal and spring equinoxes as well as the summer and winter solstices through 2025 at this U.S. Naval Observatory link.
4. The Equinox Brings on the Northern Lights
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You know those beautiful displays of light in the night sky called the aurora borealis? Well, the equinox signals the start of the time you can see them, continuing all the way through the end of October. Here’s why: Auroras are caused by the interaction of solar winds with Earth’s magnetic field. The solar winds are particles of plasma escaping from the sun and into space. Disturbances in Earth’s magnetic field (called geomagnetic storms) are strongest in the spring and fall, compared to summer and winter. The particles that slam into Earth’s magnetic field collide with atoms of oxygen, nitrogen and other elements in the air. These particles eventually release photons of different wavelengths and therefore different colors.
5. It’s a Cause for Celebration
There are several celebrations associated with the fall equinox. For instance, there’s the neopagan festival of Mabon, a harvest festival to celebrate the gathering of crops and the bounty of the earth. In China and other Asian countries, they celebrate the moon festival, which is always held in mid-September, around the time of the harvest moon. The harvest moon is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox.


The midnight sun can be encountered north of the Polar Circle. In Ilulissat, for example, the sun never sets from May 25th to July 25th, and during that period "normal" calender time is virtually non-operative.
It is light around the clock. At what used to be nighttime the soft, warm light and the long shadows from the low-hanging sun bring the scenic backdrops into dreamlike and almost supernaturally beautiful relief.
The northern lights are no less impressive. White, yellow, green and red they sweep across the dark sky in a state of eternal, rapid flux. Accummulate in intensity and culminate in scenery beyond imagination.
Northern lights appear all year round in Greenland, but they can only be observed against a clear, dark night sky. They appear at a height of about 100 kilometers (65 miles) and have the shape of a flapping curtain or points radiating from a single dot.
The phenomeon is due to electrically charged particles from the sun entering the earth's athomphere and being conveyed from there by the magnetic field lines. When the particles meet the molecules in the atmosphere, the northern lights arise, their colour being determined by the nature of the molecules.
The US National Science Foundation operates a scientific station near Kangerlussuaq, devoted to the study of northern lights.


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The “most Earthlike exoplanet” rankings will have to be revised.
Today (April 17), astronomers announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, the first truly Earth-size alien planet ever found in a star’s “habitable zone” — that just-right range of distances where liquid water could exist on a world’s surface.
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Name: Mandy P.
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Title: Graduate Research Assistant
Company: Georgia Tech
Why did you want to become an engineer, and more specifically, your particular type of engineer?
From a young age I coveted Geordi La Forge’s job on the Enterprise. I wanted to be the one making space travel possible. Sure the captain gets the glory, but it’s the engineer who makes it happen. Since aerospace engineering is the type of engineering that focuses on space travel, I knew this was the appropriate fit for me.
What do you do? (At your job or in your research)
I am a graduate research assistant at Georgia Tech. I work on a design team that’s designing a small 50 kg satellite that will go to space and take thermal images. My job in particular is the lead designer of the “Attitude Determination and Control” Subsystem (ADCS). And no, that doesn’t mean I’m the team’s morale officer.
ADCS is the system that allows a satellite, or even spaceship, to maneuver in space. The system basically uses instruments to look about, determine where the satellite is, and then uses components to adjust the position. In TV and movies, this is usually done with a propulsion system, and propulsion is a type of attitude control. However, in the real world, propulsion is expensive and heavy. Small satellites usually don’t have the mass budget or cost budget for propulsion. So instead, we use things like reaction wheels, CMGs, and torque rods.
So to give you a specific example of ADCS, in our satellite we determine our position using a star tracker. This device looks at the stars. From the stars it’s seeing and the angle its seeing the stars at, it’s able to determine where the satellite must be facing. This information is then sent to our computer which compares this position to where we actually want to be. If the position is not where we want to be, it sends a command to our reaction wheels. Reaction wheels are basically spinning wheels within the satellite, which spin faster or slower based on commands. This change in their speed changes the orientation of the satellite (weird, huh? – it all has to do with conservation of angular momentum – more on that in a later post). The satellite then changes position, and the star tracker starts the process again by checking the stars. Basically, the position of the satellite can be changed continuously.
What do you do outside of engineering?
I like to read SF/F, write SF/F novels, and write this blog. I’m also quite the TV addict. Basically, I’m your standard nerd, but that’s not true of all engineers, as you will see in some of their engineering spotlights.
Anything else you would like us to know about you or your work?
My work is really cool. Satellites rock. ADCS is hard. Yeah, that’s all I’ve got.


Rigidity of the LHiRes III
1 Extreme Positions
My LH3 is mounted on u-shaped aluminium profile. A mounting plate with an adapter that fits the Meade 16" SCT thread combines the framework thight with the telescope. For the following experiments the LH3 was not mounted on the telescope but I mostly grasped its mounting plate by hand and turned the spectrograph around to various extreme positions.
There are four different groups of tests. In the first two groups I rotated the LH3 around the optical axis of the incoming beam. In the third group the LH3 stands on a table. And at last I manipulated the micrometer.
- vertical axis
- horizontal axis
- the spectrograph stands on the table
- a force onto the micrometer to and fro.
Some frames were produced with the LH3 to every of the four items.
- bottom, top
- north, east, south, west
- resting on table, ccd lifted, ccd pressed down
- push and pull
The distortion of the spectrograph is measured with the help a slit from Sheliak that carries a hole of 19 µm diameter. The slit was illuminated with the build in neon lamp. A two dimensional gauss curve was fitted on the selected dot in every frame to record the position on the chip. The displacement will surely depend on the grating constant. I use only a grating with 1800 l/mm in this investigations.
The CCD Atik 460EX is delivered with a Sony ICX694 chip with square pixels of 4.5 µm edge length. So we can measure the displacement of the selected peak independent from the pixel size of the ccd we use. Reference point in the following figure is the position of the peak when the LH3 rests on the table.
Since the wavelength axis is roughly the x axis we are pleased to see the distortion in this direction smaller then perpendicular to it. The outlier in pushing the micrometer does not affect adversely the normal use of the LH3. The next section will show more realistic measurements with the LH3 mounted on the telescope.
See the pictures how the LH3 was held making the various spectra:
2 Distortions At The Telescope
To gain more realistic values for the distortion the LH3 was mounted on the telescope with the slit parallel to the rectascension direction. The connection to the telescop is not tested in this measuring because I do not know how to determine the optical axis of the telescope regardless where the telescope is pointing at the sky.
2.1 Moving In Declination
I started with the telescope looking at some point at the eastern horizon and moved it in steps of about 15 degrees through the celestial north pole to the horizon at the opposite side of the mounting. I could not stop the RA motor during the measurements.
The maximum shift in wavelength direction (X) is about 15 µm. During the move from eastern horizon to western it starts at -8 µm rising to 7 near the celestial pole an falls back to -7 µm near the western horizon. Measured relative to the mean position of the selected peak on the chip.
The move in Y direction is slightly smaller. It falls continuosly from 5 µm to -3 µm with mean value reached at the celestial north pole.
2.2 Moving in RA Direction
Again I started at some point at the north eastern horizon at RA 21 h and moved in steps of about 1 h in rect ascension. The meridian flip was at 11 h and I continued moving to the north western horizon.
The result is shocking.
The maximum shift in wavelength direction (X) is about 63 µm. Again the move in Y direction is slightly smaller: 42 µm. With the Atik460 this means 14 px rsp. 10 px.


Have you ever witnessed a total solar eclipse? Seeing a solar eclipse is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The Sun, Earth, and Moon are all aligned during a solar eclipse. A total solar eclipse, in which the Moon fully covers the Sun, does not happen very often and lasts only a few minutes.
But witnessing this beautiful natural phenomenon is something special. The temperature decreases, the birds stop singing, your heartbeat shifts, and everything becomes utterly silent for just one minute. Not only does it become quiet, but it also becomes incredibly dark as the Moon moves in front of the Sun. It isn't easy to put into words, but those who have experienced it will recognize it.
Observing a total solar eclipse is one thing; photographing one is quite another. For many, it will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. When you decide to photograph anything, it is critical to focus not just on your shot but also on the overall experience.
In this blog by BnW Collections, we will discuss how to photograph a solar eclipse. Capturing such a natural phenomenon necessitates some preparation, which we will discuss here. So, let's dive into this:
What Is A Solar Eclipse?
When the moon passes between the sun and the Earth, it casts its own shadow on the Earth's surface, causing a solar eclipse. If you are in the path of totality, you will witness the moon appear to wipe out the entire disc of the sun, resulting in a total solar eclipse. If you are at the edge of the shadow, you will observe the moon hiding only a portion of the sun, which is known as a partial eclipse. Either exhibition provides an opportunity for memorable photos.
A total solar eclipse may appear to be an uncommon occurrence, but solar eclipses occur two to four times every year anywhere on Earth. They seem rare because the moon's shadow reaches only approximately 50 miles of the Earth's surface, whereas most of the Earth's surface is covered by water. You won't be able to watch the eclipse unless you're in a boat that can cruise wherever the shadow makes landfall.
The moon's shadow will only pass over you once every century if you stand in a single location on Earth. The Earth's tilt and the fluctuation of the moon's orbit around the Earth and the Earth's orbit around the sun can be blamed for this.
Is It Possible To Photograph A Solar Eclipse?
Yes! You'll need the right tools, like a DSLR camera with proper camera settings and gears. However, there are also ways to photograph an eclipse with your smartphone.
What Camera Equipment Do You Need to Photograph a Solar Eclipse?
Whether you intend to photograph or not, some equipment is required to witness a solar eclipse. It is dangerous to look directly at the sun with your naked eye. Therefore, if you intend to see a solar eclipse, you must have solar eclipse glasses. You can also make your own pinhole camera out of a cardboard box and see the eclipse with your iPhone or other smartphone cameras or with the live view display on your digital camera.
The following is a list of the basic equipment you'll need to begin photographing a solar eclipse:
• DSLR Camera
• Telephoto Lens
• Solar Filter
• Memory Cards
• Remote Shutter Release
What Camera Settings Are Required to Photograph a Solar Eclipse?
Solar eclipses are dynamic occurrences that confront photographers with unique challenges—lighting conditions change constantly throughout the eclipse. As a solar eclipse photographer, you must be able to adjust settings on the fly in order to acquire photographs and account for the changing dynamic range of the light. When preparing to capture an eclipse, here are some recommended starting points for your camera settings:
You should have your ISO set to the lowest setting possible, preferably ISO 100 or ISO 200.
Set your camera to manual mode to experiment with different exposure settings and disable autofocus.
For optimal exposure, set your lens to between f/5.6 and f/8.
Start by setting your camera at its fastest shutter speed and adjusting down as the light fades.
When you bracket your photographs, you take many exposures of the same object but with different camera settings. For example, if you're playing with aperture, you might shoot one photograph at the settings you believe are optimal, then another one-stop down, and another one-stop up. This ensures that you have options while selecting photos.
As the eclipse progresses, prepare to change your shutter speed and other camera settings. When photographing a total eclipse, keep in mind that the best exposure period can be quite long.
Considerations for Photographing a Solar Eclipse
The two most important factors to consider while photographing a solar eclipse are framing and focus.
Framing can be challenging for a solar eclipse photographer, especially if they intend to include scenery and people or take a more detailed timelapse type long exposure shot. Frame your shot carefully before reaching totality, or the point of absolute darkness when the sun is completely eclipsed, to get a perfect shot.
Appropriately focusing when photographing a solar eclipse can be difficult regardless of the camera lens or focal length. Some photographers propose focusing on the full moon before it visually collides with the sun.
You must decide early on whether you will shoot the entire sequence of the solar eclipse or just the period of totality when the moon blocks the sun. We recommend capturing the entire sequence from start to finish so that you have photos of all the phases - from partial eclipse to "diamond ring" to totality and back. The advantage of having the complete sequence in photographs is that you can subsequently combine them to create a nice-looking composite image.
So, are you ready to capture the solar eclipse yourself? Follow the above-mentioned camera settings and get those gear if you don’t have them. Keep in mind that lunar eclipse camera settings could be different and might need some additional equipment.


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The Astronauts Memorial Foundation hosted the first educator conference at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in July 2018. The event was a success and we are pleased to bring you the second annual conference July 24-26, 2019. Registration is now open: http://kennedyconference.org Early bird registration is $295 through February 28. Regular registration is $325 and begins March 1. The conference has limited capacity, so register early to ensure your attendance. Once we reach capacity, we will start a wait list.
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- The Big Bang Ball moves to the Apollo / Saturn V Center to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing.
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Big Bang Ball: Pull out your flashiest space-wear and bling for Thursday night! We are going to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing at the Apollo / Saturn V Center at NASA Kennedy Space Center with a dinner and dancing. If you were at the inaugural Big Bang Ball, you know this is an event not to be missed! This event is included with each paid conference registration. Information to purchase tickets for guests will be made available to registered attendees in March or April.
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Astrotourism “is increasingly sought after and not just in the countryside. People really want to see the sky”, said the president of the Dark Sky Association, Apolónia Rodrigues.
Without any actual data on the economic importance of this type of tourism, the official said that the increase in the “already specific demand” for astrotourism activities “began in 2013” and, since 2016, that it is even “more intense”.
“Currently, 30% to 40% of the demand is specific. In other words, they are not people who arrive for a holiday and then discover a Dark Sky destination, but they come because they really want to be in these places”, Rodrigues said.
Apolónia Rodrigues spoke during the first International Conference on Astroturism by Starlight, which took place in the Alentejo towns of Évora and Mourão, with international speakers and giving away of awards.
The Dark Sky Association, which integrates the organization of the conference, along with the Starlight Foundation, manages the Dark Sky Portugal Network, plus three Dark Sky reserves in the country: Alqueva, Aldeias de Xisto and Vale do Tua.
Rodrigues stressed the fact that this type of tourism “is not tiring” for residents of villages or rural areas, as it “does not harm the normal and daily life” of the locals and even improves the economy.
“We have tourism, we have a normal life without disturbance and we have businesses that can be born and grow”, he said.
This tourism sector has the potential to grow in Portugal, but it is necessary to “maintain the quality” of the tourist product, that is with a “commitment to combat light pollution.”
Áurea Rodrigues, one of the speakers at the conference, said that “the mitigation of light pollution is not a factor that should be developed only for tourism”, and that it has “direct impacts on people’s quality of life and health”.


Date of Award
Doctor of Philosophy
Physics and Astronomy
Imaging-Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) provide insights into a number of open questions in high energy physics, astroparticle physics, and cosmology. However, due to the indirect detection methods necessary to observe TeV gamma rays, the systematic and statistical errors produce a broad energy resolution of about 15--20\% during analysis. Therefore, investigating and characterizing systematics of IACTs is necessary for producing accurate measurements. This thesis presents an analysis technique developed to characterize VERITAS systematics at TeV energies on blazar spectra arising from saturation of the electronics. The application of this analysis method to two epochs of data from the Crab Nebula, extending above 20\ TeV, determined minimal systematic effects from saturation. Instead, the analysis showed bias arising primarily from the choice of low gain ratio, which lead to further investigation of the correct value to apply for the low gain ratio during analysis. With correct values of the low gain ratio applied, the systematic bias from saturation of the electronics is less than statistical errors out to energies greater than 20\ TeV. Finally, analysis of five blazar spectra extending to multi-TeV energies is presented, with both the nominal low gain ratios and the low gain ratios as determined in this thesis. The updated low gain ratio values demonstrate improved energy reconstruction in a VERITAS analysis, leading to more precise spectral reconstruction with low systematic bias from saturation of the electronics.
Rita M Wells
Wells, Rita M., "Precision Measurements of Blazar Spectra with VERITAS" (2019). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 17606.


As the state of Kentucky rushes headfirst into the job-creating sands of the Old Testament, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has some shocking news that suggests Noah forgot to board those pesky arsenic-based alien lifeforms on his ark.
Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn’t share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth.
NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon will announce that they have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today. Instead of using phosphorus, the bacteria uses arsenic. All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. Every being, from the smallest amoeba to the largest whale, share the same life stream. Our DNA blocks are all the same.
But not this one. This one is completely different. We knew that there were bacteria that processed arsenic, but this bacteria—discovered in the poisonous Mono Lake, California—is actually made of arsenic. The phosphorus is absent from its DNA. The implications of this discovery are enormous to our understanding of life itself and the possibility of finding beings in other planets that don’t have to be like planet Earth.
We will update this post after NASA’s 2:00 p.m. press conference is over.
So… what are your thoughts? Does this blow your mind? Or is it further evidence that secular San Francisco liberal values are corrupting life itself?


On Tuesday, December 21, 2010 we played a full length film, Time Being, by UBC Film Production Associate Professor Chris Gallagher. The film started at 4:16pm and played 1-minute clips for an hour. Here’s an excerpt from the promotion of this special winter solstice screening.
The obliquity of the ecliptic, a 23.5 degree axial tilt of our planet, is the anomaly that gives us our seasons. This tilt positions the North Pole farthest from the sun on December 21 at 23:38 this year and produces the shortest period of daylight for the year.
At sunset (4:16) on that day, Chris Gallagher will screen a silent one hour version of Time Being on the outdoor digital screen at UBC’s intersection of University and Wesbrook Blvd.
This winter solstice version of the film presents sixty one-minute images of time, many of which are summer images at the official beginning of winter as a kind of optimistic celebration of the fact that the following day will have one second more daylight than the previous day, seven seconds more for the next, 13 seconds more for the next etc. So on the first day of winter things start to move toward summer, no wonder it is difficult to experience the present.
Playing a full length film is a new way that we can utilize digital signage – in this case it was as an art installation. We often think of spaces on campus as having a multi-use aspect to them, I think it’s great to think of digital signage in the same way.


Physicist Brian Swimme talks about finding our home in the body of the universe — how the cells in our bodies and the dust on our bookshelves originated with the Big Bang, and the organic relationship between creativity and destruction.
Brian is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies and author of The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos, a book about how the universe was born.
For more than thirty years, Brian has been teaching evolutionary cosmology to graduate students. But he’s more than a scientist. He’s a storyteller – intent on bringing awe and wonder back into our lives, with a new understanding of this galaxy, this solar system, this earth.
His first book, The Universe is a Green Dragon, explores the 14 billion year trajectory of the birth of the cosmos. He’s also the author of The Universe Story with Thomas Berry, and producer of the DVD series: Canticle to the Cosmos, The Earth’s Imagination, and The Powers of the Universe.
Recently he created the Emmy award-winning film and book, Journey of the Universe, drawing on discoveries in astronomy, geology, biology and the humanities to tell the greatest story ever told: how we came to call this planet home. Here are some highlights.
Our Home in the Galaxy: “We now have direct empirical evidence that around 14 billion years ago the universe was very small, small as a walnut, and very simple. It just consisted of elementary particles. Over those 14 billion years, the universe brought forth stars, galaxies and planets and butterflies and skyscrapers. Today we find ourselves inside an amazing creative story.”
The Role of Awe and Wonder: “We need bold new intuitions about the nature of the universe and not just coming from science by any means, but coming from human intuition. This is one of the great statements made by Thomas Berry: We need to reinvent the human at the species level. It’s not just a new economic system, or new religions, new education, we’re talking about. We need to reinvent ourselves as cosmological beings, to come alive with the sense of awe and the glory and the grandeur of our existence.”
The Relationship of Creation and Destruction: “One of the things that has struck me is the way in which the universe relies upon destruction, upon chaos. When we examine particles coming forth from the quantum field, we see that they come in pairs. A proton will come forth with an anti-proton and they both annihilate each other. But there’s also asymmetry — at one point, there was this plus-one proton that broke through.
“This is the universe we have to deal with. There’s no way we are going to eliminate chaos or disruption or annihilation. It’s absolutely essential to the ongoing creativity of the universe.”
Welcome to Reinventing Home, an exploration of culture, creativity and character. I’m your host Valerie Andrews and today we’re going to talk about home on the largest scale imaginable — our place in the universe.
Valerie: Brian, I’d like to begin by asking you this. As a scientist and a storyteller, what image comes to mind when you think of the word “home”?
Brian: Here we are on Earth, on our little cozy planet. But if we realize that the Milky Way galaxy as a whole gave birth to our stellar system, then the Milky Way, created the sun, and the earth comes out of the sun, we begin to realize that the roots of our existence, go right back into this process. The Milky Way is our home. This is what gave birth to us. I like thinking of the Milky Way galaxy as my home!
Valerie: Is part of the reason that we don’t think of this larger home because we are so deprived of looking at a natural sky? I’m thinking of all the ambient light that interferes with our direct perception of the universe. What do we really see of what’s out there, and how much has that changed in the last generation or two?
Brian: Well, that of course is the great sadness. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and it has blotted out the universe for its habitants. On a good night, in the past, an indigenous person would have seen 3,000 to 4,000 stars. Now, that experience is almost, almost impossible if you’re living in a city. In San Francisco, when you look up at night, you can see 30 stars. So there are 3,000 to 4,000 wanting to peak through, but they can’t get through the pollution.
Valerie: Right now we’re awfully stuck on where we are on Google maps and where we are on our GPS, but we don’t have a creation myth.
Brian: And yet, we do. We have the makings of a new creation myth and this is what I’ve devoted my life to. We now have direct empirical evidence that around 14 billion years ago the universe was very small, small as a walnut, and very simple, just consisted of elementary particles. Over those 14 billion years the universe has been developing, it brought forth stars, galaxies, planets and butterflies and skyscrapers, and we find ourselves inside an amazing creative story.
Valerie: As small as a walnut in the beginning? Can you tell me how something could expand from something so tiny to something so vast?
Brian: Right now the universe consists of around two trillion galaxies. Each galaxy having around 100 billion stars. No human up until our time knew this, they had no idea that we had two trillion galaxies. That was a big question: Is there one galaxy— the Milky Way — or are there many?
Now we have this sense of this vast universe, and we know that it came from a very, very small space. So how can something the size of a walnut give birth to two trillion galaxies? I can give you the scientific theory. But we have to remain in the state of awe that we have actually located the birth of the universe, it was something the size of a walnut and it gave birth to all of us. That’s the great thing about the creation myth, it just shatters our preconceptions about the nature of existence.
Valerie: What I’m getting from your description is this creation from nothing, this creation ex-nihilo. How something can come where there was nothing at all before.
Brian: The most startling discovery, I think, in all of modern science is this expansion of the universe. But the second most startling discovery is the realization that elementary particles are emerging into existence out of emptiness. The word in science is the quantum field, and this is the primary reality. The quantum field doesn’t have things, it simply is a realm that gives birth to things. That we discovered this generative realm that pervades the universe, yeah that blows my mind all the time. All the particles that seem so solid, and that for so long we thought were eternal — they’re not! They’re momentary excitations of the quantum field. It means that everything we look at is like a flame.
Valerie: Well, this has a lot of implications I think for social theory. I recall how Darwinism applied “survival of the fittest” to commercial enterprise. We have to look at science’s next big idea and ask how that is likely to effect social theory as well.
Brian: Let me give you a discovery in contemporary cosmology that has kind of amazing implications for social theory. I just talked about two trillion galaxies, that they’re all expanding away from each other. And this expansion is strange.
The simplest way of saying is that is when we look out from the Milky Way galaxy, we’re looking at the other galaxies out there and they are all moving away from us. And on the basis of that, we conclude that we are at the center of the expansion.
But here’s the kicker, if we found ourselves at another galaxy far, far out in the universe, we would see all the galaxies expanding away from that point. So we’re in a very weird situation compared to what we’d thought. Every point is the center of the universe. This goes against the thinking of the modern era. We have this idea that we could arrive at a single perspective and see the truth, right?
That perspective might be America, it might be Communism, it might be Darwinism. It might be Christianity. But we’re now discovering that all of those perspectives, could be at the center and could have something valuable to offer. We’re questioning something as simple as the notion that the human is the ultimate species, that our point of view is what really matters, what really counts. From this new orientation every species is central to the whole web of life.
And I think that, as this understanding seeps into our social theory, we will begin to realize that every culture, every race, every civilization has something central to offer and we will be living in a very different world than we are right now.
Valerie: Oh that is beautifully put.
You know the other thing that’s fascinated me has been our discussion of dust and that the particles that were present at the Big Bang are still present. We have a direct line back in time to the creation to the dust that’s under our beds and on our book shelves. We’re talking about a kind of primal material that’s always existed since the beginning of the universe, aren’t we?
Brian: Yeah. We are. All of the hydrogen atoms of our body come from a time almost 14 billion years ago. Each of us has been assembled by the universe. Each of us. The hydrogen atoms come from the very, very beginning. And then later on, the stars explode, and they give birth to calcium atoms and phosphorous atoms. So those parts of us come from them. And our cells still have the same dynamics of the first early cells, so each of us is a 14 billion year construction.
Each of us is just an individual by the name of Brian or Valerie or whatever. And yet each of us is the entire universe in a very particular mode.
The Misminay Indians in South America say, “That in order to be human, one must dwell upon the immensities of the universe.” I just love that. You don’t just have to be an adult with a job, with credit cards, no. You have to dwell in the immensities of the universe because that is your larger self. And so we’re discovering this kind of, this insight that has been cherished by indigenous groups for millennia. We’re discovering this anew in the scientific context.
Valerie: This way of looking at the universe makes me wonder if we need a new ecology of things. For most of human history, one of the dominant beliefs has been pan-psychism, the sense that everything is alive and has a presence. That my writing table, for example, contains the same molecules as a cloud or a tree and therefore, it deserves to be honored. This way of looking at the universe brings us back to the miracle of creation and it asks us to regard things, to have an I-Thou relationship with the material world. Is that the way you see it?
Brian: I don’t know what more I could add to that. That’s a great statement. An I-Thou relationship, yes.
Valerie: The novelist Carson McCullers says, “If you want to love a human being first you have to love a rock, then you have to love a tree, then you have to love a cloud.” And she has this… well it’s not exactly a hierarchy but an embrace of things. The more you’re capable of loving the natural world around you, the more you’re capable of loving another human being, because you can love creation in all of its aspects.
Brian: Let me give you a response from mathematical cosmology. One of the true mysteries that we’ve touched upon in science has to do with the way in which the universe is expanding. The simplest way of saying it is this: If the universe were altered, even slightly, in its rate of expansion, there would never have been the structure as we find about us now. It’s almost impossible to believe, but this is coming from the work of Stephen Hawking. He was the first to calculate that if you altered the expansion even by one part in a trillion, then there wouldn’t be this amazing universe we live in today. That means then that a planet like earth was aimed at by the dynamics of the early universe. When I think about that I quiver because, in science, we never talk about the universe having directions. But that’s starting to break down.
Valerie: You mean we’re beginning to think about intention?
Brian: That is exactly what I’m saying. I’m saying that there’s a form of intention we can even call cosmic intention. I’m saying that the universe intended stars, intended life, intended what we see about us and that includes boulders. I got this huge charge when I first learned this from Stephen Hawking, and realized that a rock is intended by the universe— that it’s a cosmological construction.
This universe was going to make sure that rocks and boulders and life came fluttering forth and that is a step toward regarding each peg in the universe, as sacred or holy or something of that order.
Valerie: When I was in college, I remember being fascinated by the pre-Socratic philosophers with their emphasis on the sacredness of earth, air, water and fire. When you read them, it’s like reading a hymn to creation. And yet they were looked down upon as being naive and unscientific and lacking in any empirical notion of the universe. There is this magic that you got from pre-Socratics. The sense that all things have intention and are sacred.
Brian: Yeah, absolutely. I remember when I first came across Pythagoras when I was studying mathematics and physics and loving all of it. Pythagoras talked about the music of the spheres, and that phrase did something to me at a deep level. I never got over it. Some way or another I knew that Pythagoras, and the others, were in touch with something that can easily escape the reach of mathematical science.
Valerie: Is that why you set your film, The Journey of The Universe, on the island where Pythagoras was born? You went back to the source?
Brian: Absolutely. I think we live in an era that’s something like that of the pre-Socratics. We need bold new intuitions about the nature of the universe and not just coming from science by any means, coming from human intuition. This is one of the great statements by Thomas Berry — that we need to reinvent the humans at the species level, so it’s not just about creating a new economic system, or new religion, or new type of education. We need to reinvent ourselves as cosmological beings, to come alive with the sense of awe and the glory and the grandeur of our existence.
Valerie: I think that’s the deepest meaning of what we’re trying to do at Reinventing Home. People have an impoverished sense of home today, because we don’t look at our place in the body of creation. And therefore, we don’t even regard the simple things that we share our homes with, like a piece of wood or a beautiful table as emissaries of that natural world that’s outside the door or outside the gate.
Brian: Ah, I love that.
Valerie: So the question is, Who are we? How do we become ourselves within this new concept of home, and how big does our concept of home get to be?
Brian: Valerie, you asked me the question earlier, but I would love to know what image comes to mind for you when you hear the word home.
Valerie: I think of the home as something that’s always revealing itself. There’s always a slight curve and there’s always something new to be discovered right around the corner.
And I agree with you: In order to really understand who we are and where we belong, we need to understand that we do come from 14 trillion years of evolution, of something mysterious and wonderful.
Brian: Yeah. Beautiful.
Valerie: So I’ve got to ask you this. And it’s a hard question. What do you think is the role of chaos in cosmic evolution?
Brian: That’s a difficult topic for us to consider because we fear destruction and we fear our own annihilation.
One of the things that has struck me is the way in which the universe relies upon destruction, it relies upon chaos. Just to give you an example: When we examine particles coming forth from the quantum field now in the laboratory, we see that they come apart in pairs. And so, a proton will come forth with an anti-proton. And if they meet they both annihilate each other. Our current understanding is that there was this huge upsurge of particles, but a slight asymmetry sets in. For every billion anti-protons, there were a billion-plus-one protons. So, right from the beginning there’s this massive annihilation with only one proton squeaking through.
Let me just give one more example to tie it in. It was a big shock for biologists to discover that over the course of three-and-a-half billion years of life, at least 99% of the species that came forth have gone extinct. So that you see, you’re like, “Whoa, the species that we have around they are less than 1% of the number of species that came forth.” So this is the universe we have to deal with. It creates all these forms of life, and then it destroys them. And so, annihilation and creativity go together in this universe.
There’s no way we are going to eliminate chaos or disruption or annihilation. The universe thrives on death. It’s absolutely essential to the ongoing creativity of the universe.
So, the question I ask is, what aspects of my life should be annihilated? Or another way of saying is this, what parts of my psychology are actually blocking my own creative development? And this is the way then to enter consciously into the annihilation process of the universe, because what happens with these vast annihilations is that new life comes forth and it’s life that has novel features.
Just to sum it up. The universe hates to be bored. The universe is deeply committed to bringing forth something new and interesting. And so, that’s how at least I look at this terrible dynamic of chaos and destruction. It’s part of what is needed for the universe to show a form of beauty that has not yet manifested.
Valerie: I find great relief in that explanation, because our lives are so precarious in so many ways. We need a framework of consciousness to understand the remarkable time that we’re living through.
What really fascinates me about this explanation is that plus-one proton. All these protons and anti-protons cancelling each other out, and then the plus-one just skips through. It reminds me of Leonard Cohen’s song about the crack where the light comes through.
Valerie: I find this very helpful. If you can hang on to that plus-one that makes it through the fence, you can still continue to be an activist. You can still believe that what you do counts.
Brian: To be part of that plus-one proton that makes it through the fence. Yes. I like it.
Valerie: I want to follow up with one final question. How can we help our children feel more at home in the universe and in these concepts that we’ve been discussing? Do we need to become better storytellers?
Brian: My wife teaches grade school and when she was teaching kindergarten, she asked me to come in and talk to the students. When I’m teaching adults I point out the ways in which Newtonian science and classical physics have been replaced by quantum theory and relativity, and all the rest of it. Obviously, these kids are not going to know anything about that, and so I started to tell them how the universe grew up from a seed. Then I focused on how the stars created the atoms of our body. And then the stars dispersed throughout the Milky Galaxy and then here we are. And I said, “Each of these atoms actually came from a star.”
A little kid in the first row was looking up at me as I was talking and didn’t move his eyes away from mine. Then he lifted his hands up and touched his cheek. It was so fantastic. He was entering into his participation in the universe and recognizing that he was a cosmological being.
So, I do think that we need to become better storytellers. These young minds, they’re prepared. They are all ready to hear the truth. They already know this in an intuitive way, because the very atoms of the body did come from the star. I’m not telling the atoms anything they don’t know!
Valerie: That’s great. Our bodies are recognizing themselves as part of the body of the universe.
Brian: Why not?
Valerie: Oh, that’s a beautiful story, Brian. It really takes all this theory down to something very simple. To this notion that home must embrace all of nature, all of the elements. It must embrace our bodies, and the stars.
Valerie: Thank you so much for this conversation. I hope everybody will go out and watch your marvelous film, The Journey of The Universe, and read The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos where you bring together so beautifully the role of the scientist to ask questions and the role of the storyteller to give images that help us see deeper into the questions.
Brian: Thanks Valerie. It’s always fun talking to you.
Valerie: What I love about what you do, Brian, is that you’re always taking us home.
The Universe is a Green Dragon by Brian Swimme
The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos by Brian Swimme
The Dream of the Earth by Thomas Berry


Technically Antarctica is the driest place on earth but that just seems odd since it’s full of ice. However, the driest place on earth is categorized by the amount of rainfall that is received annually and San Pedro de Atacama is the 2nd driest place on earth with less than .7inches of rain per year.
I was told to head here if I was in Chile mainly to see the stars. Since you are in the middle of nowhere the night sky is truly breathtaking. I was able to see the Southern Cross, a few planets and many other constellations that we don’t see in the Northern Hemisphere. A telescope and a good camera would have been great on this trip.
Part of the draw to the desert is the amount of activities available for those adventurous types. Sand boarding, hiking volcanos, scaling geysers, relaxing in hot springs and multiple day tours. I chose to take a day and head to the hot springs as well as do a your to Valle de Luna. The day of the hot springs rained believe it or not and made for a very cold walk back to the car. Valle de Luna is said to look like the surface of the moon and also represent Mars in some places. It was hot and dry and full of salt!
There was something magical about this place that made you want to stay. Be it the street dogs that you fall in love with or the random adventures that occur from being dehydrated and perhaps slightly delirious, this place was perfection!


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he Chandrayaan-2 orbiter was able to detect a series of solar flares over a 24-hour period beginning September 30 midnight, the Indian Space Research Organisation said in its latest update on India’s second Moon mission. The solar flares (a sudden explosion of energy near the Sun’s surface) were detected with the help of the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter’s Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM), demonstrating the craft’s ability to ultimately test for the presence of minerals on the Moon.
Isro said it won’t be able to do much with the current set of readings because of unfavourable angles at which the orbtier, the Moon and the Sun are currently placed. However, the new finding is still significant as it tests an important piece of equipment onboard the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter.
Let us explain.
Solar flares, which take place over short periods, emit a large amount of radiation. The amount of radiation depends on the intensity of the solar flares taking place near the Sun’s surface. Now, part of the radiation released during these solar flares includes X-rays.
The Chandrayaan-2 orbiter Solar X-ray Monitor (XSM) looks for these very X-Rays.
Well, one of the missions that Chandrayaan-2 will perform will be to test for the presence of elements on the Moon’s surface. Chandrayaan-2 plans to do this in a 「clever way」.
The orbiter will wait for the radiation released by the Sun to strike the lunar surface
This radiation, once it hits the Moon, would excite the atoms of any elements present on the surface (an atom gets excited when its electrons are filled with extra energy)
Now, while returning to their 『ground』 or non-excited state the atoms release energy and X-rays. The fun part here is that atoms of every element have its own characteristic X-ray emissions
Now, another instrument onboard the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter — the Chandrayaan 2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS) — has the ability to read these X-ray emissions and thus identify elements present on the Moon’s surface.


The hunt for planets that could harbor life may have just narrowed dramatically.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Four astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule Friday, ending their nearly six-month space station mission with a splashdown in the Atlantic off Florida.
The Milky Way galaxy has a graveyard of dead stars that stretches three times the height of the galaxy, according to new research. Astronomers found the ancient stellar remnants when they mapped this “galactic underworld” for the first time.
“Breathtaking” images of a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope are revealing intricate details about how stars and planetary systems form.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA is replacing leaky seals in its moon rocket at the pad in hopes of launching it on its first test flight by the end of this month.
A giant space tarantula has been caught by a Webb—NASA’s highly sensitive James Webb Space Telescope, that is.


Ok, so I wasn’t even planning to be super impressed by the whole path of totality eclipse business. Honestly I wasn’t. There was so much hype and hubub leading up to this once in a lifetime event here in Oregon since we were in the “Path of Totality”. But I thought, yeah I’ll get some glasses, and see what the hype is all about, it will be sort of cool to see. But then, watching it, experiencing it, and wow….it was by far one of the coolest things I have ever seen!!!
We had a good get together at the farm, lots of laughs over silly glasses, a few jokes about flying up to the heavens and mostly a very cool time watching the moon totally cover the sun. At the farm we had around one and half minutes of he moon totally covering the sun. Or “eating the sun” as Hoot put it!
As the moon started the cover the temperature dropped quite a bit. The darkness started to set in. When totality hit it truly did get dark or at least a dark twilight all around. Even the horizons looked like sunset or sunrise. But probably the most cool was being able to take off the glasses an look straight at the moon covering the sun with the “diamond ring” circling it.
Even Auggie was cheering and pointing! *Sidenote for all that noticed…that is not actually WD-40 Auggie is sucking on!
It was incredible! I was a skeptic, but after getting to have the experience first hand, it was absolutely totally worth it! Now I say this also with the filter that I did not have a horrendous drive home, my 2 minute commute from the farm looked more like 4 minutes with all the traffic. While some others spent hours and hours and hours…and hours sitting in traffic. Even on back roads, following the event.
All in all….I now get what all the hype is about! Hope you all got to enjoy a little eclipse action as well! And if you ever find yourself in the “Path of Totality” it’s well worth grabbing some silly glasses and having a party!
**Thank you Karen Kirsch and Amelia Safley for letting me borrow some photos…we were too busy staring and forgot to take any!
4 thoughts on “Eclipse 2017”
Agreed! Your post captures my sentiments too. The other thought I had was how easy it is to take for granted the awesomeness of life, of the sun – of God. You really noticed when it went away, but take if for granted the rest of the time. WOW. And, it made me appreciate anew the power of “a blink of an eye.”
Yes completely agree!!!
For a couple of brief moments, nothing else mattered. Way, way cool!
Yes Rob, well put!
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When it comes to space life, most people are not aware of what they contain. The vast space filled with stars and other bodies makes it hard to try to figure out about it. The following are the six facts that you need to know about the space.
There Are Thousands Of Planets
You might think that there are only eight planets in the solar system. Most of the planets are outside the solar system. The planets that do not form part of the solar system are known as the exoplanets and they rotate around a certain star. It is recorded that there are over 1800 other planets and the other 3000 are under study to become full planets.Most of these planets do not support life as they are made up of hot gas.
The Sun Requires Million Earths For Them To Have The Same Size
It was once believed by the ancient astronomers that the Earth was the largest of the planets and it was at the center. After research it was discovered that the sun is bigger than the earth and the Earth rotates around the Sun. The Sun is so big that several Earths will be required to form the same size of the Sun.
The Weather Are Adverse In The Different Planets
The weather that is experienced on Earth is different from what is experienced on other planets. research has shown that the Jupiter has been hit by the hurricane for the 300 years. The Mercury and the Venus that are closer to the Sun are known to be very hot. Venus is considered to be one of the hottest planets.Neptune has the fastest winds among all the planets.
The Space Is 100 Km Away
The space is labeled with the invisible Karman line. When you reach the 100 km mark upwards, then you will be in the space. That means that you can reach the space in less than an hour when you decide to drive going upwards.
Crying In Space Will Cause Your Tears Not To Fall
The tears do not touch the ground when you decide to cry. Crying will only lead to the tears running into bubbles and stick around your eyes.When you cry the tears will form the bubble around your eyes and they will not fall. The floating process quickens the peeling of the dead skin in your feet.
No Planet Is Hotter Than Venus
Despite the fact the mercury is the nearest planet to the sun, it is no the hottest. Venus maintains the record of the highest planet because of having clouds that absorbs the heat from the sun. The mercury only maintains hot temperature when exposed to the Sun and loses its heat during the night.


You can consider going out on your celestial walkabout earlier in the evening. Our ancestors went to bed at sunset and rose with the sun in the morning, but we have other distractions that keep us up at night, to our physical and mental detriment. Astronomers are doomed to stay up a bit too late. But I think looking at the night sky must be better for me than cruising the internet or texting trivia. You will be noticing a couple of bright star-like objects in the southeast—in the constellation Capricornus. These are the planet Saturn on the right and Jupiter on the left. Saturn is best known for its vivid rings of dust and icy particles, but you will need an optical aid to see them. Typical binoculars may show a tiny and slightly elongated disc. A small telescope makes the rings obvious. Jupiter is about half the distance and inherently larger, so binoculars clearly show a disc. Holding or supporting the binos will also let you see its four brightest moons, the Galilean moons. You can watch and sketch their positions as they change from night to night.
Sep 6 New moon; Aquila (Altair) on meridian at 10 p.m.
Sep 13 First-quarter moon
Sep 14 Mercury max elongation (26.8 degrees – eve)
Sep 16 Sun enters Virgo
Sep 18 Cygnus (Deneb) on meridian at 10 p.m.
Sep 20 Full moon
Sep 21 Capricornus, Saturn and Jupiter near meridian at 10 p.m.
Sep 22 Autumnal Equinox at 03:21
Sep 28 Last-quarter moon
MONTHLY SUN/MOON DATES & TIMES
Dates for the Phases of the Moon
Entries are in eastern time and only require time zone correction. Do not use the correction from the Ottawa Time Corrections table.
Saskatchewan and parts of British Columbia and Ontario do not use daylight time. In these regions, subtract 1 hour from these times
from March 14 to November 7.
When at opposition, planets will appear on the opposite side of the sky from the sun—very roughly on the meridian at midnight.
A conjunction is when the planet has the same “longitude” as the sun. A superior conjunction is when the planet is on the other side of the sun, and an inferior conjunction is when it is between Earth and the sun. Only Mercury and Venus can be at inferior conjunction. Maximum elongation is when Mercury and Venus appear farthest from the sun in our sky. This occurs either in our morning eastern sky (morn) or our western evening sky (eve).
Do not apply the Ottawa Time Corrections to the times in this table.
Prominent Constellations By Seasons
|Star Name||Scientific Name||Distance (Light-Years)||Midnight Transit|
|Fomalhaut||Alpha PsA||25||Sep 19|
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One of Canada’s foremost writers and educators on astronomical topics, the Almanac has benefited from Robert’s expertise since its inception. Robert is passionate about reducing light pollution and promoting science literacy. He has been an astronomy instructor for our astronauts and he ensures that our section on sunrise and sunset, stargazing, and celestial events is so detailed and extensive it is almost like its own almanac.


ComStar presents: Attractive full color Starship Counters for your science fiction game! Whether you play Traveller or any other science fiction game, you will find the 50 starships, four planets, and one space station counters handy for your gaming use.
Included in this set are:
- A Special Forces strike craft
- Passenger liner
- Space Station suitable for a large orbital or deep space station
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The latest episode of the Listen To The Signal podcast is up!
Listen to the new episode “Swatch” now!
As you might know, I’m into the whole Mars rover thing, and I was psyched to find out they included an extra little package inside it this time — a helicopter. And even cooler, they fastened an actual swatch of fabric from the original Wright Brothers Flyer to the underside of its solar panel! So that got me thinking: I know they’re super careful about not letting bio material contaminate the moon or Mars, but what if, for this tiny swatch, they sort of forgot to check? What might happen?…
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John Green and David Levithan
An animation of the hexagonal storm present on Saturn’s north pole. The hexagon is 30,000 kilometers across and has constant winds of more than 300 kilometers per hour. Images acquired by the Cassini spacecraft on December 10th, 2012.
I am indeed 27 and want my tubes tied. I’ve yet to find a doctor who will consent to it and I doubt I will.
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Africa’s first underwater hotel bedroom at Pemba Island’s Manta Resort in Zanzibar has finally been unveiled.
Read more about it here.


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Where to Begin with STEM Education
When NASA’s New Horizons makes its Pluto flyby this month, it’s not hard to imagine a new generation of students romanticizing the idea of a career in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). Some might be taken by scientific discoveries. Others might be blown away with the project’s daring in engineering. And still others will be amazed simply by the mathematics and physics involved. The project’s incredible scale is sure to impress upon students the boundless possibilities awaiting those who pursue a career in STEM: from opportunities to shed scientific light upon the dark unknown, to the prospect of simply thinking mathematically, to the real-world feats of engineering that can take humanity’s gaze into the far reaches of our solar system.
These are exciting times, without a doubt.


Autumn season brings people planning for Norway trip. People visit Norway to enjoy vacation northern lights. The Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights occur from the sun hitting the atmosphere of the earth. The result is different colored lights emission such as red, green, and purple.
People wishing to see in the right way the vacation Northern lights may find these tricks favorable:
- Plan at the right time of the year your trip. The best months are October, November, and February to see northern lights. It is ideal to avoid visiting in December and January as it becomes freezing cold.
- Checking forecast before heading to watch northern lights is best; through you need not rely on it completely. The weather here keeps changing frequently, so plan before.
- Plan your itinerary for the vacation Northern lightsfor 2-3 days. It is not easy to see in one night.
- Carry the required gear to handle harsh weather. The temperature on an average is from -2 to -3 degrees Celsius in winters. It is a must to carry scarves, gloves winter boots, jackets, hats, sweaters, and other accessories to keep you alive and warm.
- Carry your camera to get the northern lights beauty in your hand. You need to capture the aurora colors using a high sensitivity lens. However, before starting to capture, enjoy the natural beauty seeing with naked eyes.
Most of all have lot of patience. The Northern Lights appear only when the sky is clear and the weather is favorable.
Best places in Norway
Norway is a big country and the area is larger. It is a must to know the right area in the northern part to get the Northern Lights viewing:
From November to February, the Svalbard islands lie between the North Pole and Norway. These are the months without sunlight and it increases the possibilities of seeing Norway Northern Lights. The Longyearbyen area is around 1300 km from the North Pole and is the ideal spot to view at night the Northern lights and even sometimes in the noon.
Senja is the second-largest island in Norway. The area is free from pollution and noise in comparison to other Norwegian Islands. It houses many wildlife species such as reindeers, seals, moose, and eagles. The calm, natural and pollution-free environment makes spotting easy and there are high chances of success of vacation Northern lights.


;IN THE MARTIAN, A SCIENCE FICTION BOOK BY ANDY WEIR and a Hollywood movie blockbuster, Mark Watney is stranded on Mars after his fellow NASA astronauts think he died and leave the Red Planet without him. Watney is left with space suits and a
controlled-environment habitation module (or Hab), but he does not have
enough food and water to survive until NASA sends a rescue mission.
Several years could go by while Watney waits to be rescued, and
many things could go wrong. For example, if the system that provides
him with oxygen stops working, Watney could die, because the atmo-
sphere of Mars does not contain enough oxygen for humans to survive.
The good news is that Watney, who is a botanist, has some potatoes
in the Hab that he can use to produce more food as he waits for NASA
to rescue him. The bad news is that Mars is a desert planet, where no
plants have ever grown before.
In the story, Watney’s botany skills help him survive the ordeal. He
uses the potatoes NASA packed for his Mars expedition along with his
own feces and manages to grow potatoes in a small farm inside
the Hab. Also, his knowledge of chemistry allows him to
make water, which he uses to irrigate the potatoes.
Improvising a Martian potato farm and producing
water from scratch sound more fiction than sci-
ence. But research suggests that some soils on
Mars could be used to grow plants.
So how exactly did Watney fertilize Martian
soil? Is it possible to make water on Mars?
Even though Mars has an environment that is harsh for life as we
know it, it appears to be the most habitable planet in our solar system,
besides Earth. According to NASA, billions of years ago, Mars even had
oceans like our own. Some places on Earth have been used to study
Mars, since their environments are somewhat similar to conditions
on Mars. Parts of Antarctica, Hawaii, and South America are examples of such places.
Scientists have been studying Mars since the early 1960s. They have
sent small spacecraft that flew by, orbited, and landed on Mars. These
spacecraft found that although some places on Earth look like Mars, the
Red Planet is indeed a harsh environment for life.
The atmosphere on Mars has about 95% carbon dioxide, which
would make it impossible for humans to breathe. Mars is also much
colder than Earth. This is mostly because the Red Planet is farther away
from the sun than Earth. NASA’s Viking mission, which landed
on Mars in 1976, recorded average temperatures of –81 ºF,
which is colder than either the North or South poles here
on Earth. If exposed to Mars’s temperatures, plants,
humans, and other living beings would freeze.
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Morgan Elementary School first, second and third grade students enjoyed an in-house fieldtrip from GoPlanetarium on Friday, April 18. Each class went into an inflatable dome that was 22 feet in diameter to view the presentation. The programs that were presented covered several areas from the Utah State Core Curriculum. The first and second grade classes went to a show called Earth’s Wild Ride. The story is set on the surface of the moon in the year 2081. A family watches the moon’s shadow move across the earth. The grandfather tells about crashing asteroids, a roaring dinosaur, booming thunder, erupting volcanoes, and electrifying lightening. The third grade went to the program called Future Moon. This program honors the Apollo astronauts who landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. They learned about eclipses, the ice age, earth’s water cycle and the differences between the earth and the moon. Each presentation given was thoroughly enjoyed by students and teachers alike.
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- "The further you get from the central planets, the harder things are"
- ― Inara in "The Train Job"
news Border Planets
The Border planets are a perfect location for those on the Core to do their business "in private," as they are far enough away from the Core that the Alliance can't always see what's going on. Gaining permission to land on Beaumonde and Persephone is supposed to be regulated, though due to heavy traffic Alliance officials have a difficult time limiting access. The Border planets are home to both the richest of the rich and the lowest of the low. Practically anything can be bought on these planets, such as hired men to take care of your worst enemy, or the finest of clothing and food.
Note: in terms of canon, the term "Border" applies to worlds between the Core and the Rim. On the game, we use "Border" and "Rim" to indicate the socio-economic status of worlds moreso than their locations. Border worlds orbit Georgia, Red Sun and Kalidasa alongside Rim worlds, and a few Border worlds are located in outer orbits around White Sun as well.
Coded Planets and Moons
- New Melbourne
Note: with the exception of stars, only fully coded space objects are shown here.


Onizuka Center for International Astronomy
Mauna Kea Visitor’s Information Station
Phone: (808) 961-2180 Fax: (808) 969-4892
Malalo o Ka Po Lani
Hawaiian Culture Night on Maunakea
Saturday, August 20th 6:00 pm
The Mauna Kea Visitor Information Station’s free monthly program, “Malalo o ka Po Lani,” will be held on Saturday, August 20th, 2011 at the Onizuka Center for International Astronomy Visitor Information Station’s presentation room, beginning at 6:00pm. The presentation will take place for approximately one hour, with our stargazing program following shortly thereafter.
Join special guest Terri Napeahi and hosts Leilehua Yuen and Manu Josiah In “Sailing by the Stars,” as we explore how the Hawaiian night sky served as a navigational chart for our ancestors. Then, examine the interrelationship between, culture, art, and science. Terri Napeahi is the owner of Papa Mū, a fine art gallery featuring the work of Kanaka Maoli artists.
Come up for Culture Night on Maunakea for an evening of Hawaiian music, chants, stories, and science as we learn about the Hawaiian Moon Calendar and the Hawaiian constellations of summer. Then, see them for yourself at the star party on the Onizuka Center lanai!
Each month, a different Cultural Practitioner shares perspectives on an aspect of Hawaiian culture, history, and or arts relating to the natural history of Maunakea. The “Malalo o ka Po Lani” cultural program is held on the third Saturday of every month in the Ellison Onizuka Center for International Astronomy Visitor Information Station’s presentation room at the 9,300 ft eleveation on Mauna Kea. For more information on programs at the Mauna Kea Visitor Information Station please visit our web site: www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/vis or call us at (808) 961-2180.


What appears to be a relatively straightforward watercolour landscape in portrait mode took me years to complete. Don’t know why
The title is the time it takes for sunlight to reach the earth. It follows then that if the sun were to cease to exist you would only find out about 8 minutes and 20 Seconds later. This has always bothered me. As far as I can work it out it means you are always living on borrowed time and it must be a determinist universe so there is no free will.
It gets even worse if you listen to QI. That show reckons that the light you see took additional tens of thousands of years before leaving.
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Sunday, February 1, 2009
The last few weeks have been a struggle for many people. Is it the failing economy? Is it the transition of presidents? Is it the winter blues? Or is it the fact that Mercury has been in Retrograde? What exactly does it mean for you when Mercury is in Retrograde? We decided to do a bit of research.
Mercury retrograde in Aquarius [Jan 11 – Feb 1, 2009]
At 16:45 (Universal Time), on Sunday, January 11th, 2009, Mercury turned retrograde in Aquarius. Since that was the day of the potent Full Moon in Cancer, people's emotions may have been on high alert! In general, Mercury rules thinking and perception, processing and disseminating information and all means of communication, commerce, education and transportation.
The word retrograde applies, in astrology, to the apparent backward motion thru the zodiac of a planet.
All the planets, except Sun and Moon, have these retrograde periods, but Mercury is most famous for them, probably because Mercury represents our very essential communication abilities.
The good things to do when Mercury is Retrograde: meditate, contemplate, edit the book/poem/song/essay you've been writing, clean house, talk to your pet, listen to music, paint, catch up on sleep!
So if you have been feeling blue the past few weeks, worry not Obama is hard at work to fix our economy, The winter only has two more months to go and as of today Mercury is out of Retrograde...Phew!


Detail: Earth moves through space at approximately 530km/s.
Earth travels at approximately 530 km or 330 miles per second. That is so fast that you are in the region of being 19,000 km further from your starting point for every single passing minute. Although scientists vary on their beliefs or calculations of the speed with which planet Earth revolves, there is some agreement that this speed is between 130 and 1,000 km/s. Apparently, Einstein’s relativity theory or the speed with which an item moves through space is not relevant here. To clarify, Earth moves through space at approximately 530km/2 within the galaxy of the Milky Way. The Milky Way turns at 225km/s, and this galaxy moves at a rate of 305km/s. Super-fast.
Farewell old friend!
Detail: Earth’s moon is slowly leaving us.
Because the speed of the earth’s rotation is slowing by approximately 0,002 seconds every day over every 100 years, the moon drifts a little further away. Combined with tidal effects and slowed earth rotation, the moon drifts at least 3.8cm from earth every year. No, the moon is not made of cheese. Rather, scientists believe that it is possible that the moon is a splinter of the earth from time gone by. Their theory is that a huge piece of debris the size of Mars collided with the earth in outer space, which is how the moon came into being.


On December 10, 2018 Dr. Paul Abell, a representative of NASA’s Huston based asteroid division, visited our school to give us insight into comets and asteroids. He was in Japan for JAXA’s Hayabusa 2 mission on Ryugu, in collaboration with NASA’s Osiris Rex, which is currently orbiting the asteroid Benneu. Dr. Abell began by giving us a scale of the solar system. He lectured the high school on how asteroids and comets are becoming the next focus for astronomy and space technology due to the composition and sheer number in our solar system. He brought up their importance of his field with a simulation showing the number of asteroid discoveries from the 1950’s to the present. In the 1950’s there were an approximate 20 to 30 known comets/asteroids. Now, there are over 8 million in known existence. Further elaboration hinted that these celestial bodies could provide insight into the formation of our solar system giving us vital clues about how life on Earth came to be. The speech progressed into a lot of detail about the classification of comets based on their orbit, the Hayabusa 2 and Osiris Rex mission objectives and milestones, and the focus on comets as the main target for future space missions. The presentation concluded with a question and answer session with Dr Abell. On the whole, students interested in space technologies found this a very interesting and informative session. Eavesdropping in on some of the conversations students were having after the presentation, many found the presentation to be a bit confusing as there was a lot of information delivered in very little time. Most of them wanted the presentation to be slightly longer so that they could understand some of the key features more clearly.
Article by Anurag Sritharan
Image acquired from: https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/hayabusa-2.htm


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Astrophysicist Akimie: Explores the Universe (The Science Starters Collection) (Volume 1)
Publisher: Autumn Lorraine
Publication Date: 2016-10-14
Number of pages: 46
The Science Starters Collection is dedicated to expanding upon children’s answer to: “What will you be when you grow up?” Spark your listener’s curiosity and encourage their ideas as you rhyme your way through the universe with Astrophysicist Akimie. Effortlessly teach your listener what our universe is made of and how it came to be. Expertly address questions by referring to the Science Behind the Rhymes section, which provides easy-to-understand answers to frequently asked questions. Introduce your listener to the future they can obtain and provide them with a role model they can relate to.