HUBBLE PHOTOS….

HUBBLE PHOTOS.

Hubble Telescope Reveals True 3D Shape of Ring Nebula (Photos)

By Tariq Malik | SPACE.com – 20 hrs ago

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The iconic Ring Nebula may seem like just a stunning circle of wispy interstellar gas, but new images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal it to be more like a deep-space jelly doughnut, scientists say.

The new Hubble telescope images have allowed astronomers to take their most detailed look at the Ring Nebula than ever before, revealing an unprecedented view of the nebula’s three-dimensional structure.

“The nebula is not like a bagel, but rather, it’s like a jelly doughnut, because it’s filled with material in the middle,” study leader C. Robert O’Dell, an astronomer with Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., said in a statement today (May 23).

 

 

In addition to seeing the new images, astronomers were able to create a video of the Ring Nebula’s structure with the Hubble telescope data.

The Ring Nebula is just over 2,000 light-years from Earth in the Lyra constellation and is 1 light-year (about 6 trillion miles, or 10 trillion kilometers) wide. The nebula formed 4,000 years ago when a dying star several times the mass of our sun ran out of its nuclear fuel.

THE MOON…

THE MOON

Mystery of Moon’s Magnetic Field Deepens

By Charles Q. Choi | SPACE.com – 3 hrs ago

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The moon generated a surprisingly intense magnetic field until at least 3.56 billion years ago, 160 million years longer than previously thought, a new study reports.

These findings could shed light not just on the magnetic field of the moon, which is now extremely weak, but on that of asteroids and other distant worlds, investigators added.

Earth’s magnetic field is created by its internal dynamo, which itself is generated by the planet’s churning molten metal core. Research increasingly suggests that the moon once had a dynamo as well, with evidence of magnetism found in lunar rocks returned by Apollo astronauts. [10 Surprising Moon Facts]

Models of the moon’s core suggest its dynamo should have lasted only until about 4.1 billion years ago. However, last year, scientists revealed that the moon possessed a magnetic field for much longer than previously thought, with a powerful dynamo in its core from 4.2 billion years ago to at least 3.72 billion years ago.

Researchers have proposed two possibilities to explain why the moon’s dynamo lasted so long. One possible explanation is that giant cosmic impacts set the moon lurching enough to drive its dynamo. Another explanation has to do with how the moon’s core spins around a slightly different axis than its surrounding mantle layer, generating wobbles — known as precession — that could dramatically stir its core.

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NO ONE FORGET TO WATCH THE ECLIPSE TODAY!

Sky-Watchers’ Guide: Solar Eclipse Thursday

Northern Hemisphere observers can watch the event via live feed.

TIME-AGAIN.

Time-Is it real? Does it run backwards? Or does it just run forward? Are events consecutive? Or are they simultaneous? Do events occur via past, present and future? Or are they just in today only? Questions that are being answered by Morgan Freeman, Through the Wormhole-Does Time Exist?

From what I’m hearing in watching this program, we perceive the passage of time at age 20 as 1:1. And at age 60 at 1:2.44-therefore at age 60 time is 2 1/2X faster for us than it was when we were 20. If we could manipulate this, could we retard aging so as to perceive the passage of time at 60, at the same rate as we did at age , say, 30? I wonder.

THE SUN ERUPTS

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Sun Unleashes Spectacular Solar Eruption (Photos)
SPACE.comBy Tariq Malik | SPACE.com – Sun, May 5, 2013..

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An intense solar storm erupted from the sun on Friday (May 3) in a dazzling space weather display captured by a NASA spacecraft.

The solar flare erupted from the edge the sun, with NASA’s powerful Solar Dynamics Observatory snapping photos of the sun storm. The flare peaked at 1:32 p.m. EDT (1732 GMT), registering as a relatively medium-strength M5.7-class event.

Friday’s solar storm was the second major space weather event in three days, but was not aimed at Earth. According to astronomer Phil Plait, who chronicled the flare on his Bad Astronomy blog, the solar storm launched super-hot solar plasma about 120,000 miles (200,000 kilometers) above the surface of the sun before it faded from view.

The sun fired off a May Day solar eruption on Wednesday (May 1) from the same region, which is currently at the very leftmost edge (or limb) of the sun as seen by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. The active region will be rotating to face Earth soon, mission scientists said.

“Increased number of flares are quite common at the moment, as the sun’s normal 11-year activity cycle is ramping up toward solar maximum, which is expected in late 2013,” NASA officials said in a statement.

WHY CLOSE THE SPACE TELESCOPE?

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World’s Largest Infrared Space Telescope Shuts Down Forever
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After nearly four years mapping the “hidden universe,” the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space has reached the end of its life, European Space Agency officials say.

The $1.4 billion Herschel Space Observatory has exhausted the vital supply of liquid helium coolant that allowed it make the most sensitive and detailed observations of the cosmos in infrared light, ESA officials announced Monday (April 29).

The infrared space telescope’s official end was recorded by a ground station in Australia, which recorded an increase in temperature for all of the spacecraft’s instruments during the telescope’s daily communications session. It began its mission in May 2009. [Amazing Photos from the Herschel Space Telescope]

“Herschel has offered us a new view of the hitherto hidden universe, pointing us to a previously unseen process of star birth and galaxy formation, and allowing us to trace water through the universe from molecular clouds to newborn stars and their planet-forming discs and belts of comets,” ESA’s Herschel project scientist Göran Pilbratt said in a statement.

EVERY DAY,ANOTHER COMET

Hubble telescope spies incoming Comet ISON
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – A recently discovered comet, dazzlingly bright even though it is still almost as far away as Jupiter, is racing toward a November rendezvous with the sun, officials said on Tuesday.

If it survives the encounter – and that’s a big if – the comet may be visible even in daylight in Earth’s skies at the end of the year.

Discovered by amateur astronomers in September 2012, Comet ISON is about to reach the outer edge of the asteroid belt, located some 280 million miles (451 million km) from Earth, said William Cooke, lead scientist at NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

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Mockmoon's Timelapse - Inspiration to photograph ever more ^_^

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IT MAY BE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. WHAT? LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS.

NASA finds 2 distant planets that seem ideal for life

                  By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science WriterPublished:  Apr 18, 2013 at 11:23 AM PDTLast Updated: Apr 18, 2013 at 12:00 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) – NASA’s planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. They are just the right size and in just the right place near their star.

The distant duo are the best candidates for habitable planets that astronomers have found so far, said William Borucki, the chief scientist for NASA’s Kepler telescope.

The discoveries, published online Thursday in the journal Science, mark a milestone in the search for planets where life could exist.

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How do we know what we're doing?

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Deja vu is a strange experience, and sometimes it feels like we really have been somewhere or there is some connection between you and that experience you are in at that moment.  But what is Deja Vu?  This is one of those things that science is having trouble figuring out, so I figured I would dive into a little thought experiment here and see what I could come up with.

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great place to start my day. Good morning to all.