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Subject: First Glimpse Posted by: Boldwin - [38112911] Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 21:54 Newly discovered phenomenon, rediscovered, unusually beautiful, unexpected. A place for beautiful new discoveries which don't quite qualify for new science in the Noteworthy Scientific Developments but are well worth seeing. A Black Hole Ring. [the pink blobs in among the blue new star formation]  | |||||||
| 1 | Boldwin ID: 91281121 Fri, Feb 11, 2011, 22:28 |
I did not think this step was ever necessary. A little more to the left...or...Russia taking our pole. | ||||||
| 2 | Boldwin ID: 1441260 Thu, May 26, 2011, 01:05 |
First really closeup view of black hole jets [and or quasars in my view] Two comments: 1) The fundamental process at work there is that for matter to inflow towards the black hole in the center of the galaxy [or in young star systems] energy must be shed. The way it is shed is in the form of magnetic energy blowing matter out from near both poles of the central mass at near lightspeed velocities. 2) They are starting to think of galaxies as pumps that have outflows and inflows of gas and material. As if it were breathing in the intergalactic atmosphere. You can kind of get the sense of it in that shot. source | ||||||
| 3 | Boldwin ID: 1441260 Thu, May 26, 2011, 07:30 |
Every now and then you read of some gamma ray burst so huge it's described as one of the largest explosions ever recorded. Combined Chandra/Hubble picture of Eta Carinae When they detect these they then train their optical telescopes and pick up a supernova. In the pictured event the star only hiccupped and unusually survived the event temporarily. Most of the time there would be a neutron star or black hole formed. But in rare cases nothing visual is spotted at that location and the speculation is that the created black hole swallowed the supernova faster than the material could escape the event horizon even tho that material can be traveling 0.9999 per cent of the speed of light. How cool is that? Interesting to me is that the material is again blown out the poles and again there is a great deal of circling matter being drawn in at the horizontal central plane. But in this case from what I can gather whatever no doubt titanic magnetic forces that are involved are overwhelmed by the even greater forces of the explosion and the real reason the material is escaping thru the poles in this case is that that it's the physical path of least resistance thru the accretion disk of inflowing matter from the collapsing star. | ||||||
| 4 | Boldwin ID: 1353071 Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 12:41 |
Chile eruption
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| 5 | Boldwin ID: 1353071 Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 12:49 |
Both photos from New York Post
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| 7 | Boldwin ID: 327262311 Thu, Aug 23, 2012, 17:31 |
Watching a lightbeam in slowmo: | ||||||
| 8 | Boldwin ID: 348451718 Mon, Sep 17, 2012, 20:03 |
Beautifully captured view of coronal mass ejection. | ||||||
| 9 | Boldwin ID: 4911142317 Sun, Dec 23, 2012, 18:21 |
Australia at night: But not quite: The blackened Australia above is actually a composite of Suomi NPP satellite photos taken over 22 days in April and October. Explains NASA:Still impressive tho:  Don't be led into thinking that these outlands eruptions are small affairs, though. Here's what they looked like to an astronaut aboard the International Space Station one night last September. | ||||||
| 10 | R9 ID: 99272420 Sun, Dec 23, 2012, 20:06 | Cool thread B. | ||||||
| 12 | Boldwin ID: 29042213 Wed, Jan 02, 2013, 18:28 |
Tracing the boundaries of a very large star: The blue star in the centre of the image is Zeta Ophiuchi, a titanic object “six times hotter, eight times wider, 20 times more massive, and about 80,000 times as bright” than our sun. Located 370 light-years away from us, Zeta Ophiuchi is travelling across the Universe on its own, zooming through at 24km per second. That’s an incredible 87,000km/h. In the image, the star is going from the right side to the left. Look at the pink and green threads of dust to the left, ahead of it. They are twisted and curved, as if they were running away from the star. The fact is that these columns of stellar dust are running away from it — they weren’t like this a few years ago. They are curved because of the bow shock from Zeta Ophiuchi. As it travels, the massive star emits such powerful stellar winds that it blows away anything on its path. The star’s hot gas particles travel ahead of the star — half light-year ahead. That’s “almost 800 times the distance from the sun to Pluto”. According to NASA, “the speed of the winds added to the star’s supersonic motion result in the spectacular collision seen here.” - Gizmodo | ||||||
| 13 | Boldwin ID: 413559 Tue, Feb 05, 2013, 10:36 |
"Yeah, I think Iron Man turned out to be te first time I screen tested since Chaplin. As far as I was concerned, it was destiny. Now, I can't tell you how many people are sitting around with the cold, hard evidence that it wasn't. I just wasn't going to let lack of perseverence, lack of preparation, or lack of prayer get in the way. I went crazy-in a good way. And suddenly it occurred to me, Oh my God, Stan Lee might not know this, but everything he has created has all been leading to this moment. It's me. Then I thot, hold on a second dude, is this just some sort of neurotic personality meltdown happening here? And then I thot, Nah, that feels different. | ||||||
| 14 | Boldwin ID: 541331721 Sun, Feb 17, 2013, 22:35 | |||||||
| 15 | Boldwin ID: 221322014 Wed, Feb 20, 2013, 16:09 |
2,000 ft tall clumps [in the middle of this picture] spotted in the rings of Saturn change the former estimate of the width of the rings from @30 feet to the new paradigm of perhaps 2 miles deep in places.
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| 16 | Boldwin ID: 14122228 Fri, Feb 22, 2013, 10:00 |
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| 17 | Boldwin ID: 581222411 Sun, Feb 24, 2013, 18:49 | Lyre bird mimicry. You must watch the last half. | ||||||
| 18 | Boldwin ID: 22210309 Sat, Mar 30, 2013, 13:12 |
This is believed to be the first meteorite fragment ever recognized from the planet Mercury. Formed on a volcanic planet, low magnetism, etc. suggests Mercury. | ||||||
| 19 | Boldwin ID: 0354194 Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 07:01 |
Keppler This thing is not just another space telescope. I think people don't realize the difference between previous announcements of planets discovered in other star systems and the quality of the work Keppler has been doing. This mission is one of the most oddball highly specific satellite projects ever. The mission is observing a very specific part of the sky with a record breaking sensitivity and just keeps refining it's understanding of that area. As such the results just keep getting more interesting and unique. But it's not the only interesting oddball unique planet finding project out there, as the Automated Planet Finder observatory demonstrates. | ||||||
| 21 | Boldwin ID: 0354194 Fri, Apr 19, 2013, 07:18 | The thing that I find most fun about the Kepler mission is that the thing is so sensitive they had to point it outside of the plane of the solar system so that it's results weren't queered by Oort cloud and Kuiper Belt objects. Since the Oort cloud is supposed to be more spherical than the nearer Kuiper belt they still predict detecting around ten Oort cloud objects but I have not been able to verify that any actually have been detected. | ||||||
| 22 | Boldwin ID: 213382621 Fri, Apr 26, 2013, 22:50 |
The Great Attractor is not what we once thot. It is a force even larger and more pervasive, may even conceivably but not likely be a new force in physics in addition to Dark energy and dark matter. Most likely it is remnant effects from the topology of the early universe, no longer visible parts or 'were never visible parts'. Dark Flow - wiki astronomers Alexander Kashlinsky, F. Atrio-Barandela, D. Kocevski and H. Ebeling found evidence of a "surprisingly coherent" 600–1000 km/s[1][2] flow of clusters toward a 20-degree patch of sky between the constellations of Centaurus and Vela. | ||||||
| 23 | Boldwin ID: 4382910 Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 12:08 |
Why galaxies have arms. “Hubble is the only observatory that can carry out the observations necessary for a study like this,” says lead author Sanchayeeta Borthakur, of Johns Hopkins University. “We needed a space-based telescope to probe the hot gas, and the only instrument capable of measuring the extended envelopes of galaxies is COS.” [Cosmic Origins Spectrograph - B]Not mentioned in the article, but I think that in the process of limiting the size of the galaxy, these processes drive the formation of the tiny satelite galaxies that attend galaxies and which eventually get swallowed by the largest local galaxy. | ||||||
| 24 | Boldwin ID: 4382910 Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 12:33 |
 Five images of Saturn’s rings, taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft between 2009 and 2012, show clouds of material ejected from impacts of small objects into the rings.I'm kinda stunned by that last point, because everything I've ever read points to the gas giants as being these gravitational shields preventing earth from the worst of the solar system's bombardments. | ||||||
| 25 | Boldwin ID: 4382910 Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 13:12 |
Planetary system development from dust ring. Lessons from the Garden Sprinkler nebula. The star is not yet hot enuff to ionize the gas. [compare with the gas nebula from the hot terminal phase star in #3] The material in the ring collapses inward toward the star as energy is shed by blowing off material from both poles via magnetic force. The 'S' shape reveals that the axis of the star is precessing, or flips every 1000 years. The star itself is surrounded by far too much dense material to be seen directly. | ||||||
| 26 | Boldwin ID: 4382910 Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 13:12 | Source | ||||||
| 27 | Boldwin ID: 4382910 Mon, Apr 29, 2013, 15:06 |
Every internet device in the world.
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| 29 | Boldwin ID: 24433519 Mon, May 06, 2013, 04:26 |
 Danxia landform, cretaceous sandstones and conglomerate "pseudo-karst" found in six areas of SE and SW China. | ||||||
| 30 | Boldwin ID: 24433519 Mon, May 06, 2013, 04:29 | Stick that term into google image. | ||||||
| 31 | Frick ID: 432501512 Mon, May 06, 2013, 10:01 |
The World's Population, visualized. | ||||||
| 32 | Boldwin ID: 13444718 Tue, May 07, 2013, 20:57 |
Quite small Peacock spiders. | ||||||
| 33 | Boldwin ID: 4243997 Thu, May 09, 2013, 10:38 |
Hubble views | ||||||
| 34 | Boldwin ID: 6438138 Mon, May 13, 2013, 18:37 |
 Extra wierd structure on Mars - Wired Magazine | ||||||
| 35 | Boldwin ID: 514233120 Fri, May 31, 2013, 21:23 | NASAVoyager is 17 hrs 07 mins 07 secs of light-travel time from Earth. | ||||||
| 36 | Boldwin ID: 3955585 Sat, Jun 08, 2013, 07:04 |
Perfect candidate for this thread. First ever quality video of an Oarfish. It apparently normally inhabits great depths and reaches extraordinary lengths, averaging 10ft, but officially reaching at least 36ft, and allegedly 56ft or longer. One of the sources of 'sea serpent' legends of the past, as these get sick and end up dying on the shore sometimes. Oarfish 
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| 37 | Boldwin ID: 256156 Sat, Jun 15, 2013, 09:51 |
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| 38 | Boldwin ID: 256156 Sat, Jun 15, 2013, 11:04 |
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away? - Voltaire [whereas I've never had a suicidal thot in my life] | ||||||
| 39 | Boldwin ID: 465452112 Fri, Jun 21, 2013, 14:11 |
Living things have been doing quantum physics for efficient photosynthesis, smell, navigation, etc...a blooming field of biology, quantum biology. Receptor cells using quantum tunneling to examine molecules, antennae structures using quantum effects to funnel photons to the right site, birds using quantum entanglement, not just compasses for navigation...intriguing stuff, godly stuff. | ||||||
| 40 | Boldwin ID: 115522411 Mon, Jun 24, 2013, 13:52 |
Scientists have discovered the closest star system to the sun found in nearly a century. With a dim duo of "failed stars" known as brown dwarfs at its center, the new neighbor is the third-nearest to our solar system overall... Brown dwarfs are strange objects that are bigger than planets but too small to trigger the internal nuclear fusion reactions required to become full-fledged stars. This pair is slightly farther away than Barnard's star, a red dwarf discovered in 1916 that lies 6.0 light-years from the sun. The closest system to Earth is Alpha Centauri, whose two main stars, Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B, form a binary pair that are about 4.4 light-years from the sun. Last year an Earth-size planet was discovered in the Alpha Centauri system, suggesting it may host other alien worlds as well.  [Pin It] This diagram illustrates the locations of the star systems that are closest to the sun, and the years of their discovery. The binary system WISE J104915.57-531906 is the third nearest system to the sun, and the closest one found in a century. | ||||||
| 41 | Boldwin ID: 485244 Wed, Jun 04, 2014, 12:40 |
What it means to be in an accelerating universe:in our Universe today, only about 3% of them [stars/galaxies] are still reachable [at the speed of light or less].Which means that we are causally disconnected from the vast majority of the universe barring some advance in physics manipulation of reality. We can still see the incoming light but...they are dead to us. | ||||||
| 42 | Boldwin ID: 385491121 Wed, Jun 11, 2014, 23:09 |
Before, only theoretical, a star discovered hiding inside another star. A neutron star having merged with it's partner a red giant. Or as I choose to think of it, a neutron star with an atmosphere. Predicted excess amounts of the elements rubidium, lithium and molybdenum confirm identity. | ||||||
| 43 | Boldwin ID: 2711516 Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 10:47 |
Yes Virginia, there actually is a Flying Spaghetti Monster." In barely related news, there is also an "Almighty God of the Universe. Tho that fact also perhaps escapes your notice. | ||||||
| 44 | biliruben ID: 229341622 Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 10:57 |
Aren't we smug and self-righteous. You realize you are in the vast majority of the deluded, right? There is nothing special about your confusion and the damage it does to our society. http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0075.pdf | ||||||
| 45 | Boldwin ID: 2711516 Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 11:12 |
Yeah, because the amoral adrift without moral compasses don't cost us anything. While those in intact religious communities with sound minds and families, paying the bills...they're the problem, huh? It's those people pulling the cart for the freeloaders in back. It's a zero-sum game as far as you know, and you sure as hell aren't gonna blame the people in the cart or the government plantation owners. | ||||||
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