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Has astronomy gone too far?
Worry continues as residents scurry to house and home during turbulent evenings!
Dear readers, alarm is an understandable reaction to the past two weeks of skulduggery that seems to have become rampart in our pleasant boro...
Has astronomy gone too far?
Worry continues as residents scurry to house and home during turbulent evenings!
Dear readers, alarm is an understandable reaction to the past two weeks of skulduggery that seems to have become rampart in our pleasant boro...
The Cognitive Revolution – Diversity of Consciousness in Film.
"Perhaps, the creation of consciousness is part of that great vision of human destiny, which would explain why we're more likely to attribute it to our own creations, than to those that are already around us."
"Perhaps, the creation of consciousness is part of that great vision of human destiny, which would explain why we're more likely to attribute it to our own creations, than to those that are already around us."
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It seems FIFA is once again coming to the Nintendo Switch which will please football fans. The next entry in the franchise is predictably FIFA 19 and while EA says that the game won’t feature the impressive Frostbite engine, it will have better visuals…
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"Scientists have discovered dunes on Pluto, and say they are likely to have been formed of methane ice grains released into its rarefied atmosphere.
Writing in Science, an international team of geographers, physicists and planetary scientists have analysed detailed images of the dwarf planet's surface, captured in July 2015 by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
Those images showed that on the boundary of the Sputnik Planitia ice plain, and pushed up against a major mountain range, there is a series of dunes spread across an area less than 75km across.
Following spatial analysis of the dunes and nearby wind streaks on the planet's surface, as well as spectral and numerical modelling, scientists believe that sublimation (which converts solid nitrogen directly into a gas) results in sand-sized grains of methane being released into the environment.
These are then transported by Pluto's moderate winds (which can reach between 30 and 40 kmh), with the border of the ice plain and mountain range providing the perfect location for such regular surface formations to appear.
The scientists also believe the undisturbed morphology of the dunes and their relationship with the underlying glacial ice suggests the features are likely to have been formed within the last 500,000 years, and possibly much more recently".
Writing in Science, an international team of geographers, physicists and planetary scientists have analysed detailed images of the dwarf planet's surface, captured in July 2015 by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
Those images showed that on the boundary of the Sputnik Planitia ice plain, and pushed up against a major mountain range, there is a series of dunes spread across an area less than 75km across.
Following spatial analysis of the dunes and nearby wind streaks on the planet's surface, as well as spectral and numerical modelling, scientists believe that sublimation (which converts solid nitrogen directly into a gas) results in sand-sized grains of methane being released into the environment.
These are then transported by Pluto's moderate winds (which can reach between 30 and 40 kmh), with the border of the ice plain and mountain range providing the perfect location for such regular surface formations to appear.
The scientists also believe the undisturbed morphology of the dunes and their relationship with the underlying glacial ice suggests the features are likely to have been formed within the last 500,000 years, and possibly much more recently".
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Clayton Kershaw activated, to start Thursday vs. Phillies: The three-time Cy Young Award winner hasn't pitched since May 1 because of bicep tendinitis. http://dlvr.it/QVmh5d
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Patriots, Bill Belichick respond to 'fun' comments: 'What's important to us is to win': After former Patriot Cassius Marsh said there was nothing fun about playing for New England, Bill Belichick and the players responded. http://dlvr.it/QVmXB7
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Social Ties May Preserve Memory and Slow Brain Aging
Mice housed in groups had better memories and healthier brains than animals that lived in pairs.
The research is in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. (full open access)
Mice housed in groups had better memories and healthier brains than animals that lived in pairs.
The research is in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. (full open access)
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In case you think the Russians are the only ones waging election-tilting disinformation campaigns, check this out:
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/vbq38d/google-is-listing-nazism-as-the-first-ideology-of-the-california-republican-party
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/vbq38d/google-is-listing-nazism-as-the-first-ideology-of-the-california-republican-party
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Astronomers have found six possible "dark galaxies" – galaxies that instead of being filled with an abundance of stars, don't seem to have many, if any, at all.
According to the most recent astrophysical models, early galaxies might have undergone a dark phase. These dark galaxies, already quite big and full of gas, may have had trouble forming stars. Finding these galaxies is extremely challenging since they don't emit light but by using the light from other nearby sources researchers believe they have spotted six of them.
As reported in the Astrophysical Journal, European researchers have identified these six candidate objects that existed when the universe was not even 2 billion years old. The objects were fluorescently illuminated by nearby quasars, active galaxies powered by the accretion of material falling into a supermassive black hole. This process makes quasars terrifyingly bright, but conveniently so, that their light can be used to look at other objects like a flashlight.
Quasars emit a huge amount of ultraviolet light, which is then absorbed by the gas and re-emitted. In a way, it’s similar to how white clothing shines under a black (ultraviolet) light in a club. And these observations are enough for astronomers to work out a lot of properties of these galaxies.
The six dark galaxy candidates are small, compact objects estimated to have a mass between 200 million and 6 billion times that of our Sun. According to the researchers they have properties similar to other dark galaxies that have been discovered in the last few years, which is what makes them good candidates. The previously discovered ones are more recent than the new suspects though, being in place 3 billion years after the Big Bang, so a full billion later than these newly discovered objects. Discovering earlier dark galaxies can hopefully shed light on the early universe and the formation of galaxies.
The team took advantage of one of the most advanced astronomical instruments available, the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE). MUSE is part of the Very Large Telescope’s suite and is capable of observing a wide stellar field in one go, which is why it is extremely well suited to discovering potential dark galaxies neighboring quasars.
Despite the exciting new observations, dark galaxies remain a complex class of objects within the menagerie of cosmic evolution. The few billion years of the universe still lacks wide and in-depth observations due to the limitation of our current instruments. New telescopes, such as the James Webb Space Telescope, and dedicated surveys will help fill in the gaps, and maybe soon these dark galaxies won’t be as mysterious.
According to the most recent astrophysical models, early galaxies might have undergone a dark phase. These dark galaxies, already quite big and full of gas, may have had trouble forming stars. Finding these galaxies is extremely challenging since they don't emit light but by using the light from other nearby sources researchers believe they have spotted six of them.
As reported in the Astrophysical Journal, European researchers have identified these six candidate objects that existed when the universe was not even 2 billion years old. The objects were fluorescently illuminated by nearby quasars, active galaxies powered by the accretion of material falling into a supermassive black hole. This process makes quasars terrifyingly bright, but conveniently so, that their light can be used to look at other objects like a flashlight.
Quasars emit a huge amount of ultraviolet light, which is then absorbed by the gas and re-emitted. In a way, it’s similar to how white clothing shines under a black (ultraviolet) light in a club. And these observations are enough for astronomers to work out a lot of properties of these galaxies.
The six dark galaxy candidates are small, compact objects estimated to have a mass between 200 million and 6 billion times that of our Sun. According to the researchers they have properties similar to other dark galaxies that have been discovered in the last few years, which is what makes them good candidates. The previously discovered ones are more recent than the new suspects though, being in place 3 billion years after the Big Bang, so a full billion later than these newly discovered objects. Discovering earlier dark galaxies can hopefully shed light on the early universe and the formation of galaxies.
The team took advantage of one of the most advanced astronomical instruments available, the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE). MUSE is part of the Very Large Telescope’s suite and is capable of observing a wide stellar field in one go, which is why it is extremely well suited to discovering potential dark galaxies neighboring quasars.
Despite the exciting new observations, dark galaxies remain a complex class of objects within the menagerie of cosmic evolution. The few billion years of the universe still lacks wide and in-depth observations due to the limitation of our current instruments. New telescopes, such as the James Webb Space Telescope, and dedicated surveys will help fill in the gaps, and maybe soon these dark galaxies won’t be as mysterious.
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Life recovered rapidly at impact site of dino-killing asteroid | #Geology #GeologyPage
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid smashed into Earth, triggering a mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs and snuffed out 75 percent of life.
Read more : http://www.geologypage.com/2018/05/life-recovered-rapidly-at-impact-site-of-dino-killing-asteroid.html
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid smashed into Earth, triggering a mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs and snuffed out 75 percent of life.
Read more : http://www.geologypage.com/2018/05/life-recovered-rapidly-at-impact-site-of-dino-killing-asteroid.html
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