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Many thanks Art (neufer) for the great photos !!! I watched the live NASA, but it was somewhat disappointing for 'action', tho they hit their target and all systems functioned well. Remember, these images are in the infrared, which shows kinetic energy's translation into the EM spectrum, best. Visib...

If you go to the NASA TV website: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ They will be having a live coverage of the Moon impactor event ! 3:18 am PDT today Friday. Less than 2 hours from now. [at least that's what I read there yesterday, tho right now I don't see anything about the Moon event on the...

I love APOD, warts and all !!! It's the number one site for great photos that show the multiplicity of the world, solar system, galaxy, and cosmos we live in. Yeah I may disagree with the photo descriptions or some of the discussion posters, but that's to be expected, and it's great that we can all ...

Thanks DavidL, I missed the mouse-over feature, and it sure shows things much better ! There are several clearly arcing, what shall we call them?, images?, especially the 9 o'clock pair, and several more that are suggesting the edge of a sphere centered in the middle of the photo. But there are more...

This APOD (I still love the photos !, guys.) is yet another example of how 'lamestream astrophysics and cosmology' is living in the La La Land of their mathematical illusions and fantasies. To wit: " . . . better images allowed astronomers to identify the arc as a prototype of a new kind of ast...

Nice, they got that part right anyway, we are seeing a cylinder shaped structure viewed from the end. However, million degree gasses is incorrect, and besides anything millions of degrees in temperature isn't a 'gas' it's a plasma ! Don't these 'scientists' even know their own science ? The x-ray em...

As abstract of my interpretation of what’s happening at these Fermi Map Gamma Ray Pulsar locations: Namely, the reasons why the Fermi gamma ray detector satellite is detecting intense gamma ray sources within our galaxy at point sources thought to be remnants of supernoved stars, and which are now g...

<<. . .The hot diffuse gas in the Local Bubble emits X-rays. The very sparse, hot gas of the Local Bubble is the result of supernovae that exploded within the past two to four million years. The most likely candidate for the remains of this supernova is "Geminga" ("Gemini gamma-ray so...

For those of us who work on Planetoid Death Star we often find it helpful to call the Help Desk to obtain certain information we can't find anywhere else. Here is their web address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q8DriPCX2o If you're lucky Bud Bundy will answer. And yes, there is no truth to the ru...

Art, I am consistently impressed with your skills at gathering varying data together from multitudinously diverse sources. Bravo again ! "The true nature of M31 began to become clear in 1923. In that year Edwin Hubble, using the just completed 100 inch Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson obser...

Thank You Case ! (Scripture ! lol ) I have wondered what 'C-Beams' and the Tannhauser Gate referred to for some time. Never thought to try and Wiki them ! And 'with' not 'through', pardon my memory I'd screened Blade Runner the day before and was quoting from memory during the magic of the moment in...

Har Har Har Matey , These planet-lubber's haven't got the space-legs to know what they're looking at, and likely never will. No matter. The 'radial spokes' in the crater are the 'wheel of heaven' that sits atop the cosmic column, the column represents the hero's journey, but is not present on the su...

Yes Birkeland Currents are real, and they are what compose the filaments in all Planetary Nebulas into filaments, via the magnetic fields that arise following their current flows. The Eskimo Nebula is seen by us looking down the longitudinal axis almost exactly, and that's why it looks totally diffe...

Thanks Aristarcus, I had no idea about the Chinese radio telescope, and google found it quick !

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/01/31 ... telescope/

" . . the gamma-ray burst recorded last week was clocked at redshift 8.2, making it the farthest explosion of any type yet detected. " Let's stick with the facts please. This gamma ray burst was received by us with a redshift of z=8.2, making it the highest redshift ever recorded. period. ...

Thanks APOD for another truly great photo of Mars and its incredible landscape !!!!! As I often complain about the description's assumptions of what we are seeing, I unconditionally love the photos !!!!! Congratulations on finding a great photo! I would venture an estimate that the dunes are 100-200...

The universe is 99.99% plasma, and as such, plasma is highly influenced by electric and magnetic fields. These are good papers to start with. http://plasmascience.net/tpu/downloadsCosmo/Peratt86TPS-I.pdf These are the same paper; http://plasmascience.net/tpu/downloads/AdvancesII.pdf [the 2MB file, f...

In terms of taking this description to task: "Eleven years ago results were first presented indicating that most of the energy in our universe is not in stars or galaxies but is tied to space itself. In the language of cosmologists, a large cosmological constant is directly implied by new dista...

<< "What's that puffy, cloud-like object that appears near the lower left corner of the Simeis 147 photo?" >> It's a black widow spider's egg sack nest, and the big closer one is a work in progress. Why oh why do mainstream astrophysicists see these objects like Simeis 147 with pulsars at ...

<< I give up, kovil; what's the difference? >> Gee, I didn't mean to stump you, Art. There is no difference between a doughnut and a coffee mug, to a topologist, they both have only one hole, and as such are identical. I've remembered that little point of humor since the 60's when topology hit the s...

Holy separatist solitons, Neuferman !

Our resident topologist can't tell the difference between a doughnut and a coffee mug.
When the wind is southerly.

<< Actually, a magnetic monopole can only push away other magnetic monopoles. >>

How repulsive ! LOL

No wonder they never managed to reproduce and fill the universe with offspring,
they all died out in one generation.

That's a nice idea !

But I'm seeing it as a magnetic monopole that failed in its attempt at a magnetic reconnection.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081125.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Oo_RZ7fi0

Here is a link that works.
And a second link that works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZQN8Yz0Jgg&NR=1

Thank you Neried for your tolerance. I will do my best to be civil, not promote books etc, or post links. Today's apod poses another electrical solution to another 'puzzle'. Why the glow at Jupiter's poles in infrared light. It is the electrical activity at Jupiter's poles in conjuction with the mag...