Starship Asterisk*

Here is the link to a slower paced version of the video I made a few months ago, using Dr.Nemiroff's simuation.

Just a couple of .gifs from around the internet. http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/c3zmhn.gif http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzAyLzE1LzlkL01ldGVvckdJRi5kZjhiNS5naWY/dea78bbc/6f6/Meteor-GIF.gif I think it is mandatory in russia to have a dashboard camera on your car, which explains all these vide...

Observations with the High Energy Stereoscopic System Presenter: Dr. German Hermann Max Planck Institute of nuclear Physics. H.E.S.S. is a system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes that investigates cosmic gamma rays in the energy range from 10s of GeV to 10s of TeV. The name H.E.S.S. stan...

New Results from the XENON100 Experiment Presenter: Dr. Elena Aprile NASA GSFC, Nobel laureate in physics 2006, project scientist for the JWST In astrophysics, weakly interacting massive particles or WIMPs, are hypothetical particles serving as one possible solution to the dark matter problem. Thes...

Cosmology With Euclid [/url] Presenter: Dr. Henk Hoekstra Associate professor at Leiden Observatory In this presentation, Dr.Hoekstra explains the objectives of the proposed space mission EUCLID. EUCLID is a planned space telescope, an M-class mission of the ESA Cosmic Vision 2020-2025, planned to ...

A Few Bits about Quantum Theory, Part 2 [/url] Presenter: Dr. Paul Doherty Senior Scientist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco and director of The Splo Museum (in SL) This second lecture on quantum theory covers the 20th century. Dr. Doherty looks at the Bohr atom, continues to wave functions, l...

A Few Bits about Quantum Theory, Part 1 [/url] Presenter: Dr. Paul Doherty Senior Scientist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco and director of The Splo Museum (in SL) In this first lecture of two, Dr. Doherty traces the history of light as wave and particle. He discusses Planck’s solution to the...

Jim Leff wrote:Audio seems to be broken....I'm getting endless buffering.

Jeff I have tried to fix it, could you please check and confirm if you are still facing the same problem? Thanks!

Star Trails from ISS
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From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize and the End of the Universe Presenter: Dr. John Mather NASA GSFC, Nobel laureate in physics 2006, project scientist for the JWST The history of the universe in a nutshell, from the Big Bang to now, and on to the future – Dr. Mather tells the story of how we got ...

ASOW has now moved!

The link to the presentation 'Latest update in the search for the Higgs boson' is available here:- http://asterisk.apod.com/wp/asow/2012/07/08/147/

owlice wrote:

SsDd wrote: Pssssst, Abhi! http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 82#p178782

Thanks Owlice! I had missed that, unfortunately.

A particularly strong jet stream churns through Saturn's northern hemisphere in this false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28964

The full moon in this image is the first after the solstice on June 20 this year. This photo was taken by photographer VegaStar Carpentier of Paris, France, on July 3, 2012.
CREDIT and COPYRIGHT: VegaStar Carpentier

Our Planet

Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center
eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/
Music: The XX - Intro

This montage shows the best views of Jupiter's four large and diverse "Galilean" satellites as seen by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby of Jupiter in late February 2007. The four moons are, from left to right: Io, Europa, Ganymede...

Fastest Pulsar Ever Found? Speedist Pulsar.jpg http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28986 Using Chandra, XMM-Newton, and the Parkes radio telescope, researchers have found evidence for what may be the fastest moving pulsar ever seen. The large field of view contains XMM-Newton data (pur...

Hello!

ASOW now has a swanky new website.http://asterisk.apod.com/wp/asow/

Does it look familiar? How do you like the new comments section? Please let us know!

Beyond wrote:I can only help a little. Fantabulous only has (1)-o.

Thank you Beyond,

and yes, I will get in touch with RJN.

Hello fellow Starship-ers(?) http://365daysofastronomy.org/ "is a project that will publish one podcast per day, for all 365 days of 2009 and 2010 -- and now 2011. The podcast episodes are written, recorded and produced by people around the world." and I have signed up to supply the podcas...

Just me contributing my spare CPU time to science. Errrr, is having signatures a practice that is much frowned upon in Asterisk* ?

My first on this thread:-

A Higgs Boson walks into a church and the priest says “We dont want your kind in here”. The Higg Boson says “but without me how will you have mass?”

heh heh heh.

I have a question. Since we knew when the neutrinos were generated, (to the mos tpossible accuracy at least), doesn't it really matter if the neutrinos were indeed faster than light, as long as no new information was communicated?

Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector
in the CNGS beam http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897

Okay, the briefing is over. is this interesting enough to be exited about? Skymania: Probe finds liquid water clues on Mars ( http://www.skymania.com/wp/2011/08/probe-finds-liquid-water-clues-on-mars.html ) A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars has discovered evidence of liquid water flowing through its s...