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A solar prominence captured by a small telescope in Gilbert, Arizona. The monsteresque plume of gas was held aloft by the ever-present but ever-changing magnetic field near the surface of the Sun. Our active Sun continues to show an unusually high number of prominences, filaments, sunspots, and large active regions as solar maximum approaches in 2025.
Tom
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“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson -
A solar prominence captured by a small telescope in Gilbert, Arizona. The monsteresque plume of gas was held aloft by the ever-present but ever-changing magnetic field near the surface of the Sun. Our active Sun continues to show an unusually high number of prominences, filaments, sunspots, and large active regions as solar maximum approaches in 2025.
Tom
I'm sure everything is just fine. Normal as table salt. No problems goin' on at the surface of Ol' Sol. Nosiree Bob.
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Time to offer it a sacrifice.
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Nah that would just piss it off more.
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It’s not like we fully understand the physics of our sun… we think it might tick on for another 5 billion years, but then again, it could go nova tomorrow and that ruin your plans for the weekend real quick.The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson -
nooshinjohn wrote: »It’s not like we fully understand the physics of our sun… we think it might tick on for another 5 billion years, but then again, it could go nova tomorrow and that ruin your plans for the weekend real quick.
Going nova is not something that could happen tomorrow. That happens with white dwarfs that accumulate hydrogen gas at the surface (typically pulling it from a nearby red giant) until the surface layer of hydrogen reaches critical pressure and starts fusion, at which time, it blows itself out in a "nova." Not a supernova, that's a different process. Either way, these things take a long time to happen. -
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just released a new image of a pair of colliding galaxies; NGC 2207 and IC 2163.
NGC 2207 and IC 2163 are a pair of colliding galaxies situated 114 million light years away in the constellation Canis Major. NGC 2207 has a diameter of 143,000 light years, and IC 2163 has a diameter of 101,000 light years.
Due to the interaction, NGC 2207 has distorted the shape of IC 2163, flinging out stars and gas into long streamers stretching out a hundred thousand light-years toward the right-hand edge of the image.
The calculations indicate that IC 2163 is swinging past NGC 2207 in a counterclockwise direction, having made its closest approach 40 million years ago. However, IC 2163 does not have sufficient energy to escape from the gravitational pull of NGC 2207, and is destined to be pulled back and swing past the larger galaxy again merging into a single, more massive galaxy in billions of years.
Tom
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For some reason that image makes me think of the movie "Forbidden Planet"Sal Palooza
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Galaxies gobbling up other galaxies is actually quite common. Andromeda has reportedly gobbled up more than 30 other galaxies since its inception.
FYI - The Milky Way and Andromeda are also ultimately destined to collide with each other, according to astronomers. The merger is said to have already begun (star swapping). That said, there is nothing to be worried about for another 4 to 8 billion years from now.....a blink of an eye in space terms.
One thing that may thwart this merger is (in 2 billion years) the Large Magellanic Cloud. This may throw the Milky Way out into interstellar space. For a VERY technical report on this, I'll link the Royal Astronomical Society's article from 2019 about this cloud. For of a layman's term of this cloud, just run a search.
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/483/2/2185/5181341
Here is a quote from the Introduction section from that link.The Universe is a dynamical system: galaxies are continuously growing and undergoing morphological transformation. For the most part, this is a slow, unremarkable process, but from time to time evolution accelerates through spectacular galaxy mergers. The Milky Way (MW) appears to have been quiescent for many billions of years but its demise has been forecast to occur when, in several billion years time, it collides and fuses with our nearest giant neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy (van der Marel et al. 2012b). This generally accepted picture ignores the enemy within – the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
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Just what is needed - frigging street lights on the moon.
DAY & NIGHT Futuristic Moon streetlights ‘taller than the Statue of Liberty’ could help scientists adjust to long lunar nights"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
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Galaxies gobbling up other galaxies is actually quite common. Andromeda has reportedly gobbled up more than 30 other galaxies since its inception.
FYI - The Milky Way and Andromeda are also ultimately destined to collide with each other, according to astronomers. The merger is said to have already begun (star swapping). That said, there is nothing to be worried about for another 4 to 8 billion years from now.....a blink of an eye in space terms.
One thing that may thwart this merger is (in 2 billion years) the Large Magellanic Cloud. This may throw the Milky Way out into interstellar space. For a VERY technical report on this, I'll link the Royal Astronomical Society's article from 2019 about this cloud. For of a layman's term of this cloud, just run a search.
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/483/2/2185/5181341
Here is a quote from the Introduction section from that link.
Tom
Sounds like we need some anti-monopoly legislation, quick.
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BlueBirdMusic wrote: »Just what is needed - frigging street lights on the moon.
DAY & NIGHT Futuristic Moon streetlights ‘taller than the Statue of Liberty’ could help scientists adjust to long lunar nights
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“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson -
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Space related fun facts
One of the largest buildings in the world, the Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building. It is so large, it has its own climate. On humid days and without the 10,000 tons of air conditioning equipment, rain clouds would form below the ceiling. This building covers 8 acres, is 525 feet tall and 518 feet wide. 65,000 cubic yards of concrete and nearly 100,000 tons of steel. To put in perspective, the blue part of the American Flag is roughly the size of an NBA basketball court.. I’m extremely privileged that I got to see this up close in person.
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Those stat's (while I am not disputing them) seem to be at odds with what you actually see in person. The building, while large, doesn't seem (when there, in person) any larger than, say, an Amazon hub or one of the hundreds of huge warehouses down in TX. Just taller.
Still, it was inspiring to hear some of the other factoids about that building, the doors and whatnot.
Tom
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It doesn't look that big until you go inside. My daughter and I went there for her junior Christmas break. Good times!Gustard X26 Pro DAC
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Actually, I would probably have appreciated that a heck of alot more. We just scooted on by, on some sort of bus or trolley (something like that), as some lady was talking about the building.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Hoping to watch the launch and return of the new Glenn rocket
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One of the best launches I have seen by the Glenn. Entire sky was lit up easy to see this platform has much more power than the Space X one has.....Should be a interesting year on the launch pads...
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New Glenn is more than twice as powerful as a Falcon 9 rocket and has dozens of customer launch contracts collectively worth billions of dollars lined up. Elon don't like losing money...might be star wars for real especially with the Blue Origin plans to launch 100's of low orbit satellites to provide internet service for all. HHmmmm sounds familar
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coming soon -- malevolent little Internet satellites jockeyin' for position, bumpin' each other around, as they whiz overhead in low-earth orbit...
NASCAR v.2.0, brought to you by Musk & Bezos!
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Signals from Earth now take 23 hours and 9 minutes to reach Voyager 1, with the same duration required for a response.
Looking ahead, Voyager 1's next significant milestone will be reaching a distance of one light day (approximately 25.9 billion kilometers) from the Sun, projected for January 2027—coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of its launch. While it is anticipated that Voyager 1 will still be operational at that time, engineers may need to deactivate some scientific instruments as its radioisotope power sources deplete.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Supposedly, the latest close-up of Jupiter!
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That's gnarly!!
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That's gnarly!!
I'm tempted to get a big print of that for my listening room. It has such a psychedelic vibe. 🤩
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xwfJFJNk2I