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Its the twentieth anniversary of the famous pale blue dot photo Earth as seen from Voyager 1 while on the edge of our solar system (approximately 3,762,136,324 miles from home). Sagans words are always worth remembering: Look again at that dot. Thats here. Thats home. Thats us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, eve ry superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home weve ever known.

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Hawkling prefers another possibility: that there are other forms of intelligent life out there, but that we have been overlooked. If we should pick up signals from alien civilizations, Hawking warns,"we should have be wary of answering back, until we have evolved" a bit further. Meeting a more advanced civilization, at our present stage,' Hawking says "might be a bit like the original inhabitants of America meeting Columbus. I don't think they were better off for it." Hawkling prefers another possibility: that there are other forms of intelligent life out there, but that we have been overlooked. If we should pick up signals from alien civilizations, Hawking warns,"we should have be wary of answering back, until we have evolved" a bit further. Meeting a more advanced civilization, at our present stage,' Hawking says "might be a bit like the original inhabitants of America meeting Columbus. I don't think they were better off for it."v

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/A0oVux/:76tKbY9:HXbdct$B/www.waggerz.com/pics/CelestialBodies.jpg/ Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are!

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But do you see that little pink blob just below the belt? Thats no star at all, thats the Orion Nebula, one of the only nebulae in the whole sky visible to the naked eye. Even through a small telescope, its a beauty to behold http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1BDQFn/:lG$rbYQY:KFdsa6hE/www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyso n/read/1998/03/01/the-greatest-story-ever-told/

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the sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system; the Earth revolves around the Sun

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson argues Earth is not as an ideal environment for the existence of life as most people commonly think. "99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct," says Tyson. "That is not the signature of a planet that is in love with life."

Sunt numite puncte Lagrange cele cinci poziii ntr-o configuraie orbital unde un obiect mic, afectat doar de gravitaie, teoretic poate fi staionar relativ la dou obiecte mai mari (de exemplu, un satelit artificial relativ la Pmnt i Lun). Punctele Lagrange marcheaz poziia pe orbit n care fora de atracie combinata a dou corpuri de mas mare produc fora centripet necesar unui al treilea corp pentru a se roti mpreun cu ele. Aceste puncte sunt asemntoare orbitelor geostaionare n sensul c permit unui obiect s fie ntr-o poziie "fix" n spaiu, fa de o orbit n care poziia lui relativ se schimb continuu.

n sistemul Soare - Jupiter cteva mii de asteroizi, cunoscui sub numele colectiv de asteroizi troieni, sunt n orbit in jurul punctelor L4 si L5 Soare - Jupiter. Observaii recente sugereaz c punctele L4 si L5 Soare - Neptun, ale cror obiecte sunt denumite troieni ai lui Neptun, ar putea fi foarte populate, coninnd corpuri de dimensiuni mari, cu un ordin de magnitudine mai numeroi dect troienii lui Jupiter. Alte obiecte de acest tip pot fi gsite n sistemul Soare - Marte i n sistemul Saturn - satelii saturnieni. Nu se cunosc corpuri de dimensiuni mari n punctele troiene ale sistemului Pmnt - Soare, ns au fost descoperii nori de praf interplanetar n jurul punctelor L4 si

L5. Nori de praf, denumiti nori Kordylewskz, mai rarefiai decat chiar gegenschein, ar putea exista in L4 i L4 al sistemului Pmnt - Lun. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/17pZpv/:1kDm1cx7V:HVmNMbNA/www.scientificamerican.com/ article.cfm?id=8-wonders/

Arecibo Observatory, which is in Puerto Rico, is the location of the world's largest single-dish radio telescope. Because radio telescopes can work at all times of day and in all kinds of weather, the observatory operates 24 hours a day. It celebrated its 50th anniversary of work in 2013.

While the observatory does a lot of astronomy work, it is perhaps most famous for being the site of the huge Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) message directed at the globular cluster M13 in 1974.

the number of alien worlds in other solar systems that could be in the Goldilocks zone, or area that is not too hot or cold for life, of their respective stars. ####As strange as all the worlds on this list have been, they share the same characteristic we expect from our planets: They orbit a star. Well, some planets aren't interested in conforming to The Man's expectations. For instance, PSR B1257+12 b is the first of a handful of planets ever discovered orbiting a pulsar.

For anyone unfamiliar, a pulsar is somewhere between a star and a black hole. A star naturally collapses in on itself throughout its life until the buildup of pressure at its core is so great that it explodes into a nova or supernova. What's left at the end of the explosion is the dense core that's only about 10 miles in diameter called a neutron star. If that neutron star continues to spit out radiation and light, then we call it a pulsar. In short, PSR B1257+12 b orbits a giant, radioactive disco ball. Saturn's moon Titan is the only moon we know of with its own atmosphere. In fact, the atmosphere is so thick that we had no idea what the surface was made of until we sent a probe in 2005 (yes, we were banking on cheese here as well). From Titan, you wouldn't even be able to see Saturn's rings, because every day is the equivalent of the most miserable day in Seattle or England. Except instead of raining water, it rains fuel.

The dreary overcast skies are a result of cryovolcanoes, which spew out water and ammonia in lieu of magma. And the clouds are made up of liquid methane, the primary component of natural gas. In fact, there is so much gas-rain that it's formed entire rivers and oceans. The polar lakes alone house hundreds of times more oil and natural gas than every known oil and gas reserve on Earth. The whole moon is an oil tycoon's wet dream. Oh, and speaking of dreams, did we mention you can fly on Titan?

The atmosphere is dense enough and the gravity is weak enough that if you could construct yourself a set of wings, you could absolutely flap around through the sky, taking in the sights of that dismal, toxic wasteland.

our solar system has an asteroid belt, one you probably don't recall seeing in the night sky, because it's so far from Earth and the asteroids are so far apart that it's practically invisible to the naked eye. Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_19662_6-real-planets-that-putscience-fiction-to-shame.html#ixzz2Sdbbj55t

Embedded in the heart of each of the universe's one trillion galaxies is a supermassive black hole that is roughly one million to one billion times the mass of the sun. About 10 percent of these giant black holes feature jets of plasma, or highly ionized gas, that extend in opposite directions of the black hole. By spewing huge amounts of mostly kinetic energy from the black holes into the universe, the jets affect how stars and other bodies form, and play a crucial role in the evolution of clusters of galaxies, the largest structures in the universe. This black hole in the center of the cluster is affecting everything else in that cluster, said Dan Evans, a postdoctoral researcher at MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. Because a jet gently heats the gas it carries throughout a galaxy cluster, it can slow and even prevent stars, which are created by the condensation and collapse of cool molecular gas, from forming, thereby affecting the growth of galaxies, Evans explained. Without these jets, clusters of galaxies would look very different. How these jets form remains one of the most important unsolved mysteries in extragalactic astrophysics.

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize that *this* was the day of the changeover. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes

The Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale is a logarithmic scale used by astronomers to rate the potential hazard of impact of a near-earth object (NEO). It combines two types of dataprobability of impact, and estimated kinetic yieldinto a single "hazard" value. A rating of 0 means the hazard is as likely as the background hazard (defined as the average risk posed by objects of the same size or larger over the years until the date of the potential impact).[1] A rating of +2 would indicate the hazard is 100 times more likely than a random background event. Scale values less than 2 reflect events for which there are no likely consequences, while Palermo Scale values between 2 and 0 indicate situations that merit careful monitoring. A similar but less complex scale is the Torino Scale, which is used for simpler descriptions in the non-scientific media.

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http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/7RhXhi/:la9WWmHH:OGilwUHB/www.alexmeske.com/Essays/sp eedofgravity.htm/ http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/4kSlBz/:KHtGXPS@:GEaBTxuY/www.bellatrixorionis.com/home/ While the outer layers of the star explode outwards, the core of the star collapses, cramming twice the mass of the Sun into a ball only a few kilometers across. This newly born neutron star called that because the pressure is so great in the collapsed object that electrons and protons are rammed together to form neutrons is basically the definition of the word incredible: it spins several times per second, has a surface gravity millions of times that of the Earth (if you were on the surface youd be crushed flatter than a good science fiction programs chances to be renewed on Fox), and has a magnetic field 30 trillion times that of the Earths. So how does that teeny tiny neutron star form this huge structure?

Its the magnetic field coupled with the rotation of the star. As it spins, the star sweeps up gas surrounding in its magnetic field. Through complicated processes that, to be honest, are not 100% understood, the star fires this swept-up material out in twin beams from its poles, a bit like a lighthouse, though a million gazilion times stronger. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/18iJU0/:la9fKhek:GCfumeO2/www.prisondial.com/

The pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star which is spewing energy out into the space around it to create complex and intriguing structures, including one that resembles a large cosmic hand Neutron stars are created when massive stars run out of fuel and collapse. B1509 is spinning completely around almost 7 times every second and is releasing energy into its environment at a prodigious rate - presumably because it has an intense magnetic field at its surface, estimated to be 15 trillion times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field

Hoag's Object is a non-typical galaxy of the type known as a ring galaxy. The appearance of this object has interested amateur astronomers as much as its uncommon structure has fascinated professionals. The galaxy is named after Arthur Allen Hoag who discovered it in 1950 and identified it as either a planetary nebula or a peculiar galaxy[3] with eight billion stars

Like Pluto, 2003 UB313 is one of the icy bodies in the so-called Kuiper belt that exists beyond Neptune. It is the most distant object ever seen in the Solar System. "Since UB313 is decidedly larger than Pluto," Frank Bertoldi remarks, "it is now increasingly hard to justify calling Pluto a planet if UB313 is not also given this status."

Astronomers have found small planetary objects beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto since 1992, confirming a then 40-year old prediction by astronomers Kenneth Edgeworth (1880-1972) and Gerard P. Kuiper (1905-1973) that a belt of smaller planetary objects beyond Neptune exists. The socalled Kuiper Belt contains objects left from the formation of our planetary system some 4.5 billion years ago. In their distant orbits they were able to survive the gravitational clean-up of similar objects by the large planets in the inner solar system. Some Kuiper Belt objects are still occasionally deflected to then enter the inner solar system and may appear as short period comets.

A hydrogen atom has a single proton and a single electron. If one adds a neutron to the nucleus, the atom is still hydrogen, but the atom will have a different atomic weight. This is called an isotope of hydrogen. Other elements have isotopes, too, but hydrogen's isotope is so important that it has been given it's own name: deuterium. Deuterium is also known as "heavy hydrogen" because of the extra neutron in the atomic nucleus. A hydrogen atom has a single proton and a single electron. If one adds a neutron to the nucleus, the atom is still hydrogen, but the atom will have a different atomic weight. This is called an isotope of hydrogen. Other elements have isotopes, too, but hydrogen's isotope is so important that it has been given it's own name: deuterium. Deuterium is also known as "heavy hydrogen" because of the extra neutron in the atomic nucleus. With the completion of the human genome project, we now know that at the DNA level, we are 96 98% identical to our closest cousin, the chimpanzee

the Darwinian time scale, of hundreds of thousands of years. This is beginning to cause problems. In the 18th century, there was said to be a man who had read every book written.

But nowadays, if you read one book a day, it would take you about 15,000 years to read through the books in a national Library. By which time, many more books would have been written."

But we are now entering a new phase, of what Hawking calls "self designed evolution," in which we will be able to change and improve our DNA. "At first," he continues "these changes will be confined to the repair of genetic defects, like cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy. These are controlled by single genes, and so are fairly easy to identify, and correct. Other qualities, such as intelligence, are probably controlled by a large number of genes. It will be much more difficult to find them, and work out the relations between them. Nevertheless, I am sure that during the next century, people will discover how to modify both intelligence, and instincts like aggression."

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