Large Hardon Collider

[Max™]

The picture jumped out at me, figured you'd dig it fo sho'.

[Mizango]

You know it!

[Waraji]

So I just got hold of a pretty crappy telescope, was a gift of sorts. Its a used, Bushnel 565, it pretty much can't see crap. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong, or the lense is complete crap. It's a quite old model as in the tripod is mostly wood, and the fixings are what I believe to be light cast iron? Any tips welcomed.

[Woozie]

Edit: Nevermind, I'm an idiot lol

[Tyche]

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Planck/SEMF2FRZ5BG_0.html

The Planck telescope delivers...

Planck unveils the Universe – now and then

http://www.esa.int/images/PLANCK_FSM_03_Black_L.jpg

The microwave sky as seen by Planck

5 July 2010
ESA PR-15 2010 ESA’s Planck mission has delivered its first all-sky image. It not only provides new insight into the way stars and galaxies form but also tells us how the Universe itself came to life after the Big Bang.

“This is the moment that Planck was conceived for,” says ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, David Southwood. “We’re not giving the answer. We are opening the door to an Eldorado where scientists can seek the nuggets that will lead to deeper understanding of how our Universe came to be and how it works now. The image itself and its remarkable quality is a tribute to the engineers who built and have operated Planck. Now the scientific harvest must begin.” From the closest portions of the Milky Way to the furthest reaches of space and time, the new all-sky Planck image is an extraordinary treasure chest of new data for astronomers.




Planck scans the full sky

The main disc of our Galaxy runs across the centre of the image. Immediately striking are the streamers of cold dust reaching above and below the Milky Way. This galactic web is where new stars are being formed, and Planck has found many locations where individual stars are edging toward birth or just beginning their cycle of development. Less spectacular but perhaps more intriguing is the mottled backdrop at the top and bottom. This is the ‘cosmic microwave background radiation’ (CMBR). It is the oldest light in the Universe, the remains of the fireball out of which our Universe sprang into existence 13.7 billion years ago.


While the Milky Way shows us what the local Universe looks like now, those microwaves show us what the Universe looked like close to its time of creation, before there were stars or galaxies. Here we come to the heart of Planck’s mission to decode what happened in that primordial Universe from the pattern of the mottled backdrop.
The microwave pattern is the cosmic blueprint from which today’s clusters and superclusters of galaxies were built. The different colours represent minute differences in the temperature and density of matter across the sky. Somehow these small irregularities evolved into denser regions that became the galaxies of today.


The CMBR covers the entire sky but most of it is hidden in this image by the Milky Way’s emission, which must be digitally removed from the final data in order to see the microwave background in its entirety.
When this work is completed, Planck will show us the most precise picture of the microwave background ever obtained. The big question will be whether the data will reveal the cosmic signature of the primordial period called inflation. This era is postulated to have taken place just after the Big Bang and resulted in the Universe expanding enormously in size over an extremely short period.


http://www.esa.int/images/PLANCK_FSM...eases_02_S.jpg
http://www.esa.int/global_imgs/spacer.gifThe microwave sky as seen by Planck with previous releases

Planck continues to map the Universe. By the end of its mission in 2012, it will have completed four all-sky scans. The first full data release of the CMBR is planned for 2012. Before then, the catalogue containing individual objects in our Galaxy and whole distant galaxies will be released in January 2011.
“This image is just a glimpse of what Planck will ultimately see,” says Jan Tauber, ESA’s Planck Project Scientist.


For further information, please contact:
ESA Media Relations Office
Communication Department
Tel: + 33 1 5369 7299
Fax: + 33 1 5369 7690
Contacts:

Jan Tauber, ESA Planck Project Scientist
Science and Robotic Exploration Directorate, ESA, The Netherlands
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +31 71 565 5342

[Max™]

Spoiler: show

http://www.esa.int/images/PLANCK_FSM_03_Black.jpg

http://www.esa.int/images/PLANCK_FSM...eases_02_L.jpg
As the negro's say: byoor-tuh-fuhl!

[Woozie]

I'm pretty sure I never said that.

Edit: Also, I said this thread should be at 150 before I get back. So you guys have three weeks to get 50 more pages.

Go!

[Max™]

EJ always used to say it like that, beautiful with an R, lol, byoortiful, boortiful, different variations, maybe it's just a Memphis thang?

[Kryssan]

I'm pretty sure I never said that.

Edit: Also, I said this thread should be at 150 before I get back. So you guys have three weeks to get 50 more pages.

Go!

We're only on page 60 dude. And no to post count encouragement - science comes as it may not as thy will it to.

[Woozie]

maybe it's just a Memphis thang?

Possibly. I've never heard anyone around here say it that way.

[Kaylia]

When you want background information, why are you taking a picture of the galaxy core? Should you just aim for an empty space...would save you the trouble of removing the galaxy?

[Max™]

We're in embedded in a galaxy, so that makes up a lot of an all sky shot, anyway this first survey is in light which won't penetrate the dust as much, but it has new information to gain due to the quality of the tech.

Later surveys will be able to choose unobscured regions of the sky, and/or use different wavelengths as well.

[Kaylia]

There is still waaaay more crap when you look toward the heart of our galaxy than the outside. The arm are dense, but nowhere near as dense as the middle.

[Max™]

>.>

Did you miss the part where it said "all sky survey", or the video displaying this process?

Are you guys sure I'm as dumb as you think I am?

[Kaylia]

I thought it was a 360degree rotation around the galaxy axis that gave the picture, instead of a perpendicular one. But anyway, I suppose full sky does mean full sky. You would get a rectangular picture if the edge were cut like I previously though.

[Max™]

Fair enough, but I had to make the dumb joke due to past cuntishness, you understand.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/...est-atoms.html

Janka's team used the latest data on the energies and interactions of protons, neutrons and neutrinos to produce a computer model of a smallish supernova. The ability to make the large elements depends on the number of neutrons that can enter nuclei, which in turn depends on the number of neutrons that are not attached to protons. Janka's model revealed that the wind contains more protons than neutrons, which means there are not enough unattached neutrons to create elements much larger than tin, which has 50 protons (Physical Review Letters, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.251101).
"It is a final dead end," says Janka. "It is the gravestone for r-process in this environment." Instead, Janka suggests that the neutron-rich explosions that occur when collapsed stars merge create the heaviest elements, including gold, lead and uranium.

Interesting story I noticed the other day, incidentally related to stuff like smashing particles together.

[Maguspk]

Couldn't find a general 'Astronomy' thread so I'm going to just drop this here because I laughed very hard at it :D

[Kaylia]

I had to google "Saturn's hexagon" to get it, never heard about this before. Awesome stuff.

I don't want to be the guy that solve fluid dynamics equation that explain this hexagon. Seriously, I don't even know how such shape could appears on the macroscopic level. Spheric symmetry or bust.


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now with the right planet.

[Eliseos]

Couldn't find a general 'Astronomy' thread so I'm going to just drop this here because I laughed very hard at it :D

Haha, I saw that at work today, fucking awesome stuff.

[Kuya]

I had to google jupiter hexagon to get it, never heard about this before. Awesome stuff.

I don't want to be the guy that solve fluid dynamics equation that explain this hexagon. Seriously, I don't even know how such shape could appears on the macroscopic level. Spheric symmetry or bust.

I kept googling hexagon on jupiter again and again and i hate you for it.