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  1. CAC

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    Here's one hot off the presses-
    "Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most moons, according to US researchers.
    A team discovered a haul of 20 new moons orbiting the ringed planet, bringing its total to 82; Jupiter, by contrast, has 79 natural satellites.
    The moons were discovered using the Subaru telescope on Maunakea, Hawaii.
    Each of the newly discovered objects in orbit around Saturn is about 5km (three miles) in diameter; 17 of them orbit the planet "backwards".
    This is known as a retrograde direction. The other three moons orbit in a prograde direction - the same direction as Saturn rotates.
    Two of the prograde moons take about two years to travel once around the ringed planet.
    The more-distant retrograde moons and one of the prograde moons each take more than three years to complete an orbit.
    "Studying the orbits of these moons can reveal their origins, as well as information about the conditions surrounding Saturn at the time of its formation," said Dr Scott Sheppard, from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, who led the team.
    Dr Sheppard told BBC News that Jupiter had been the planet with most known moons since the late 1990s."
    www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49962134
     
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    "5 km"? Pluto looks on with teary eyes.
     
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    The cynic in me thinks coincidence,
    "SCIENTISTS have been left stunned after finding galaxies millions of light-years away from each other rotating in the same direction and at the same speed, suggesting they are connected in some way.
    Researchers believe there is something fundamental missing from their understanding of the universe after making the discovery of synchronised galaxies. The finding suggests there may be large scale structures which are unseen and influencing galaxies over billions of miles. It is already well established that nearby galaxies can influence each other with their gravitational push and shove, but it has never been observed on such a large scale.
    Researchers from the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute noticed galaxies up to 20 million light-years from each other interacting with each other, which left the experts puzzled.
    The team wrote in the paper published in the Astrophysical Journal: “For this mysterious coherence in large scales, we cautiously suggest a scenario in which it results from a possible relationship between the long-term motion of a large-scale structure and the rotations of galaxies in it.”
    Study lead author Joon Hyeop Lee, an astronomer at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, told Vice: “This discovery is quite new and unexpected."
    www.express.co.uk/news/science/1203420/space-universe-discovery-news-galaxy-astronomy-physics-lightyears
     
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    I find it odd that we have believed for "so long" that all matter is neatly organized into galaxies. Less than a hundred years ago we didn't know about galaxies. Then we saw nebulas resolve into galaxies and this Island Universe was well and truly put in its place. Now, again, we're learning that our learning is far from being over.

    One interesting thing I've seen recently is speculation that "dark matter" may be mostly comprised of material from the Big Bang that didn't clump into galaxies. It's just cold junk that floats around like liquid smoke between the relatively few bright lights out there.
     
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    wow...
    "The Earth has inspired many a famous tune — from Michael Jackson's 'Earth Song' to Björk's 'Earth Intruders' — but now the blue planet has a song of its very own.
    Astronomers have recorded for the first time the eerie warbling 'song' sung by the Earth's magnetic field when hit by a storm of charged particles sent from the Sun.
    The 'tune' is a sonic version of the stunning aurora light show that can be seen near the poles when charged particles interact with the Earth's atmosphere.
    The 'song' was made audible by experts from the European Space Agency (ESA), who analysed the magnetic waves produced as these 'solar winds' buffet the Earth.
    They turned the results into audible frequencies, producing an unusual noise they described as being more like 'the sound effects of a science fiction movie than a natural phenomenon.'
    The psychedelic song was identified after the team sent four spacecraft through the so-called 'foreshock' region of the Earth's magnetic field, which faces the Sun and is the first part to be impacted by incoming solar storms."
    www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7701651/European-Space-Agency-captures-sound-planet-singing-solar-storms-batter-it.html
     
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    oh geeze. pretty soon- tax the space weather (ITS GOING TO KILL US IN 10 YEARS) .
    didnt we send a record out into deep space
    how do we know this isnt a remix.
    some kind if interstellar weird al yankovic dj, playing us all.
    the fugees
    killing me softly
     
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    Voyager I and II had records attached.
     
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    Had?...interesting...
     
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    They had them when they were launched. I haven't checked them recently. Some alien tweener may have stolen them by now.
     
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    Gee aren't they going to be disappointed when they put their ear phones on and press play...
     
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    "Greetings from the children of Earth". Not much of a top 20 hit, I think.
     
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    Just waiting on all the "Man from UNCLE" gags...
    "A new radio telescope on the far side of the moon has been switched on for the first time to begin its investigation into the Big Bang and how the universe began.
    The Dutch telescope, sitting on a Chinese satellite, has started observations from behind the moon after being activated by scientists.
    Known as the Netherlands-China Low Frequency Explorer (NCLE), it was sent to the moon as part of the Chinese Chang'e 4 mission.
    It is a prototype built to record weak radio signals from a period just following the Big Bang, called the Dark Ages, and could point to the origins of the universe.
    These signals are blocked by the Earth’s atmosphere, which is why the telescope was placed on a satellite and brought to a location behind the moon.
    The equipment for the telescope is on the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) satellite called QueQiao and is about 280,000miles from Earth.
    QueQiao has been helping the Chinese lunar lander navigate its way around the far side of the moon's surface since early 2019, meaning it was not immediately available to become the radio telescope it was designed to be. "
    www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7746343/Radio-telescope-far-moon-switched-time.html?
     
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    Now they can detect incoming alien armadas hiding behind the Moon.
     
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    Looking in the wrong direction...Dahak.

    Nuff said.
     
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    Weber's one of my favorite track toads.
     
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    Armadas or bases...Our moon is different from most moons in the universe...some "fortunate" characteristics...not seeing one side is just one.

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    LOL
     
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    Was looking forward to shots of Gabrielle Drake at Moonbase there....
     

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