Prof HAWTIN'S POPULAR SCIENCE THREAD

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17953792

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You'll get the hang of it one day Mark

Is this Mark's thread...never noticed?

He threw in the towel day one cos we are so dense.

Despite an awful lot of telly you still cannot 'enhance' a poor image. Indeed it's never been possible.

How can you add missing data to something from nowhere?

Great gaping space arseholes!!

hahahaha

Ye Olde Rog wrote:Great gaping space arseholes!!

It is a good video though. Love space shit.

Ye Olde Rog wrote:Great gaping space arseholes!!

Thing is, I know Roger would come up with an exclamation like that in real life.
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he would

The highest resolution picture (121megapixel) of the earth taken by a sattelite.

I still can't see the Great Wall of China.

Have you ever had a go at building one of these?

I tried but the americans put sanctions on my kitchen.

Tim's rogue state, Hygenaland.

Tomorrow I'm going to kick their inspectors out and develop enriched plutonium.

It's not for military applications. It's for my tea.

You'd be able to cook a chicken in 5 seconds and find it in the dark.

Blink and you might miss it - this incredible image of Centauras A, the closest ‘radio galaxy’ to Earth, shows one system that lies within it ingesting another.



Experts now think Centaurus A was formed by a merger between two separate galaxies – and this new image goes a long way to backing that theory, it is claimed. The dusty band at the centre of the newly-released image is thought to be the mangled remains of a spiral galaxy being ripped apart by a giant elliptical galaxy.

And the phenomenon is set to be a feature of our skies for a while yet as it will take another couple of hundred million years for the stricken system to fully disappear.

Centaurus A, which lies around 12 million light-years away from Earth, has a central black hole with a mass of about 100 million times that of the Sun. Astronomers believe that this vast black hole produces the system’s abnormally strong radio frequencies, as well as its bright nucleus and jet features.



The European Southern Observatory’s telescope in Chile captured the galaxy with an exposure time of more than 50 hours. The images reveal stunning details of the distant system which has been extensively studied.

“It is of interest because it is the closest radio galaxy to us, which makes it the easiest to study,” European Southern Observatory spokesman Richard Hook told Yahoo! News. “It has got this strange band of dust around the centre which is one galaxy getting sucked into another.

“This image has a very long exposure which means it shows very faint structure,” he added. “It is one of the best pictures which have been taken of the system”.

Centaurus A is so called because it was the first major source of radio waves discovered in the constellation of Centaurus back in the 1950s. It was first documented by British astronomer James Dunlop at the Parramatta observatory in Australia on 4 August 1826.

Build the Enterprise.

Beam me up scotty

Well wicked.

Post A. Great Science!

Post B. Not really science.

I now own a telescope. Still not used it to gaze at the heavens.

Moon landings

Broadhead wrote:

Son of Nod wrote:I now own a telescope. Only used it to gaze at havens.

tsk! the hot weather has made him all fruity

Sherrers wrote:

Broadhead wrote:

Son of Nod wrote:I now own a telescope. Only used it to gaze at havens.

tsk! the hot weather has made him all fruity

This word is tickling me at the moment. Scott is well fruity.

The next transit of Venus occurs June 5 or 6, 2012.
Venus



Sun



Where you need to be to see it happen.



Won't happen again in our lifetime...

remember kids, staring at the sun looking for little dots can mean seeing little dots for ever. be careful out there.

Sherrers wrote:remember kids, staring at the sun looking for little dots can mean seeing little dots for ever. be careful out there.

Yes Kids, staring at the sun is very silly and dangerous. Follow our easy to learn safety tips, and save your eyes.





Protect your eyes...

I'll be off to see this exhibition the next time I'm in that there London

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/turing.aspx?gclid=CMqMq9yezbACFQoDQAodHCmjMg

Sherrers wrote:Bottom line.

If you don't want one of these immediately you are dead from the neck up...

Only taken 2 years to go from the above to :



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