This morning, at around 05h15, Saturn disappeared behind the Moon. At around 06h30, it re-appeared from behind the darkened edge (near the terminator). Herewith some pics, taken with a digital camera through the eyepiece of my 8″ telescope. If you have a ‘movie’ option on your laptop, use it….!
Artist illustration of the Van Allen Probes which are helping scientists study two giant belts of radiation around Earth. Image credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center By Jenny Winder | 22 March 2014 (Sen) – Scientists, using data from the twin NASA Van Allen Probes, have discovered a new, persistent pattern in Earth’s inner radiation …
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MENTION inflation and most people will think of something that erodes the value of their bank balances. A cosmologist, however, may think instead of the beginning of all things—for, though no one knows how the universe started, they do know, or believe they know, what happened a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of …
The tiny temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background (shown here as color) trace primordial density fluctuations in the early universe that seed the later growth of galaxies. These fluctuations produce a pattern of polarization in the CMB that has no twisting to it. Gravitational waves from inflation are expected to produce much a fainter …
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