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Beingism #4: What The Heck Are We?!?
BabaliciouS - Homo Pithecus Sanctus | July 4th 2008 by baba
Yea right … like I give a damn to what the hell you are. Yes, you … I mean most of you, people of nowadays renaissance, Mr. Modern-Cults who disregard god the way you do. And you, too, bloody intolerants who think god bears the name you c read more
Sony Gives Star Wars Galaxies The Free Treatment, For A Month
Aeropause - The goods on gaming | July 3rd 2008
Last month, we had a story about Sony giving players that had left Everquest II, the opportunity to return for about a month for free. Seems that this process may come about for all the MMORPG games that Sony Online Entertainment is handling as I j read more
Bill Gates: A Really Short Commentary on the Man’s Retirement
Desinformado | Technology and Lifestyle Blog | June 30th 2008 by whatz
What I can’t understand is how the richest software company with the best people available to them cannot improve Windows, make it as good or even better than OS X? Gates was a tough businessman. Not very creative and not even a good visionary but read more
Perspective, and a barred spiral galaxy
Common Themes | June 26th 2008
A short essay on why I post what I do here, and a beautiful picture to look at. read more
Hubble’s sweeping view of the Coma Galaxy Cluster
Science and Reason | June 16th 2008 by Charles Daney
Hubble’s sweeping view of the Coma Galaxy ClusterHubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys has observed a large portion of the Coma Cluster, stretching across several million light-years. The entire cluster is more than 20 million light-years in diame read more
The Milky Way (Milk=Gala{γάλα} in Greek)
AstroGate: Blog of Universal proportions | June 10th 2008 by nfassol
From The University of California, San DiegoCenter for Astrophysics & Space SciencesThe Milky Way system is a spiral galaxy consisting of over400 billion stars , plus gas and dust arranged into three general components as shown to the left:The Mi read more
When Half A Galaxy Disappears
Terra Hermes | June 4th 2008 by Phil Butler
Ok, so half the Milky Way did not disappear. However, new science from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that the galaxy has only two major arms versus four as previously thought. Scientists are now rethinking the structure of the entire G read more
"You Are Here" on a Galactic Scale - a Desktop Sculpture
Apathetic Lemming of the North | June 3rd 2008 by Brian Gill
"" Living World (commercial site) "A 3D model of the Milky Way,with the Solar System positionedin the exact center of the glass cube.Small lot production...." For just 80,000 Japanese Yen. I think that's around $763USD. There's a photo of this deskto read more
Star Wars Galaxies 2: Immersion
GameZig | May 28th 2008
The ultimate goal of any MMORPG is to totally immerse you in the game world. That’s what keeps you coming back, in the game world you can be whoever you want to be. You are a jedi knight constantly at odds with the Empire or a rich and p read more
America - From the Eyes of a Foreigner: Edition II (Zontar)
Waging a War on Anti-Americanism | May 24th 2008 by Karen
Call me Zontar. You can find my blog here. Zontar welcomes all to click on his link, and I promise you will be sore amazed at the intelligence and wonder therein. I was born many years ago on Xenon, a lovely planet in the Houyhnmian Galaxy, approxima read more
A Cluster Of Galaxies
The Earth And Weather Space | May 21st 2008 by Michele
The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope provides this stunning image of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, also known as Abell 426.This gigantic cluster is one of the most massive objects in the universe, and brightest in terms of X-rays. It contains thousa read more
NASA has Published an Awesome Set of Pictures of Colliding Galaxi…
Homeboy's Astronomy Blog | April 30th 2008 by Marko Pyhajarvi
Did you know that Hubble space telescope has been operating already 18 years? To celebrate this anniversary NASA has published 59 new pictures of colliding galaxies. This is the biggest single set of Hubble pictures ever published. Collisions of gala read more
Worth A Minute of Your Time-Latest Images from NASA and Hubble
Journey of A Spirited Strider | April 27th 2008 by Barbara A. Clark
I invite you to sit back and quiet your mind for one minute with these amazing images from NASA and the Hubble Project. It's truly amazing, isn't it? read more
NASA’s GALEX spacecraft and its best pictures
www.amazus.org | April 26th 2008 by pyderi
Image via Wikipedia On April 28th of 2003 the spacecraft GALEX, which means Galaxy Evolution Explorer, was sent into space with the mission of observing galaxies in ultraviolet light across 10 billion years of cosmic history through an incorporated read more
Cosmic Collisions
Flowers on the Wayside | April 25th 2008 by Goodwill
Yesterday 59 new images of colliding galaxies taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have been published to mark the 18th anniversary of the telescope’s launch. They have also published a special site with the pictures and other information. read more
Around the Blogosphere
Exploring Our Matrix | April 24th 2008 by James McGrath
First, don't forget: LOST returns tonight at a new time, 10 pm! A recent article on geomagnetism in New Scientist is interesting in view of the place geomagnetism has on the show. New Scientist also shares pictures from the Hubble telescope of mergi read more
Pinwheel
The Earth And Weather Space | April 24th 2008 by Michele
Strings of baby stars take shape in a distant galactic womb, as shown in this new NASA image of the Southern Pinwheel galaxy.Embryonic stars were found to be growing in the galaxy's spindly arms (shown in red), rather than in its bright heart—a dis read more
NASA’s new image of the stars that shouldn’t exist
Exploring Our World | April 20th 2008 by Richard
Beautiful, isn’t it? But I think it also looks a bit weird compared to most galaxies. Lots of scientists think it’s strange too, although not just because of what it looks like. Until now it was thought that the majority of stars always f read more
Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar Sphere
Science and Reason | April 20th 2008 by Charles Daney
Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar SphereMillions of clustered stars glisten like an iridescent opal in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.Called Omega Centauri, this sparkling orb of stars is like a miniature galaxy. It is the biggest and bri read more
Andromeda Galaxy
AstroGate: Blog of Universal proportions | April 17th 2008 by nfassol
The Andromeda Galaxy (also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224; older texts often called it the Andromeda Nebula) is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The Andromeda read more
Exploding star in NGC 2397
Science and Reason | April 13th 2008 by Charles Daney
Exploding star in NGC 2397The latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a sharp view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2397. This image also shows a rare Hubble view of the late stages of a supernova - SN 2006bc, discovered in March 2006.N read more
The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken
Feeds from Space | March 31st 2008 by Rich Hand
In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millenium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Anyone who understands what this image represents, is forever changed by it.Additional link:http://www.deepastronomy.com/hubble-deep-fie read more
from earth to sky
Cliodhna's Wave | March 6th 2008 by cliodhna quinlan
so its thursday morning (i am fairly 100% positive) and I am going to mexico city tomorrow morning with Paul for the week-end. He has never been there before, despite having lived here for two and a half years. Mexico city is a full-on place. It has read more
Satellite Catches a Galaxy Ablaze With Starbirth
Science and Reason | March 3rd 2008 by Charles Daney
NASA's Swift Satellite Catches a Galaxy Ablaze With StarbirthThe Triangulum Galaxy is also called M33 for being the 33rd object in Charles Messier’s sky catalog. It is located about 2.9 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Triang read more
Microsoft WorldWide Telescope in Hubble @ your Desktop
Thinktechno.com | February 28th 2008
How about Hubble Telescope at the convince of your laptop. Microsoft recently unveiled the fully operational Microsoft WorldWide Telescope, they demonstrated there long-awaited software to an audience at the exclusive Technology Entertainment and Des read more
Triangulum Galaxy
The Earth And Weather Space | February 27th 2008 by Michele
This nearby "Triangulum Galaxy" is the most detailed ultraviolet image of an entire galaxy ever taken.NASA's Swift satellite took 39 individual frames during 11 hours of exposure time that were then combined into this mosaic.Isn't this amazing!It is read more
Relativistic Effects on Galactic Civilizations
Archetyper | February 11th 2008 by Metapsyche
This post is a speculation on relativistic effects in relation to Life and Civilizations in outer space. A simple analysis is made regarding the effect of gravitational fields on habitable regions and their implications on the pace of the development read more
Just Out of My Coscious Vision
Greg Lunger.com | February 11th 2008 by Greg Lunger
If you are like me, there are times when I feel very Abundant in several areas, but…in one area I am feeling like nothing is going on, I am not experiencing what I’m wanting to yet. Perhaps like you, for years I have heard or read about h read more
Just How Big Is Our Galaxy?
The Earth And Weather Space | February 3rd 2008 by Michele
The Milky WaySo, exactly how big is our galaxy? On a scale of 1 to 10, our galaxy is about a 6 or 7. The 1's would be dwarf galaxies, some of which actually orbit the Milky Way. The 10's are giant spirals and elliptical galaxies that form the cores o read more
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