Astronomers Astonished by Violence of Universe »
Posted by: SusanParrish 7 months, 1 week agoThe deeper astronomers gaze into the cosmos, the more they find it's a bizarre and violent universe. The research findings from this week's annual meeting of U.S. astronomers range from blue orphaned baby stars to menacing "rogue" black holes that roam our galaxy, devouring any planets unlucky enough to be within their reach.
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SusanParrish7 months, 1 week ago
In the past few days, scientists have unveiled plenty to ooh and aah over:
* Photos of "blue blobs" that astronomers figure are orphaned baby stars. They're called orphans because they were "born in the middle of nowhere" instead of within gas clouds, said Catholic University of America astronomer Duilia F. de Mello.
* A strange quadruplet of four hugging stars, which may eventually help astronomers understand better how stars form.
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SusanParrish7 months, 1 week ago
* A young star surrounded by dust, that may eventually become a planet. It's nicknamed "the moth," because the interaction of star and dust are shaped like one.
* A spiral galaxy with two pairs of arms spinning in opposite directions, like a double pinwheel. It defies what astronomers believe should happen. It is akin to one of those spinning-armed flamingo lawn ornaments, said astronomer Gene Byrd of the University of Alabama.
* The equivalent of post-menopausal stars giving unlikely birth to new planets. Most planets form soon after a sun, but astronomers found two older stars, one at least 400 million years old, with new planets.
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AlphaGnosis7 months, 1 week ago
Here's something else they also found:
"John the farmer was in the fertilized-egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets', and ten roosters, whose job it was to fertilize the eggs (for you city folks). The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced.
That took an awful lot of his time, so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so John could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells.
The farmer's favorite rooster was old Al, and a very fine specimen he was, too. But on one particular morning John noticed old Al's bell hadn't rung at all! John went to investigate.
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AlphaGnosis7 months, 1 week ago
The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.
But to Farmer John's amazement, old Al had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He would sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
John was so proud of old Al, he entered him in the County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.
The result . The judges not only awarded old Al the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.
Clearly old Al was a politician in the making: Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention."
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cherev7 months, 1 week ago
What? We're telling jokes now? OK, here's one:
Two old men, one 80 and one 87, were sitting on their usual park bench one morning.
The 87 year old had just finished his morning jog and wasn't even short of breath.
The 80 year old was amazed at his friend's stamina and asked him what he did to have so much energy
The 87 year old said "Well, I eat Jewish rye bread every day. It keeps your energy level high and you'll have great stamina with the ladies."
So, on the way home, the 80 year old stops at the bakery. As he was looking around , the lady asked if he needed any help.
He said, "Do you have any Jewish rye bread?"
She said, "Yes, there's a whole shelf of it . Would you like some?"
He said, "I want 5 loaves.
She said, "My goodness, 5 loaves...by the time you get to the 5th loaf, it'll be hard"
He replied, "I can't believe it, everybody in the world knows about this sh*t but me."
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RedRiverJ7 months, 1 week ago
Check these out at Nasa. Great Story Susan!
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/universe-2007...
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icono17 months, 1 week ago
Great post SusanP.
Truth be known that if our solar system was not an anomily within the galactic community then we would not even be here.
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Macondo7 months, 1 week ago
Susan.
Thanks for this post.
It is refreshing to find an interesting and also intelligent post in the ocean of average stupidity we have on so many blogs.
"Violence of the universe" is excellent news. It means the entire evolution is very active and fast.
How fast is fast? Rapid for our concept of time?
Personally I am not Theist or Atheist.
Concepts like this resolve my questions about cosmology and philosophy.
Call it "a force" "creation" "evolution" ?
No difference.
It is happening and this is what counts.
Let's dig deeper on the answers, before we have those answers we are to become atomic particles anyway.
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Radiofreeeuropa7 months, 1 week ago
I liked the article, the ability of some to imagine a way to creep in their political points of view made me lose any interest in commenting further.
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Searchbeam7 months, 1 week ago
Macondo,
What we see here probably happened around 40 million years ago!
You can safely say that it is a blast from the past!
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MacR7 months, 1 week ago
So very true, DW. And yet there are so many around that say we do not need to go out and explore this great universe of ours. Look more towards the planet.
What they fail to realize is that in that new frontier of space. Our new energy could be found. Metals that were formed in space are stonger and more dense than any we get on this Blue Planet.
Without exploration of space. We will not find new fertile lands that can support our growing population. Or find new worlds to support our growing population. A hundred years from now, what will the population look like? Will medical advancement make us live longer, in turn keeping that population very large?
We need to get out and explore more than anything else. To get some of us out of here, cause some nut case will want to take out the world.
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ETproductions7 months, 1 week ago
What makes this so terrifying is we have no control over it, and no idea when it is coming. Therefore, I'm opening up an insurance business that pays out if earth is utterly destroyed by a cataclysmic intergalactic event. Send in your premiums before it it too late!
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joeblowe7 months, 1 week ago
First: I have to wonder, just HOW many of the whiney complainers here who can't STAND a moment of off-topic comment - even for a joke - do the same in "real" life? Honestly now - when you are talking to someone (assuming you ever come out of your mother's basement) do you ALWAYS stay exactly on topic until the bell rings and it's time for another topic? No one liners throw in for fun? Never? My - you must be a very dull person indeed.
And - as for the universe being a violent place, I guess that's to be expected. After all, Hydrogen doesn't become helium by simply asking another atom to PLEASE bond with me. And the heavier elements even more so. You HAVE to have a lot of violence to get anything but hydrogen.
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lestparker7 months, 1 week ago
I enjoyed the post very much.. and the jokes too. Thanks Susan and jokesters 2 ;)
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