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NASA COVERAGE
Using
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed the existence of a baked object
that could be called a "cometary planet." The gas giant planet,
named HD 209458b, is orbiting so close to its star that its heated atmosphere
is escaping into space. Observations taken with Hubble's Cosmic Origins
Spectrograph (COS)
suggest powerful stellar winds are sweeping the cast-off atmospheric material
behind the scorched planet and shaping it into a comet-like tail.
* Special thanks to "nasa.gov", "Google Images", "The New York Times" and "Wikipedia.com"
BLOG POST
by Felicity Blaze
Noodleman
Los Angeles, CA
8. 9.13
This
illustration shows the NASA/ESA Hubble
Space Telescope in orbit above the Earth as it looked before the Second
Servicing Mission in 1997.
Checking in with NASA in one of the resources we use from
time to time since the Government has spent so much money in space. Has it paid off? In some areas the answer would be yes but in
others it’s questionable. One of the
phenomenon is space are what scientists and astronomers have absorbed are “Black
Holes”. NASA still knows very little
about these celestial curiosity’s but since so much money has been spent on the
study of space one might think one of these black holes are devouring billions
of federal tax dollars.
This article is not being written to expose all of the waste
in federal spending. It is truly meant
to display some of the newer discoveries being made in the great beyond. Still we have to think, how much is this
costing us? Yesterday I was reading a
very alarming articles by one of Wall Street’s analytical firms who shall remain confidential.
This firm claims to have warned about our
last economic crash and is now predicting an even large catastrophe looming in
the near future. If their numbers are
right, and I believe they are, this warning takes on even more
significance. Bases on the interest
being paid on the Federal deficit ($200
million an hour – 24/7) which we are unable to pay, the Congressional
sequester begins to take on more importance.
A black hole eating the sun and
something else, our tax dollars! Om nom nom.
("$" by Noodleman)
http://www.askamathematician.com/2012/02/q-what-would-happen-if-a-black-hole-passed-through-our-solar-system-2/
("$" by Noodleman)
http://www.askamathematician.com/2012/02/q-what-would-happen-if-a-black-hole-passed-through-our-solar-system-2/
We have written all of this just to make a point; these photos
from space are very, very expensive!
Since they are costing us so much and really of so little consequence to
us in our everyday lives. It is some what comforting to know that NASA is sharing so much of what they are learning on line and through television and IMAX theatrical documentaries! So with no further introduction we are pleases to
present for your consideration some images from space you may have not
seen.
In reality it’s up to each what
these images might mean. High tech art (new screen covers & savers for computer
and other devices), road signs to the future and where we may be going,
objects for further study or just another black hole consuming billions of US tax dollars. You decide! No we will display some of the best and most interesting images and art NASA has produced.
Another aspect of space is it’s infinite nature. Weather looking through outer space with the
Hubble Telescope or peering through inner space with a high powered microscope, we are truly observing
different areas of space! As human
beings we seem to be somewhere in the middle of all that surrounds us. This all raises a lot of questions and
demonstrate how nature seems to replicate different arrangements of matter from
the smallest to the largest.
The
Day the Earth Smiled: Sneak Preview In this
rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA's Cassini
spacecraft has captured Saturn's rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the
same frame.
Helix Nebula The Helix Nebula,
also known as The Helix, NGC 7293, is
a large planetary nebula (PN)
located in the constellation Aquarius.
Discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding,
probably before 1824, this object is one of the closest to the Earth of
all the bright planetary nebulae.
A
Year of Assessing Astronomical Hazards. Could
an asteroid destroy civilization on Earth? Mountain-sized space rocks could
potentially impact the Earth causing
global effects, and perhaps even be mistaken for a nuclear blast of terrestrial
origin. Such large impacts are rare but have happened before.
Modern telescopes have therefore begun to scan the skies for signs of
approaching celestial hazards.
Over the past year, projects such as Spacewatch and Spaceguard have
continually discovered previously unknown asteroids that
indeed pass near the Earth. Such projects are still rather modest, however. In
June, 100-meter asteroid 2002 MN was
discovered only after it whizzed by the
Earth, crossing even within the orbit of the Moon. This year brought much
discussion in the astronomical community of expanding technology to
discover most large Near
Earth Objects and extend the time
between discovery and
impact for all potential astronomical
hazards. Pictured above is
an illustration of a busy planetary system,
showing the view of a planet ringed with space debris from a recently formed
crater of an orbiting moon.
The
Rose The spinning
vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant
proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA's
Cassini spacecraft.
Churning
Out Stars. W3 is
an enormous stellar nursery about 6,200 light-years away in the Perseus Arm,
one of the Milky Way galaxy's main spiral arms as seen by ESA's Herschel space
observatory.
First Curiosity Drilling Sample in
the Scoop NASA's
Curiosity
rover shows the first sample of powdered rock extracted by the rover's drill.
The image was taken after the sample was transferred from the drill to the
rover's scoop.
X-Rays
Indicate Star Ripped Up by Black Hole. What could rip a star apart?
A black hole.
Giant black
holes in
just the right mass range would pull on the front of a closely passing star
much more strongly than on the back. Such a strong tidal force would
stretch out a star and likely cause some of the star's gasses to fall into the
black hole.
A
Primordial Quasar. What
did the first quasars look like? The nearest quasars are
now known to be supermassive black holes in
the centers
of galaxies. Gas and dust that
falls toward a quasar glows
brightly, sometimes outglowing
the entire home galaxy. The quasars that
formed in the first billion years of the universe are more mysterious, though,
with even the nature of the surrounding gas still unknown. Above,
an artist's impression shows a primordial quasar as it might have been,
surrounded by sheets of gas, dust, stars, and early star clusters. Exacting observations of
three distant quasars now indicate emission
of very specific colors of the element iron.
These Hubble Space Telescope observations,
which bolster recent results from
the WMAP mission,
indicate that a whole complete cycle of stars was born, created this iron, and
died within the first few hundred million years of the universe.
Copper Moon, Golden Gate. When
the Moon rose over
San Francisco's Golden
Gate Bridge on May 15, both bridge and
Moon were in already in
Earth's shadow. Of course, the bridge is in the
Earth's shadow nightly, while the Moon only has that opportunity about twice a year,
during a lunar eclipse.
And even though in western North America the total phase of the lunar eclipse
began before moonrise, many in areas with clear skies came out to enjoy the
spectacle. For this eclipse, skygazers
reported a darker than normal, copper-colored Moon
during totality. The dramatic color is evident in
this multiple exposure of thereddened
Moon rising,
taken by astrophotographer
Evad
Damast.
Damast
viewed the eclipse from the Marin Headlands north and west of the famous bridge,
looking back toward the bay and the city lights.
Snake
in the Dark. Dark
nebulae snake across a gorgeous expanse of stars in this wide-field view toward
the pronounceable constellation
Ophiuchus
and the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. In fact, the central S-shape seen
here is well known as the Snake Nebula. It is also listed as Barnard 72 (B72),
one of 182 dark
markings of the sky cataloged in the early 20th
century by astronomer E. E.
Barnard.
Unlike bright emission nebulae and star clusters, Barnard's
nebulae are
interstellar dark clouds of obscuring gas and dust. Their shapes are visible
in cosmic silhouette only
because they lie in the foreground along the line of sight to
rich star fields and glowing stellar nurseries near the plane of our Galaxy.
Crab
Nebula Mosaic from HST. The
Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on Charles Messier's famous
list of things which are not comets. In fact, the cosmic Crab is
now known to be a supernova
remnant,
an expanding cloud of debris from the death explosion of a massive star. Light
from that stellar catastrophe was first witnessed by astronomers on
planet Earth in the year 1054. Composed of 24 exposures taken
in October 1999, January 2000, and December 2000, this Hubble
Space Telescope mosaic spans
about twelve light years.
This concludes our article featuring some of the most interesting imagery produced by NASA. In all fairness we should mention budget cuts have been made at the space agency. The space shuttle program has been put on hold just to mention one of their biggest programs. Always able to apply the lyrics of a song for every situation we’ll only say, “and the beat goes on”! Felicity; writing about “where no man has gone before” and "on a planet far, far away"!
http://www.davegranlund.com/cartoons/2012/02/17/nasa-and-budget-cuts/
Patent Case Has Potential to Give Apple the Upper Hand
"The New York Times"
By NICK
WINGFIELD and BRIAN X.
CHEN
Published: August 8, 2013
Over the last couple of years, Apple and
its competitors have fought so many patent cases against one another in so many
courts that keeping score has nearly become a fool’s errand.
But if a final ruling in a case against Samsung
goes Apple’s way on Friday, Apple would clearly hold the momentum in the patent
disputes engulfing the mobile market.
The federal International Trade Commission is
expected to say on Friday whether it will uphold a preliminary finding that
Samsung mobile products violated a handful of Apple patents. A decision against
Samsung by the commission could result in an import ban on some of the
company’s mobile devices.
A decision for Apple would be its second major
legal win against Samsung in less than a week. On Saturday, the Obama
administration vetoed the federal commission’s ban on Apple mobile products in
a separate case brought by Samsung.
Andrew Gombert/EuropeanPressphoto Agency
Apple’s iPhone 4.
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That rare move — the first time for such a veto
since 1987 — was a major victory for Apple and other companies that had argued
that disputes over a class of patents known as standards-essential patents
should not lead to import bans by the trade commission.
Carolina Milanesi, a Gartner analyst, said that
if Apple were to score a second victory with the International Trade Commission
this week, the company would climb to a significant position of power in patent
feuds — not just against Samsung, but against other companies as well.
“Apple can use that as a warning and say, ‘Look,
if it hasn’t worked with Samsung, why would it work with you?’ ” she said.
“It’s not real power. It’s more like a mind game.”
The patent disputes have led to a possible
political skirmish between the United States and South Korea, where Samsung is
a celebrated hometown legend. The decision on Saturday vexed the South Korean
government, which issued a statement expressing concern that the ruling may
have violated Samsung’s patent rights. The government pledged to watch the
commission’s ruling on Friday in the separate case for fairness.
Essential patents, like those at the center of
the dispute in Saturday’s veto, cover basic technologies that companies have to
support in their products to comply with industry standards. In the case
between Apple and Samsung, the standard involved wireless communications. The
Obama administration said it overruled the decision on Saturday partly because
it feared essential patents, which holders agree to license on reasonable
terms, were being used in ways that could hurt competition and consumers. Apple
and Samsung disagreed on whether Samsung was offering to license it essential
patents on reasonable terms.
Jason Decrow/Associated Press
The Samsung Galaxy S4.
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The decision on Friday is not over essential
patents. But if the commission hands Apple another victory, Robert P. Merges, a
law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said the Obama
administration could again overrule any import ban the commission puts in
place, as part of a strategy to diminish the power of patent litigation as an
industry weapon.
“I think there are a lot of political
implications,” he said, referring to the possible reaction by other
governments. “You’ll have the obvious favoring-the-home-team problem. But I
would be shocked if they didn’t think this through carefully.”
Kristin Huguet, an Apple spokeswoman, declined
to comment on the case before the commission’s decision. David Steel, an
executive vice president for Samsung, declined to comment.
Already, Apple has scored the biggest legal
victory by far, by winning against Samsung in a federal court last year. In
that case, a jury awarded Apple $1 billion in damages for violations of mobile
patents related to the iPhone and iPad.
That award was later reduced to $599 million by a judge, though the figure
could go back up as the case drags on in court.
Although the case was a decisive win for Apple,
the judge overseeing it denied a request by Apple for a permanent injunction
against the sale of some Samsung mobile products. A Federal Appeals Court is
expected to hear arguments on Friday from Apple about why such an injunction
should be granted.
In another positive development for Apple, a
Federal Appeals Court sent a patent case that Apple brought against Motorola
Mobility, which is owned by Google, back to the trade commission this week. The
ruling gives Apple another shot at winning an important ban on Motorola mobile
products after the commission dismissed Apple’s complaint.
Apple has long argued that companies making
smartphones based on Google’s operating system, especially Samsung, are
copycats that have swiped many of the technical innovations that, at one point,
gave the iPhone and iPad a huge edge.
But the wheels of justice grind along slowly,
and as Apple’s suits have snaked their way through the courts in the last
several years, the popularity of Android phones has continued to grow,
swallowing much of the mobile market. In the second quarter of the year,
Android phones accounted for almost 80 percent of global smartphone shipments,
up from just under 70 percent the year before, according to IDC, the research
firm.
The iPhone accounted for 13.2 percent of
smartphone shipments in that same period, while Samsung’s share was 30.4
percent, IDC estimated.
It is unclear whether a series of legal setbacks
would be more than a speed bump for Samsung, now the world’s largest mobile
phone maker. Samsung has argued that it can modify the software in its phones
so they steer clear of Apple’s patents, which could allow it to dodge sales
bans.
Still,
if the tide of legal battles begins to shift decisively in Apple’s favor, the
company could extract a juicy financial settlement from Samsung and put the
distraction of fighting its biggest rival behind it.
"The New York Times"
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