Amazing 2½ minute time lapse NASA video of earth from the International Space Station!
by Fernando 12 Replies latest social current
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Qcmbr
Thanks. Amazing.
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AnnOMaly
Oooh, stunning! You can see lightning storms and the aurora shots are absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for putting this up!
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sizemik
Great vid . . . we sure do dominate the surface don't we?
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glenster
Cool!
On the bad side of the astrology news:
Alex Knapp Forbes.com
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory announced that’s it has observed something
unprecedented: a supermassive black hole being ejected from its own galaxy at
speeds of millions of miles per hour. The evidence suggests that the ejection
was caused when the black hole collided with the supermassive black hole of
another galaxy, producing an immense recoil force.“It’s hard to believe that a supermassive black hole weighing millions of
times the mass of the sun could be moved at all, let alone kicked out of a
galaxy at enormous speed,” said study leader Francesca Civano in a press
release. “But these new data support the idea that gravitational waves —
ripples in the fabric of space first predicted by Albert Einstein but never
detected directly — can exert an extremely powerful force.”One of the most fascinating – and potentially terrifying – things about this
discovery is that it implies that there may be supermassive black holes moving
through the universe outside of galaxies. And we currently have no way of
knowing that they’re there.“These black holes would be invisible to us,” said study co-author Laura Blecha
“because they have consumed all of the gas surrounding them after being thrown
out of their home galaxy.”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/06/05/a-supermassive-black-hole-was-ejected-out-of-its-home-galaxy/ -
AnnOMaly
On the bad side of the astrology news:
Astronomy!
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cofty
Fantastic video thanks
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botchtowersociety
Stunning.
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