Looking forward to seeing this tomorrow! Alice In Wonderland-Trailer Number 2
Via Confessions of a Divi Diva
Interested in knowing what you’re looking at when you look up at the night sky? If you look at the sky tonight find the moon, then you can find Saturn, Vesta, Mars, Procyon and Sirius… I used Stellarium with the location of Manassas.
Vesta is one of the largest asteroids, it is also one of the most geologically diverse of the large asteroids and the only known one with distinctive light and dark areas — much like the face our moon.
Procyon is the eighth brightest star night sky. It is a yellow-white star and at 11.4 light years, one of the closer stars to Earth. Its name is from the Greek meaning before the dog, i.e., before the Dog Star, Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. It is a visual binary star. Procyon is in the constellation Canis Minor.
Sirius is the brightest star. Aptly named, Sirius comes from the Greek word Seirius, meaning, “searing” or “scorching.” Blazing at a visual magnitude of -1.42, it is twice as bright as any other star in our sky. Sirius resides in the constellation Canis Major, the Big Dog.
“Inspired during a visit to Fort Davis, Texas, home of McDonald Observatory and dark night skies, photographer Larry Landolfi created this tantalizing view. The image suggests the Milky Way is a heavenly extension of a deserted country road. Of course, our galaxy, the Milky Way (in Latin, Via Lactea), does refer to its appearance as a milky band or path in the sky. In fact, the word galaxy itself derives from the Greek for milk. Visible on moonless nights fromdark skyareas, though not so colorful as in this image, the glowing celestial band is due to the collective light of myriad stars along the plane of our galaxy, too faint to be distinguished individually. The diffuse starlight is cut by dark swaths of obscuring galactic dust clouds. At the beginning of the 17th century, Galileo turned his telescope on the Milky Way and announced it to be composed of innumerable stars.”
(via apod.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Martin Scorsese.. those eye brows of awesomeness!
“We can’t do that. We cannot burn Mick Jagger.”
Martin Scorsese, Shine A Light
sorry for the blurriness..taken on a camera phone. liberty got fixed today and is pretty content now that shes at home
it’s ok Pluto.. im not a planet either!
watched a fascinating national geographic show on the planets, I found the last part on Pluto really interesting.
i learned that pluto is a light pink color, only about 40 degrees from absolute zero, and the reasons its not considered a planet.
Pluto was first discovered in 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona. He compared plates of images taken of the sky… it basically looked like a little black dots all over a page and his task was to see if any of the little dots moved from plate to plate… a plate was taken about every two weeks. Stars are stationary… Any moving object, like an asteroid, comet or planet, would appear to jump from one photograph to the next.
Instead of being the only planet in its region, like the rest of the Solar System, Pluto and its moons are now known to be just a large example of a collection of objects called the Kuiper Belt. Astronomers estimate that there are at least 70,000 icy objects, with the same composition as Pluto, that measure 100 km across or more in the Kuiper Belt. And according to the new rules, Pluto is not a planet. It’s just another Kuiper Belt object.
Astronomers realized that it was only a matter of time before an object larger than Pluto was discovered in the Kuiper Belt.
And in 2005, Mike Brown and his team dropped the bombshell. Eris’ size is approximately 2,600 km (1,600 miles) across. It also has approximately 25% more mass than Pluto. Add planets making the total number 12? or less?
In the end, astronomers voted for the controversial decision of demoting Pluto (and Eris) down to the newly created classification of “dwarf planet”.
For an object to be a planet, it needs to meet these three requirements defined by the IAU:
It needs to be in orbit around the Sun – Yes, so maybe Pluto is a planet.
It needs to have enough gravity to pull itself into a spherical shape – Pluto…check
It needs to have “cleared the neighborhood” of its orbit – Uh oh. Here’s the rule breaker. According to this, Pluto is not a planet.
As planets form, they become the dominant gravitational body in their orbit in the Solar System. As they interact with other, smaller objects, they either consume them, or sling them away with their gravity. And until Pluto crashes into many of them and gains mass, it will remain a dwarf planet. Eris suffers from the same problem.
Even though Pluto is a dwarf planet, and no longer officially a planet, it’ll still be a fascinating target for study. And that’s why NASA has sent their New Horizons spacecraft off to visit it. New Horizons will reach Pluto in July 2015, and capture the first close-up images of the (dwarf) planet’s surface.
oooooh a show on the Hubble is starting now :)
**photos are not mine, just amusings i found on google images
** some information pulled from universe today
hahah.. :)
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LOL, how true.
rule #32
enjoy the little things.
ive been enjoying the commentary and watching how they filmed the stunts.
About me
24. Work for the govt. Army public affairs i LOVE it. lover of a quick wit, words, inspirational messages, English Bull Terrier, and photos that make me look at the world in a new way.
Quote I try to live my life by:
“Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie. Sometimes black humor is the only kind we can summon, but even dark laughter can sustain.” Dean Koontz
