Science editor Alan Boyle’s Weblog: A stunning “cosmic watercolor” features the interplay of light from hot young stars reflecting off clouds of gas and dust, 420 light-years from Earth.
Alan Boyle – Earth – Physics – Particle – Astro Particle
Wed 30 Jun 2010
The life’s work of special effects animator Ray Harryhausen is to have a permanent new home.
The collection will be housed at the National Media Museum in Bradford.
This past weekend on the MUFON open source reports, there was a sighting with video of multiple, unknown objects moving over Italy.
The witness states that he was working at his computer when he looked outside and saw the white, circular objects, grabbed his camera, and began filming.
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Lockheed Martin highlights its support to NASA’s missions
Proof Of UFO?s Take a look at the clips:UFOMM
I just read James Carrion’s (MUFON’s ex- “International Director”) statement of purpose on his blog site, “Center for UFO Truth”. If his opening statement is any indication of what UFO truth he is referring to we’re in for a one sided ride. He claims: “Unfortunately, the field of Ufology has nothing to show for more than 60 years of investigation and research. By not adhering to professional evidentiary standards, Ufology will neither join the halls of academia nor will it discover what truly lies behind the subject of UFOs.” http://followthemagicthread.blogspot.com/2010/06/announcing-center-for-ufo-truth.html
Top story: Rare hole in the moon photographed
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STIRRING THE OCEAN: CALCULATING THE ROLE OF THE OCEANS’ SWIMMERS
MADISON – The world’s oceans, we know, are constantly shaken and stirred by the winds and the tides and other physical forces of nature.
But what about fish and other swimming marine life? Do they stir the ocean, too?
Since the question was first posed by pioneering oceanographer Walter Munk in 1966, some rough “top down” calculations have emerged suggesting that marine swimmers – everything from whales to krill – could contribute a significant portion of the mechanical energy for all ocean mixing. The simple math: total the mechanical energy of all the estimated marine swimmers in all the world’s oceans and you get a figure that suggests as much as a third of all the vertical mixing in the world’s oceans is produced by marine life.
New photos of the moon have revealed the most detailed views yet of a rare hole in the lunar surface — a pit large enough to swallow an entire football field whole.
High-resolution cameras aboard the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft first spotted the irregularly shaped chasm, located in Mare Ingenii on the moon’s southern hemisphere. Now, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken a new, up-close photo of the moon pit from lunar orbit.
“Only three have been discovered thus far, so I believe it is safe to state that skylights (pits) are rare at the 100-meter scale,” Mark Robinson, principal investigator for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) at Arizona State University, told SPACE.com in an e-mail.
Mare Ingenii, also called the “sea of cleverness,” is best known for its prominent lunar swirls, which are highly reflective surface features that are associated with magnetic anomalies. The new images of the region from LROC show a giant pit measuring about 427 feet (130 meters) in diameter.
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