Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Space Geodesy

Posted on July 15, 2012 by PlatoHagel

 Project manager Stephen Merkowitz talks about his work with NASA’s Space Geodesy Project, including a brief overview of the four fundamental techniques of space geodesy: GPS, VLBI, SLR, and DORIS. Learn more about space geodesy at: http://space-geodesy.nasa.gov/ This video is … Continue reading →

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Merging Galaxy Cluster Abell 520

Posted on July 14, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Merging Galaxy Cluster Abell 520 This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies, and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520, formed from a violent collision of massive galaxy clusters.  The natural-color image … Continue reading →

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EO: Earth Observatory

Posted on July 14, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Twelve years after the Earth was buffeted by one of the more potent Sun storms in modern history, our nearest star crackled with activity again. A solar flare erupted on July 12, 2012, followed closely by a companion coronal mass … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 13, 2012 by PlatoHagel

ATLAS INCLUSIVE SEARCHES FOR SUSY AND DARK MATTERSascha Caron (Radboud University Nijmegen and NIKHEF) See Also:Implications of LHC results for TeV-scale physics -Information to Conference supplied by Theoretical Physicist Matt Strassler Dialogos of Eide

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Fermi Provides Insights?

Posted on July 11, 2012 by PlatoHagel

 There’s more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies and in the motions … Continue reading →

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NASA’s Hubble Views a Cosmic Skyrocket

Posted on July 10, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Source: Hubblesite.org July 3, 2012: Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets from the dense core of a cloud of molecular hydrogen. This … Continue reading →

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Volcano and Aurora

Posted on July 10, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Volcano and Aurora in Iceland Image Credit & Copyright: Sigurdur H. Stefnisson Explanation: Sometimes both heaven and Earth erupt. In Iceland in 1991, the volcano Hekla erupted at the same time that auroras were visible overhead. Hekla, one of the … Continue reading →

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Latest SDO IMage

Posted on July 10, 2012 by PlatoHagel

This image taken by SDO’s AIA instrument at 171 Angstrom shows the current conditions of the quiet corona and upper transition region of the Sun. Active Region 1515 released an M6.9 class flare beginning at 12:23 PM EDT and peaking … Continue reading →

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Our Backyard Chickens

Posted on July 9, 2012 by PlatoHagel

As you can see the picture is from 2010 so we have had them for a few years now. We have had chickens in the past, but not in as elaborate set up as we have now. As you can … Continue reading →

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Higgs Search History

Posted on July 9, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Status of Standard Model Higgs Searches in Atlas See: F. Gianotti, ATLAS talk at Latest update in the searchfor the Higgs boson at CERN, July 4, 2012.    The recent discovery at the LHC by the CMS and ATLAS collaborations … Continue reading →

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