First ‘bone’ of the Milky Way identified
9:11 Jan 16th, 2013 | 1 noteAstronomers have identified a new structure in the Milky Way: a long tendril of dust and gas that they are calling a “bone.”
“This is the first time we’ve seen such a delicate piece of the galactic skeleton,” says the lead author Alyssa Goodman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Goodman presented the discovery Jan. 8 in a press conference at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Long Beach, Calif.
Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy — a pinwheel-shaped collection of stars, gas, and dust. It has a central bar and two major spiral arms that wrap around its disk. Because we view the Milky Way from the inside, its exact structure is difficult to determine.
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Solar Storms: The Silent Menace
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No news is good news. None of it.: Dark secrets.
8:16 Oct 7th, 2011 | 17 notesMan on UFO documentary in spookily lit studio: “The US airforce had secret documents about UFO sightings in the 1940s. How mysterious.”
Oh yeah, because it’s not like a WORLD WAR was happening, was it? You know, that WORLD WAR where aircraft got involved?
Man on UFO documentary in spookily…
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The First Ever Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral
A new chapter in space flight began on 1950 July with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida: the Bumper V-2. Shown above, the Bumper V-2 was an ambitious two-stage rocket program that topped a V-2 missile base with a WAC Corporal rocket. The upper stage was able to reach then-record altitudes of almost 400 kilometers, higher than even modern Space Shuttles fly today.
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