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Hubble Captures a Protoplanetary Disk
Astroturtle writes "The Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has
captured a detailed image of spiral rings in a distant protoplanetary
disk -- the pancake-shaped cloud of gas and dust around a young star in
which planets are expected to condense. But contrary to earlier
suggestions, the intricate structure of this particular disk is probably
caused by a nearby companion star rather than by embedded planets starting
to form."
Finally, and without even trying, I get a first post. *g*
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Every time something like this is published, makes me wonder when we'll discover extra-terrestrial life. I honestly don't think it's a question of if, it's more about what, and whether they still are around. Seti@home might not be the solution, but as with all science, one has to start somewhere :-)
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It's nice to see the original image in this case. The color-enhanced added ones look pretty, and contribute to further exploration funding, but are often misleading.
I guess the war on Protoplanetary Disks is going well then.
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I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Director Peter Jackson was found dead in his New Zealand home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
After reading the headline, my first thought was of a copyright infringement sting operation. But then I realized it said "Protoplanetary" and not "Proprietary".
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Help me with my astronomy! Can we infer that the Gas giants might have helped form the inner planets if a companion mass like a star or large planet is necessary to do so? I don't know the accepted timeline/sequence of planetary formation in our system, but this kinda popped to mind.
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
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Officials could not comment on the captured disk's plans, but did say that it had been taken to Guantanamo Bay for further questioning. Any large amount of dust must be checked out, especially with so much 'nuculer' activity in the region.
anyone have a mirror?
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even Hubble, high in the sky, will be /. ed...
I own the patent on pancake-shaped clouds of gas and dust forming into a young star in which planets are expected to condense in. I'm going to sue whoever is responsible for this into oblivion!
the intricate structure of this particular disk is probably caused by a nearby companion star rather than by embedded planets starting to form.
I thought that standard opinion on spiral forms (e.g. galaxies) was that they were created by interaction with massive companions.
Who has ever proposed that internal bodies can cause a spiral form?
I am posting this to BEG slashdotters to stop all the gay jokes and gay bashing.
We are supposed to be a community of geeks - geeks have always been open-minded and if anyone should accept someone that is different, it is geeks.
So what if someone likes the feeling of another man's lips wrapped firmly around his penis? They do NOT deserve our ridicule.
Please slashdot, quit making fun of homosexuals. It makes us all look like idiots.
Mod me as offtopic if you like, but this needed to be said.
Yeah right! What they mean is that there was something phallic looking in the picture. Or maybe this is part of the movement to stop the publication of scientific findings which might be useful to terrorists. Either that, or they didn't want us to know about the alien civilisation they're waging a secret war against. Is nothing sacred?
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If there were embedded planets there, they wouldn't be allowed to tell where they are, or face expulsion.
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It look like a bird's eye view of a black hand
hitting the enter key. The data of the story
is 1 April.
I wouldn't say spectacular, but the photos are impressive for the detail available. (I'm spoiled from all the color nebula shots.) The spiral formations are easily visible, even without the 'cheatsheet' image.
Shame the images can't capture all the close-in dust. Considering that Pluto's only 40 a.u. out, having data from almost 100 a.u. around the star missing means a lot of the prime planetary formation area isn't available to examine.
In this particular case, as in many many others, they insist on having cookies or they serve up a finger waving page, naughty naughty me, instead of the desired page.
What the heck is it with this infatuation with cookies? I have never been to Sky And Telescope before, there is nothing they need to remember about me, why do sites insist on even creating cookies before they are needed? Worset yet, why do they pretend they can't show any content without a cookie?
I know cookies have their uses, I have written many websites where the cookie holds a key to db records, and I can even understand the rationale news sites using cookies for ad tracking, annoying as it is, but even news sites generally don't refuse to show the page in question just because a cookie couldn't be set.
Yes, I will send a grip to the webmaster, but I also know it will be a waste of time.
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Where was I... Oh yes. You see I...
Oh no! Pete the owner of the local video store down the street is getting robbed again. Maybe this time he won't be pistol whipped and then shot like last time. Dang that hospital bill was huge. Hmm, looks like he is getting pistol whipped again... seems these are the same criminals and they learned that crime does pay in this neighborhood. Oh, look that guy that is always called upon to "make things right" for everyone too lazy and impotent to do it themselves. (no one ever seems to really question why he is so selective about who he helps... his set of criteria is rather odd if he even has one) Hahaha, foolish man... we demand that he drop whatever he is doing and help us then spit in his eye. Come on little slave, do our bidding! Protect us from ourselves! Hey that reminds me, a short time back he had forced himself upon several households and places of private business and began shooting up the place, knocking stuff over and really fouling things up until the "baddies" went into hiding (we called that a "victory" and that it would not happen again, hahaha that kills me). Funniest thing of all was that nearby there were many other incidents with many of those harboring a wider and more potent collection of the same evils that justified his action then... yet he did not pay those other areas any attention. I sure am glad I or no one like me ever gives a crap about actual peace and prosperity because that would cause me to be more concerned with actual results over rhetoric.
Hmmm, come to think of it (hahaha, think... whatever) I believe that if we ever sat down and drafted up a consistent set of criteria of what is bad, what constitutes justification of violating sovereignty and for that matter what actions nullify ones sovereignty then that would be a scary day indeed. Imagine having consistency in what we say, that might lead to *gasp* an ability to deal with problems through fact and logic based decisions instead of emotional reactions and crowd following. (hey, I just thought of a new chant... oh you'll see) Damn, I wonder why our savior is standing around talking through a megaphone to the robbers (btw, they have now killed 3 customers, severely wounded the owner and another clerk and apparently 2 of their own were executed. One when he tried to run, the other when he dared to question the needless bloodshed and brutality they were meeting upon the innocents. That'll show em! Looks like a mob of protesters have formed around the store. Looks like they are throwing rotten fruit at the "savior" ahhh, I see now. He isn't as flamboiant in his speech (facts really do not matter). Also, I can see from here what looks like a "R" on his sleeve now instead of the usual "D". Perhaps some of those "open minded" fellows going inside and meeting with the head thief (now murderer) will do something. Nope, looks like they looked right at the blood, carnage and bodies while ignoring the terrified pleas from the remaining hostages and yet declared that there was no real problem there.
Well, I'm bored... I think I will go join the protesters. I think I will demonize our savior and completely detach myself from the reality of the situation. After all, its important that we all "do something" even if that does nothing but worsen the situation. Logic and reason are not my friends and never should be factored in.
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this commander Hubble and what are the Iraqis doing with protoplanetary disk ???
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Nice eye candy though.
Maybe you know all about how cookies work, but you obviously have no clue of when to use them, or why. In this case, their error page itself shows how ignorant their web programmers are. It says the cookie is used to track location for the sky chart and astronomical almanac. Well, duh, this is a news story. If they really needed three cookies (not one) for those functions, they should wait until they are needed, not just ask for them regardless.
And three cookies, what is that for? Why not one? Even if they want to keep the information itself in a cookie, instead of in a database, with the database key being the cookie value, there is no reason the three cookies couldn't be combined into a single one.
They are incompetent web programmers.
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I see that we have not forgoten our main goal of conqurering space, while in the middle of conquerering the middle east.
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Debunking the "59 Deceits"
Breaking up monopolies is what the government needs to do to create a fair free marketplace which hasn't occurred in OSs'. The republican presidents just sat and took orders from microsoft.
When will NASA put the new form of telescope that revolves around an axis up in orbit called an interferometer telescope? It's supposed to be a couple of hundred feet long and rotate with alot of mirrors acting as one large mirror. I think the name of the telescope was Large Array Interferometer Telescope. I read somewhere also that they were going to put one out near jupiter. Resolution would be revolutionary! Thanks for any info.
Wait just a minute here, I never said that this website was using cookies properly, I was just pointing out to parent that his privacy paranoia was baseless.
On your point of this particular instance being a poor usage of cookies, I agree. So, uhh, maybe I *do* have a clue on when to use them.
Those pictures look more like Rorschach tests, or my neighbor the last time she took LSD.
I have to wonder though, did he pick Astroturtle because it seems like light is pretty fsking slow when it travels across interstellar distances? ;)
Or maybe he just likes turtles?
I got it... maybe when he was a kid he attached small turtles to model rockets and sent them off into the wild blue yonder... thus... ASTROTURTLE!
OK, a little more OT...
These pics are neat and I'm sure astronomers are all happy with them, but I think they aren't really eye candy like some of the other ones.
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is You!!! Don't you know that you are the one who created the universe? Everything around you is what you created and put there. Your desire to inhabit your (currently) human body was the "prime mover", the initial action that put together the series of events that caused the creation of the cosmos.
In fact, noone else is here. I don't really exist, and am nothing but an automaton (created by you), designed to respond to this particular question.
Just remember, you are God. Get on with doing stuff.
I guess that's not all that far on a galactic scale; still I'm extremely impressed that we can get images of what seems to be solar-system scale (actually the width was several hundred astronomical units across, so a few times bigger than our solar system - but it's a bright star too). High resolution imagery like that with just Hubble makes things like the proposed Kepler planet-finder telescope actually seem feasible to directly view planets around distant stars. We'll be entering a new age soon, where we'll actually know what our interstellar neighborhood really looks like. Wow!
Energy: time to change the picture.
Does anyone else think the picture of the protoplanetary disk just looks like someone shining a flashlight on a piece of shit? Okay.
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Anybody else notice that the publication date on this thing is April 1st? I was pretty sure that the Hubble Space telescope didn't have that kind of resolving power. Otherwise, I believe it could detect planets directly!
And I thought this 120G would last me a while.
actually, as a Californian, I'll tell you exactly what happened with the power comapnies: The back-end suppliers were de-regulated without removing the rate caps from the market-end. The result was definately NOT privatized electricity, and absolutely doomed to fail whether it was constructed in a communist or capitalist environment. The idea of having every company owned and run by the government (pure communism) is just as bad as the idea that government should have no power to break monopolies (pure laissez faire capitalism). In both cases, power accumulates to an unacceptable degree within the hands of too few people. Examples: Soviet Russia. Sorry to break the news, but it fell. Another example: Debeers. Diamonds are practically worthless. The only reason they get such a high asking price is that one company controls over 90% of the world's supply and they can keep it lower than demand. It's the same game OPEC plays.
Progressivism is definately the wrong term for a theory that demands cradle-to-grave governmental hand-holding. It's not forward thinking. It's simply restoring the monarchial powers of state without simply giving the throne to a single family. It is just as conservative wanting the government to step aside and allow the establishment of a corporate fiefdom.
I know the planet in the picture isnt far enough away in this case, but it would be great if hubble showed us a picture of a proto-planet/star/galaxy a few million light years away, why by now, has become an earth like planet, with an advanced civilisation that has discovered FTL travel, who are now on their merry way to earth to say hi! (Or less great - with big guns aimed in our direction).
Please don't compare Russian ruled markets to our Military or Utilities. If they were in private hands we would be screwed big time because market forces can't apply . How many companies out there build nuclear submarines?
The diamond example you mention is weak for this reason, diamonds are rocks , yeah ,you're right, but digging them up out deep in the ground is not easy and costs money. Tools and labor your not mentioning.
You can only have fair,free markets if there are enough players. Not enough then you have market collusion. Wouldn't it be better to have the gov monitor important sectors that don't have competition and can regulate prices openly.
I got to tell you that i had up to here with the broadband/monopoly networks of this country. They stink. They're private enterprise and they suck. If the government ran them we would be paying only 1/3 the price.
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They DON'T come and visit us....
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1.. Date of article = 1 April 2.. 141569 is pretty close to the digits of pi, pi = 3.14159265359 Might be coincidene...... :)
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