ZZ Lizard in the house.
Interesting
Add comment September 4th, 2008
Posts filed under 'My planet'
Can’t figure my boiler, how can I figure the universe.
Bang..
The milkyway galaxy
Tis home.
Credit: Knut Lundmark, Copyright Lund Observatory.
There is also a nice explanation of the picture/drawing here.
Lets have another look..
Infrared image of the core of the Milky Way galaxy
So some facts for you.
The stellar disk of the Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter, and is believed to be, on average, about 1,000 light years thick. It is estimated to contain at least 200 billion stars and possibly up to 400 billion stars, the exact figure depending on the number of very low-mass stars, which is highly uncertain. Extending beyond the stellar disk is a much thicker disk of gas. Recent observations indicate that the gaseous disk of the Milky Way has a thickness of around 12,000 light years - twice the previously accepted value. As a guide to the relative physical scale of the Milky Way, if it were reduced to 130 km (80 miles) in diameter, the Solar System would be a mere 2 mm (0.08 inches) in width.
Our location amongst the maelstrom
Sun’s location
The Sun (and therefore the Earth and Solar System) may be found close to the inner rim of the Galaxy’s Orion Arm, in the Local Fluff or the Gould Belt, at a hypothesized distance of 7.62±0.32 kpc from the Galactic Center. The distance between the local arm and the next arm out, the Perseus Arm, is about 6,500 light-years. The Sun, and thus the Solar System, is found in what scientists call the galactic habitable zone.
The Apex of the Sun’s Way, or the solar apex, is the direction that the Sun travels through space in the Milky Way. The general direction of the Sun’s galactic motion is towards the star Vega near the constellation of Hercules, at an angle of roughly 60 sky degrees to the direction of the Galactic Center. The Sun’s orbit around the Galaxy is expected to be roughly elliptical with the addition of perturbations due to the galactic spiral arms and non-uniform mass distributions. In addition the Sun oscillates up and down relative to the galactic plane approximately 2.7 times per orbit. This is very similar to how a simple harmonic oscillator works with no drag force (damping) term. Due to the higher density of stars close to the galactic plane, these oscillations often coincide with mass extinction periods on Earth, presumably due to increased impact events.
It takes the Solar System about 225–250 million years to complete one orbit of the galaxy (a galactic year), so it is thought to have completed 20–25 orbits during the lifetime of the Sun and 1/1250th of a revolution since the origin of humans. The orbital speed of the Solar System about the center of the Galaxy is approximately 220 km/s. At this speed, it takes around 1400 years for the Solar System to travel a distance of 1 light-year, or 8 days to travel 1 AU.
Lots going on here, in this space time reality, but what about our neighbors?
Andromeda Galaxy.
A visible light image of the Andromeda Galaxy.
approximately 2.5 million light-years away. So blow me away baby.. What is real?
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More, bring it on..
Add comment July 23rd, 2008
kupier belt
Object originated from outside the solar system
And where is the object heading?
Volatiles tangled in a delightfully incomprehensible dance, balanced, inexorably connected, to wit the salt of Amun.
Fly me to the moon in your rocket airplane..
Kupier
The Kuiper belt (pronounced /ˈkaɪpɚ/, to rhyme with “viper”), sometimes called the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 55 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, although it is far larger; 20 times as wide and 20–200 times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of small bodies (remnants from the Solar System’s formation). It is home to at least two dwarf planets – Pluto and Makemake. But while the asteroid belt is composed primarily of rock and metal, the Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (dubbed “ices”), such as methane, ammonia and water.
Amun
Amun (also spelled Amon, Amoun, Amen, and rarely Imen, Greek Ἄμμων Ammon, and Ἅμμων Hammon, reconstructed Egyptian Yamānu) was the name of a deity, in Egyptian mythology, who gradually rose to become one of the most important deities in Ancient Egypt, before fading into obscurity.
Amun’s name is first recorded in Egyptian as ỉmn, meaning “The hidden (one)”. (Hence the connection to the mysterious kupier belt.)
Add comment July 15th, 2008
I broke Earths moon,
and smashed the orbits of Phobos and Deimos.
In part 2 of building a model solar system. See part 1 here.
Phase 2. Will be adding the gear wheel for the earth and moon system, plus the Earth itself.
Unfortunately the moon snapped off in the construction stage.
Now how is this likely to effect our planet.
Apparently if the earth was suddenly without its moon, there would be significant problems associated with the planets water.
The moon effects the global altitude of the water, so if this was taken away, a lot of water would be redistributed around the poles.
The effect on the planets rotation would also be changed, the moons location, and gravitational attraction keeps the planet in a relatively stable orbit, no wobbles as such, and as consequence a fairly predictable seasonal climatic balance.
Without this stability life on this sphere would likely have struggled to build itself to the complexity we see today.
So on a lighter note, it’s only a model after all, i’ll get out the super glue and try to restore equilibrium.
Phobos and Deimos
Again in the construction when trying to place the pin on the bottom of mars onto the orbiting moons arm their relative position was changed when I was forced to bring out the hammer to bash the pin in.
I have no idea how this turn of events would effect the solar system as a whole, dynamic interactions and connections are one thing, but i’m thinking not much, considering removing our own moon would apparently not cause all the planets to plunge headlong into a fiery death as we all race towards the sun.
Fate of the solar system in my hands.
Add comment July 10th, 2008
San Miguel Ibiza
View from a terrace, just after sunset.
An evening out. San Antonio Ibiza.
They say cameras never lie, but this picture is definitely pulling the wool.
View from balc, before room move.
Bay after sunset
Tree?
Vivid
Stage lights
Flower.. More vivid
Bay from up hill
Bay again, different time of day
Finale Boogie nights
Add comment June 30th, 2008
Blue Smartie is back
But check out the non-artificial ingredient
Cyanobacteria.. Sounds interesting right? Better known as blue-green algae, blue-green bacteria or Cyanophyta.
I also didn’t know that algae simply refers to any aquatic organism capable of photosynthesis. So now ya know.
cyanobacteria spirulina
There are pills, concoctions, I shouldn’t be surprised
It gets stranger, or more interesting as you read.
Add comment May 21st, 2008
Whalley Abbey-Photo Album
Some photos of the abbey and grounds
The Cistercian Abbey of Stanlow Cheshire was moved to Whalley in 1296.
The church was built between 1330 and 1380.
Click picture to see album.
Add comment May 21st, 2008
Build a model solar system
Orrery
Orrery from Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, for whom the first modern orrery was built, commission to George Graham.
So I have my subscription after buying the first issue in the shops. Issue 4 and 5 arrived before issue two and three which arrived yesterday.
Let the construction commence.
Bizarrely the tools, including allen keys arrive with the third delivery, which will for me be issues six and seven.
Managed to make a start, but fell away when I required a 1.5mm key and my smallest only 2mm. Will grab one tomorrow and continue with the alignment of the celestial spheres at that time. Till then.
1 comment April 27th, 2008
One side. the other
It being opposite in nature, or in organic life. I like the way in before organic made you think of inorganic.
Anyway, If it didn’t. See ya, one of my many 0 second visitors. WTF is that kind of quantifiable statistic anyway.
They focused, didn’t blink, for that would have run into one point one seconds. And time becomes a topic of conversation.
Ah harr, where did she go the muse.
Always reluctant to go without a pic.
Add comment April 25th, 2008
Discourteous
Add comment April 21st, 2008
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