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El Cap Cover on Texas Highways Magazine

My image of El Capitan in the Guadalupe Mountains is on the cover of the November 2018 issue of Texas Highways Magazine. Check it out on newsstands across Texas now.

This is a big honor for me as Texas Highways is the pinnacle of landscape photography in the Lone Star State.

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Shanghai 2018
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The new "Doctor Who" main titles

By and large I like it. I'm sorry they have dropped the classic element (only recently reintroduced) of including the Doctor's face against the background), but I like the new logo (please, BBC, stick with a logo for more than a few years, please?). Segun Akinola's cover of the theme is okay, though I'm sure it will grow on me.

Knicks put on a show and open season with Hawks destruction https://nyp.st/2CRcsOy

The cast of "Marvel's Daredevil" dives into what's in store for them ahead of Season 3: http://bit.ly/2J3EVRl

Astronomers have uncovered a diverse collection of exotic extrasolar planets. While no two have been exactly alike, pretty much all of them fit under general classifications.

From large to small, we have the following types (and some key details for each one)

https://thetechinside.com/new-class-of-planets-mega-earth-discovered-by-astronomers/

Double dust ring test could spot migrating planets
Source: University of Warwick
An international team of astronomers has discovered a titanic structure in the early universe, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. This galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive structure yet found at such a remote time and distance.

The team that made the discovery was led by Olga Cucciati of Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) Bologna, Italy, and project scientist Brian Lemaux in the Department of Physics, College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Davis, and included Lori Lubin, professor of physics at UC Davis. They used the VIMOS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Paranal, Chile, to identify a gigantic proto-supercluster of galaxies forming in the early universe, just 2.3 billion years after the Big Bang.

Hyperion is the largest and most massive structure to be found so early in the formation of the universe, with a calculated mass more than 1 million billion times that of the sun. This enormous mass is similar to that of the largest structures observed in the universe today, but finding such a massive object in the early universe surprised astronomers.

“This is the first time that such a large structure has been identified at such a high red shift, just over 2 billion years after the Big Bang,” Cucciati said. “Normally these kinds of structures are known at lower red shifts, which means when the universe has had much more time to evolve and construct such huge things. It was a surprise to see something this evolved when the universe was relatively young.”
Supercluster mapped in three dimensions

Located in the constellation of Sextans (The Sextant), Hyperion was identified by a novel technique developed at UC Davis to analyze the vast amount of data obtained from the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey led by Olivier Le Fèvre from Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales. The VIMOS instrument can measure the distance to hundreds of galaxies at the same time, making it possible to map the position of galaxies within the forming supercluster in three dimensions.

The team found that Hyperion has a very complex structure, containing at least seven high-density regions connected by filaments of galaxies, and its size is comparable to superclusters closer to Earth, though it has a very different structure.

“Superclusters closer to Earth tend to a much more concentrated distribution of mass with clear structural features,” Lemaux said. “But in Hyperion, the mass is distributed much more uniformly in a series of connected blobs, populated by loose associations of galaxies.”

The researchers are comparing the Hyperion findings with results from the Observations of Red shift Evolution in Large Scale Environments (ORELSE) survey, led by Lubin. The ORELSE survey uses telescopes at the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to study superclusters closer to Earth. Lubin and Lemaux are also using the Keck observatory to map out Hyperion and similar structures more completely.

The contrast between Hyperion and less distant superclusters is most likely due to the fact that nearby superclusters have had billions of years for gravity to gather matter together into denser regions — a process that has been acting for far less time in the much younger Hyperion.

Given its size so early in the history of the universe, Hyperion is expected to evolve into something similar to the immense structures in the local universe such as the superclusters making up the Sloan Great Wall or the Virgo Supercluster that contains our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

“Understanding Hyperion and how it compares to similar recent structures can give insights into how the universe developed in the past and will evolve into the future, and allows us the opportunity to challenge some models of supercluster formation,” Cucciati said. “Unearthing this cosmic titan helps uncover the history of these large-scale structures.”

Journal Reference:
O. Cucciati, B.C. Lemaux, G. Zamorani, O. Le Fevre, L.A.M. Tasca, N.P. Hathi, K-G. Lee, S. Bardelli, P. Cassata, B. Garilli, V. Le Brun, D. Maccagni, L. Pentericci, R. Thomas, E. Vanzella, E. Zucca, L.M. Lubin, R. Amorin, L.P. Cassara', A. Cimatti, M. Talia, D. Vergani, A. Koekemoer, J. Pforr, M. Salvato. The progeny of a Cosmic Titan: a massive multi-component proto-supercluster in formation at z=2.45 in VUDS. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2018
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.06073.pdf

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Doctors are worrying about the spread of rare polio like disease across the USA that starts with symptoms of a common cold. Read more about the AFM.

Ex-‘Apprentice’ contestant claims Trump is hiding info about alleged sexual misconduct https://nyp.st/2CPP1oB

Water may be more common than expected at extreme depths within Earth's lower mantle - approaching 640 kilometres and possibly beyond, a study of diamonds from across the world has found.

https://rxscience.org/existence-of-water-in-earths-lower-mantle-a-diamond-study/

If we ever decide to colonize our nearest celestial companion, these quakes could prove to be quite a problem, so understanding them is crucial.

https://todaysintech.com/how-long-moonquakes-last-and-why-it-happens/