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My first linux distro. Took a week to download and a few days to convert to about a dozen floppies... I think it was ver.1.1
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Are you passionate about our planet and how satellites help us to understand our changing world? Do you love sharing messages on social media? Then the new #EarthGroupies community at our SocialSpace event on 21 August 2018 is for you! Apply to join Europe’s Earth observation revolution!
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President Trump just cannot face the truth when it is about something that he does not want to believe.
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Apparently, Meghan Markle "Lives In Fear" That Her Dad Will Leak Their Convo If They Reconnect https://trib.al/Avv3bum
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A +Google+ post can do lots of different things depending on what you are wanting to do.
Here's a list of forty posts I made, with a little detail on each.
Here's a list of forty posts I made, with a little detail on each.
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Rachel Maddow Tells America To Wake Up: Trump’s Surrender To Putin Is ‘Worst Case Scenario’: This is a dangerous moment for the country, and the American people need to wake up and stay engaged, particularly as the midterms approach.
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NASA’s New Planet Hunter: TESS
Update: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), launched to Earth orbit April 18 by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is still undergoing commissioning tests.
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will find undiscovered worlds around bright nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess their capacity to harbor life. TESS is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission, led and operated by MIT and managed by Goddard. With the help of a gravitational assist from the Moon, the spacecraft will settle into a 13.7-day orbit around Earth.
Four wide-field cameras will give TESS a field-of-view that covers 85 percent of the entire sky. Within this vast visual perspective, the sky has been divided into 26 sectors that TESS will observe one by one. The first year of observations will map the 13 sectors encompassing the southern sky, and the second year will map the 13 sectors of the northern sky.
The spacecraft will be looking for a phenomenon known as a transit, where a planet passes in front of its star, causing a periodic and regular dip in the star’s brightness. NASA’s Kepler spacecraft used the same method to spot more than 2,600 confirmed exoplanets, most of them orbiting faint stars 300 to 3,000 light-years away
TESS will concentrate on stars less than 300 light-years away and 30 to 100 times brighter than Kepler’s targets. The brightness of these target stars will allow researchers to use spectroscopy, the study of the absorption and emission of light, to determine a planet’s mass, density and atmospheric composition. Water and other key molecules in its atmosphere can give us hints about a planet's capacity to harbor life.
Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/tess
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Duration: 4 minutes, 26 seconds
Release Date: March 28, 2018
+Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
+NASA Goddard
+NASA's Ames Research Center
+Space Telescope Science Institute
+Northrop Grumman
#NASA #Astronomy #Space #Satellite #Science #Stars #Transit #Planets #Exoplanets #TESS #Spacecraft #Astrophysics #Cosmos #Universe #Exploration #Goddard #GSFC #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #4K #UHD #HD #Video
Update: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), launched to Earth orbit April 18 by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is still undergoing commissioning tests.
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will find undiscovered worlds around bright nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess their capacity to harbor life. TESS is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission, led and operated by MIT and managed by Goddard. With the help of a gravitational assist from the Moon, the spacecraft will settle into a 13.7-day orbit around Earth.
Four wide-field cameras will give TESS a field-of-view that covers 85 percent of the entire sky. Within this vast visual perspective, the sky has been divided into 26 sectors that TESS will observe one by one. The first year of observations will map the 13 sectors encompassing the southern sky, and the second year will map the 13 sectors of the northern sky.
The spacecraft will be looking for a phenomenon known as a transit, where a planet passes in front of its star, causing a periodic and regular dip in the star’s brightness. NASA’s Kepler spacecraft used the same method to spot more than 2,600 confirmed exoplanets, most of them orbiting faint stars 300 to 3,000 light-years away
TESS will concentrate on stars less than 300 light-years away and 30 to 100 times brighter than Kepler’s targets. The brightness of these target stars will allow researchers to use spectroscopy, the study of the absorption and emission of light, to determine a planet’s mass, density and atmospheric composition. Water and other key molecules in its atmosphere can give us hints about a planet's capacity to harbor life.
Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/tess
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Duration: 4 minutes, 26 seconds
Release Date: March 28, 2018
+Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
+NASA Goddard
+NASA's Ames Research Center
+Space Telescope Science Institute
+Northrop Grumman
#NASA #Astronomy #Space #Satellite #Science #Stars #Transit #Planets #Exoplanets #TESS #Spacecraft #Astrophysics #Cosmos #Universe #Exploration #Goddard #GSFC #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #4K #UHD #HD #Video
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Who says you have to buy a mid-range phone or the latest flagship when an older device will do? #Features #Essential #EssentialPhone
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Mi Max 3 by Xiaomi is really 'MAX' with gigantic display and enormous battery backup, yet within reach.....
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The brain requires nutrients just like your heart, lungs or muscles do. But which foods are best for brain health? Check this list to see what you should eat to optimize your brain power.
http://www.thehealthypage.com/5-best-foods-brain-health/
http://www.thehealthypage.com/5-best-foods-brain-health/
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Tsundoku (Japanese: 積ん読) is acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them.
The term originated in the Meiji era (1868-1912) as Japanese slang. It combines elements of 「積んでおく」 tsunde-oku (to pile things up ready for later and leave) and 「読書」 dokusho (reading books). It is also used to refer to books ready for reading later when they are on a bookshelf. As currently written, the word combines the characters for "pile up" (積) and the character for "read" (読).
A. Edward Newton is quoted as saying: "Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access reassurance."
The term originated in the Meiji era (1868-1912) as Japanese slang. It combines elements of 「積んでおく」 tsunde-oku (to pile things up ready for later and leave) and 「読書」 dokusho (reading books). It is also used to refer to books ready for reading later when they are on a bookshelf. As currently written, the word combines the characters for "pile up" (積) and the character for "read" (読).
A. Edward Newton is quoted as saying: "Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access reassurance."
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If I can't take what happens, I'm not ready for anything. -John Cage
#lego #toy_photographers #xxsjc #womenintoyphotography #secretworldofmagnusonpark
#lego #toy_photographers #xxsjc #womenintoyphotography #secretworldofmagnusonpark
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Dunn Benson Motorsports sent a sample of the same tire to another lab, it passed https://racingnews.co/2018/07/21/bobby-pierce-comments-after-winning-the-tire-test-appeal/
Tags: #bobbypierce #dirtracing #racing
Tags: #bobbypierce #dirtracing #racing
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Too late! Moon aligned 2D with Jupiter yesterday; anyway- Kilauea's Flow has offset 2.2M earthquake.usgs.gov until August:
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Samsung Wireless Charger Duo for the Galaxy Note 9 and Galaxy Watch #GalaxyNote9 #Samsung #GalaxyWatch #SamsungNews
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How NASA’s TESS Will Hunt Exoplanets | NYT
NASA’s TESS spacecraft will spend two years searching the sky for nearby alien worlds.
Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/tess
Update: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), launched to Earth orbit April 18 by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is still undergoing commissioning tests before beginning its all-sky survey mission.
Credit: The New York Times
Duration: 4 minutes, 10 seconds
Release Date: April 16, 2018
+The New York Times
+Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
+NASA Goddard
+NASA's Ames Research Center
+Space Telescope Science Institute
+Northrop Grumman
#NASA #Astronomy #Space #Satellite #Science #Stars #Transit #Planets #Exoplanets #TESS #Spacecraft #Astrophysics #Cosmos #Universe #Exploration #Goddard #GSFC #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #NYT #HD #Video
NASA’s TESS spacecraft will spend two years searching the sky for nearby alien worlds.
Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/tess
Update: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), launched to Earth orbit April 18 by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is still undergoing commissioning tests before beginning its all-sky survey mission.
Credit: The New York Times
Duration: 4 minutes, 10 seconds
Release Date: April 16, 2018
+The New York Times
+Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
+NASA Goddard
+NASA's Ames Research Center
+Space Telescope Science Institute
+Northrop Grumman
#NASA #Astronomy #Space #Satellite #Science #Stars #Transit #Planets #Exoplanets #TESS #Spacecraft #Astrophysics #Cosmos #Universe #Exploration #Goddard #GSFC #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #NYT #HD #Video
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A Tour of Star RW Aur A | NASA Chandra
July 18, 2018: Since 1937, astronomers have puzzled over the curious variability of a young star named RW Aur A, which is located about 450 light years from Earth. Every few decades, the star's optical light has faded briefly before brightening again. In recent years, astronomers have observed the star dimming more frequently, and for longer periods.
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of scientists may have uncovered what caused the star's most recent dimming event: a collision of two infant planetary bodies. Once the planets were destroyed, the debris would have fallen onto the star, generating a thick veil of dust and gas. This would have temporarily obscured the star's light, explaining the dimming astronomers have seen.
Computer simulations have long predicted that planets can fall into a young star, but scientists have never before observed that before now. If this most recent study is correct, it would be the first time that astronomers have directly observed a young star devouring a planet.
Because the X-rays come from the hot outer atmosphere of the star, changes in the X-ray spectrum—the intensity of X-rays measured at different wavelengths—over these three observations were used to probe the density and composition of the absorbing material around the star.
The team found that the dips in both optical and X-ray light are caused by dense gas obscuring the star's light. The observation in 2017 showed strong emission from iron atoms, indicating that the disk contained at least 10 times more iron than in the 2013 observation during a bright period.
The researchers think the excess iron was created when two planetesimals, or infant planetary bodies, collided. If one or both planetary bodies are made partly of iron, their smash-up could release a large amount of iron into the star's disk and temporarily obscure its light as the material falls into the star.
This discovery gives insight into the processes affecting the development of infant planets. Undoubtedly, astronomers will continue to study this fascinating object with Chandra and other telescopes.
Credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Duration: 3 minutes, 6 seconds
Release Date: July 18, 2018
+NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
+NASA Marshall
#NASA #Astronomy #Space #Science #Star #RWAurA #Planet #Exoplanet #Chandra #Xray #Observatory #Marshall #MSFC #Cosmos #Universe #STEM #Education #Video
July 18, 2018: Since 1937, astronomers have puzzled over the curious variability of a young star named RW Aur A, which is located about 450 light years from Earth. Every few decades, the star's optical light has faded briefly before brightening again. In recent years, astronomers have observed the star dimming more frequently, and for longer periods.
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of scientists may have uncovered what caused the star's most recent dimming event: a collision of two infant planetary bodies. Once the planets were destroyed, the debris would have fallen onto the star, generating a thick veil of dust and gas. This would have temporarily obscured the star's light, explaining the dimming astronomers have seen.
Computer simulations have long predicted that planets can fall into a young star, but scientists have never before observed that before now. If this most recent study is correct, it would be the first time that astronomers have directly observed a young star devouring a planet.
Because the X-rays come from the hot outer atmosphere of the star, changes in the X-ray spectrum—the intensity of X-rays measured at different wavelengths—over these three observations were used to probe the density and composition of the absorbing material around the star.
The team found that the dips in both optical and X-ray light are caused by dense gas obscuring the star's light. The observation in 2017 showed strong emission from iron atoms, indicating that the disk contained at least 10 times more iron than in the 2013 observation during a bright period.
The researchers think the excess iron was created when two planetesimals, or infant planetary bodies, collided. If one or both planetary bodies are made partly of iron, their smash-up could release a large amount of iron into the star's disk and temporarily obscure its light as the material falls into the star.
This discovery gives insight into the processes affecting the development of infant planets. Undoubtedly, astronomers will continue to study this fascinating object with Chandra and other telescopes.
Credit: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Duration: 3 minutes, 6 seconds
Release Date: July 18, 2018
+NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
+NASA Marshall
#NASA #Astronomy #Space #Science #Star #RWAurA #Planet #Exoplanet #Chandra #Xray #Observatory #Marshall #MSFC #Cosmos #Universe #STEM #Education #Video
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#NASCAR Denny Hamlin leads second Cup practice from NHMS https://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/denny-hamlin-leads-second-cup-practice-from-nhms-1062330/ via @Motorsport_Oz
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