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India’s Mars mission: A Picture that Spoke 1,000 words

When the crowded command control room of India's Mars mission exploded into applause after it successfully put a satellite into orbit around the Red Planet, photographer Manjunath Kiran of the AFP news agency clicked this remarkable image of scienti...

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India’s Mars mission a step closer to success with engine test

India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C25), carrying the Mars orbiter, blasts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, about 100 km (62 miles) north of the southern Indian city of Chennai November 5, 2013. REUTERS/B...

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Galactic Mashup ~ Only 5 Billion Years Until The Milky Way Collides with Andromeda ~ Video

washingtonpost.comScientists already knew that big galaxies like to chow down on smaller ones -- which is just a cute way of saying that when they collide, the larger galaxy gains the mass of the smaller one. According to a new study published ...

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Rosetta’s Comet Releasing Jets of Water

This artist's impression shows the Rosetta orbiter at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The image is not to scale. Image Credit: ESA/ATG Medialabjpl.nasa.govComet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is releasing the Earthly equivalent of two glasses of water i...

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Study concludes there are 219 million stars in the Milky Way Galaxy

sciencedaily.comA new catalogue of the visible part of the northern part of our home Galaxy, the Milky Way, includes no fewer than 219 million stars. Geert Barentsen of the University of Hertfordshire led a team who assembled the catalogue in a ten...

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Scientists discover first evidence of water ice clouds on an object outside of our solar system


Discovery! First Water Ice Clouds Found Beyond Our Solar System
This artist's conception shows a newfound object named WISE J085510.83-071442.5, the coldest known brown dwarf.


Washington, D.C.—A team of scientists led by Carnegie's Jacqueline Faherty has discovered the first evidence of water ice clouds on an object outside of our own Solar System. Water ice clouds exist on our own gas giant planets--Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune--but have not been seen outside of the planets orbiting our Sun until now. Their findings are published today by The Astrophysical Journal Letters and are available here.

At the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, Faherty, along with a team including Carnegie's Andrew Monson, used the FourStar near infrared camera to detect the coldest brown dwarf ever characterized. Their findings are the result of 151 images taken over three nights and combined. The object, named WISE J085510.83-071442.5, or W0855, was first seen by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Explorer mission and published earlier this year. But it was not known if it could be detected by Earth-based facilities.

"This was a battle at the telescope to get the detection," said Faherty. 

Chris Tinney, an Astronomer at the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, UNSW Australia and co-author on the result stated: "This is a great result. This object is so faint and it’s exciting to be the first people to detect it with a telescope on the ground."

Brown dwarfs aren't quite very small stars, but they aren't quite giant planets either. They are too small to sustain the hydrogen fusion process that fuels stars. Their temperatures can range from nearly as hot as a star to as cool as a planet, and their masses also range between star-like and giant planet-like. They are of particular interest to scientists because they offer clues to star-formation processes. They also overlap with the temperatures of planets, but are much easier to study since they are commonly found in isolation. 

W0855 is the fourth-closest system to our own Sun, practically a next-door neighbor in astronomical distances. A comparison of the team's near-infrared images of W0855 with models for predicting the atmospheric content of brown dwarfs showed evidence of frozen clouds of sulfide and water. 

"Ice clouds are predicted to be very important in the atmospheres of planets beyond our Solar System, but they've never been observed outside of it before now," Faherty said. 

The paper's other co-author is Andrew Skemer of the University of Arizona. 
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This work was supported by the Australian Research Council. It made use of data from the NASA WISE mission, which was a joint project of the University of California Los Angeles and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech, funded by NASA. It also made use of the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech, under contract with NASA.

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Galactic Federation of Light Master Kuthumi May-05-2013

Natalie Glasson — Master Kuthumi: Clearing a Pathway for Love
Thanks to Wes Annac: http://aquariusparadigm.com/2013/05/20/natalie-glasson-master-kuthumi-clearing-a-pathway-for-love/

From the expanse and warmth of my heart I extend my love to you

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Galactic Federation of Light Archangel Michael April-26-2013

Spiritual Protection for the New Age by Archangel Michael Channelled through Natalie Glasson www.omn.org
Thanks to Méline Lafont: http://pleiadedolphininfos.blogspot.com/2013/04/spiritual-protection-for-new-age-by.html#more

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TO REPRESENT THE KING OF KINGS

The ORB OF THOTH at the centre of our circular cube works. Now our circular staircase from the basement to the Power Tower is complete. The Orb of Thoth which sits in the inner circle is like a Universal TV and Radio Station, dispensing the condensed e...

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Laura Tyco-My Feelings on Linda Dillon’s Space Trip on the Neptuno

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Dear Steve,

I have enjoyed your website for over 2 years, your research work, your articles and the selection of channeled messages and inspirational writers such as David Wilcock on the 2012 Scenario. I have been a mode...

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DECEMBER 20th GALACTIC CENTRE CONJUNCT THE SUN AND ELTANIN

soluntra king Eltanin the brightest star in Draco and the dragons head is conjunct the Sun, the day the Sun is conjunct the Galactic Centre at 26 degree Sagittarius on December 20th each year. The Galactic Centre is the cross over point, black hole wh...

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The other, forgotten, 9/11 tragedy

contribution by Dan Smith “That 11 September, that lethal Tuesday morning, I awoke with dread to the sound of planes flying above my house,” wrote Ariel Dorfman in the New Statesman recently. “When, an hour later, I saw smoke billowing from the ...

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Monthly Astro-Forecasts September 2011

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a message from Sarah-Jane Grace

Friday, 2 September, 2011

Message for September 2011

Welcome back. The intensity of inner shifts continues to wreak a great deal of havoc within over the coming weeks, but there is a sense ...

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