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Showing posts with label Comet Collisions Every Six Seconds Explain 17-Year-Old Stellar Mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comet Collisions Every Six Seconds Explain 17-Year-Old Stellar Mystery. Show all posts

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Comet Collisions Every Six Seconds Explain 17-Year-Old Stellar Mystery


Comet Collisions Every Six Seconds Explain 17-Year-Old Stellar Mystery

For millions of years ScienceDaily (8 November, 2012) - Every six comets have been invited to star in the constellation Cetus 49 CETI, which appears near naked eye with each other colliding.
During the last three decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of disks of dust around stars, but only two - 49 CETI is one - has been found that large amounts of gas in the circuit.
Young stars, a million years old, orbiting disk of dust and gas, but the gas within a few million years and almost always goes to dissipate within about 10 million years. But 49 CETI, which is considered adequate if older, still being a great quantity of carbon monoxide molecules in the gas orbited, after long must the gas dissipated.
"We believe that now 49 CETI 40 million years old, and mystery how the world is an otherwise normal star that is older than the surrounding gas can be there," Benjamin Zuckerman, UCLA Professor of Physics and Astronomy and the research, which was recently published in the Astrophysical Journal, co-author. "This is the oldest star that we know of with enough gas."
Zuckerman and his co-author Inseok Song, University of Georgia assistant professor of physics and astronomy suggest that the Sun's Kuiper Belt is a mysterious gas 49 CETI, which is located outside is like a very large scale around disk-shaped area is on the orbit of Neptune.
Including the dwarf planet Pluto Kuiper belt objects are different, making a tenth of the total land mass is a large scale. But when the earth was formed, astronomers say, the Kuiper belt mass is expected to be about 40 times larger than the earth, most of the initial mass is lost in the past 4.5 billion years.
4,000 times the mass of the Kuiper belt - on the contrary, the Kuiper belt analogue class now around 49 CETI 400 is the land mass of the people.
"Comets orbit the star 49 CETI and the age is estimated around 30 million years hundreds of trillions of trillions of comets, Imagine the size of the UCLA campus - 49 CETI around the circle - about 1 mile in diameter by Zuckerman I asked another bashing, ". The possibility that young comet comets in our solar system generally contains more carbon monoxide to carbon monoxide when they collide, escapes as a gas, gas seen around these two stars the incredible number of collisions between comets is the result. Is.
Zuckerman Sierra Nevada mountains of southern Spain and two colleagues in 1995 using a radio telescope, discovered gas 49 CETI classes, but actual gas for 17 years was unknown until now.

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Science World (Vancouver)

Science World (Vancouver)


Science World at Telus World of Science
Science World (Vancouver) is located in Vancouver
Location in Vancouver
Established 1977
Location Vancouver, British Columbia
Coordinates 49.273251°N 123.103767°W
Type Science museum
Visitor figures 650,000 annually
Website http://www.scienceworld.ca/
Science World at Telus World of Science, Vancouver is a science centre run by a not-for-profit organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is located at the end of False Creek, and features many permanent interactive exhibits and displays, as well as areas with varying topics throughout the years.
The building's former name, Science World, is still the name of the organization. The building's name change to the Telus World of Science became official on July 20, 2005 following a $9-million donation to the museum from Telus.[1] The official name of the science centre was subsequently changed to "Telus World of Science", although it is still routinely referred to as "Science World" by the public. Prior to the building behing handed over to Science World by the City, it was the as Expo Centre during Expo 86. When Science World is operating out of the dome, it is referred to as Science World at TELUS World of Science, and when it is out in the community it is simply Science World.

Science World outside of TELUS World of Science

Science World also runs programs at Aberdeen Centre in Richmond, BC, and around the province, including locations as remote as Haida Gwaii and Ladysmith.[citation needed]

History

In 1977, Barbara Brink ran mobile hands-on exhibits known as the Extended I around the Lower Mainland. Later, the temporary Arts, Sciences & Technology Centre opened in downtown Vancouver on January 15, 1982 attracting over 600,000 visitors. Another 400,000 benefited from the centre’s outreach programs, which were delivered around the province.
When Vancouver was awarded to host the transportation-themed 1986 World's Fair (Expo 86), a Buckminster Fuller inspired geodesic dome was designed to serve as the fair's Expo Centre with construction beginning in 1984 and being completed by early 1985. After Expo closed its gates in October of that year, an intensive lobbying campaign was launched to secure the landmark building, relocate the "Arts, Sciences and Technology Centre" into the post-expo dome, and convert the Expo Centre into Science World. With much government backing, the dome was obtained from the province and a massive fund-raising campaign ensued. Donations from the federal, provincial and municipal governments, the GVRD, the private sector, foundations, and individuals contributed $19.1 million to build an addition to the Expo Centre, redesign the interior and fabricate exhibits. In 1988, in a four month preview, over 310,000 visitors came to see the new building. A year later, The 400 seat OMNIMAX theatre in the upper section of the dome was opened, extending upon the 3D IMAX theatre which was built in 1986 for the Expo "Transitions" film series.[2]
The centre entered its first title sponsorship agreement with Alcan Inc. in 1996, renaming its OMNIMAX Theatre the Alcan OMNIMAX Theatre. Alcan has since decided to sponsor the organization in different ways and the theatre has returned to its original name, the OMNIMAX Theatre. In January 2005, the building was officially renamed "Telusphere" as part of an agreement where Telus gave a $9-million donation in return for the "naming rights" of the building. This new name proved universally unpopular. In the summer of 2005, Telus and Science World officially changed the name of the building to the Telus World of Science. This maintained consistency with other "Telus World of Science" centres in Calgary and Edmonton that were named in the meantime. This name change has not affected the nearby SkyTrain station and the general public still refers to it as Science World.
During the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Science World was transformed into the Russky Dom (also known as Sochi.ru World)[3], which profiled plans for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. From February 12 to 28, 2010, the general public was allowed into the Russky Dom from noon until 5 p.m. In the evenings, parties were held in the Russky Dom for accredited guests.
Science World underwent renovation after the 2010 Winter Olympics. The indoor renovations are complete as of mid-2012 and the adjacent Ken Spencer Science Park is scheduled to be finished construction in late 2012.[4]