Jumat, 22 Juli 2011

Uncovering the History of Galaxies

In visible light images, more than a thousand galaxies seen in the volume that is nottrue because only a fraction is clearly visible at a distance of about 20 million light-years away in the Coma Galaxy Cluster. However, infrared images of the ComaCluster is now used to add thousands more to calculate the Coma galaxies in the form of dwarf galaxies that were previously undiscovered.

This composite combines infrared Spitzer Space Telescope image data (red and green) with visible light Sloan Sky Survey data (blue) to the center of the cluster.More than 1 degree wide, the field is dominated by two giant elliptical galaxies in blue. However, many small green spots were identified as dwarf galaxies, roughlycomparable to the Small Magellanic Cloud. dwarf galaxies are expected to formfirst and then become the building blocks for larger galaxies. Coma Cluster is nowable to catch in an area of ​​320 million light-years away.

More than 12 billion years of cosmic history is displayed in the view, full-colorpanorama of thousands of galaxies.
This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, made ​​of mosaic taken in September and October 2009 with the Wide Field Camera 3 and the newly installed in 2004 with the Advanced Camera Survey and include most of the areasouth of the census of galaxies called the Great Observatories Origins DeepSurvey, a study to explore the space with several observatories to track the evolution of galaxies.

The image shows a galaxy that appears increasingly chaotic in any previous era,galaxies grow through accretion, collisions and mergers, which range from maturespirals and ellipticals in the foreground galaxy of irregular shape, most of whomhave a considerable distance to be captured by infrared camera galaxies aresmaller are considered the building blocks of galaxies are greater that we see today.

The picture shows thousands of galaxies over most of the history of the universe.Nearby galaxies visible in the foreground of the emitted light was observed to formabout a billion years ago. Most distant galaxies, some red spots are very faint, theyappear more than 13 billion years ago, or about 650 million years after the BigBang. This mosaic piece stretches the same room with about a third of the diameter of the full moon.

Stars at the Galactic Center

Center of our Milky Way Galaxy is hidden from the eyes of optical telescopesbecause it is covered by a cloud of dust and gas. But, in this stunning, the camera's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope's penetrating a lot of dust, revealing many starsin the crowded center of the galaxy.P
A mosaic of smaller images, cool stars in bluish color. reddish color is a shiningcloud of dust associated with young, hot stars in stellar nurseries. The galactic center lies some 26,000 light-years, toward the constellation Sagittarius. At that distance, this image covers about 900 light years.

Triangulum Galaxy

Triangulum Galaxy is located nearly 3 million light years from Earth. And, in a study that push the limits of current observations might be from Earth, a team of NASAand European scientists record the "fingerprint" of the molecular mysteries of theTriangulum Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy.

Figuring out which molecules leave these instructions, known as the "spreadinterstellar bands", a puzzle that initially seem simple but it's been resolved for nearly a hundred years. The answer is expected to help explain how stars, planetsand the formation of life.

Rabu, 13 April 2011

Skin-walker

In some Native American legends, a skin-walker is a person with the supernatural ability to turn into any animal he or she desires, though they first must be wearing a pelt of the animal, to be able to transform. Similar lore can be found in cultures throughout the world and is often referred to as shapeshifting by anthropologists.

Navajo skinwalker: the yee naaldlooshii

Possibly the best documented skinwalker beliefs are those relating to the Navajo yee naaldlooshii (literally "with it, he goes on all fours" in the Navajo language). A yee naaldlooshii is one of several varieties of Navajo witch (specifically an ’ánt’įįhnii or practitioner of the Witchery Way, as opposed to a user of curse-objects (’adagÄ…sh) or a practitioner of Frenzy Way (’azhįtee)). Technically, the term refers to an ’ánt’įįhnii who is using his (rarely her) powers to travel in animal form. In some versions men or women who have attained the highest level of priesthood then commit the act of killing an immediate member of their family, and then have thus gained the evil powers that are associated with skinwalkers.
The ’ánt’įįhnii are human beings who have gained supernatural power by breaking a cultural taboo. Specifically, a person is said to gain the power to become a yee naaldlooshii upon initiation into the Witchery Way. Both men and women can become ’ánt’įįhnii and therefore possibly skinwalkers, but men are far more numerous. It is generally thought that only childless women can become witches.
Although it is most frequently seen as a coyote, wolf, owl, fox, or crow, the yee naaldlooshii is said to have the power to assume the form of any animal they choose, depending on what kind of abilities they need. Witches use the form for expedient travel, especially to the Navajo equivalent of the 'Black Mass', a perverted song (and the central rite of the Witchery Way) used to curse instead of to heal. They also may transform to escape from pursuers.
Some Navajo also believe that skinwalkers have the ability to steal the "skin" or body of a person. The Navajo believe that if you lock eyes with a skinwalker they can absorb themselves into your body. It is also said that skinwalkers avoid the light and that their eyes glow like an animal's when in human form and when in animal form their eyes do not glow as an animal's would.
A skinwalker is usually described as naked, except for an animal skin. Some Navajos describe them as a mutated version of the animal in question. The skin may just be a mask, like those which are the only garment worn in the witches' song.
Because animal skins are used primarily by skinwalkers, the pelt of animals such as bears, coyotes, wolves, and cougars are strictly tabooed. Sheepskin and buckskin are probably two of the few hides used by Navajos; the latter is used only for ceremonial purposes.
Often, Navajos will tell of their encounter with a skinwalker, though there is a lot of hesitancy to reveal the story to non-Navajos, or (understandably) to talk of such frightening things at night. Sometimes the skinwalker will try to break into the house and attack the people inside, and will often bang on the walls of the house, knock on the windows, and climb onto the roofs. Sometimes, a strange, animal-like figure is seen standing outside the window, peering in. Other times, a skinwalker may attack a vehicle and cause a car accident. The skinwalkers are described as being fast, agile, and impossible to catch. Though some attempts have been made to shoot or kill one, they are not usually successful. Sometimes a skinwalker will be tracked down, only to lead to the house of someone known to the tracker. As in European werewolf lore, sometimes a wounded skinwalker will escape, only to have someone turn up later with a similar wound which reveals them to be the witch. It is said that if a Navajo was to know the person behind the skinwalker they had to pronounce the full name, and about three days later that person would either get sick or die for the wrong that they have committed.
Legend has it, skinwalkers can have the power to read human thoughts. They also possess the ability to make any human or animal noise they choose. A skinwalker may use the voice of a relative or the cry of an infant to lure victims out of the safety of their homes.
Skinwalkers use charms to instill fear and control in their victims. Such charms include human bone beads launched by blowguns, which embed themselves beneath the surface of the skin without leaving a mark, and human bone dust which can cause paralysis and heart failure. Skinwalkers have been known to find traces of their victim's hair, wrap it around a pot shard, and place it into a tarantula hole. Even live rattlesnakes are known to be used as charms by the skinwalker.
According to Navajo myth, the only way to successfully shoot a skinwalker is to dip bullets into white ash. Often people attempting to shoot a skinwalker find their weapon jamming or frozen. Other times the rounds fire but have no effect.

History of the skinwalker

There are a few legends to the roots of the skinwalker. One such comes from the long walk. During this time, Skinwalkers would shapeshift to flee the horrors of living under the torture of the white man. It made them faster and the soldiers were unable to detect them running.
Another was that the skinwalker was started by the poor community in the old days. At night a skinwalker would dress up in ceremonial dress and go from door to door. The more well-off people would leave something outside their hogan for the skinwalker. Eventually with times changing people forgot about the skinwalker and stopped leaving things for them. This led to resentment among the poor and they turned on those who forgot them. And now they exist as a hateful people out for revenge.
Finally there are those who tell of the skinwalker as a medicine man. It was started by the Lakota, when they would dress up like wolves to hunt the bison. The tradition made its way to the Navajo people and it was adopted by the medicine men. However, in this legend it does not explain how the Skinwalker became full of hate for his fellow tribe.
Many Navajos believe the Anasazi had a lot to do with the witchcraft that runs in their community. Thus, Anasazi ruins and graves are strictly taboo. It's said that a skinwalker will use the bones of the Anasazi for their charms.
According to Raymond Friday Locke in the Book of the Navajo. the practice of animal emulation began with a hunter who thought of using the head of a deer so that he could approach them more closely to kill them. He was unsuccessful until the Gods came and showed him not only how to make the mask but how to emulate the animal. The practice of wearing the skins of the deer and emulating them began for the purpose of hunting. Locke also links the practice of witchcraft involving animal emulation and shape shifting to the Navajo folk tale of Coyote's wife. Believing that Coyote had been murdered, his wife takes the form of a bear and begins to curse and slay her husband's killers with witchcraft. The association of skin-walkers with Coyote is a prevalent belief in both their common usage of coyote skins and reputations of being tricksters.

 


 

Minggu, 10 April 2011

Similar Planet Earth "Super Earth 'found




Earth-like planet is often called "Super Earth" by the astronomer

Astronomers at Garcing, Germany, April 25, Yesterday, announcing the success they found a planet Earth that have similar ma outside the Solar system orbiting the star Matahari.Planet they will be called Gliese 581.
The temperature of the planet is expected to "friendly" really the same as those of us living beings, namely 0 to 40 degrees Celsius.
According to the astronomers, with a temperature that much, chances are there have a source of water on its surface, of course, water in liquid form, considering the planet's temperature tsb temperature of not less than the freezing point of water and very far from the boiling point of water.
The location of its own that observed from Telskop ESO 3.6 m in Chilie, located about approximately 20.5 light years from our solar system.



Orbit: 13 days
Temperature: 00-40 degrees Celsius
Distance: 20.5 light years
Constellation: Libra

Size of Planets that have not been given the name of the earth 1.5 times larger and its surface is estimated to consist of rocks.
To know there are signs of life or not on that planet, the scientists now have placed a special telescope to monitor it.
Uniqueness of this new planet is the orbit of the star Gliese 581, which only takes 13 days, which means that one year on the planet is equal to 13 days on Earth.



Gliese 581, is much cooler and dimmer than the Sun

Gliese 581 has been identified by the facility European Southern Observatory at La Silla in the Atacama desert, has a size smaller than the Sun, much cooler, and do not have as good as sun light.
At least there are 3 tables which rotate around the planet Gliese 581, the first Earth-like planets yes earlier, the second a besarnnya palenet about 15 times the mass of the earth, and the third 8 times larger than Earth and jararaknya farthest from Gliese 581.
Course of this discovery, the scientists put a lot of hope at tu planet.Katanya can make a backup shelter for humans if the earth have started cranky! weqs, but the problem there rises what? light wrote that cepetnya for mercy butuhin time to reach 20.5 years there (the calculation of the solar system)

Mystery of Mothman



Mothman is a name commonly used to describe / describe a mysterious creature with features half human stature (adult) and half-bats (but not Batman or Dracula lo), red-eyed, his whole body covered with a thin black feathers, have pair of legs like humans, but has no hands, organs they will be replaced by a pair of wide wing-like kelelawar.Mothman also often depicted not have a neck, then connects the head and body straight away.Surely some of the descriptions of the above based on reports from several witnesses who claimed to have seen this creature.
Mothman own name began to emerge and bloom discussed by the Community United States by the end of 1966, began at which time a group of teenagers who are on vacation pedasaan a region on the outskirts of Sacramento,said had been shocked by the presence of a creature that hideous creature perched old roof of a building unoccupied at the time of their party bonfire.According to their testimony, they will be very creepy creature form and appears to feel janggal.Walupun see dimly, we understand that the creature is not a human figure or a bat.His eyes emit red light, as if he was referring to dislike the presence of the teens on the ground.Some teenagers had dared them to throw him out, with a torch and some coal they approached.They tried to drive out the creature in a way they will be a few pieces of coal melamparkan towards it, and moments later, the creature was a loud noise before flying ahirnya leave them.
Clendin, West Virginia 12 November 1967, five male workers who were preparing a grave in the local TPU also were surprised by the presence of the creature.They saw a dark human form and has a wing-body, out of a tree and then flying right above them.


Penampakan Mothman disuatu jembatan diwilayah Rusell,Kentucky thn 2003 Kemarin

On 15 November 1985 evening, two young couples, Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette, When were together mengenadarai a car across an area of ​​the former TNT plant relics of World War II, they could see several colored rays red among the bushes diareal about Factory.Out of curiosity, a moment later they stopped the car, and a few moments watching jet-rays emitted strange.But immediately they were shocked, it was the rays are several pairs of eyes of some creatures that come out of the bushes.Roger said, about three big red-eyed freak with an average height of adult humans and has a wing out of the bushes and then walked toward their car.Without thinking anymore, Roger and then plugging the gas pedal the car and took away his car away from that place.Before the events experienced by some couples, the region's former TNT plant they will be, local people often find a few odd figures that often appear during the evening.Usually they fly some time around some factory chimneys, and then go away.
Perhaps the most frightening story experienced by mid-year 1993 Raymond Wamsley.di ago, where there has been a very scary incident dikediamannya region of Virginia.Narrated, one night he saw a pair of light rays of red light on top of a tree that grows dipekarangannya.For a time he had thought as he continued to see the rays through the window of her room which gelap.Didalam his mind, he asked whether the rays are on earth?But moments later he was surprised, it might not be mempercayainya.Ternyata rays actually a pair of eyes from the strange winged creature that some time ago was in the tree and then flew down the right dipekarangnya.With half the state does not believe, he witnessed a strange winged creature the middle of eating a dog with a violent.Shortly thereafter, the creature flew out of pekarangnnya by leaving the remains of a dog he had eaten.
Until now, stories about Mothman's presence are still emerging, even in some countries outside the United States-even Mothman reportedly also often muncul.Pada ago in 1997, the story of the Mothman sightings in the UK and Ukraine also were heard.



From a row of creature-beings of the world Cryptozoology, maybe Mothmanlah that can not be explained in the Logic of Scientific and think about the portrayal of her body that feel very, very janggal.Namun, many people view the Mothman as stealth and many linked with some practice black magic.

Kamis, 07 April 2011

Steve Jobs biography -The founder of Apple Computer


Steven Paul Jobs (born in San Francisco, California, United States, February 24, 1955, age 54 years) is the leader of Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak and the main character in the computer industry. As co-founder (with Steve Wozniak) Apple Computer in 1976, he popularized the concept of home computer with the Apple II. Later, he was one person who first realized the potential to commercialize a graphical user interface (graphical user interface) and a mouse that was developed at Palo Alto Research Center Xerox company, and then the technology is applied into the Apple Macintosh.


Jobs also led the Pixar Animation Studios, a leading company in the world of computer animated big screen. has become a multi-millionaire before the age of 30 years. Starting with NeXT company to make the education system at an affordable price, find that selling software is better than selling hardware.
Born in San Francisco by her mother Joanne Simpson and her father Abdulfattah Jandali guest student from Syria who later became a professor of political science. Since the baby he was adopted Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara County California. Adoptive parents is what gives the name of Steve Jobs. Biological parents later married and gave her younger sister named Mona Simpson is now famous as a novelist.
He passed the junior high and high school in Curpetino, Califonia, often after school hours to teach at Hewlett Packard Company in Palo Alto, California. So no wonder that soon after he and Steve Wozniak quickly became a part-time workers in this company. In 1972, Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California and was accepted at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but expelled / dropped out after one semester. But he immediately signed up to Reed College, one of the things learned here calligraphy. "If I was never excluded from the study only one semester may not be current Mac has multiple typefaces or fonts are proportional," he said.
In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of "Homebrew Computer Club" with Steve Wozniak. He and Wozniak together to work on Atari Inc.., A manufacturer of the famous computer game, where he served as a game designer. The motivation then was to collect money for a spiritual journey to India.



Jobs then traveled to India for spiritual enlightenment with his friend at Reed College, Daniel Kottke, who later became the first Apple employee. Back from India he became a Buddhist with hair shaved / shaven and wearing traditional Indian clothing (monk?). During this period he practiced psychedelics (a kind of meditation, then Jobs are often considered weird, because walking barefoot over the snow-consciousness is a kind of meditation). These are two or three most important things in life that he's ever done in his life.

In 1976, Jobs, age 21, and Wozniak, 26, founded Apple Computer Co.. in the Jobs family garage. Personal computer Jobs and Wozniak introduced the Apple I. The given name The computer was sold for U.S. $ 666.66, in reference to the phone number of Wozniak's Dial-A-Joke machine, which ended in -6666.

In 1977, Jobs and Wozniak introduced the Apple II, which became a huge success in the home market and give Apple a big influence on the personal computer industry is still young. In 1980, Apple Computer became a publicly traded corporation, and with a successful initial stock offerings, Jobs added. That same year, Apple Computer released the Apple III, but less success.

Along with the development of Apple Computer, the company began looking for new leadership to help manage its expansion. In 1983, Jobs lured John Sculley, the Pepsi-Cola company, to lead Apple Computer, with a challenge, "Do you want to sell carbonated drinks in your life, or will you change the world?" (Do You Want to just sell sugared water for the rest of your life, or do you Want to change the world?) That same year, Apple also released Apple Lisa that technologically advanced at that time but failed to reach buyers in the market share .
Year 1984 be the year of introduction of the Macintosh, the first computer sold to the market by presenting a graphical user interface features. Mac Development coined by Jef Raskin and the team uses technology that has been developed not by Apple, as in Xerox's PARC, but have not been commercialized. The success of Apple's Macintosh makes abandoning the Apple II for the Mac product line, which continues to this day.
Although Jobs is very persuasive and charismatic for Apple, Many consider him as a leader who easily changes his mind and beremosi high. In 1985, after much cause leadership problem within Apple, Sculley Jobs dismissed from his post and expelled from Apple.
Once out of Apple, Jobs founded another computer company, NeXT Computer is like Lisa, NeXT classified as very advanced in terms of technology, but never became famous, except in the scope of scientific research. (Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web system at CERN using a NeXT workstation.) But NeXT help advance technologies such us object-oriented programs, PostScript, and magneto-optical devices.
In 1996, Apple bought NeXT for U.S. $ 402 million, and brought Jobs back to the company that he founded. In 1997 he became temporary leader at Apple after Gil Amelio's departure.
With the purchase of NeXT, much of the NeXT technology applied to the products made by Apple, especially NeXTSTEP, which evolved into Mac OS X. Jobs Under the guidance of the company increased its sales after introducing the iMac. iMac is the first computer sold with emphasis on their appearance (although the iMac is also much use of advanced technology in it). Since then, the appearance of an attractive and well-known brands that has provided benefits for Apple.
Recently, Apple began to develop wings. With the introduction of the iPod portable music devices, software iTunes, and iTunes Music Store, the company is doing a breakthrough in the field of personal electronic equipment and music online. While stimulating innovation, Jobs also reminds his men that, "a true artist to fruition," (real artists ship) that the intention is, producing works in a timely manner is as important as product innovation and telling.
Jobs worked at Apple for several years with a salary of U.S. $ 1/tahun. Hence he is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "leader of the company with the lowest salary" (Lowest Paid Chief Executive Officer). After Apple started to make a profit reselling the company was releasing his title as interim leader. Today at Apple's earnings were U.S. $ 219 million, according to an article written on the Bloomberg site in 2003.
Jobs is admired for his skills to convince people and become a superior salesman, who is often called the reality distortion field and this was evident when he gave the keynote speeches at Apple Expos. However, persistence has also been invited bad luck. Violence head may have caused Apple to lose a golden opportunity to become leaders in the field of personal computers. Keenganannya to let other companies make compatible with Macintosh computers that Apple had to swallow defeat resulted in the capture of existing computer users. Hardware and software company finally decided to adopt the IBM PC platform that uses Microsoft's operating system. Microsoft later also catch up with Apple by developing a graphical user interface made their own, Microsoft Windows.
In 1986, Jobs founded (with Edwin Catmull) Pixar, a computer animation studio in Emeryville, California. The company was founded from what was formerly Lucasfilm's computer graphics division, which Jobs bought from its founder, George Lucas, U.S. $ 10 million. A decade later, Pixar developed into a popular and successful with the breakthrough film Toy Story. Since then Pixar has produced films that won the Academy Award of Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Because of his leadership at Pixar and also kemapanannya at Apple, Jobs is considered by many observers to the entertainment industry one replacement candidate Michael Eisner as the leader of The Walt Disney Company, which distributes and finance films made by Pixar.