Today I begin my weekend stuff…..and I apologize for the corny title….I was having a time with one so I just stole one from TV……(I’m a bad boy)…..
I try to catch my readers up on different things on the weekends and today I will do some of that for the science of astronomy……
Is there a 9th planet out there…hiding in plain sight…..
The Solar System could be harbouring far more planets than we currently know about, astronomers have said. After carrying out calculations relating to the hypothetical Planet Nine, the scientists said the presence of even more planets could better explain the unusual orbits of objects at the far reaches of the Solar System.
Evidence for the existence of Planet Nine was presented by Caltech scientists earlier this year. Scientists found six trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) with highly unusual orbital paths. However, they said these paths could be explained by the presence of a massive planet (about 10 times the mass of the Earth), the gravity of which was influencing the six objects.
Source: Planet Nine is not alone: More planets predicted to be hiding at edge of Solar System
And it does not stop there…..gravity waves…..cool in any language……
Astronomers say they’ve heard the echoes of two more crashing black holes—a discovery that hints that the unseen violence of the universe may be pretty common, the AP reports. They detected a second gravitational wave. That’s the warp in the fabric in the cosmos that Albert Einstein predicted a century ago and only results only from the most massive space crashes. It’s something that can’t be seen and Einstein thought would never be detected, but scientists have found a way to hear it—first one note, in September 2015, and now two. “This is what we call gravity’s music,” a Louisiana State University physicist says.
With that second, higher pitch chirp, detected Christmas night in the United States, an international team of scientists have switched from reveling in the “aha” of first discovery to the more detailed and telling recording of the historical soundtrack of a chaotic universe. Astronomers announcing the sounds likened that soundtrack to jazz, maybe with a mix of classical music. “This event really does establish that there are quite a few merging black holes in the nearby universe,” a Penn State University physicist says. “The universe is full of these tremendous collisions that are depositing tremendous energy.” The latest sound was from a cosmic crash 1.4 billion light-years away. A light-year is 5.9 trillion miles.
Source: Sleeping Black Hole Wakes To Devour Passing Star
Now my readers are caught up with the newest discoveries in astronomy……you can sleep well tonight……but before that please go out and have a little “you” time and some enjoyment…..
Peace out
I’ll give you ‘Peace Out’
This is my piece out……(off topic somewhat per usual)
The final frontier…
The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media.
A Blow for Peace & Democracy: Why the British Said No to Europe
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/24/a-blow-for-peace-and-democracy-why-the-british-said-no-to-europe/ by @NatCounterPunch
My man John Pilger…..Auzzie…you know him.
Now, why does that photo above remind me of …..sleeping black holes…posted by me the night before the great happening…..don’t ya love….. devouring stars….?
Thanx chuq.
You be an angel……
😉
ps
House of Cards & Falling Stars…
Brexit Blowback Hits Italian and Spanish Banks
http://wolfstreet.com/2016/06/25/brexit-blowback-hits-italian-spanish-banks/
Me? I’m always on-topic because I’m not an asshole! (cough, cough, choke)
But we ALREADY have a 9th planet….it’s called Pluto! Here’s a picture.
http://www.coollady.ru/pic/0003/Pluto/19.jpg
What they’re arguing about is a 10th planet, That would make our solar system Metric…like any civilized solar system is! But while we can see & follow Pluto, this 10th “planet” is invisible. Not only might it have an irregular orbit like Pluto, it may not even originate in the solar system! Yet some people are already ready to call it a “planet”.
Anti-Plutonianism, pure & simple! What did Pluto ever do to us?
I agree Sadate!! What did Pluto every do to anybody? Besides every time I hear Planet 9, I think of Plan 9 from Outer Space….oooooo giggle….. ~~dru~~
*giggle*
🙂
Giggle for sure Penn. Perhaps the worst movie ever made, when I lived in an 1890 three story home that had been cut down to 9 units we would all get together a week or two before Halloween and watch this movie to celebrate Ed Woods’ Birthday which was in October. We couldn’t do it on Halloween because the whole group of renters would turn our “Turn of the Century” front wrap-around porch into a haunted house and we’d all be out on the porch conducting tours or scaring the bejeebers out of people. Usually all the kids loved it, it was the parents that freaked.
I still say Why demote Pluto? Next thing you know he will be getting a dishonorable discharge and we won’t even know the crime. Did he forget to salute the sun or something? ~~dru~~
I agree also chuq
Plan 9 was my backup joke, actually. (and the fact that my both my links embedded kinda tipped off the joke I went with)
But yeah, why does Pluto get stripped of its planet status when some folks are ready to grant that status to something they aren’t completely sure is even there? That’s just not right.
Sorry I stepped on your toes Sedate but…..as for the Non-Planet stuff, I seem to remember it had something to do with size or not having moons or something else. HaH never say I’m not informative!
I think I’ll Google it (yes I guess this is now a verb)…well someday, if I remember, if I have time…..sigh…
It is very hard work just sitting around “Goofying off” Yours in punmanship. ~~dru~~
Hey I looked it up (w)right now. It seems our little Pluto (god of the underworld) forgot to vacuum. ~~dru~~
No, you didn’t step on my toes at all. Just the opposite. You took my “B Option”, (It lost in a coin toss) so I didn’t have to do it and look like I was trying to hog all the comedic glory.
(Plan 9 rocks!)
…Giggle – Giggle…
Hahaha, I’ll cough & cough & choke you……thinking ‘outside the box’ is a prerequisite these days…ass hole indeed!
Get back to your border Canuckistani……
;(
Meanwhile,I’m going back to gigoids blog….since he is completely ‘Off Topic’ himself!
In the meantime don’t take this personally…
The Universe Is Composed Of:
> 13% Electrons
> 13% Protons
> 14% Neutrons
> 60% Morons
— A very Smart Bee….
*grin*
That’s right. Shit on the lowly “colonial”. Just like India, only replace the heat with cold.
Canuckistan left your “common market” a long time ago and you never see us prattling on about it in completely unrelated blog topics…especially when there are regularly occurring topics here that are dedicated to it.
And I thought Brits were supposed to be polite. But you’re acting like an American…barging in, acting like you own all the topics and then attacking anyone who points it out. Hmm, maybe you will make a good American colony.
No,like an Auzzie…
As for the common market we should never have have gone in…in the first place…kudos to the Canadians for leaving!
I lived in Canada for a while…lovely country.
I thought they reclassified Pluto as a Planetoid or something just as silly….
“Dwarf Planet” Like Billy Barney, or Hervé Villechaize.
“The spaceship, boss! The spaceship!”
Should that not be “small planet” as not to insult the others?
Thanx for the Ping….chuq