Wednesday, December 4, 2024

James Webb Space Telescope delivers amazing view of spiral galaxy - See in 4K - YouTube - Space.com - astrophysics

First is shown spiral galaxy NGC 2090 by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Next is shown NGC 2090 by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope usinf its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIDI) and Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam).NGC is about 37 million light years from Earth in the constellation Columbia,so right next door.

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Justice and the Law:How Donald Trump’s favorite children's book author, Kash Patel got tapped to lead the FBI - YouTube - MSNBC

Deadline White House with Nicolle Wallace and Mary McCord,Former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security*Commentary:Kash Patel is a MAGA goon,QAnon conspiracy theorist and election denier who would destroy the FBI and our National Security along with it.He would seek to prosecute journalists and Trump's other perceived enemies in Trump's fascist vendetta.

Monday, December 2, 2024

Take a 360 Tour of COBE's Cosmic Baby Picture - YouTube - NASA Goddard - cosmology

The NASA COBE satellite operated from 1989-1993.It took the first baby picture of the universe,revealing slight temperature variations when the universe was just 380,000 years old.In the aftermath of the Big Bang,the universe was hotter and much smaller than it is now.As time went on,it cooled off and expanded to a huge extent,using the dark matter and energy residue of the Big Bang.This image shows the entire sky using four years of observations using COBE's Differential Microwave Radiometer.The central plane of our Milky Way galaxy runs across the middle and its center is marked by a white X.Red indicates hotter regions,blue colder.The fluctuations are very faint,varying by only one part in a 100,000 from the average temperature.They represent density variations in the early universe thought to have given rise to the structures that we see today.After stripping away foreground emmission arising from dust,hot gas and charged particles interacting with magnetic fields in our galaxy,COBE data revealed tiny variations in the temperature of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)-the oldest light in the universe-for the first time.*Cosmology is the study of the origin,evolution and structures of the universe.*Credit:NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt,Maryland*Image credit:NASA/COBE Science Team*Narrator:Thomas Essinger Hileman (NASA/GSFC)*Science Writer:Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park)*Text by NASA Goddard and edited and augmented by Andrew Taylor

Sunday, December 1, 2024

“A great big MAGA science experiment’: Trump’s health agency choices shock medical professionals - YouTube - MSNBC - political science

Deadline White House with Nicolle Wallace and Dr.Micheal Anderson,a critical care physician and pediatrician*Commentary:It is completely irresponsible of Trump to appoint these merchants of death.They are MAGA kooks,quacks and creeps.