Juno probe to graze Jupiter on Saturday Strap in for a bumpy ride, Earthlings: the Juno probe will make its closest approach to Jupiter on Saturday when it comes within just 4,200km of the gas giant's uppermost clouds. Juno made it to Jupiter in early July but was busy entering orbit and fiddling with its rockets so didn't do much more than shoot some rather nice …
Scientists find a galaxy with roughly the same mass as the Milky Way, but it 99% of it is dark matter!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/08/25/a-new-class-of-galaxy-has-been-discovered-one-made-almost-entirely-of-dark-matter/?tid=pm_pop_b
Suddenly, swallowing another swig of beer, van Dokkum realized he might know of a way out of this predicament. He’d made a hobby of wildlife photography (he recently published a collection of photos of dragonflies), and kept up with camera trends. “I had heard about these awesome new telephoto lenses,” he says. The Japanese optics corporation Canon had started producing high-end lenses coated with a proprietary film of nano-sized cones. By deflecting errant light away from a camera’s detector, Canon claimed, the cones effectively eliminated the effects of scattering. Photographers could now get crisp, true-to-life images—no more ghosts or flares.
Nice!
In a snowy parking lot filled with amateur stargazers, they attached the lens to a camera, mounted it on a tripod, and trained the diminutive telescope on a spiral galaxy known as M51. First observed in the late 1700s, M51 has been intensely studied and photographed for centuries. But after a two-hour exposure, Canon’s lens captured a sight that scientists had only gleaned hints of before: Extending far beyond M51’s bright central spiral was a distinct halo of diffuse matter. “We quickly realized that the lens really was as outstanding as we had hoped,” van Dokkum says.
Those guys!
You're way behind the times. These days we are a nation of ass-kissers, thanks to our wonderful President. He's just laid a big wet one right across Iran's backside to the tune of $400,000,000, and all we got out of it was derision and ridicule. Oh, and they did release their latest batch of hostages.
You would think Iran's leaders would be more grateful to Obama, the way he sat on his thumb when we had a chance to back that uprising against the mullahs a few years back, but oh well...
Well, that's having the Iran story a bit of arse-backwards, but thanks for trying and being open to propaganda by the usual Neocon suspects.
> we had a chance to back that uprising against the mullahs
You guys fucked Iran over after the first revolution, please stay out, mmokay?
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