Mega-array reveals birthplace of giant stars The Atacama ALMA observatory, an array of radio telescopes peering through the thin atmosphere high on a Chilean plateau, has used its unprecedented sensitivity to peer into the dense center of our galaxy to observe the earliest moments of giant star creation: the “embryos” of dense gas that they hope will explain how our universe’s first stellar giants were formed. This dense gas has been impenetrable to previous telescopes, and even with only half of its antennas finished, Atacama is beginning to peer inside to see the origin of the giant stars whose explosions seeded the elements of the early universe. This is where early star stuff becomes star stuff before it later becomes more star stuff to make our stars and stuff. I can’t wait to see what else ALMA finds. (via Nature News)
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Mega-array reveals birthplace of giant stars

The Atacama ALMA observatory, an array of radio telescopes peering through the thin atmosphere high on a Chilean plateau, has used its unprecedented sensitivity to peer into the dense center of our galaxy to observe the earliest moments of giant star creation: the “embryos” of dense gas that they hope will explain how our universe’s first stellar giants were formed.

This dense gas has been impenetrable to previous telescopes, and even with only half of its antennas finished, Atacama is beginning to peer inside to see the origin of the giant stars whose explosions seeded the elements of the early universe.

This is where early star stuff becomes star stuff before it later becomes more star stuff to make our stars and stuff.

I can’t wait to see what else ALMA finds.

(via Nature News)

Source: nature.com

Neil DeGrasse Tyson - The Greatest Science Sermon Ever

Just because religion and science don’t always get along doesn’t mean that isn’t okay to shout the both of them from the mountaintop.

Here’s Neil deGrasse Tyson, delivering a stunning and inspirational sermon (like he is prone to do) on science inspiration from 2006. When you look up, and realize that the iron in your blood is the same iron that makes up the core of a meteor … don’t feel small, feel tall!!!

Watch that and tell me you don’t just want to lasso the Moon!

(from YouTuber playd76)

Source: youtube.com

Galaxies of Genetically Modified E. coli Zachary Copfer, the same bioartist behind those bacterial radiograph portraits of famous scientists, also created a series of galaxies drawn with E. coli expressing fluorescent proteins. Here are his bacteriastronomical renditions of the Milky Way and M81 galaxies. Bacteria, some of the oldest life forms on our planet, recreating the star stuff they were seeded from, a pretty neat reminder that even in our individual bodies they are as numerous as the stars in a galaxy.
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Galaxies of Genetically Modified E. coli Zachary Copfer, the same bioartist behind those bacterial radiograph portraits of famous scientists, also created a series of galaxies drawn with E. coli expressing fluorescent proteins. Here are his bacteriastronomical renditions of the Milky Way and M81 galaxies. Bacteria, some of the oldest life forms on our planet, recreating the star stuff they were seeded from, a pretty neat reminder that even in our individual bodies they are as numerous as the stars in a galaxy.
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Galaxies of Genetically Modified E. coli

Zachary Copfer, the same bioartist behind those bacterial radiograph portraits of famous scientists, also created a series of galaxies drawn with E. coli expressing fluorescent proteins.

Here are his bacteriastronomical renditions of the Milky Way and M81 galaxies. Bacteria, some of the oldest life forms on our planet, recreating the star stuff they were seeded from, a pretty neat reminder that even in our individual bodies they are as numerous as the stars in a galaxy.

Source: sciencetothepowerofart.com

“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars” - Neil deGrasse Tyson   Just when you thought that Dr. Tyson’s video exploration of everything that makes us special in our world and beyond couldn’t get any better, it gets the GIF treatment. Nice work. Watch it again, and then again.
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“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars” - Neil deGrasse Tyson   Just when you thought that Dr. Tyson’s video exploration of everything that makes us special in our world and beyond couldn’t get any better, it gets the GIF treatment. Nice work. Watch it again, and then again.
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“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars” - Neil deGrasse Tyson   Just when you thought that Dr. Tyson’s video exploration of everything that makes us special in our world and beyond couldn’t get any better, it gets the GIF treatment. Nice work. Watch it again, and then again.
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“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars” - Neil deGrasse Tyson   Just when you thought that Dr. Tyson’s video exploration of everything that makes us special in our world and beyond couldn’t get any better, it gets the GIF treatment. Nice work. Watch it again, and then again.
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“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars” - Neil deGrasse Tyson   Just when you thought that Dr. Tyson’s video exploration of everything that makes us special in our world and beyond couldn’t get any better, it gets the GIF treatment. Nice work. Watch it again, and then again.
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“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars” - Neil deGrasse Tyson   Just when you thought that Dr. Tyson’s video exploration of everything that makes us special in our world and beyond couldn’t get any better, it gets the GIF treatment. Nice work. Watch it again, and then again.
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“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars” - Neil deGrasse Tyson  

Just when you thought that Dr. Tyson’s video exploration of everything that makes us special in our world and beyond couldn’t get any better, it gets the GIF treatment. Nice work.

Watch it again, and then again.

Ideas On The Origin of Life as Semi-Randomly Chosen by Joe, Part 1 of 4:

First You Make-a tha Star Stuff!

Lawrence M. Krauss, cosmologist and physicist, discusses how everything that goes into life was first created in a very non-living environment. From the Big Bang to “star stuff” to today … you’ve gotta make the ingredients before you can make life. 

Coincidentally, NASA recently discovered that some building blocks of our genetic code could be found in space!

(by 99facesTV)

All four videos in the series

Black Ink Obelisk: Somata

blackinkobelisk:

I was born a body of worlds
a carnal web of cosmic pearl
billions of stars that hold me to my bones,
and when one day their cores collapse
I will shed my skin in ash
and sleep among the mosses and the stone.

I’ll grow into the vine that licks the ruin
writhe beneath the savage moon 
my scattered cinders eaten at the roots,
and when the ravaged willow moans again
she will take me in her veins
and shake me from her hair an astral fruit.

For we forgot a fact that we once knew,
the only ancient truth,
the knowledge of our primal origin:
That from the feral night we came as dust
born from stellar wanderlust
and unto the stars we will return again.

Aubrey J. Sanders

A cosmic poem, beautiful. This is a keeper!