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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Science Sideral

Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:20 AM

Something to consider...
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From the cradle...

Dr Davis says, "regions like this are usually referred to as stellar nurseries, but we have shown that this one is not being well run: it is chaotic and seriously overcrowded...
...With such a large number of young stars, we can study the "demographics" of star birth. This study will give us an idea of how long it takes baby stars to bulk up by pulling in gas from the surrounding cloud, what ultimately stops a star from growing bigger, and how a star's birth is influenced by other stars in the stellar nursery."

...to the grave:

"A survey of dead stars has found that many are probably surrounded by the rocky remains of asteroids and planets.

The discovery comes from a Spitzer space-telescope study of white dwarfs - the fading embers of burnt-out stars"

The original meaning of the word "consideration" is "thinking about the stars."

Photo by Andrew Stawarz.

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"Sidereal" is the more conventional spelling.

Posted by Lee on April 23, 2009 at 8:22 AM

@1 is doing victory laps while I'm still lacing up my shoes.

Yeah, sidereal.

Posted by Baconcat on April 23, 2009 at 8:28 AM

"The original meaning of the word "consideration" is "thinking about the stars." "

wow
that's very Zen

Posted by not really on April 23, 2009 at 8:31 AM

all them baby stars got me thinkin bout muh dik

Posted by Charles Muhdik on April 23, 2009 at 9:07 AM

Very cool picture. And post.

Posted by Julie in Eugene on April 23, 2009 at 9:10 AM

Full marks; you finally got an etymology right! It does indeed come from that.

Posted by Fnarf on April 23, 2009 at 9:16 AM

no, fnarf, you are finally finding out that i'm always on the right side of things.

Posted by mudede on April 23, 2009 at 9:26 AM

big ego much?

Posted by muh ego beez as big as muh dik on April 23, 2009 at 9:53 AM

IDEOLOGY!

Posted by Morgan on April 23, 2009 at 10:14 AM

@ 9: I've no doubt that "Ideology" originally came from "writing about ideas", but now it seems to mean mostly "hard-headedness".

Posted by Timmytee on April 23, 2009 at 11:13 AM

Spitzer's telescope? checkin' out hot hos from a distance?

But on a sincere note, cool photo! How might I do that w/ a PowerShot? (Yes, I'm serious.)

Posted by whatevs ho on April 23, 2009 at 2:13 PM