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Coolest jobs of 2012
Best Jobs of 2012 - http://www.msnbc.msn.com-job.be/news/read.php?Article987365&i=1
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In January 2002, a dull star in an obscure constellation suddenly became 600,000 times more luminous than our Sun, temporarily making it the brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy. The mysterious star, called V838 Monocerotis, has long since faded back to obscurity. But observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of a phenomenon called a “light echo” around the star have uncovered remarkable new features. […]
Light echo it is light from a stellar explosion echoing off dust surrounding the star. V838 Monocerotis produced enough energy in a brief flash to illuminate surrounding dust, like a spelunker taking a flash picture of the walls of an undiscovered cavern. The star presumably ejected the illuminated dust shells in previous outbursts. Light from the latest outburst travels to the dust and then is reflected to Earth. Because of this indirect path, the light arrives at Earth months after light from the star that traveled directly toward Earth. […]
This sequence of pictures from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys dramatically demonstrates the reverberation of light through space caused by an unusual stellar outburst in January 2002. A burst of light from the bizarre star is spreading into space and reflecting off of surrounding shells of dust to reveal a spectacular, multicolored bull’s eye. (via Hubble)
(via picturesoftheday)
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6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (6E+24) kilograms
That’s the mass of the earth.
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Nasa needs more astronauts?
original article
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A new report says NASA needs to keep more astronauts on staff than currently envisioned by the space agency.
Many astronauts have retired or quit with this year’s end of the shuttles. NASA expects to operate the International Space Station until 2020, however, and U.S. companies hope to provide spacecraft for crews.
NASA’s astronaut corps totaled nearly 150 in 2000. It’s now down to 60. NASA projects it will need 55 to 60 astronauts over the next five years.
The report released Wednesday by the National Research Council warns that may not be enough.
NASA had asked the council to look at the role and size of the astronaut corps during this transition time. A committee of 13 experts — five of them former astronauts — conducted the study.
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When it rains, it slugs.
It has been raining here for five days straight now. I think the sidewalks are permanently damp.
This is my walk home from the train station:
Very pretty, yes yes, except that when it rains it turns into a river. I was walking home yesterday at five in the morning or whenever the sun here rises (ie shines bleakly through the clouds) and it was like white water rafting in oxfords.
This city’s really something tremendous though. I stepped through the door soaked through jacket, shirt, tights, umbrella, etc, still giggling.
Anyways, when the path’s only puddly, these little buggers come out to play:
“Family dinner”
“At the discotheque”
“Slugfitti”
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Seen on the U6.
Like mother, like daughter. -
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Host family’s living room/Das Wohnzimmer des Gasfamilie
The real thing.
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Entrance found in the ground floor bathroom at Freie Universität!
Tonight I saw the last Harry Potter movie in the Potsdamer Platz Cinema. However, it was was dubbed in German so I only understood about 20 percent of it…
Gooo Neville!
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Only in Berlin can you find a sunflower field just around the corner of your city residence.
