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Last login: 1 hour agoVaneeza11: Vaneeza is a 27 year old woman from Karachi, Pakistan.; Likes 82 pages, 3 videos, 3 photos • 10 fans • Received 1 review; Member since Feb 18, 2008

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http://www.coronadofilters.com/QuickGal/thumb.php?img=sun_CaK_blue.jpg&w=600&h=4…: 2:52pm 2 reviews astronomy •http://www.coronadofilters.com/QuickG...

Fusion 2.0 | COSMOS magazine: 2:31pm 8 reviews science •http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1954; Fusion plants could one day generate billions of watts of power, entirely replacing 19th century coal and 20th century gas, oil and nuclear fission, and all without producing any carbon dioxide or long-lived radioactive waste. It's the ultimate power panacea for a warming world.

Sending Ping Pong Balls Into Space | How To Split An Atom: May 10, 2:31pm 4 reviews science •http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/send...; A California company, J.P Aerospace, is allowing anyone to send anything from a marshmallow to a small billboard into near-space on the cheap. The vehicle they are using is a small satellite that they lift into the upper atmosphere using nothing more than a pair of Helium balloons.

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Solar Prominence: May 10, 2:19pm 1 review astronomy •http://www.astrographics.com/GalleryP...; This ultraviolet-wavelength image shows a hugh solar prominence on September 14, 1999. Solar prominences are large, arch-shaped filaments of relatively cool, dense plasma that are suspended above the surface of the sun. Sometimes solar prominences can erupt, allowing matter to escape the Sun's atmosphere. The features visible in this image trace the Sun's magnetic field, with hotter regions appearing light and cooler regions appearing dark.

Cataclysmic Clockwork -Our Solar Systems Deadly Orbit Through the Milky Way: May 10, 2:10pm 4 reviews science •http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/...; Is there a genocidal countdown built into the motion of our solar system? Recent work at Cardiff University suggests that our system's orbit through the Milky Way encounters regular speedbumps - and by "speedbumps" we mean "potentially extinction-causing asteroids".

Professor William Napier and Dr Janaki Wickramasinghe have completed computer simulations of the motion of the Sun in our outer spiral-arm location in the Milky Way.

These models reveal a regular oscillation through the central galactic plane, where the surrounding dust clouds are the densest. The solar system is a non-trivial object, so its gravitational effects set off a far-reaching planetoid-pinball machine which often ends with comets hurled into the intruding system.

Mouse Lemurs and a Satellite View of a Flood - The New York Times &62; Science &…: May 10, 1:31pm 2 reviews science •http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008...; Carbon beads from asteroid impact. Carbon cenospheres, like this one less than 50 millionths of a meter in diameter, are a product of the industrial age: carbon-rich particles produced by the combustion of coal and oil. But they are also found in the layers of rock corresponding to the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, when an asteroid slammed into Earth. In an article in the journal Geology, scientists concluded that these cenospheres were formed by the pulverization of Earth's carbon-rich crust. Supporting that idea, the cenospheres were largest near the impact crater, off Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, and became smaller at sites more distant from the crater. The scientists calculate that the impact may have produced up to 900 quadrillion kilograms of cenospheres. The findings run counter to the view that the carbon particles were produced by worldwide forest fires.

Mouse Lemurs and a Satellite View of a Flood - The New York Times &62; Science &…: May 10, 1:29pm 1 review nasa, flood •http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008...; Before the flood. The coast of Myanmar on April 15, three weeks before Cyclone Nargis hit. The green areas are vegetation, including agricultural areas.

Mouse Lemurs and a Satellite View of a Flood - The New York Times &62; Science &…: May 10, 1:26pm 1 review science •http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008...; Missing matter found? Astronomers still have not found most of the mass of the universe, a mysterious material known as dark matter. But even much of the ordinary matter has also been missing. Dutch and German astronomers have announced that they have found some of that ordinary matter hiding in a filament of hot gas connecting two clusters of galaxies. The gas filament is seen as the yellow, orange and red portions of the image, detected by the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray satellite. The X-ray image is imposed on top of an optical image of the same part of the sky.

NASA - A Cosmic Embrace: May 10, 1:21pm 1 review astronomy •http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/gal...; From 22 million light-years away, galaxy M106 extends two ultraviolet-bright spiral arms in this image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.

M106's extended arms are the blue filaments that curve around the edge of the galaxy, creating its outer disk. Tints of blue in the galaxy's arms reveal hot, young, massive stars. Meanwhile, traces of gold toward the center reveal an older stellar population and the presence of obscuring dust.