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"A Look to the Heavens" -- X Marks the Spot NGC 660
Aug 7, 2017 08:46:45   #
pafret Loc: Northeast
 
"A Look to the Heavens"


“NGC 660 is featured in this cosmic snapshot. Over 40 million light-years away and swimming within the boundaries of the constellation Pisces, NGC 660's peculiar appearance marks it as a polar ring galaxy. A rare galaxy type, polar ring galaxies have a substantial population of stars, gas, and dust orbiting in rings strongly tilted from the plane of the galactic disk.

The bizarre-looking configuration could have been caused by the chance capture of material from a passing galaxy by a disk galaxy, with the captured debris eventually strung out in a rotating ring. The violent gravitational interaction would account for the myriad pinkish star forming regions scattered along NGC 660's ring. The polar ring component can also be used to explore the shape of the galaxy's otherwise unseen dark matter halo by calculating the dark matter's gravitational influence on the rotation of the ring and disk. Broader than the disk, NGC 660's ring spans over 50,000 light-years.”
- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170217.html


Has anyone seen the Perseid meteor showers? I have been out the last four nights but saw nothing due to heavy cloud cover. It is supposed to pour all day today into onight so I suppose this will be another lost opportunity. The Northwest is boasting record heat but in the Northeast it has been chilly, low sixties to low seventies for the last four days. No AC needed and it was turned on for only five days this season.

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Aug 7, 2017 10:01:06   #
sboy
 
Where I live, in northeast Pennsylvania, it has been cool for the entire season...so much so, that we are worried by the threat of global cooling!

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Aug 7, 2017 10:28:16   #
midnite Loc: Beantown
 
sboy wrote:
Where I live, in northeast Pennsylvania, it has been cool for the entire season...so much so, that we are worried by the threat of global cooling!

I is cool in New England as well, very cool August.... I am surprised.

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Aug 7, 2017 11:11:11   #
pafret Loc: Northeast
 
sboy wrote:
Where I live, in northeast Pennsylvania, it has been cool for the entire season...so much so, that we are worried by the threat of global cooling!


I originated in Wilkes-Barre and we are at about the same latitude. We had a late warm up this spring and very few days when the temperature hit the high 80's and low 90's. It was hit or miss, a week of warm weather followed by a week or two of cool. It didn't stay warm long enough for my tomato plants to reach full growth and the few undersized tomatoes I got are turning red as though fall is here.

I was speculating about global cooling as well; there was one scientist recently, who's name escapes me, who maintained that we were due for a mini ice age because of sunspots. Something about another Maunder minimum in solar activity.

There is no doubt the climate has warmed up., When I was growing up we always had snow on Thanksgiving and the lakes were frozen by the end of December so we could go ice skating. Cars used to drive on Harveys lake in the winter. One of my relatives told me that the lake hasn't frozen in a couple of years but the kind of weather we are having makes me believe that is about to change..

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Aug 7, 2017 12:24:21   #
missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore
 
Scientific findings of the past ( pre global warning freak outs ) using several indicators having proven ( at least to those who have seen the results ) that warming trends precede cooling periods . I am certain that those findings are more than hypothesis and have been overshadowed by the lemmings principle driving global warming . This can be verified by a little on line investigation . I would dig it out and dust it off if it were not for the fact that it would fall on death ears . I will guarantee that anyone who wish's to verify this can do so within 2 hours of internet research . I have brought this up a few times in the past and received no indicators of interest .


pafret wrote:
I originated in Wilkes-Barre and we are at about the same latitude. We had a late warm up this spring and very few days when the temperature hit the high 80's and low 90's. It was hit or miss, a week of warm weather followed by a week or two of cool. It didn't stay warm long enough for my tomato plants to reach full growth and the few undersized tomatoes I got are turning red as though fall is here.

I was speculating about global cooling as well; there was one scientist recently, who's name escapes me, who maintained that we were due for a mini ice age because of sunspots. Something about another Maunder minimum in solar activity.

There is no doubt the climate has warmed up., When I was growing up we always had snow on Thanksgiving and the lakes were frozen by the end of December so we could go ice skating. Cars used to drive on Harveys lake in the winter. One of my relatives told me that the lake hasn't frozen in a couple of years but the kind of weather we are having makes me believe that is about to change..
I originated in Wilkes-Barre and we are at about t... (show quote)

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Aug 7, 2017 15:52:42   #
pafret Loc: Northeast
 
missinglink wrote:
Scientific findings of the past ( pre global warning freak outs ) using several indicators having proven ( at least to those who have seen the results ) that warming trends precede cooling periods . I am certain that those findings are more than hypothesis and have been overshadowed by the lemmings principle driving global warming . This can be verified by a little on line investigation . I would dig it out and dust it off if it were not for the fact that it would fall on death ears . I will guarantee that anyone who wish's to verify this can do so within 2 hours of internet research . I have brought this up a few times in the past and received no indicators of interest .
Scientific findings of the past ( pre global warni... (show quote)


In he face of all the falsified data and the proof that 97% figure is baloney, Gorites still insist the planet is going to get ten degress hotter next week unless we all stop breathing. There are some of us who don't think it would be a bad thing in NYC was underwater.

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