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Taurus constellation

Cut Timber

Venus Over Disneyland - Tuitey Fruity (2017) 

Disney is sort of under where Venus is. Oh and if you were wondering:

“Cosmic Neutrinos Can be Absorbed by Planet Earth”

 Scientists using the IceCube Observatory located near the South Pole have discovered that neutrinos can be absorbed by our Planet Earth. With almost no mass and no charge, these particles rarely interact with matter. Yet tens of trillions of neutrinos pass through our bodies every second.  Previous theories predicted that at high energies, neutrinos can be expected to interact with matter and be absorbed by the Earth instead of passing through the planet.  “We knew that lower-energy neutrinos pass through just about anything, but although we had expected higher-energy neutrinos to be different, no previous experiments had been able to demonstrate convincingly that higher-energy neutrinos could be stopped by anything,” said Penn State Professor Doug Cowen. “However, the neutrino does have a tiny probability to interact, and this probability increases with energy. That probability is what scientists call the neutrino cross section.”  The new measurements recorded by IceCube determined the neutrino cross section energies to be about 6.3 TeV and 980 TeV, energy levels significantly higher than previously measured.

Read more about this fascinating story at: http://www.newsoftheuniverse.com/2017/11/cosmic-neutrinos-can-be-absorbed-by.html

Neil Armstrong photographs the Lunar Module during Apollo 11, 21 July 1969 [2,349 × 2,365]

Solstice

About 12 hours ago we passed the solstice, the start of Winter for the Northern Hemisphere and Summer in the Southern Hemisphere. I’d have had this post done but my computer was misbehaving.

Anyway, one of my favorite things to check out on the solstice is the view from the Japanese Himawari-8 weather satellite. That satellite, launched a few years ago, sends back HD pictures and video from a geostationary orbit over the Pacific. That means it can watch as the earth rotates into shadow each night. Here’s its lovely solstice view from today – a thin band of light is always present at the south pole, and the north pole never appears.

-JBB

Video credit: https://twitter.com/himawari8bot/status/943853755753263104