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Published Date: 03 October 2009
By BRIAN FERGUSON
STRIKING images of our galaxy have shown part of the Milky Way in a new light.
The pictures were captured by a high-tech camera system partly developed in Scotland.

They show the galaxy in a "turbulent" process, constantly forging new generations of stars.

The team at the UK Astronomy and Technology Centre, based at the Royal Observatory on Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, helped design the Spire camera.

It captures images of emissions from clouds of dust where stars are forming. The images were produced by the Herschel Space Observatory using, for the first time, the Spire camera in tandem with the satellite's other camera, Pacs.

Herschel, launched in May and named after the man who discovered the planet Uranus, carries the largest telescope ever flown into space.

Together, the cameras not only reveal new material in the galaxy but also provide astronomers with information about how much material there is, its mass, temperature and composition, and whether or not some of it is collapsing to form new stars.





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  • Last Updated: 02 October 2009 9:30 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Charles Linskaill,

Edinburgh 03/10/2009 01:50:33

The only Important "Milky Way", is the one that you eat!,,,,'yum, yum'.

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Yok Finney,

Ross-shire 05/10/2009 18:33:19
06 September 2009

The Electric Universe is developed upon plasma cosmology, which is a recognized discipline within the practical electrical engineering profession through the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). Refereed papers on plasma cosmology are published in the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. The freewheeling discussion in that journal is reminiscent of the science journals of more than a century ago, not the monoculture of the big bang today. My paper on the electrical nature of supernovae and stars was published there in 2007. [It is curious that astronomers’ plot stellar colors and brightness (the Hezsprung-Russell diagram) like “Alice through the Looking Glass.” Left and right are reversed, which makes it difficult to see the obvious connection between the electrical power arriving at a star and the star’s color, size and brightness]. Unlike big bang cosmology, plasma cosmology is subject to experimental tests in the laboratory and follows the Lichtenberg experimental tradition. Any ‘bangs’ it creates are real and noisy. Plasma cosmology can demonstrate with simple physical principles the electrical formation and behavior of spiral galaxies and stars without recourse to hypothetical dark matter and black holes.

Almost the entire visible universe is composed of plasma—a gas where some of the atoms have lost an electron or two. However, unlike the gases we are familiar with on Earth, plasma reacts strongly to the presence of electromagnetic fields and is a better conductor than copper. Its behavior has been described as complex and “life-like.” That should be a clue! The universe is principally an electrical plasma phenomenon.

Electricity exists in space. Magnetic fields detected in space can only be generated by electric currents. Radio telescopes routinely map galactic magnetic fields and their field configuration matches that found in plasma cosmology experiments. If science were the advertised open pursuit of truth, w
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Yok Finney,

Ross-shire 05/10/2009 18:44:07
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In this Electric Universe, stars do not evolve. The notion of stellar evolution and the age of stars is an invention of the standard thermonuclear model of stars. And for so long as scientists cling to an unworkable theory of stellar formation by gravitational accretion, new findings will serve only to add to the confusion.

Stars are not formed by gravitational accretion but by the infinitely more powerful electromagnetic scavenging of gas and dust by a galactic Z-pinch discharge. And once formed, the discharge continues to light the stars.

The beautiful, ubiquitous spiral structure seen throughout deep space is revealed as the visible manifestation of the intersection of cosmic power lines.

(from Holoscience)

 

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