Archive for February, 2007

Gorgeous pic of Volcanic eruption on Jupiter’s moon Io

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Gorgeous picture of Jupitor’s moon Io. Two sulfurous eruptions are visible on Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io in this color composite image from the robotic Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.
At the image top, over Io’s limb, a bluish plume rises about 140 kilometers above the surface of a volcanic caldera known as […]

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Microwave cosmology and Extra Dimensions

Monday, February 5th, 2007

I saw this a few months ago and was intrigued by it. Its just a proof of concept but an interesting one. The idea is to look at the cosmic microwave background in detail and see if one can make any educated guesses about the compact dimensions from there.
The WMAP has measured the anisotropy of […]

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