Saturn's Hex

Posted by ungraspiness Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:12:00 GMT

An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission.

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According to some sources historically and symbolically Saturn is about limitation and boundaries and also strength. Along with this the hexagon has long been regarded as a perfect shape (not surprising seeing as 6 is the first perfect number ).

Also interesting is that 6 is the atomic number of carbon and apparently the day that God created man.

6 also is known to represent social consciousness—responsibility to others, adjustments, family, harmony, healing, counseling, teaching, education, truth, justice, domestic, reliability, tenacity, conservative, conscientiousness, and social balance.

We may be looking at society becoming stronger…

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One hot star

Posted by ungraspiness Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:21:00 GMT

“History shows that big sunspot cycles ‘ramp up’ faster than small ones,” he says. “I expect to see the first sunspots of the next cycle appear in late 2006 or 2007—and Solar Max to be underway by 2010 or 2011.”

Intense auroras to follow…

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Spiral Galaxy M74

Posted by ungraspiness Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:21:00 GMT

The Spiral Galaxy M74 – also known as Messier Object 74 or NGC 628 , is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1780, who related his discovery to Charles Messier to be categorized. The galaxy is also listed by Lord Rosse as one of 14 “spiral or curvilinear nebulae” discovered before 1850.

M74 lies at a distance from Earth of about 35 million light years and has a radius of 95,000 light years. The galaxy is rich in H II regions, indicating the occurance of star formation at a relatively high rate compared to some galaxies. Two supernovae were seen in this galaxy during the 21st century, SN2002ap and SN2003gd. M74 is receding from the Milky Way at 793 km/sec.

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