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The Bunny Rabbit of Death
Today's paper is a bit more technical than usual, but sometimes you've gotta tackle the hard stuff. Ram pressure stripping is some...
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Of course you can prove a negative. In one sense this can be the easiest thing in the world : your theory predicts something which doesn...
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In the last batch of simulations, we dropped a long gas stream into the gravitational potential of a cluster to see if it would get torn...
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Why Philosophy Matters for Science : A Worked Example "Fox News host Chris Wallace pushed Republican presidential candidate to expand...
Sure, though I did explain in several recent posts. This is what the sky would look like if we could see the neutral hydrogen gas of the Milky Way as well as the stars. Hydrogen emits at very specific frequencies depending on how fast it's moving towards or away from us. In the above gif, the emission in different frequencies is used to generate the red, green and blue colours, which helps to enhance the visibility of the different structures. I explain more here :
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It's a "test" in the sense that I'm trying to work out the best way to show this.
21 cm band, if I remember my Larry Niven correctly.
ReplyDeleteYep, and in Carl Sagan's Contact they even use real astronomer-speak and call it L-band.
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