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Understanding the magnetic field can help answer questions about Jupiter’s inner structure.
By Pranjal Mehar - September 7, 2018
Scientists for the first time have detected Jupiter’s crazy magnetic field using NASA’s Juno spacecraft showing it is confined almost entirely to the northern hemisphere.
Jupiter has a huge magnetic field. This magnetic field is the reason for the planet’s magnetosphere and the incredible aurora that appear at the poles. Scientists believe that the understanding of this magnetic field could help them get insights into the inner structure of the Jupiter.
Juno was launched into space in 2011 and has spent the last two years orbiting the gas giant. Its primary goal is to understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter—as the biggest planet in our solar system by far, it could provide key insights into planetary systems of other stars.
In a new study by the U.S. and Denmark, scientists have created a map of Jupiter’s magnetic field, showing it in unprecedented detail. created a map of Jupiter’s magnetic field, showing it in unprecedented detail. They found that the field is non-dipole and this is almost entirely confined to the northern hemisphere.
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https://www.techexplorist.com/scientists-mapped-jupiters-crazy-magnetic-field/16834/
Scientists Have Detected an Entirely New Visual Phenomenon in The Human Eye
We can see more than we thought.
DAVID NIELD 7 SEP 2018
New research suggests the human eye and brain are capable of seeing ghosted images, a new type of visual phenomenon that scientists previously thought could only be detected by a computer. It turns out our eyes are more powerful than we thought.
The discovery could teach us more about the inner workings of the eye and brain and how they process information, as well as changing our thinking on what we human beings can truly see of the world around us.
Having been developed as a way of low-cost image capture for light outside the visible spectrum, the patterns produced by these ghosted images are usually processed by software algorithms – but, surprisingly, our eyes have the same capabilities.
"Ghost-imaging with the eye opens up a number of completely novel applications such as extending human vision into invisible wavelength regimes in real-time, bypassing intermediary screens or computational steps," write the researchers.
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https://www.sciencealert.com/human-eye-sees-ghosted-images-reflected-light
Brazil far-right candidate Bolsonaro in serious condition after stabbing
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 / 2:39 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
Gabriel Stargardter, Brad Brooks
6 MIN READ
JUIZ DE FORA, Brazil (Reuters) - The leading candidate in Brazil’s presidential election is in serious but stable condition after being stabbed by an assailant at a campaign rally on Thursday, doctors said, pushing an already chaotic campaign into further disarray.
Far-right firebrand Congressman Jair Bolsonaro, a controversial figure who has enraged many Brazilians for years with divisive comments, but has a devout following among conservative voters, could take two months to fully recover and will spend at least a week in the hospital, said Dr. Luiz Henrique Borsato, who operated on the candidate.
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He has openly praised Brazil’s military dictatorship and in the past said it should have killed more people.
In casting his vote on the floor of Congress for the 2016 impeachment of former President Dilma Rousseff, he dedicated his ballot to the military regime figure who oversaw the prison where Rousseff was jailed for three years and brutally tortured.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-election-bolsonaro/brazil-far-right-candidate-bolsonaro-in-grave-condition-after-stabbing-idUSKCN1LM2YJ?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29&&rpc=401
Saturn Sprouts Another Weird Hexagon, Puzzling Scientists
By Kimberly Hickok, Reference Editor | September 5, 2018 07:42am ET
A bizarre, hexagon-shaped vortex has formed above Saturn's north pole as the planet's northern hemisphere enters summer, data from the international Cassini-Huygens mission revealed. The unusual vortex is circulating hundreds of kilometers above the clouds in the stratosphere layer of the ringed planet's atmosphere, a new study reported.
This warm polar vortex resembles another, previously discovered hexagon formation, also located at Saturn's north pole, but lower in the atmosphere. But how and whether these bizarre low- and high-altitude hexagons are related remains a mystery to scientists.
"Either a hexagon has spawned spontaneously and identically at two different altitudes, one lower in the clouds and one high in the stratosphere, or the hexagon is in fact a towering structure spanning a vertical range of several hundred kilometers," Leigh Fletcher, lead author of the study and planetary scientist at the University of Leicester in England, said in a statement. [Cassini's Greatest Hits: Best Photos of Saturn and Its Moons]
NASA's Cassini spacecraft arrived at the Saturn system in 2004, when it was summer in the planet's southern hemisphere and winter in the northern hemisphere. At the time, the spacecraft documented a circular, warm, high-altitude vortex at Saturn's south pole but nothing at the north pole.
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https://www.livescience.com/63497-saturn-high-altitude-hexagon-vortex.html
Ancient galaxy is forming 1,000 times more stars than Milky Way
High levels of gas within the galaxy are triggering runaway star formation.
By Laurel Kornfeld | Sep 02, 2018
A 12.4-billion year old starburst galaxy is forming stars 1,000 times faster than the Milky Way, according to a team of scientists who studied it using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile.
The researchers found molecular clouds within the huge galaxy, designated COSMOS-AzTEC-1, to be very unstable, a condition that causes runaway star formation. Dense gas clumps within the galaxy are so concentrated that they are rapidly collapsing and forming stars. At this rate, the clouds may be completely gone within 100 million years.
Typically, molecular clouds in galaxies are kept stable by outward pressure from star formation and supernova explosions of dying massive stars. The clouds collapse and form stars when their gravity overcomes this pressure. New stars and supernova explosions then increase the pressure in what becomes a stable cycle, with moderate star-formation rates.
COSMOS-AzTEC-1's pressure is much weaker than its gravity, resulting in runaway star formation.
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https://thespacereporter.com/article.php?n=ancient-galaxy-is-forming-1000-times-more-stars-than-milky-way&id=164809
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Brazil police ask that President Temer face fresh corruption charges - document
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 / 8:10 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s federal police have recommended to prosecutors that President Michel Temer be charged with taking bribes and money laundering, according to a police document reviewed on Wednesday by Reuters.
The investigation involves 10 million reais ($2.41 million) in illicit funds Temer’s Brazilian Democratic Party allegedly received from construction firm Odebrecht [ODBES.UL] in 2014, according to the police document.
Odebrecht made the alleged payment in 2014, when Temer was vice president.
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Brazil’s Prosecutor General Raquel Dodge requested in March that Temer be investigated despite the constitution barring him from standing trial for crimes committed before he became president as long as he remains in power.
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https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-brazil-corruption-temer/brazil-police-ask-that-president-temer-face-fresh-corruption-charges-document-idUKKCN1LM044?rpc=401&
Far-right group in Colombia threatens congressmen, human rights advocates and journalists
Source: Colombia Reports
by Megan Janetsky September 5, 2018
Right-wing extremist group Agulias Negras sent out a death threat to congressmen, human rights advocates and journalists on Tuesday.
Ivan Cepeda, senator of the socialist Democratic Pole party, tweeted out a picture of the threat, which named him and a number of other opposition leaders and organizations.
“Organizations and leaders will disappear, because our country can not be the cradle of leftists, guerrillas, militiamen, anti-corruption storytellers, camouflages of supposed social leaders and defenders,” the note read.
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The group said it was because of those activists that they “started this fight of extermination on the entire Colombian territory, and nothing and no one is going to stop us.”
Read more: https://colombiareports.com/far-right-extremist-group-in-colombia-threatens-congressmen-human-rights-advocates-and-journalists/
So Glad The Grown-Ups are Back in Charge in Argentina
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
by THOMAS S. HARRINGTON
If you’ve followed Latin American politics at all in the mainstream press, I am sure you’ve heard and read about how the Kirchners (2003-2015) mismanaged the Argentine economy and how, with the election of Mauricio Macri, the adults were back in the room and the economy was on its way to a more healthy and sustainable management.
There’s only one problem with the story: reality.
When Nestor Kirchner took over in 2003, things could not have been worse. The bank “corralito” had robbed millions of their life savings. The society lay prostrate before the world, a bargain basement for anyone with a few dollars in his or her pocket. I know, I visited the country in those dark days and saw the devastation all around me.
Over the next several years the economy was re-built and the middle and lower middle classes began to to re-acquire a sense of living in a functioning society. I was amazed at the transformation I witnessed over my visits in the ensuing decade.
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/05/so-glad-the-grown-ups-are-back-in-charge-in-argentina/
Watch The Moment A Huge Gorilla Plays Peacefully With A Very Small Bushbaby
By Robin Andrews
05 SEP 2018, 09:34
Cameroon’s Mefou Primate Sanctuary – owned by non-profit primate conservation group Ape Action Africa (AAA) – is home to Bobo, a western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla, seriously). Although still widespread and numerous compared to other gorilla subspecies, they are still listed as critically endangered, with poaching, disease, and habitat destruction culling their numbers by 60 percent in the last quarter-century alone.
Bobo himself arrived at the sanctuary in 1996 after his parents were killed by poachers for meat: a sadly common tale. He is one of many primates kept under the protection of this animal sanctuary, and those that run the site have gotten to know them all fairly well.
That’s why it’s always a treat when one of them surprises the researchers and conservationists – this time featuring Bobo and a ludicrously tiny bushbaby. Although not the first time a larger primate has taken a liking to a smaller one, it’s hard to deny just how adorable this latest pairing is.
It cannot be overstated how small these nocturnal critters, better known by their genus name, Galago, are. Whether you’re talking about the two-bags-of-flour-heavy thick-tailed bushbaby, or the impossibly adorable, tin-of-tomato-soup-light lesser bushbaby, they aren’t exactly what you’d call sizeable.
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https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-the-moment-a-huge-gorilla-plays-peacefully-with-a-very-small-bushbaby/
This Haunting Mask Could Be The Face of The Longest-Reigning Ancient Maya King
His legacy lives on.
MICHELLE STARR 30 AUG 2018
Archaeologists in Mexico have unearthed a rare treasure. A life-sized stucco mask recovered from the Palenque Palace is thought to represent one of Mesoamerica's most important and beloved kings, K'inich Janaab' Pakal.
Also known as Pakal the Great, his reign is the longest in the history of the Americas. He ascended the throne at age 12 in 615CE, and ruled until his death 68 years later, at the age of 80.
It is thought that he was the driving force behind the breathtaking architecture that endures to this day, including the palace at the city state of Palenque, located in what is now the southern Mexico state of Chiapas.
The mask was discovered in a building called House E, where Pakal was thought to have been enthroned, the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) announced earlier this month.
More:
https://www.sciencealert.com/maya-king-k-inich-janaab-pakal-the-great-stucco-mask-found-palenque-palace
Palenque complex
House E, left
Info. concerning the red pictures:
Restoring the Portal With The Mayan Red Queen
Lalak and Pakal: A Love That Transformed a Dynasty and Restored the Portal to the Gods
https://mistsofpalenque.com/blog/
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nghjYNoNV6k/SI6RvchW8vI/AAAAAAAAAQs/wcDHonD1ftI/s400/Palace+House+E.jpg
More images of the complex:
https://tinyurl.com/yarl63og
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