Easter, Spring, And April Sale!
Easter, Spring, and April Sale!
Please support the artist; comments on Amazon, Goodreads, and Barnes & Noble are also welcome and helpful. Thank you… 🐇🐰🐣🐤🐰🐇 – – Sale throughout April on: Pathway to the Stars: Part 1, Vesha Celeste (first in booklet series) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J2S8LLV – –and– – Further than Before: Pathway to the Stars: Part 1 (first in novel series) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HL767WZ – – Quotes from series, read by…
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2020 February 19
UGC 12591: The Fastest Rotating Galaxy Known Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & Copyright: Leo Shatz
Explanation: Why does this galaxy spin so fast? To start, even identifying which type of galaxy UGC 12591 is difficult – featured on the lower left, it has dark dust lanes like a spiral galaxy but a large diffuse bulge of stars like a lenticular. Surprisingly observations show that UGC 12591 spins at about 480 km/sec, almost twice as fast as our Milky Way, and the fastest rotation rate yet measured. The mass needed to hold together a galaxy spinning this fast is several times the mass of our Milky Way Galaxy. Progenitor scenarios for UGC 12591 include slow growth by accreting ambient matter, or rapid growth through a recent galaxy collision or collisions – future observations may tell. The light we see today from UGC 12591 left about 400 million years ago, when trees were first developing on Earth.
∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200219.html
Pathway to the Stars: Part 8, Dreamy & Deep is out! (eBook & Paperback!) "This is it. This is humanity stepping it up and demonstrating to the universe that we were ready to preserve life, reanimate it, and protect the Universe itself from the laws of uncontrolled chaos-rather than destroy life or watch the universe expand beyond repair." Vesha has been through a lot of training in the Virtual Universe, but soon her time will come to return to the real world. Leading to this, her dear friend, Najem Grace, has long weighed in the prospects of physiological optimization yet has stayed the hands of technology. Perhaps Vesha's outcome will help her decide; perhaps it won't. Is this the new evolution? Or are we tempting fate? Joanne Gallant, a musician with all the awards and the talent that goes with it, experiences life with deep questions. Her wonder is if there is more than this, more she can do, beyond the applause and recognition. Where is Eliza Williams, the founder of Pathway in all of this? How will she help both Najem and Joanne? Find out in this story! Dreamy & Deep, ISBN: 978-1951321086, LCCN: 2019918460 eBook: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B081XK1XN2 Paperback: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1951321081 More info: https://www.mjopublications.com https://smile.amazon.com/author/matthewopdyke
New Podcast: Starts With A Bang #35 - Do We Live In A Multiverse
There’s been a lot of speculative ideas put forth about the Multiverse, and I dare say that a great many of them are nothing more than wishful thinking. But that doesn’t mean the Multiverse itself is ill-motivated at all. Rather, if you take two of our best theories that have been well-confirmed in a wide variety of different ways, you’re going to find that you arrive at a bizarre but unavoidable picture: one of an inflating spacetime, eternal to the future, where regions that look like our Universe, complete with a hot Big Bang, are spawned continuously.
The evidence might not be there, observably, to confirm or deny the existence of a Multiverse. But as a theoretical consequence, it certainly has a motivation that’s far stronger than practically anyone realizes. Here’s the cosmic story.
What’s The Largest Planet In The Universe?
“Above a certain mass, the atoms inside large planets will begin to compress so severely that adding more mass will actually shrink your planet. This happens in our Solar System, explaining why Jupiter is three times Saturn’s mass, but only 20% physically larger. But many solar systems have planets made out of much lighter elements, without large, rocky cores inside.”
You might think that Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System because it’s the most massive, but that’s not quite right. If you kept adding mass to Saturn, it would get larger in size, but if you kept adding mass to Jupiter, it would shrink! For a given set of elements that your planet is made out of, there’s a maximum size it can reach, that’s somewhere in between the mass of Saturn and Jupiter in general. Our Solar System is on the dense side of things, meaning that we’ve discovered a large number of exoplanets out there that are approximately twice the physical size of Jupiter without becoming brown dwarfs or hydrogen-fusing stars. For worlds like WASP-17b, where we’ve measured both the radius and mass, we find that they’re only about half the mass of Jupiter, despite being double the size.
Come get the full scientific story, and some very informative and illustrative images with no more than 200 words, on today’s Mostly Mute Monday!
Ask Ethan: When Were Dark Matter And Dark Energy Created?
“Today [normal matter] is only 4.9% while Dark Matter and Dark Energy takes the rest. Where did they come from?”
The Universe, as we know it, got its start in earnest when the hot Big Bang began. Space was filled with all the particles and antiparticles of the Standard Model, up at tremendous energies, while the Universe then expanded, cooled, and gave rise to all we know. But when did dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95% of the Universe we know today, come into the picture? Was the Universe born with these components of energy? Or were they created at a later time? We have some inklings that dark matter was likely created in the extremely early stages, but may not have been present from the Universe’s birth. On the other hand, all theoretical signs point to dark energy always existing, but observationally, we have about 4 billion years where we cannot measure its presence at all.
Where do dark matter and dark energy come from? It’s a great cosmic mystery, but we do know something about it. Find out where we are today!
New Release! Pathway to the Stars: Part 4, Universal Party
New Release! Pathway to the Stars: Part 4, Universal Party
I am pleased to announce a NEW RELEASE to my Space Opera series. It is now available on Amazon in ebook and paperback formats!
Pathway to the Stars: Part 4, Universal Party
Autographed copies of printed material are available for direct purchase on the author website at:
https://www.ftb-pathway-publications.com
Thank you, Kim, for putting this together!
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Celebration, "Further than Before: Pathway to the Stars, Part 1, is now available in Barnes and Noble! #furtherthanbefore #pathwaytothestars #politicalsciencefiction #beautyinevolution #strongfemalelead #strongmalerolemodel #neuroscience #physics #theoreticalphysics #biotechnology #nanotechnology #longevity #CRISPR #physiology https://www.instagram.com/p/BrKHKwSngsQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=19jjtphkx0liq
Promo video put together by my wonderful spouse. Thank you, Kimmy! Join our cast of heroes as they prepare civilization to go Further than Before! #FurtherthanBefore #PathwaytotheStars #ScifiFantasy #neuroscience #physics #physiology #biotech #longevity #CRISPR #politicalscifi #strongfemalelead #strongfemalerolemodel #strongmalerolemodel #spaceopera
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