Jupiter have 3 spots now !!!

jupiter

another casualty of global warming.

vote carbon tax now!

hmm, might be a connection to this???

Thread: Glowing clouds -- Noctilucent clouds

Check out Mars too.
[link to www.msss.com]

Yes, we must ban CARBON in every place it's found. I'm for starting the removal of the CARBON spewers of CONGRESS!!!

I have a question (I don't know the answer) is Carbon made of Sulfur ?

please, thanks

carbon is an element

sulfur is an element

you clearly failed science

Let's see, you are assuming the spot is caused by climate and that the supposed climate increase of another planet instantly makes the carbon dioxide-caused climate wrong, so... ... I take it you failed science as well?

Check a periodic table. Also celluar respiration.

I'm no Edgar Einstein, but I think the comment was tongue-in-cheek. Sarcasm. trying to be funny.

yes i did, sorry.
So is it the same ?
Are they both connected ?

Consider this: if you pull a sulfur atom apart and pull a carbon part. you will notice no difference between the two electrons. Therefore, carbon and sulfur are attached at the hip.
End of story....

Thank You

The Vanishing Rings of Saturn
03.18.2008


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March 18, 2008: Saturn: jewel of the solar system, taker of breaths, ringed beauty. Even veteran astronomers can't help but gasp when they see her through a small telescope.

Red Alert: Saturn's rings are vanishing.

Around the world, amateur astronomers have noticed the change; Saturn's wide open rings are rapidly narrowing into a thin line. Efrain Morales Rivera sends these pictures taken through a backyard telescope in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico:



"The rings have narrowed considerably in the last year," he reports. "The Cassini division (a dark gap in the rings) is getting hard to see."

Four hundred years ago, the same phenomenon puzzled Galileo. Peering through a primitive spy glass, he discovered Saturn's rings in 1610 and immediately wrote to his Medici patrons: "I found another very strange wonder, which I should like to make known to their Highnesses…." He was dumbfounded, however, when the rings winked out little more than a year later.

What happened?

The same thing that's happening now: we're experiencing a "ring plane crossing." As Saturn goes around the sun, it periodically turns its rings edge-on to Earth—once every 14-to-15 years. Because the rings are so thin, they can actually disappear when viewed through a small telescope.

In the months ahead, Saturn's rings will become thinner and thinner until, on Sept. 4, 2009, they vanish. When this happened to Galileo in 1612, he briefly abandoned his study of the planet. Big mistake: ring plane crossings are good times to discover new Saturnian moons and faint outer rings.

It's also a good time to behold Saturn's curiously blue north pole. In 2005 the Cassini spacecraft flew over Saturn's northern hemisphere and found the skies there as azure as Earth itself. Saturn is a planet of golden clouds, but for some reason clouds at high northern latitudes have cleared, revealing a dome of surprising blue.

Right: Cassini's view of Saturn's blue north: full story.

For years, only Cassini has enjoyed this view because from Earth, the blue top of Saturn was hidden behind the rings. No more: "Now that Saturn's rings are only open 8 degrees, we can finally view its northern hemisphere's beautiful teal blue colored belts and zones, which really did look blue through my 10-inch telescope," reports Dan Petersen of Racine, Wisconsin, who took this picture on Feb. 24, 2008.

Galileo never understood the true nature of Saturn's rings. He didn't know that they were a disk-shaped swarm of orbiting moonlets ranging in size from microscopic dust to tumbling houses. (Scientists still aren't sure, but they may be debris from a shattered moon.) He didn't even know the rings were rings. Through his 17th-century telescope, they looked more like ears or planetary lobes of some kind.

Yet, somehow, his intuition guided him to make a correct prediction: "they'll be back," or Italian words to that effect. And he was right. Saturn's rings opened up again and scientists resumed their study. In 1659, Christaan Huygens correctly explained the periodic disappearances as ring plane crossings. In 1660, Jean Chapelain argued that Saturn's rings were not solid, but made instead of many small particles independently orbiting Saturn. His correct suggestion was not widely accepted for nearly two hundred years.



Above: Saturn's rings are wide but very thin. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the rings edge-on in 1995. Star-like objects in the ring plane are icy satellites. [more]

Almost 27 ring plane crossings later, we still marvel at Saturn. Even with rings diminished, she is still a breathtaking sight through the meanest of telescopes. Indeed, this is a good week to look. On Tuesday, March 18th (sky map), and Wednesday, March 19th (sky map), the nearly-full Moon and Saturn will be lined up in the same part of the evening sky. That makes Saturn unusually easy to find: Go outside after sunset and look around for the Moon; Saturn is the bright golden "star" nearby.

Point your telescope and, well, just try not to gasp.

www.spaceweather.com

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Something is happening in our solar system.

inverted earth makes the spot about as big as stains on a shirt

hello... its obvious something is heating up our Universe or pulling on Poles..... Is it XXXXXXXXXXX

I hear it will get a fourth spot, Dec 12, 2012.

4 gamma ray bursts so far today
now up to 6.

possible connections ?

sorry forgot link.
Thread: 4 gamma ray bursts so far today

The whole periodic table thing is interesting..Carbon, sulpher iron etc. It amazes me to no end the fact that distant suns had to be born and die to create everything we see in the material world. All those hydrogen fusion furnaces for billions of years finally depleting their fuel, contracting then exploding all those new elements into the universe. Every atom in our body was formed on some distant sun. It boggles the mind.

the male earthling think always they are the greatest, the most intelligent creatures on earth

but after all earthling are mortals, brain amputated, most greedy animals and little tiny lifeforms, only dust and earth

when ever they will understand that they are all nothings

and the planets are bigger lifeforms

yes planets are lifeforms, divine lifeforms

yes and the planets are getting angry about you all earthling

still they don´t care the earthlings, the male earthlings

only who has created you mortal earthling

never forget it

Only in the United States is there any remaining political discussion of the validity of global warming.

However, what is the thinking on the causes of these new spots?

Jupiter now a star will soon be our second sun.

hey Gore, please tax me more, my carbon footprint seems to be stamping on other planets now

and aain

this are warning sign

earthlings especially male earthlings

if you don´t change your way

denying the divine

the GOD and the Gods will punish you

and all of you will die

it is predicted in the book of Daniel ind the revelation of John

it is predicted
by Jesus Christ and still you ignore the signs

strong signs

change your way

I just warn you all

this is a warning sign

If you don´t watch out


you will never reach the higher stage

when you realize that, it will be to late for you

the time is now to change

don´t fall down on the knees when the Beast is coming

from a 12' reflector? I have a 10' dob and can barely catch make out the spots due to poor seeing in my area. This guy got lucky! Jupiter is so low right now, the turbulence is horrible through the ep. You have to catch it late night or very early in the morning. June should have some nice evening views though

My GOD!!

Its full of stars!!

Something wonderful is about to happen!

All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace.

Like what, failed ignition attempt number 2 ?

The Sun is heating up, it seems most of the planets in our solar system are experiencing climate change. I expect the next couple of solar cycles to be intense.