Amazing Pics of Universe

Hi Travelers!
This time I'll post some pics of Universe, Hope y'all like them.

Ultraviolet spectrum of Cygnus Loop Nebulae, captured by NASA.

The biggest picture of Peace and War Nebulae yet captured

 

 Arp 273 Galaxy Complex pictured by Hubble telescope, it's located at the distant Andromeda and it's shaped like a cosmic rose.

 

 Sand Clock Nebulae

 

NASA's Fermi Telescope
capturing two bubbles at the center of the Milky Way using gamma ray spectrum .

Hanny Object. One of the rarest objects in Universe captured by Hubble Telescope

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A post worshipping Mayans

In the ancient America, an extensive astronomical study developed, but it wasn't a worthless study, it unveiled the eyes of many Indians to the first notion of Astronomy; a notion even more accurate than actual contemporary human systems, we are pointing Mayans.
Some Mayan Observations are well known and even famous like the one referring to the 6th Sun Birthday at December 21st, 2012.

They had their own solar calendar and know the periodicity of eclipses, shaped stones with formulas for predicting solar eclipses and Venus Orbit.
If most of the prehispanic Mexican civilizations developed hieroglyphs, Mayans reached the phonetic-alphabetic phase, also the vigesimal numerical system started by the Olmec was perfected between the III and IV centuries B.C.

The calendar begins in a zero date possibly the June 8th, 8498 B.C. in our computation of time, although not entirely sure. The Mayans also had a year of 365 days (18 months of 20 days and an intercalary month of 5 days).

 
Studies on the stars that Mayans made, continue surprising scientists. Their obsession with the movement of the heavenly bodies was based on the cyclical conception of history, and astronomy was the tool used to determine the influence of the stars on the world.Many buildings were constructed in order to stage celestial phenomena on Earth, such as El Castillo at Chichen Itza, where the landing of  God Kukulkan, a snake formed by shadows created at the corners of the building during the solstices observed. The four steps of the building add 365 steps, the days of the year. In the Dresden Codex are the calculations of the lunar, solar, Venusian cycles and frequency tables of eclipses.

 

Mayans still being a mystery. Where have they gone? Why they left?  Had they discovered something beyond our comprehension? Questions can keep going but what we've learn about them is mainly important for astronomy conception.

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Breve Introducción al Universo

Una de las preguntas que el ser humano se ha hecho desde que tiene memoria se refiere al mundo que lo rodea. A medida que aumentan sus conocimientos, este mundo se va ampliando y comienza a cobrar un poco de sentido, pero siempre queda un espacio en blanco, ¿Qué hay allá afuera?. 

Y es aquí donde la Astronomía juega un papel muy importante, ya que se encarga del estudio del Universo así como de todos los elementos que lo conforman.

Dejando a un lado la filosofía, expliquemos, ¿Qué es el Universo?

"El Universo es todo aquello que nos rodea, sin excepcion alguna."

 

Materia, Antimateria, Energía, Espacio y Tiempo, absolutamente todo lo que existe forma parte de el. 

El Universo contiene galaxias, cometas, asteroides, nebulosas, enanas blancas, cúmulos de galaxias, supercúmulos, y mucho más, además de la materia.
Aún contando con toda la tecnología del ahora, no se sabe con exactitud la magnitud del Universo, a pesar de los inumerables estudios y ecuaciones propuestas.
En cuanto a la materia refiere, esta no se distribuye de manera uniforme, sino que se concentra en lugares concretos: galaxias, sistemas, estrellas, planetas. Sin embargo, alrededor del 95% del Universo es materia oscura.
Algunos de los elementos más abundantes que en el radican son:

Símbolo	Elemento químico	Porcentaje
H	Hidrógeno	75%
He	Helio	24%
O	Oxígeno	0.085%
C	Carbono	0.036%
N	Nitrógeno	0.0112%
Ne	Neón	0.0110%
Fe	Hierro	0.0033%
SI	Silicio	0.0031%
Mg	Magnesio	0.0030%
S	Azufre	0.0018%

La teoría del Big Bang y su relación con su formación.

La ciencia moderna, considera que el big bang, es la teoría que más se acerca a la formación del universo; esta teoría enuncia que hace unos 13.700 millones de años la materia tenía una densidad y una temperatura casi infinitas, tan solo para la densidad 1x10^72 g/cm3.
Debido a estas condiciones, ocurrió una explosión violenta y masiva, creando todo lo que conocemos ahora y, desde entonces, el universo va perdiendo densidad y temperatura.
Todo esto queda mejor descrito con un gráfico.

El Universo ha sido un misterio hasta hace pocos años, de hecho, todavía lo es, podría decirse que conocemos solo 1 átomo acerca de el. Desde las explicaciones mitológicas o religiosas del pasado, hasta los actuales medios científicos y tecnologicos que disponen los astrónomos, contando que la ciencia ha evolucionado exponencialmente en los últimos 100 años.
Aún faltan muchas cosas por descubrir, pero en esto, solo somos simples hormigas queriendo explorar el mundo exterior que yace afuera de su colmena.
Por ahora, solo nos queda evolucionar nuestras mentes, pues existen algunos conceptos que para el hombre de hoy en día, serían incomprensibles.

 

Hasta luego.

Brief Introduction To Universe

One of the questions that man had been pondering since it's got use of memory refers to the world that surrounds it.

The more knowledge it gets, the more this world starts expanding and taking a bit of sense, but there's always a blank space, What's out there?

Therefore, Astronomy plays a great role here, starting by analyzing and studying all what is inside universe.

Leaving aside Philosophy, lets explain, What is Universe?

"Universe is everything surrounding us, with no exception"

Matter, Antimatter, Energy, Space & Time,  absolutely everything that exists forms part of it.

 

Universe contains galaxies, comets, asteroids, nebulae, white dwarfs, galaxy clusters, superclusters and even more; besides almost, infinite matter.
Even with all "Today's Technology", we still unknowing the exact size of Universe, even though those uncountable researches and proposed equations.
As referring to matter, this is not uniformly distributed, instead, its concentrated in concrete places: Galaxies, Systems, Stars, Planets. Yet, around 95% of Universe is non-visible dark matter.

Some of the most abundant elements in Universe are:

Symbol	Element Name	Percentage
H	Hydrogen	75%
He	Helium	24%
O	Oxygen	0.085%
C	Carbon	0.036%
N	Nitrogen	0.0112%
Ne	Neon	0.0110%
Fe	Iron	0.0033%
SI	Silicon	0.0031%
Mg	Magnesium	0.0030%
S	Sulfur	0.0018%

Big Bang's Theory and its relation with actual Universe.

Modern science considers big bang as the closest theory to he formation of universe; this theory states that 13,700 million years ago, matter used to have almost infinite density and temperature, estimating density at 1x10 ^72 g/cm3.
Due to this conditions, a massive and violent explosion took place, creating what we know and, hence, universe started loosing density and temperature, keeping a process of expansion.
Since everything is better described with a picture...

Universe had always been a mystery, in fact it stills being a mystery, we can say that all what we know is just 1 atom of it. Since mythological and religious explanations from past, to the modern research stuff available to scientists and astronomers, taking into account that science had evolved exponentially on the last 100 years.
There are lots of things to discover, but inside this matter of universe studying, we're nothing but just little ants trying to explore the outer world outside its ant hill.
By now, we only have left to evolve our minds, since there are some concepts that for human understanding will be absolutely incomprehensible.

 

Later Travelers.

Bienvenidos

Hola Viajeros, Bienvenidos.
Antes que nada gracias por acompañarme en este increíble viaje a lo largo del universo.

En esta jornada, la cual es un honor iniciar, los guiaré por distintos caminos que conforman la magnífica ciencia de la Astronomía y Cosmología.
 
Estamos atravesando tiempos de cambio profundo y poco a poco quitaremos la venda que tenemos en los ojos, una venda que se nos ha puesto desde que tenemos conciencia.
Pero, ¿cómo lo haremos?, simple, usando un arma muy poderosa llamada conocimiento.

Es tiempo de romper las limitantes que la sociedad nos ha colocado.

Es tiempo de despertar.