what a “stack”

I came across this Man or Astro-Man Wikipedia illustration under Needles in the Cosmic Haystack today, showing a couple of mistakes. Yeah, I have been known to make one or two myself. I just thought this one amusing because I read today they “have found a cosmic needle in a haystack, aka  2XMM J083026+524133.  It was right there, hiding all along…until serendipitously detected. Hmmm.  Must be the way things are stacking up these days.

Not talking waffles or pancakes here, though the idea is making my mouth water. I am getting ready to make some cheesecake so that will have to do. Uh, oh, getting off course again. We’re talking cosmic haystack on the blog this entry, a gamma go round. I wonder if anyone noticed today’s (newest) discovery before it was written up, XMM-Newton’s massive discovery.  We (humans) have missed many obvious celestial objects, galaxies, asteroids, etc, sometimes these things are in full view. I put an antenna in this post just to see if anyone would notice it. If I didn’t point it out would you have seen it? I knew it would be difficult to detect which is why it was put there. 

On July 18 there was an article that XMM-Newton had discovered an exploding star in the Milky Way. So they found something everyone missed and wrote about that special little “twist” as they called it, because it was in full view of lots of stargazers.  Nice site: ESA. I went there today for the first time to look for the news of the day, “XMM-Newton has discovered the most massive cluster of galaxies seen in the distant Universe until now.”

a neat mouse trick

Today’s crop circle reminds me that in my last post (blinded with science) I used seven stars to show where I got text for the anagram I did. I realize the crop circle does not contain seven stars, but it does contain one star with seven points. I also noticed the resemblance between these two “mice”: BIG mouse and little mouse. It’s funny “little mouse’s” picture is labeled “big mouse” in the internet address.

blinded with science

“Our angels think you won’t be disappointed by Heaven. Glad how God involved you, V? He wanted you to shake life up a little by putting His Word to everyone. Data shows us a flattened universe; it’s usually hidden. Look higher. Thank Him.”

Two readable collages. The song played, She Blinded Me With Science.

The spheres’re in commotion

The elements in harmony

She blinded me with science

here to here

“Here I am to anagram my mother, Oz song and France in the right order. Lepton play, eyeball pilot. I bet I see another hot night here.” I made mention yesterday that my daughter went to France, and that I was really too tried to work on the blog entry anymore last night, but did do an anagram based on yesterday’s collage. Explaining a reference to the fact that my mother always wanted to go to France, her favorite song being Somewhere over the Rainbow and a connection, I figured I should put up the anagram that went with that.

Last night was so hot that when I took the trash outside about 9 PM, I became ill. It  must be the vertigo because I was more woozy than usual. I think it was more the humidity and no air movement here in the valley. My neighbor wasn’t feeling very well either, but maybe today won’t be so bad. It should be in the upper 80’s today rather than mid 90’s.