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We take a look at analyzing your breath, large structures on a universal scale, inflatable space station modules, spacecraft update, Curiosity news and as always take a peek back into history and up in the sky this week.

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Big on a Universal Scale

  • Image Credit: R. G. Clowes / UCLan
  • The low down
  • Quasars are the nuclei of galaxies from the early days of the universe that undergo periods of extremely high brightness that make them visible across huge distances that last 10–100 million years, which is brief on the astronomical time scale
  • Since 1982 it has been known that quasars tend to group together in clumps or ‘structures’ of surprisingly large sizes, forming large quasar groups or LQGs.
  • Significance
  • Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an international team of researchers has discovered a record-breaking cluster of quasars-young active galaxies at a mind blowing 4 billion years across
  • The Milky Way is a hundred thousand light-years across and is separated from its nearest neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy, by 2.5 million light-years [~0.75 Megaparsecs (Mpc)]
  • The local supercluster of galaxies in which it’s located, the Virgo Cluster, is only a hundred million light-years wide
  • LQGs can be 650 million light-years [200 Mpc] or more across while Whole clusters of galaxies can be a mere 6.5 million light-years [2–3 Mpc]
  • While this elongated LQC has a typical dimension of 1.6 billion light-years [500 Mpc] with its longest dimension at 4 billion light years [1200 Mpc]
  • This would make it some 1600 times larger than the distance from the Milky Way to Andromeda
  • The LQG is so significant in size it also challenges the Cosmological Principle: the assumption that the universe, when viewed at a sufficiently large scale, looks the same no matter where you are observing it from.
  • Of Note
  • The modern theory of cosmology is based on the work of Albert Einstein, and depends on the assumption of the Cosmological Principle
  • The Principle is assumed but has never been demonstrated observationally ‘beyond reasonable doubt’.
  • Based on the Cosmological Principle and the modern theory of cosmology, calculations suggest that astrophysicists should not be able to find a structure larger than 1.2 million light-years [370 Mpc].
  • Recall that this elongated LQC has a typical dimension of 1.6 billion light-years [500 Mpc] with its longest dimension at 4 billion light years [1200 Mpc]
  • This discovery could mean that current mathematical descriptions of the universe has been oversimplified
  • It represents a serious difficulty and a serious increase in complexity
  • Further Reading / In the News
  • Biggest Thing in Universe Found—Defies Scientific Theory | news.NationalGeographic.com
  • Astronomers discover the largest structure in the universe | Phys.org

— NEWS BYTE —

Inflatable Space Station Modules

  • On Jan 11 NASA announced they have awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow to provide a new inflatable module for the ISS, making it the first privately built module to be added to the space station
  • The low down
  • According to the website Bigelow Aerospace’s Genesis I inflatable test module was inserted into orbit and is still functioning and “continuing to produce invaluable images, videos and data
  • A second Genesis module was launched in 2007 and it, too, is still functioning in orbit.
  • Previous information given out said the inflatable module for the space station would be used for adding additional storage and workspace, and certified to remain on-orbit for two years
  • Significance
  • The outer shell of their module is soft, as opposed to the rigid outer shell of current modules at the ISS, Bigelow’s inflatable modules are more resistant to micrometeoroid or orbital debris strikes it uses multiple layers of Vectran, a material which is twice as strong as Kevlar
  • NASA officials have said that BEAM could be on orbit about two years after getting an official go-ahead
  • The module will likely be launched by one of the agency’s commercial cargo suppliers, California-based SpaceX or Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp
  • Of Note
  • The company wants to launch and link up several of its larger expandable modules to create private space stations, which could be used by a variety of clients.
  • They are looking at a possible outpost on the moon that would use several modules, propulsion tanks, and power units that would be joined together in space and then flown down to the lunar surface.
  • Lunar dirt would be piled over the modules to protect against radiation, thermal extremes and micrometeorite strikes.
  • Further Reading / In the News
  • Bigelow Inflatable Module Will be Added to Space Station | UniverseToday.com
  • NASA Buys Private Inflatable Room for Space Station | Space.com

What Else is on Your Breath

  • Last time on SciByte
  • SciByte 46 | Mayan Calendar & Cancer Research | A breathalyzer that does more than find out how much you’ve had to drink [May 15, 2012]
  • The low down
  • Researchers have developed a test that can detect the presence of common infectious bacteria based just on the breath
  • The test measures the VOC, volatile organic compound, particles emitted in gasses, profiles that the bacteria create that are distinct those that the body, or other bacteria, give off
  • Significance
  • They conducted studies in lab mice that were infected with different types of common bacteria
  • Researchers used two different strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can cause pneumonia, and one strain of Staphylococcus aureus, which can cause respiratory infections
  • The researchers tested the animals’ breath the next day by ionizing breath samples then then shooting them through a mass spectrometer to analyze concentrations of various VOCs in a process called secondary electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
  • The test identified the different bacterial infections as well as differentiated between healthy and infected
  • The team also located the difference between the two strains of P. aeruginosa
  • The speedy results of the test is appealing. And it could at least make it a good first step in detecting bacterial infections, with a follow-up culture coming later if deemed necessary-to detect drug-resistant TB, for example
  • This technique will have to be tested in large human trials before it can be used on a large scale in offices
  • Of Note
  • Similar breath tests have also been studied for detecting other ailments, such as diabetes and cancer
  • In addition it is thought that we will also be able to distinguish between bacterial, viral and fungal infections of the lung
  • Further Reading / In the News
  • Breath Test Could Sniff Out Infections in Minutes | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network | blogs.scientificamerican.com

— TWO-BYTE NEWS —

One Way Trip to Mars

  • Last time on SciByte
  • SciByte 61 | ‘Tatooine’ Exoplanets & Eye’s | Martian Reality TV [September 4, 2012]
  • The low down
  • The Netherlands-based nonprofit Mars One, which hopes to put the first boots on the Red Planet in 2023, released its basic astronaut requirements on Jan 8
  • A televised global selection process will begin later this year.
  • Significance
  • Anyone who is at least 18 years old can apply to become a Mars colony pioneer
  • Important criteria, officials say, are intelligence, good mental and physical health and dedication to the project, as astronauts will undergo eight years of training before launch.
  • Even Well before the official Astronaut Selection Program, the project has already received more than 1,000 emails from individuals who desire to go to Mars
  • Of Note
  • Mars One plans to launch a series of robotic cargo missions between 2016 and 2021, which will build a habitable Red Planet outpost ahead of the arrival of the first four colonists in 2023.
  • More settlers will arrive every two years after that. There are no plans to return the pioneers to Earth
  • The project will be largely funded by staging a global reality-TV event
  • Multimedia
  • YouTube Mars One introduction film | MarsOneProject
  • YouTube Construction steps of Mars One settlement | MarsOneProject
  • YouTube Channel [Mars One
  • Social Media
  • Mars One @MarsOneProject
  • Further Reading / In the News
  • Mars One Homepage
  • Mars Colonists Wanted to Explore Red Planet | Space.com

— SPACECRAFT UPDATE—

MoonKAM

  • The low down
  • The MoonKAM (Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students) took more than 115,000 total images of the lunar surface, and imaging targets were proposed by middle school students
  • Some of the final images taken by the GRAIL MoonKAM educational cameras on board Ebb and Flow, the twin spacecraft for the mission
  • The spacecraft had lowered their orbit to only about 6.8 miles [11 km] above the lunar surface. While these images aren’t of the highest of resolution, they provide a great sense of what it would be like to orbit close to the Moon
  • This footage was shot just three days prior to when the mission ended with the planned impacts on a rim of a crater near the lunar north pole.
  • Multimedia
  • YouTube Parting Moon Shots from NASA’s GRAIL mission | JPLnewsJPLnews
  • Social Media
  • GRAIL MoonKAM @GRAIL_MoonKAM
  • Further Reading / In the News
  • New Video Shows the GRAIL MoonKAM’s Final Looks at the Moon | UniverseToday.com

– CURIOSITY UPDATE –

SCIENCE CALENDAR

Looking back

  • Jan 21, 1979 : 34 years ago : Neptune : Pluto has a highly elliptical orbit, completing its journey around the Sun every 248 years. Pluto’s distance from the Sun varies, most of the time, Pluto is the farthest planet from the Sun, but every 497 years, for 20 years during its orbit, Pluto is closer to the Sun than Neptune. In reality Pluto is actually quite a distance “above” Neptune and orbits the Sun twice for every three orbits of Neptune. Pluto “crossed” Neptune’s orbit on January 21, 1979, and temporarily became the 8th planet from the sun. On February 11, Pluto moved farther from the Sun than Neptune, regaining its status as the most distant planet in the solar system. well planet at that time Image| Orbits of Pluto and Neptune
  • PLUTO TO BECOME MOST DISTANT PLANET | Feb 09, 1999
  • Pluto and Neptune: Collision? | imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov

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More ‘Tatooine’ Planets



YouTube : | Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, T. Pyle

  • NASA’s Kepler mission has found the first multi-planet solar system orbiting a binary star
  • Last time on SciByte
  • SciByte 17 | Neutrinos & Tatooine – “Tatooine” Planet (October 18, 2011)
  • The low down
  • The two stars orbit one another in roughly 7.5 days the primary star is about the same mass as the Sun, and its companion is an M-dwarf star one-third its size
  • The primary star is about 6,000 times dimmer than can be seen with the naked eye making taking spectra of the system very difficult, the secondary star is too faint to measure
  • These values, along with the Kepler eclipse and transit timings, were plugged into a model that calculated the relative sizes of all the bodies involved
  • Significance
  • The inner planet, Kepler–47b, is three times wider than Earth and orbits the binary star every 49.5 days
  • The outer planet receives about 88 percent the amount of energy the Earth receives from the sun and is 4.6 times the size of Earth with an orbit of 303.2 days.
  • The outer planet is the first planet found to orbit a binary star within the “habitable zone,”however the planet’s size (about the same as Uranus) means that it is an icy giant, and not an abode for life
  • Of Note
  • This discovery proves that whole planetary systems can form in a disk around a binary star
  • An unconfirmed hint of an additional world lurks in the blinking starlight produced when the planetary companions pass between the two stars and Earth indicates that there could be another planet in this system however the additional blink has been seen clearly just once
  • Multimedia
  • YouTube Tatooine-Like System Found – Two Planets, Two Stars | VideoFromSpace
  • Further Reading / In the News
  • Exoplanet Pair Orbits Two Stars – Science News | Space.com
  • Kepler finds first multi-planet system around a binary star | Phys.org
  • How 2 ‘Tatooine’ Planets Orbit Twin Stars (Infographic) | Space.com

— NEWS BYTE —

Fuzzy Dino’s Dinner Menu



Credit: Cheung Chungtat. (2012) PLoS ONE

  • The low down
  • Fossils are occasionally found with the remains of animals and plants inside what were once their guts
  • These contents can shed light on what they once ate — for instance, past research showed a mammal predator apparently had a tiny dinosaur as its last meal.
  • Significance
  • Scientists investigated two specimens of a carnivorous dinosaur from Liaoning, China, known as Sinocalliopteryx gigas
  • The predator was roughly the size of a wolf, about 6 feet (2 meters) long, and had feathers or hairlike fuzz covering its body to help keep it warm
  • One of the Sinocalliopteryx specimens, a complete and remarkably well-preserved skeleton, apparently dined on a birdlike, cat-size feathered dinosaur known as Sinornithosaurus, judging by the partial leg found in its gut.
  • The fact that Sinocalliopteryx gobbled at least two birds of the same species at about the same time indicates that chances are very good it was actively selecting its prey; that makes it a predator
  • In addition capturing flying prey is indicative of a stealthy predator
  • Multimedia
  • Image Gallery Dinosaur Guts: Photos of a Paleo-Predator | LiveScience.com
  • Further Reading / In the News
  • Last Meal Found in Stomach of Fuzzy Dinosaur | LiveScience.com

— VIEWER FEEDBACK —

Sweet Star Cloud



Credit: ESO/L. Calçada & NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team | Credit: ESO/L. Calçada

  • Sugar molecules have been found in the gas surrounding a young sun-like star
  • The low down
  • The young star is part of a binary similar mass to the sun and is located about 400 light-years away
  • Sugar molecules, known as glycolaldehyde, have previously been detected in interstellar space
  • This is the first time sugars have been spotted so close to a sun-like star
  • The molecules are about the same distance away from the star as the planet Uranus is from our sun
  • The sugar found is glycolaldehyde, is a simple form of sugar, not much different to the sugar we put in coffee
  • They were found the sugar molecules using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile
  • Significance
  • When new stars are formed, the clouds of dust and gas from which they are born are extremely cold
  • As the newborn star develops, it heats up the inner parts of the rotating cloud of gas and dust, warming it to about room temperature
  • This heating process evaporates the chemically complex molecules and forms gases that emit radiation that can be picked up by sensitive radio telescopes like the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile
  • Since is located relatively close to Earth, scientists will be able to study the molecular and chemical makeup of the gas and dust around the young star
  • Further Reading / In the News
  • Sugar Molecules Discovered Around Sun-Like Star | Search for Life & Alien Planets | Space.com

— TWO-BYTE NEWS —

Diagnosis with eye’s

  • Researchers at the University of Southern California have devised a method for detecting certain neurological disorders through the study of eye movements.
  • The low down
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and Parkinson’s Disease (PD) all affect vision
  • Researchers believe that they can be identified through an evaluation of how patients move their eyes while they watch television
  • Typical methods of detection are costly, labor-intensive and limited by a patient’s ability to understand and comply with instructions
  • Significance
  • In a test participants in the study were simply instructed to “watch and enjoy” television clips for 20 minutes while their eye movements were recorded.
  • With eye movement data from 108 subjects, the team was able to identify older adults with Parkinson’s Disease with 89.6% accuracy, and children with either ADHD or FASD with 77.3% accuracy
  • This method provides considerable promise as an easily-deployed, low-cost, high-throughput screening tool, especially for young children and elderly populations who may be less compliant to traditional tests
  • Further Reading / In the News
  • Studying everyday eye movements could aid in diagnosis of neurological disorders | MedicalXpress.com

Martian Reality TV

  • A Dutch company that aims to land humans on Mars in 2023 as the vanguard of a permanent Red Planet colony has received its first funding from sponsors
  • The low down
  • Mars One estimates that it will cost about $6 billion to put the first four humans on the Red Planet
  • Mars One plans to fund most of its ambitious activities via a global reality-TV media event that will follow the mission from the selection of astronauts through their first years on the Red Planet
  • The televised process of selecting its 40-person astronaut corps is slated to begin in 2013
  • They aims to launch a series of robotic missions between 2016 and 2020 that will build a habitable outpost on the Red Planet
  • The first four astronauts would set foot on Mars in 2023, and more to arrive every two years after that
  • Initial sponsors include Byte Internet (a Dutch Internet/Webhosting provider); Dutch lawfirm VBC Notarissen; Dutch consulting company MeetIn; New-Energy.tv (an independent Dutch web station that focuses on energy and climate); and Dejan SEO (an Australia-based search engine optimization firm).
  • Of Note
  • There are no plans to return any of participants to Earth.
  • Multimedia
  • YouTube Mars One introduction film (updated version) | MarsOneProject
  • Social Media
  • Mars One @MarsOneProject
  • Further Reading / In the News
  • Private Manned Mars Mission Gets First Sponsors | Space.com

— Updates —

Virtual Sight Takes First Steps



YouTube channel : virtualpoint | Instant Eye : Kevin Hand

– MARS ROVER UPDATES –

Opportunity

  • Driving Distance and life
  • Was designed for .6mi [1km] distance and a 90 sol mission
  • Has now driven 35 times the distance it was designed now at 21.75mi [35km]
  • It’s life has lasted almost 34 times the original lifetime design at 3,057 Martian sols
  • Opportunity’s solar array energy production is good, producing about 568 watt-hours
  • Oppy is now moving to survey an exposed outcrop in search of phyllosilicate clay minerals that have been detected from orbit
  • The Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) on the end of the robotic arm was imaged (top image) to reconfirm the available bit for future grinding and the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) collected a measurement of atmospheric argon.
  • Social Media
  • Spirit and Oppy @MarsRovers
  • Further Reading / In the News
  • Opportunity Rover Tops 35 Kilometers of Driving | UniverseToday.com

Curiosity

SCIENCE CALENDAR

Looking back

  • Sep 07, 1888 : 124 years ago : First baby incubator : A baby incubator was first used in the U.S. to care for an infant at State Emigrant Hospital on Ward’s Island, New York. Edith Eleanor McLean weighed 2-lb 7-oz. Originally called a “hatching cradle,” the device was 3-ft square, 4-ft high, It was designed to increase the survival rate for premature infants by the maternity ward doctors, Drs. Allan M. Thomas and William C. Deming.* At the 1904 World’s Fair, Tennessean E.M. Bayliss exhibited 14 metal-framed glass incubators with constant ventilation and temperature of 90ºF, attended by nurses caring for real endangered infants from orphanages and poor families. The care of the infants was paid for by the exhibit admission fee

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