{"id":280800,"date":"2018-07-26T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=280800"},"modified":"2018-07-26T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:00:58","slug":"space-news-neutrinos-and-cnmi-lunar-eclipse-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/space-news-neutrinos-and-cnmi-lunar-eclipse-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Space News,\u00a0Neutrinos, and CNMI Lunar Eclipse Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a total lunar eclipse visible in the CNMI (depending on cloud cover) that you can watch without\u00a0eye protection on Saturday, July 28, 2018, at 5:57am, ChST. Get an unobstructed view facing the western horizon\u00a0around 5:30am and you will see a \u201cblood moon\u201d forming. The planet Mars is very close to it, two reds for the price of one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome to a Neutrino from over Orion\u2019s Shoulder<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nIt reminded me of the circus ringmaster introducing a group of acrobats<br \/>\nOr 1960\u2019s TV variety show host Ed Sullivan\u2019s \u201cA really big show tonight!\u201d<br \/>\nthis new act was captured deep down inside drilled Antarctica\u2019s ice vats<br \/>\nthe neutrino came from *3.7 billion LY away and triggered a scientific light.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nNeutrinos, among smallest universal particles, are smaller than an atom<br \/>\nthey pass by the trillions through outer space and earth and us every day<br \/>\nthere are \u201cthree flavors\u201d of neutrinos, in 1934 Enrico Fermi named them<br \/>\nthose from outer space we never knew where they started their way.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nSome come from supernovae others made in linear accelerators on earth<br \/>\nthis one came from a blazar galaxy with black hole center behind Orion<br \/>\na scientific experiment hole on the cold South Pole traced it to its birth<br \/>\nearth site and space telescopes scientists watch for them and keep trying.<\/p>\n<p>A LY or light year is 9.5 trillion kilometers or 5.9 trillion miles, it is<br \/>\nthe distance light travels in a vacuum in one earth year, 365 days<br \/>\nscientists want to find more neutrinos to learn about how our cosmos<br \/>\ndeveloped after the Big Bang explosion in so many different ways.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>To do the math to find out how far away in miles that blazar galaxy is: multiply 3.7 billion (its distance in light years from earth) by 5.9 trillion miles, which is the number of miles in one light year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relativity: A Wavy Cavity in Gravity<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCold entropy from within and without folds open<br \/>\nmillions of light years exposed hidden from our eyes<br \/>\nI\u2019m amazed, incredulous, positive, and hoping<br \/>\nwill string theory answer the how, whats, and whys.<\/p>\n<p>Is not master Albert Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity<br \/>\nworthy of all mathematical cosmological devotion<br \/>\nas particle physicists challenge Newton\u2019s Principia<br \/>\ngravitational lensing indicates light bends in motion.<\/p>\n<p>Gravity holds us tied invisibly to our mother sun<br \/>\nas we revolve around it with other planets all as one<br \/>\nin gravity\u2019s clutches with Mercury, Venus and Mars<br \/>\nour sun slowly becomes one of many red giant stars.<\/p>\n<p>Galactic life evolves into eternal darkness forever<br \/>\ncontinuing a long term expanding Big Bang endeavor.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a total lunar eclipse visible in the CNMI (depending on cloud cover)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22080,16247,22081,1247],"class_list":["post-280800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-antarctica","tag-big-bang","tag-ly","tag-south-pole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}