#Cosmic Kev

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I’m ashamed to say Kev WOULD do the Morning Routine that’s been circulating Twitter-

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Drew Kev from @cosmic-wonders-series to practice more buff characters

I couldn't figure out how to do the 25 right, so I just did normal numbers

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Also, HIMBO GOLEM PLUSHIE IS OUT GO GO GO GO

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Mysterious phenomenon at center of galaxy could reveal new kind of dark matter

A mysterious phenomenon at the centre of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark matter. 

Dark matter, the mysterious form of unobserved matter which could make up 85% of the mass of the known universe, is one of science’s biggest manhunts. 

In this first of its kind study, scientists have taken a step closer to understanding the elusive mystery matter. They believe a reimagined candidate for dark matter could be behind unexplained chemical reactions taking place in the Milky Way. 

Dr Shyam Balaji, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at King’s College London and one of the lead authors of the study explains, “At the centre of our galaxy sit huge clouds of positively charged hydrogen, a mystery to scientists for decades because normally the gas is neutral. So, what is supplying enough energy to knock the negatively charged electrons out of them? 

“The energy signatures radiating from this part of our Galaxy suggest that there is a constant, roiling source of energy doing just that, and our data says it might come from a much lighter form of dark matter than current models consider.” 

The most established theory for dark matter is that it is likely a group of particles known as ‘Weakly Interacting Massive Particles’ (WIMPs), which pass through regular matter without much interaction – making them extremely hard to detect. 

However, this study, published today in Physical Review Letters, has potentially revived another type of dark matter with much, lower mass than a WIMP. 

The researchers think that these tiny dark matter particles are crashing into each other and producing new charged particles in a process called ‘annihilation’. These newly produced charged particles can subsequently ionise the hydrogen gas. 

Previous attempts to explain this ionisation process had relied on cosmic rays, fast and energetic particles that travel throughout the universe. However, this explanation has faced some difficulties, as energy signatures recorded from observations of the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) where this is happening, don’t seem to be large enough to be attributed to cosmic rays. Such a process doesn’t seem to be possible with WIMPs either. 

The research team were left with the explanation that the energy source causing the annihilation is slower than a cosmic ray and less massive than a WIMP. 

Dr Balaji said “The search for dark matter is science’s biggest manhunt, but a lot of experiments are based on Earth. By using gas at the CMZ for a different kind of observation, we can get straight to the source. The data is telling us that dark matter could potentially be a lot lighter than we thought.” 

“The search for dark matter is one of fundamental science’s most important objectives, but a lot of experiments are based on Earth, waiting with hands outstretched for the dark matter to come to them. By peering into the centre of our Milky Way, the Hydrogen gas in the CMZ is suggesting that we may be closer to identifying evidence on the possible nature of dark matter.” 

This finding may simultaneously explain wider mysteries of our Galaxy, such as a specific type of X-ray observation found at the centre of the Milky Way – known as the ‘511-keV emission line’. This specific energy signature could also be due to the same low-mass dark matter colliding and producing charged particles. 

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Hypnosis Book Reviews by Cosmic Pancakes

Cosmic Pancakes is a website by Kev Sheldrake and his wife, Amy Ellingham. Kev Sheldrake is most well known for his partnership with Anthony Jacquin, but the real meat of the website is in the reviews.

They tend to focus on different things. Ellingham has a real taste for the obscure deep cuts.

Also, she's funny.

Sheldrake tends to dig into the academic history of hypnosis. This is probably not surprising considering his background, but this does mean that he assumes you're going to be fascinated by the state/non-state debate.

Interestingly, neither of them are afraid of discussing sex and hypnosis.

And even the occasional hypnokink fiction!

I've been digging through these for most of the day. They are consistently full of anecdotes and personal opinions that make the review fun even when the book itself is a stinker.

If you're interested in checking out the books themselves, you can find a surprising number on archive.org.

For example, Hypnosis, imagination, and human potentialities is here.

The same applies to the papers, which you can usually find on scihub, i.e.

can be found at https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1002/acp.3730

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🎵 Reunited and it feels so good!🎵

The lil Lemon has arrived!!

I've gotten every plushie from @itsapmseymour except for Kevin (sorry Kev, you didn't deserve that!) and Cyana 2.2.

I will collect them all, you can count on it!

Cosmic wonders and especially Cyana has helped me get through some difficult times in my life. So I'm always happy to get new CosWon stuff to show my support!

Thank you @itsapmseymour ! 💙

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ALAN THE INFINITE from Parabella on Vimeo.

Alan’s excited! It’s his first day at Lamin’8– a stale, grey, humdrum lamination company. Oh boy! If he buckles up, stays focused and impresses Gary, his unhinged boss, this might just be a job for life. But all is not quite as it seems, and when Alan accidentally unleashes cosmic, supernatural forces into the office, he realises that fitting in at Lamin’8 is going to be infinitely more tricky than he ever could have dreamed.

CREDITS Written & Directed by - Mikey Please & Dan Ojari Produced by - Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, Alex Holberton & Kev Harwood Executive Producers - Mikey Please & Dan Ojari, James Stevenson Bretton, Tom Stuart & Bart Yates Music by - Ben Please & Beth Porter @ The Bookshop band

CAST ALAN - Dan Ojari GARY - Baker Terry PREA - Theodora van Der Beek SUSAN - Jessica Rayner NEIL - Rob Carter SCIENTIST - Elliot Dear

Sound Design - Adam Janota Bzowski, Ben Please & Dan Ojari Sound Mastering - Simon Harris @ Offset

DOP - Simon Paul Camera Assistant. - Giles Warner Additional lighting - Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, Peter Elmore & Max Halstead

Lead Animators - Andy Biddle, Dan Gill, Steve Warne, Anthony Farquhar Smith, Mikey Please & Dan Ojari Animators - James Carlisle, Luke George, Rachael Olga, Nick Black & Angie Palethorpe

Puppet Design - Mikey Please Puppet Fabrication - Mikey Please, Adeena Grub, Rosie Tonkin & Thomas O’Meara Rigging - Robin Jackson Crowd Puppets design and fabrication - Adeena Grub and Natasha Wigoder

Set Design - Dan Ojari Art Direction - Dan Ojari, Emma Rose & Kat Simpson

Modelmakers - Katy Haggerty-Marks, Becky Weston, Rachael Olga, Nick Black, Luke George, Campbell Hartley, Emily Suvanvej, Millie Tennant, Adeena Grubb, Antonia Trister, Jack Pratt, Rebecca Howell, Steph Marshall, Natasha Wigoder, Beatriz Dominguez, Sofia Rodriguez Serrano, Maria Crus, Mireia Mendez & Brin Frost

2D facial Animation - Mikey Please Additional 2D - Mathias Sgard & Elliot Dear

Lead Compositor - Mikey Please Additional compositing - Mathias Sgard, Dan Ojari, Simone Ghilardoti & Tom Fisher Grade - Elroy Gaskin-Payne @ Onsight

Post Production Supervisor - Benjamin Lole Post Production Manager - Mira Valcheva Post Production Creative Supervisor - Quentin Vien 3D Modelling - Lisa George-Gilroy Rig Removal & 3D facial tracking - Elipse FX Production Support - Ali Albion

Recording Engineer - Robert Frank Hunter

Behind The Scenes Film - Joseph Eckworth

THANK YOU - Charlie Perkins, Matt Day, David Cann, David Lupsein, David Rodger, Katie-Mae Griffith, Lydia Larson, Cross Street Studios, Clapham Road Studios

A Parabella Studios & Blink Industries Film

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“Erit Iustitia”

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ALAN THE INFINITE from Parabella on Vimeo.

Alan’s excited! It’s his first day at Lamin’8– a stale, grey, humdrum lamination company. Oh boy! If he buckles up, stays focused and impresses Gary, his unhinged boss, this might just be a job for life. But all is not quite as it seems, and when Alan accidentally unleashes cosmic, supernatural forces into the office, he realises that fitting in at Lamin’8 is going to be infinitely more tricky than he ever could have dreamed.

CREDITS Written & Directed by - Mikey Please & Dan Ojari Produced by - Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, Alex Holberton & Kev Harwood Executive Producers - Mikey Please & Dan Ojari, James Stevenson Bretton, Tom Stuart & Bart Yates Music by - Ben Please & Beth Porter @ The Bookshop band

CAST ALAN - Dan Ojari GARY - Baker Terry PREA - Theodora van Der Beek SUSAN - Jessica Rayner NEIL - Rob Carter SCIENTIST - Elliot Dear

Sound Design - Adam Janota Bzowski, Ben Please & Dan Ojari Sound Mastering - Simon Harris @ Offset

DOP - Simon Paul Camera Assistant. - Giles Warner Additional lighting - Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, Peter Elmore & Max Halstead

Lead Animators - Andy Biddle, Dan Gill, Steve Warne, Anthony Farquhar Smith, Mikey Please & Dan Ojari Animators - James Carlisle, Luke George, Rachael Olga, Nick Black & Angie Palethorpe

Puppet Design - Mikey Please Puppet Fabrication - Mikey Please, Adeena Grub, Rosie Tonkin & Thomas O’Meara Rigging - Robin Jackson Crowd Puppets design and fabrication - Adeena Grub and Natasha Wigoder

Set Design - Dan Ojari Art Direction - Dan Ojari, Emma Rose & Kat Simpson

Modelmakers - Katy Haggerty-Marks, Becky Weston, Rachael Olga, Nick Black, Luke George, Campbell Hartley, Emily Suvanvej, Millie Tennant, Adeena Grubb, Antonia Trister, Jack Pratt, Rebecca Howell, Steph Marshall, Natasha Wigoder, Beatriz Dominguez, Sofia Rodriguez Serrano, Maria Crus, Mireia Mendez & Brin Frost

2D facial Animation - Mikey Please Additional 2D - Mathias Sgard & Elliot Dear

Lead Compositor - Mikey Please Additional compositing - Mathias Sgard, Dan Ojari, Simone Ghilardoti & Tom Fisher Grade - Elroy Gaskin-Payne @ Onsight

Post Production Supervisor - Benjamin Lole Post Production Manager - Mira Valcheva Post Production Creative Supervisor - Quentin Vien 3D Modelling - Lisa George-Gilroy Rig Removal & 3D facial tracking - Elipse FX Production Support - Ali Albion

Recording Engineer - Robert Frank Hunter

Behind The Scenes Film - Joseph Eckworth

THANK YOU - Charlie Perkins, Matt Day, David Cann, David Lupsein, David Rodger, Katie-Mae Griffith, Lydia Larson, Cross Street Studios, Clapham Road Studios

A Parabella Studios & Blink Industries Film

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An X-ray image of half the universe - Technology Org

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An X-ray image of half the universe - Technology Org

X-ray astronomy has an eventful 60-year history of exploring the extremes of the universe, from exploding stars to active galactic nuclei, which, with their supermassive black holes, are arguably the most efficient energy sources in the universe. While most X-ray telescopes were built to take a closer look at such phenomena, eRosita looks at the bigger picture. These include the largest structures in the universe and filaments of hot gas that connect powerful clusters of galaxies and could answer the biggest questions: how did the universe evolve, and why is it expanding?

The sky section of the eRosita All-Sky Survey Catalogue (eRASS1) in two different representations. The left image shows extended X-ray emission while the right image shows point-like X-ray sources. Image credit: MPE, J. Sanders für das eROSITA-Konsortium

The German eRosita consortium has today published its share of the data collected by the eRosita X-ray telescope on board the Spektrum-RG satellite during the first all-sky survey. The first eRosita All-Sky Survey Catalogue (eRASS1) is the largest collection of X-ray sources ever published, with around 900,000 individual sources. Along with the data, the consortium is publishing a series of scientific papers on new findings ranging from planetary habitability studies to the discovery of the largest cosmic structures. In the first six months of observation, eRosita has already discovered more X-ray sources than have been known in the 60-year history of X-ray astronomy. The data is available to the global scientific community.

More than 700.000 supermassive black holes

The eRASS1 observations with the eROSITA telescope were carried out from 12 December 2019 to 11 June 2020. The data published here cover half of the entire sky, the data share of the German eROSITA consortium. In the most sensitive energy range of the eROSITA detectors (0.2-2 keV), the telescope detected 170 million X-ray photons – a record number. In X-ray astronomy, it is possible to measure individual particles of light (photons) with their respective energy in the X-ray spectrum and their arrival time in the detector. The catalogue was then constructed – after careful processing and calibration – by detecting concentrations of photons in the sky against a bright, large-scale, diffuse background. After eRASS1, eROSITA has continued scanning the sky and accumulated several additional all-sky surveys. Those data will also be released to the world in the coming years.

The 900,000 sources include around 710 000 supermassive black holes in distant galaxies (active galactic nuclei), 180.000 X-ray emitting stars in our own Milky Way, 12.000 clusters of galaxies, plus a small number of other exotic classes of sources like X-ray emitting binary stars, supernova remnants, pulsars, and other objects. “These are mind-blowing numbers for X-ray astronomy,” says Andrea Merloni, eROSITA principal investigator and first author of the eROSITA catalogue paper. “We’ve detected more sources in 6 months than the big flagship missions XMM-Newton and Chandra have done in nearly 25 years of operation.”

Can X-rays from stars make planets uninhabitable?

Co-ordinated with the release, the German eROSITA Consortium has submitted almost 50 new scientific publications to peer-reviewed journals, adding to the more than 200 which had already been published by the team before the data release. Most of the new papers appear today with selected discoveries including: more than 1000 superclusters of galaxies, the giant filament of pristine warm-hot gas extending between two galaxy clusters and two new ‘Quasi-Periodically Erupting’ black holes. Further studies of how X-ray irradiation from a star may affect the atmosphere and water retention of orbiting planets, and statistical analysis of flickering supermassive black holes .

“The scientific breadth and impact of the survey is quite overwhelming; it’s hard to put into a few words,” says Mara Salvato, who as spokesperson for the German eROSITA consortium co-ordinates the efforts of about 250 scientists organised into 12 working groups. “But the papers published by the team will speak for themselves.”

This first eRASS data release (DR1) makes public not only the source catalogue, but images of the X-ray sky at multiple X-ray energies and even lists of the individual photons with their sky positions, energies and precise arrival times. The software needed to analyse the eROSITA data is also included in the release. For many source classes, supplementary data from other wavebands has also been incorporated into so-called “value-added” catalogues that go beyond pure X-ray information. “We’ve made a huge effort to release high-quality data and software,” added Miriam Ramos-Ceja, who leads the eROSITA Operations team. “We hope this will broaden the base of scientists worldwide working with high-energy data and help push the frontiers of X-ray astronomy.”

“The eROSITA collaboration has done an outstanding job with the data release and at the same time publishing all of these amazing new results,” says Kirpal Nandra, Director at MPE. “There’s a lot more to come from us, and we’re looking forward to seeing what the rest of the world will do with the public data.”

Keen eROSITA-watchers may know that the driving scientific objective that motivated the telescope was to constrain cosmological models using clusters of galaxies. The cosmology results, based on an in-depth analysis of the eRASS1 clusters, will be released in approximately two weeks. Watch this space!

HH, BEU

Additional Information

eROSITA is the soft X-ray instrument aboard Spektrum-RG (SRG), a joint Russian-German science mission supported by the Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos), in the interests of the Russian Academy of Sciences represented by its Space Research Institute (IKI), and the German Space Agency at DLR (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt). The SRG spacecraft was built by Lavochkin Association (NPOL) and its subcontractors, and is operated by NPOL with support from the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE).

The telescope was launched into space onboard the SRG mission on July 13, 2019. Its large collecting area and wide field of view are designed to perform to a deep all-sky survey in the X-ray band. Over the course of six months (December 2019 to June 2020), SRG/eROSITA completed the first survey of the whole sky at energies 0.2-8 keV, which is significantly deeper than the only existing all-sky survey with an X-ray imaging telescope, performed by ROSAT in 1990 at energies 0.1-2.4 keV. Three more scans of the entire sky were completed between June 2020 and February 2022.

The German eROSITA Consortium is led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), and includes the Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory Bamberg, the University of Hamburg Observatory, the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), and the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Tübingen, with the support of DLR and the Max Planck Society. The Argelander Institute for Astronomy of the University of Bonn and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich also participate in the science exploitation of eROSITA as associated institutes.The eROSITA data are processed using the eSASS software system developed by the German eROSITA consortium.

eROSITA has been placed in Safe Mode in February 2022, and has not restarted science operations since.

Source: MPG

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Are you suggesting that Silver Age Superman comics were not internally consistent to a degree that make Catholic apologia look slapdash?

Also, fun fact: The amount of lead necessary to stop half of the neutrinos passing through it is three light-years. I mean, neutrino flux -- which is absolutely enormous, there are roughly as many neutrinos as there are other particles in your body at any given instant -- barely counts as radiation on account of not interacting with you but it's still there.

Also, IIRC, we had about 4m of steel between our experiment and the one immediately upstream of us at Fermilab, and we still had to have a particle detector immediately downstream as an anti-trigger because the muons went right through it.

But you roll out your thin sheet of lead, Zor-El. You go for it. it'll stop "all radiation".

(Alpha radiation is stopped in more or less the outer layers of your skin. Beta radiation is stopped by a few inches of metal, depending on energy. Gamma radiation depends on how much energy the photons have how much matter it takes to absorb them*. Kryptonite radiation, from the comics, is much more like alpha radiation.)

*My personal scale for particle energies is GeV, because again, Fermilab. I have much less intuition about MeV and KeV particles. If it can't pair-produce or bremsstrahlung photons that can themselves pair-produce, I ain't interested.

Also fun fact: There have been single cosmic ray particles that have hit earth's atmosphere with energy measured, not in eV or MeV or GeV but hundreds of joules. 1 Joule is a ping-pong ball moving at roughly 45 mph. I'm not talking meteorites. I'm talking one single proton with enough energy all by itself to lift a kilogram ten or twenty meters. When that happens, you enjoy being at the very bottom of a nice, thick blanket of air.

There are enough of these cosmic rays that we've seen it happened multiple times, just in the years that we've had detectors that happened to be looking the right way.

That...doesn't really track. Unless Kryptonite only reacts to the yellow sun radiation itself and therefore is unable to harm him through its normal reaction without its presence? Like if you tried to set gasoline on fire in an environment without any air. Action Comics 369

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Coast Contra’s Ras Austin burning cosmic Kev’s house down !

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NEW POST: Mase - Cosmic Kev Freestyle (http://www.rapwave.net/2017/12/18/mase-cosmic-kev-freestyle/)

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Einstein Probe releases its Science White Paper

EP's cutting-edge instruments and international collaboration drive new discoveries in transient and multi-messenger astronomy

The Science White Paper for the Einstein Probe (EP) mission has been published in Science China: Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy. This mission, spearheaded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), and the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), is poised to advance the field of time-domain and X-ray astronomy significantly. EP's sophisticated observational instruments aim to probe X-ray transient sources and explosive astrophysical phenomena, thereby contributing to significant advancements in astronomical research.

The EP Science White Paper details the mission's scientific capabilities, observational methodologies, and primary objectives. Central to EP's design is the Wide-Field Lobster-Eye X-ray Telescope (WXT), which operates in the 0.5–4 keV energy regime. This telescope is precisely engineered to detect sudden X-ray transients and to monitor variability in known celestial sources. The WXT's detection capabilities are significantly enhanced compared to existing wide-field instruments, allowing for a more effective approach to capturing transient phenomena. In addition to the WXT, EP is equipped with a Wolter-I type Follow-up X-ray Telescope (FXT), designed for rapid, detailed follow-up observations to validate transient events and outbursts.

A key scientific goal of the EP mission is to enhance the characterization of rare transient sources across a range of timescales. The mission will execute comprehensive surveys of fast extragalactic transients, including enigmatic gamma-ray bursts and related phenomena, supernova shock waves, and predicted X-ray emissions from binary neutron star mergers. Furthermore, EP aims to detect tidal disruption events around black holes and monitor activity from active galactic nuclei, with a focus on capturing early signs of these occurrences.

The mission's observational focus extends to compact objects such as white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes within the Milky Way and its neighboring galaxies, monitoring their X-ray fluctuations and outbursts. Notably, EP is designed to identify weak signals from these outbursts, which may evade detection by current observational technology. Additionally, the mission is positioned to catalog and characterize a substantial number of stellar X-ray flares—phenomena where stars rapidly release significant energy.

EP also presents substantial opportunities in multi-messenger astronomy, with the capability to identify X-ray signals associated with gravitational wave events, neutrino sources, as well as ultra-high-energy gamma rays, and cosmic ray origins. These observations will provide valuable insights into extreme astrophysical entities and the fundamental physical processes they exhibit.

Beyond its time-domain science capabilities, the performance of EP's FXT will advance various aspects of X-ray astronomy research. With its cutting-edge technology and ambitious scientific aims, EP stands ready to delve deep into the universe's mysteries.

Dr. Yuan Weimin, the lead author of the EP Science White Paper and Principal Investigator of the EP mission at the National Astronomical Observatories, commented, " The release of the EP Science White Paper provides a valuable resource for researchers worldwide who are interested in leveraging EP for cosmic exploration. The white paper is the culmination of efforts by the EP science team and a wide array of international collaborators, highlighting our dedication to fostering an open and collaborative scientific environment. Moving forward, EP is poised to actively engage with global partners to produce groundbreaking data and discoveries, thereby advancing the frontiers of our understanding of the universe."

Since its launch in January 2024, EP has already identified over 700 eruptive celestial phenomena, including stellar superflares, supernovae, black holes (including rare intermediate-mass black holes), neutron stars, white dwarfs, and gamma-ray bursts from the early universe. EP has also uncovered new eruptive phenomena, showcasing a remarkable diversity among its detection targets, which promises to enhance our comprehension of the dynamic cosmos substantially.