#E. Wernquist

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An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek giant, these jets span roughly 7 megaparsecs, or 23 million light-years. That is equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back-to-back.

Porphyrion’s jets are estimated to contain the total power of trillions of suns and raise the temperature of surrounding gas by a million degrees Celsius. This means they may have inhibited the formation of not just stars but entire galaxies in the early universe. Their high-speed sprays of magnetized ejecta also could have pierced and filled voids in the cosmic web, the network of matter-rich filaments and matter-sparse cavities that forms the universe’s large-scale structure.

To better assess the impact such jets may have had on the early universe, researchers will need to create a more comprehensive catalog of the structures. The new study surveys just 15 percent of the sky, possibly leaving many more jets yet to be discovered.

E. Wernquist/D. Nelson (IllustrisTNG Collaboration)/M. Oei (CC BY-NC-ND)

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Porphyrion - record-breaking plasma jet streams, measuring about 23 million light years from end to end (140 times the length of our entire galaxy), ejected from a black hole in a galaxy 7.5 billion light years away. Their ejection began when the universe was half the age it is now; their discovery was announced today in an article in Nature Magazine, spotted by the Low-Frequency Array telescope network.

Universe has some incredible things in it.

Artist's illustration: E Wernquist/D Nelson/IllustrisTNG Collaboration/M Oei/Caltech/PA

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An artist’s concept of Porphyrion, a jet of material 23 million light-years long that dates back to a time when the universe was less than half its present age. Credit...E. Wernquist/D. Nelson (IllustrisTNG Collaboration)/M. Oei

OUT THERE

This Black Hole Has a Cosmic Wingspan

Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/science/space/black-hole-m87-energy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Nk4.WCTE.lqTrpWk9BULL&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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CRAZY FROG – AXEL F (Official Lyrics Video) | Música Eletrônica Antiga

CRAZY FROG – AXEL F (Official Lyrics Video) | Música Eletrônica Antiga Inscreva-se no Canal Compartilhe Esse Vídeo:   • CRAZY FROG – AXEL F (Official Lyrics ...   A música Axel F é uma versão remixada da composição original de Harold Faltermeyer, que foi usada como tema do filme Um Tira da Pesada, de 1984. Em 2005, o personagem Crazy Frog, criado por Erik Wernquist, gravou a música e lançou como seu primeiro e mais bem-sucedido single. A música tem um ritmo eletrônico e uma letra simples, que consiste em sons imitando uma rã maluca. #CrazyFrogAxelF #CrazyFrogMeme #AxelFChallenge #CrazyFrogFan CRAZY FROG – AXEL F (Official Lyrics Video) | Música Eletrônica Antiga CRAZY FROG – AXEL F (Official Lyrics Video) | Música Eletrônica Antiga CRAZY FROG – AXEL F (Official Lyrics Video) | Música Eletrônica Antiga

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Come potrebbe essere la vita nei corpi celesti del nostro Sistema Solare?

A questa domanda ha provato a rispondere il regista Erik Wernquist, avvalendosi delle emozionanti parole dell’astronomo e divulgatore scientifico Carl Sagan, tratte dal suo libro “Il pallido puntino azzurro”. Il titolo del saggio è riferito a come apparve la Terra alla sonda Voyager quando la fotografò dai confini del Sistema Solare.

Preparatevi a tre minuti di immagini mozzafiato: rielaborazioni digitali di luoghi reali del nostro Sistema Solare, basate su foto e dati di NASA, ESA e altri enti per lo spazio. Wanderers – Erranti è la visione del regista Erik Wernquist sull’espansione dell’umanità nei corpi celesti a noi vicini, fondata su vere idee scientifiche di come il nostro futuro nello spazio potrebbe apparire, se e quando ci riusciremo.

Le parole di Sagan sono doppiate in italiano, per rendere ancora più coinvolgente l’esperienza visiva, dal gruppo no-profit Lucky7 (che forse già conoscete per Super Science Friends e The Gamers: Dorkness Rising).

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Planet Unknown from Shawn Wang on Vimeo.

At the end of 21st century, mankind were facing global resource depletion. Space Rovers were sent out to find potential inhabitable planets.

Credits: Written & Directed by - Shawn Wang Modelling, Texturing, Animation, Compositing & Editing - Shawn Wang Music & Sound Design by - Echoic Audio Composer - Sam Foster Sound Design by - Tom Gilbert & David Johnston Special Thanks to - Evolutions Re-recording Mixer - Will Norie Faculty Producer - Xinyuan Huang Faculty Adviser - Yucheng Huang Special Thanks to System Advisers - Horizon Bian / Sicong Wang / Jiawei Cao

Festivals: 01. Burbank International Film Festival - Best Animated Short 02. Korea Independent Animation Festival - Official Selection 03. Imaginaria Film Festival - Official Selection 04. LA Shorts Fest - Official Selection 05. Oaxaca Film Festival - Official Selection 06, Los Angeles CineFest - Official Selection 07. Lisbon International Film Festival - Official Selection 08. CACC Golden Dragon Award - Official Selection 09. Winchester Short Film Festival - Official Selection 10. China International New Media Short Film Festival (CSFF) - Official Selection 11. China International Student Animation Festival (Aniwow! 2016) - Finalist

Links: Official Website: PlanetUnknownFilm.com Facebook Page: facebook.com/PlanetUnknownFilm IMDb: imdb.com/title/tt5850826 Echoic Audio: echoicaudio.com

/* I had been working full time on Planet Unknown from July 2015 to June 2016. It was a passion project as well as my graduation thesis film at Communication University of China. This 11-month journey was very challenging, but it was a perfect learning opportunity as well.

The idea started back in 2014 when Interstellar was released. I was deeply impressed by the movie and was inspired by the two robots TARS and CASE. The idea of intellectual robots exploring space developed from there.

Other inspirations include Pixar movies like WALL-E and Toy Story, as well as CHAPPiE, NASA documentaries about Mars Rover Curiosity, and short films by individuals like Alex Roman’s The Third & The Seventh, Richard Mans’ Abiogenesis, Erik Wernquist’s Wanderers, Alf Lovvold’s Dawn of the Stuff, and so many more.

Echoic Audio, one of the UK's leading music & sound design studios, joined this adventure with epic cinematic score and detailed sound design which catapulted the film to a new level that I had never imagined.

This project pushed me to do what I never thought I could do. However, it also keeps punching me in the face and shows me how limited my skills are. There are still tons of problems in the making that I can't figure out even now.

Thanks to everyone for the support along the way. The new adventure begins... */

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Planet Unknown from Shawn Wang on Vimeo.

At the end of 21st century, mankind were facing global resource depletion. Space Rovers were sent out to find potential inhabitable planets.

Credits: Written & Directed by - Shawn Wang Modelling, Texturing, Animation, Compositing & Editing - Shawn Wang Music & Sound Design by - Echoic Audio Composer - Sam Foster Sound Design by - Tom Gilbert & David Johnston Special Thanks to - Evolutions Re-recording Mixer - Will Norie Faculty Producer - Xinyuan Huang Faculty Adviser - Yucheng Huang Special Thanks to System Advisers - Horizon Bian / Sicong Wang / Jiawei Cao

Festivals: 01. Burbank International Film Festival - Best Animated Short 02. Korea Independent Animation Festival - Official Selection 03. Imaginaria Film Festival - Official Selection 04. LA Shorts Fest - Official Selection 05. Oaxaca Film Festival - Official Selection 06, Los Angeles CineFest - Official Selection 07. Lisbon International Film Festival - Official Selection 08. CACC Golden Dragon Award - Official Selection 09. Winchester Short Film Festival - Official Selection 10. China International New Media Short Film Festival (CSFF) - Official Selection 11. China International Student Animation Festival (Aniwow! 2016) - Finalist

Links: Official Website: PlanetUnknownFilm.com Facebook Page: facebook.com/PlanetUnknownFilm IMDb: imdb.com/title/tt5850826 Echoic Audio: echoicaudio.com

/* I had been working full time on Planet Unknown from July 2015 to June 2016. It was a passion project as well as my graduation thesis film at Communication University of China. This 11-month journey was very challenging, but it was a perfect learning opportunity as well.

The idea started back in 2014 when Interstellar was released. I was deeply impressed by the movie and was inspired by the two robots TARS and CASE. The idea of intellectual robots exploring space developed from there.

Other inspirations include Pixar movies like WALL-E and Toy Story, as well as CHAPPiE, NASA documentaries about Mars Rover Curiosity, and short films by individuals like Alex Roman’s The Third & The Seventh, Richard Mans’ Abiogenesis, Erik Wernquist’s Wanderers, Alf Lovvold’s Dawn of the Stuff, and so many more.

Echoic Audio, one of the UK's leading music & sound design studios, joined this adventure with epic cinematic score and detailed sound design which catapulted the film to a new level that I had never imagined.

This project pushed me to do what I never thought I could do. However, it also keeps punching me in the face and shows me how limited my skills are. There are still tons of problems in the making that I can't figure out even now.

Thanks to everyone for the support along the way. The new adventure begins... */

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El 15 de septiembre de 2017 la NASA pondrá fin a una de sus misiones de exploración del Sistema Solar más exitosas de su historia: la sonda Cassini. Pocos podían imaginar en su lanzamiento (15 de octubre de 1997), que esta increíble nave interplanetaria sobreviviría casi 20 años en el espacio, durante los cuales nos ha regalado momentos e imágenes realmente mágicos del Sistema Solar, especialmente de Saturno y su magnífico sistema de lunas y anillos.

El motivo del fin de la misión no es otro que la Cassini se ha quedado sin combustible para ejecutar las complejas maniobras orbitales alrededor del sistema de las lunas Saturno, por lo que se corría el riesgo de que al quedar a la deriva terminara chocando con alguna de las lunas, contaminándola. Para evitar esta eventualidad desde el control de misión han preferido estrellarla contra el gigante Saturno, haciendo que se zambulla en su densa atmósfera.

Han decidido que la mejor manera de finalizar una misión tan soberbia como ésta es trazar 22 órbitas polares alrededor del gigante anillado para obtener las imágenes más cercanas posible de su sistema de anillos y su atmósfera.

Así serán las últimas 22 órbitas de la Cassini, entre los anillos y el planeta. En naranja, la órbita final que precipitará a la sonda contra Saturno. Créditos: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Estas últimas órbitas permitirán realizar un estudio a fondo de la atmósfera del gran Saturno, así como la composición y distribución de las nubes, la estructura interna del planeta, origen y evolución de la ionosfera y también se estudiará a fondo su magnetosfera.

No cabe duda de que echaremos mucho (muchísimo) de menos imágenes como éstas... Pero mientras tanto, toca disfrutar ¡y de qué manera! de estos últimos regalos de la Cassini:

El 18 de enero de 2017, antes de comenzar el Grand Finale, Cassini obtuvo esta espectacular toma de Saturno a una distancia de 1 millón de km. Créditos: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Aquí podemos apreciar una de las exóticas formaciones que aparecen en los anillos, las hélices. Esta en concreto fue 'cazada' el 9 de enero de 2017 y acertadamente se le bautizó con el nombre de Blériot (uno de los pioneros de la aviación). Se espera que en las órbitas finales podamos saber más sobre la composición, masa y densidad de los anillos. Créditos: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Nuestra protagonista, en una de las 22 órbitas que pasarán entre los anillos y Saturno. Créditos: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Un vórtice tormentoso en la atmósfera de Saturno. La cercanía de las órbitas finales al planeta permitirán conocer mucho mejor la atmósfera, y obtendremos primeros planos que nos darán mucha información sobre la estructura de la atmósfera de Saturno. Créditos: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

La naturaleza no deja de sorprendernos. Estamos viendo a la diminuta luna pastora Pan (28 km) que recorre la división Encke de los anillos de Saturno. Precisamente la acumulación de materiales que se ha producido a lo largo de sus órbitas le ha dado esta forma tan curiosa. Créditos: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Otra luna con una gran acumulación de material en su región ecuatorial, en este caso se trata de la pequeña Atlas (30 km). La imagen fue captada el 12 de abril de 2017 por la Cassini a una distancia de 11000 km. Créditos: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Magnífica vista de Tetis (1062 km), en la que se aprecia su enorme cañón Ithaca Chasma, con cerca de 100 km de anchura y hasta 4 km de profundidad. Recorre casi las 3/4 partes de la circunferencia del satélite (unos 2000 km). La imagen fue obtenida a más de 220000 km de distancia el 30 de enero de 2017. Créditos: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Una de mis lunas favoritas de Saturno (¡hay 61 para elegir!). La pequeña Mimas (400 km), a.k.a. La Estrella de la Muerte, con su enorme cráter Herschel de 130 km de diámetro. Fotografiada a tan sólo 85000 km de distancia. Créditos: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Una última mirada a casa. El 12 de abril de 2017 la Cassini pudo captar ese diminuto punto blanco entre los anillos de Saturno. Somos nosotros, a más de 1400 millones de km de distancia. Si hacen clic sobre la foto se puede ver la Luna a la izquierda de la Tierra. Créditos: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Y en este vídeo vemos cómo la Cassini ha aprovechado su último sobrevuelo a Titán (el nº 127) para alterar su órbita y encaminarse al final de su histórica misión.

Como más que merecido homenaje, el JPL ha producido el siguiente vídeo. Es tan bonito que no encuentro palabras para describirlo adecuadamente, salvo que lo pongan a pantalla completa para disfrutarlo en todo su esplendor. Su autor es el mismo que el de otro maravilloso vídeo que publicamos por aquí en su día: 'Wanderers'

CASSINI'S GRAND FINALE from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo. El texto del vídeo anterior es el siguiente:

A lone explorer, on a mission to reveal the grandeur of Saturn, its rings and moons.  

After 20 years in space NASA's Cassini spacecraft is running out of fuel. And so, to protect moons of Saturn that could have conditions suitable for life, a spectacular end has been planned for this long-lived traveler from Earth. 

In 2004, following a 7-year journey through the solar system, Cassini arrived at Saturn. The spacecraft carried a passenger, the European Huygens probe -- the first human-made object to land on a world in the distant outer solar system. 

For over a decade, Cassini has shared the wonders of Saturn and its family of icy moons, taking us to astounding worlds where methane rivers run to a methane sea. 

Where jets of ice and gas are blasting material into space from a liquid water ocean that might harbor the ingredients for life. 

And Saturn -- a giant world ruled by raging storms and delicate harmonies of gravity. 

Now, Cassini has one last, daring assignment. 

Cassini's Grand Finale is a brand new adventure. Twenty-two dives through the space between Saturn and its rings. As it repeatedly braves this unexplored region, 

Cassini seeks new insights about the origins of the rings, and the nature of the planet's interior -- closer to Saturn than ever before. 

On the final orbit, Cassini will plunge into Saturn fighting to keep its antenna pointed at Earth as it transmits its farewell. 

In the skies of Saturn, the journey ends, as Cassini becomes part of the planet itself.

Bola extra: Un precioso mini-documental sobre los 20 años de la Cassini en el espacio, hecho por la geóloga planetaria Laura Parro, ¡disfrútenlo! Referencias externas: Cassini: Mission to Saturn Posts relacionados: El hexágono de Saturno, revisitado Lunas pastoras, donde mandan las pequeñas Wanderers

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Planet Unknown from Shawn Wang on Vimeo.

At the end of 21st century, mankind were facing global resource depletion. Space Rovers were sent out to find potential inhabitable planets.

Credits: Written & Directed by - Shawn Wang Modelling, Texturing, Animation, Compositing & Editing - Shawn Wang Music & Sound Design by - Echoic Audio Composer - Sam Foster Sound Design by - Tom Gilbert & David Johnston Special Thanks to - Evolutions Re-recording Mixer - Will Norie Faculty Producer - Xinyuan Huang Faculty Adviser - Yucheng Huang Special Thanks to System Advisers - Horizon Bian / Sicong Wang / Jiawei Cao

Festivals: 01. Burbank International Film Festival - Best Animated Short 02. Korea Independent Animation Festival - Official Selection 03. Imaginaria Film Festival - Official Selection 04. LA Shorts Fest - Official Selection 05. Oaxaca Film Festival - Official Selection 06, Los Angeles CineFest - Official Selection 07. Lisbon International Film Festival - Official Selection 08. CACC Golden Dragon Award - Official Selection 09. Winchester Short Film Festival - Official Selection 10. China International New Media Short Film Festival (CSFF) - Official Selection 11. China International Student Animation Festival (Aniwow! 2016) - Finalist

Links: Official Website: PlanetUnknownFilm.com Facebook Page: facebook.com/PlanetUnknownFilm IMDb: imdb.com/title/tt5850826 Echoic Audio: echoicaudio.com

/* I had been working full time on Planet Unknown from July 2015 to June 2016. It was a passion project as well as my graduation thesis film at Communication University of China. This 11-month journey was very challenging, but it was a perfect learning opportunity as well.

The idea started back in 2014 when Interstellar was released. I was deeply impressed by the movie and was inspired by the two robots TARS and CASE. The idea of intellectual robots exploring space developed from there.

Other inspirations include Pixar movies like WALL-E and Toy Story, as well as CHAPPiE, NASA documentaries about Mars Rover Curiosity, and short films by individuals like Alex Roman’s The Third & The Seventh, Richard Mans’ Abiogenesis, Erik Wernquist’s Wanderers, Alf Lovvold’s Dawn of the Stuff, and so many more.

Echoic Audio, one of the UK's leading music & sound design studios, joined this adventure with epic cinematic score and detailed sound design which catapulted the film to a new level that I had never imagined.

This project pushed me to do what I never thought I could do. However, it also keeps punching me in the face and shows me how limited my skills are. There are still tons of problems in the making that I can't figure out even now.

Thanks to everyone for the support along the way. The new adventure begins... */