Reader Submitted Pictures: Hot Fields At The SLB

 

 

From Zada Bury, "Taken on the SL21B - Adult Event Area (SLB Steamy) - posing on the lava fields in front of the dark red sun"

This Saturday at The Science Circle

 

  Saturday February 17

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    At 10 AM PST   

    Solar Eclipses - Myths And Predictions

    Presenter: Dr. Phil Youngblood

    https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/eclipses/

 

    The Science Circle (72,129,30)

      

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    NOTE: Non-members required to register once

    IM Jes Cobalt or Nymf Hathaway

╚══════════════════════════════ The Science Circle (72,129,30) ═╝

 

Cartoon of The Day: Sunny Attitude

 

 

 Taken at a Relay event

By Bixyl Shuftan

Announcement: Summer Beach Party In The CDS Tomorrow

Mark your calendars for some fun-in-the-sun at the LA Beach!  This coming Saturday our lovely DJ Qt will spin some summery favourites!

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at the Happy Vixen. Another one of Lia's (Female Winselt) avatars.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Announcement: This Week At The Science Circle: "Copernicus’ Epicycles"

“Copernicus’ Epicycles”
Saturday March 3 at 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM SLT
by Rob Knop

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) is sometimes called the father of modern astronomy. He’s famous for introducing to Western Europe a thorough and worked-out model of the Solar System with the Sun at the center. At the time, nearly everybody accepted Ptolemy‘s Earth-centered model, with planets riding on celestial spheres, and riding on epicycles inside those spheres. Many of us carry the idea that Copernicus simplified it all by moving the Sun to the center. It turns out, however, that Copernicus’ system is not appreciably simpler than Ptolemy’s — he, too, had epicycles in his model! Nor was Copernicus the first one to think about Sun-centered models of the Solar System, as that idea goes back at least to ancient Greece.
  In this talk, I will outline the history of our understanding of the Sun-centered model of the Solar System, and give some detail about how Copernicus’ model worked, and why it took the work of others later for us to really accept that his basic idea was right.

Read more information here.

The Science Circle (61/127/32)

Announcement: University of Hawaii Presents "When Sunspots Collide"

Univ Hawaii Astronomy is presenting: "When Sunspots Collide" by Dr Sarah Jaeggli 
Friday December 2 at 8:30 pm PST.

http://tinyurl.com/ifamaui

University of Hawaii System, UH  Aquaculture Island,  (35, 74, 24)

Press Release: "Life Around Our Active Star" by the University of Hawaii

University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy Presents:
"Life Around Our Active Star"

By Dr. Tom Schad
Friday, April 24th at 9:30 PM PDT
Institute for Astronomy - U. Hawaii Astronomy Amphitheater: 

Over the centuries, humanity has tuned its existence to Earth's seasons, created by our yearly travel around the Sun.  At the dawn of the Machine Age, however, the seasons of the Sun itself proved influential to our progressing world.  In this talk, we will explore the cycles of solar activity, and study the impact of these cycles throughout the heliosphere and on our modern society.  We will learn of the interplay of new and old methods for the study of solar epochs, and anticipate the great advances of the Senator Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) currently being built on Haleakala.

Alliance, Chaminade University (49, 205, 4002)

Univ Hawaii Astronomy Presents: "What Makes the Sun Shine"

"The Sun is the dominant driver of Earth's climate.  Almost all the energy we use here on Earth comes from the Sun. We will follow the travels of a photon from where it is generated in the core of the Sun until it reaches Earth.  Along the way we will visit many of the interesting tourist attractions."

By Dr. JD Armstrong

Friday, Nov 22, 8:30 PM 

Astronomy Amphitheater:  UH Aquaculture Program (45/83/27)

The Venus Transit Seen in Second Life

On Tuesday June 5th was a rare occurrence in space. For a brief time, Venus' orbit took it between the Earth and the Sun in what is called a Venus Transit. From Earth, it appeared to be a black spot against the Sun. For those whom couldn't see it in real life due to thick clouds or a lack of safe equipment, they could see live footage in some places in Second Life, such as the University of Hawaii.


For some hours, there was footage of the planet's shadow causing a black dot in the image from the sun. Not everyone saw it from screens inworld, as there were also websites with live footage that were shared through instant messages and group chats.

Interest in science was alive and well that night.