Alexa

I cannot see any kind of respect when I see a death threat.

YT2095, Maybe the following article from NASA can give you the answer you are looking for : http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/Stars.htm A TV program called "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?" aired in 2001 tried to convince people NASA lied about the landing on the Moon. So NASA did her best to prove the contrary.

This is to vague. What do you think about the following : Altered gravity plays an unexpected role in obesity and weight loss. http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/everydaylife/27aug_fatrat.html My idea is to try a research about the alimentation of the astronauts. The article I gave you may help you. Or you can try on the main site of NASA in laboratory to find another one, more expensive.

Are you a native indian ?

Oh, hell ! One of those hurricanes has my name !

Hmm I drink a lot of coffee, let's say around 750 ml/day and yes, I'm dependant on my daily dose of caffeine. I have tried to reduce, to replace or stop it. No chance. If I do not take at all, I'll get a headache and I have to take a mid-day nap. If I don't touch an 'optimum', I'm sleepy and I cannot concentrate on work. So, I resign myself and enjoy it when it's warm on my desk. However I made a compromise with myself in order to sleep better. I usually take strong coffee in the morning and change it for a mild one later. I do not take after 2 p.m. When I do it, I can forget about sleep that night. Irritable ? Only if I do not touch my optimum/day.

In this case, we are talking about the acetylsalicylic acide (AAS) and not really about the Aspirin. Aspirin is only one of the commercial name of the drug. You can say they are the same thing as aspirin is an acetylsalicylic acide, but we do not have the same presentation form of the product.

Hi Pulkit, I'm just curious. Did you test your 'Aspirin'? If you can prove me the mixing substance you obtained into a lab can be tested as per USP 26 (or other Pharmacopeea) and prove me the results are within the specification of the product, than I'll agree you got an Aspirin there. Be careful: you need at least 10 tablets to test for the assay test if your product is good. If not, you can re-test for 30 tablets. Same thing for content uniformity. related substances are a pain in the ass, I agree, but you have to test them anyway. You see, any result outside the specification of the product is for me a reject, good only for destruction. Alexa

They have something in common, but they are not similar at all. The big difference is caused by the number of suns into a presumed central black holes space. It seems Andromeda has around 30 million suns and out Milky way has only 2.6 million suns. See more on : http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_030528.html

Did you have the courage to swalow it ?

The legislation for vitamins production is not severe enough. And those who produce them usually take advantage of this. Let's say you take a polyvitamin for your health. The vitamins in a very small proportion are easily lost if the mixing of the ingrediants is not done properly. There are many factors which influence the production, so no wonder some 'vitamins' have a low effect or not at all.

I do not believe someone can do an over the counter drug in high school. A drug production is complicated and need special conditions(locals, hygyne, trained personal, special equipement, etc). A drug over the counter is one you can buy at pharmacy without prescription. You can find a lot of aspirin in different forms of presentation (this is a marketing affaire) and from different companies into a pharmacy, so why should anyone even try to do it into a school ?

A dog under 5 kg is allowed into the cabin with the passengers. Over 5 kg, it has to be kept in a special cage ventilated, pressurised and heated with the baggage. You have the contact the airline company before going with a pet. The norms recommend to visit your veterinary if the animal is timid, nervous or sensible to this kind of transport and take a calmant if necessary. I have no idea why people say a dog could go crazy with a dead person aside, but I'm sure I'll be crazy after 8 hours of travel in this condition.

Interesting article. In my opinion, they are human made and not alien. I've always wondered about the spacecrafts seen into the movies. Is it possible all of them to be made on computer ? I suspect some of them really exist. As there was no alarm about their presence, maybe they were used for a movie. Just a thought.

USEFUL LINKS Cosmology websites and FAQ given by SFN members Other sites and forums Magazines, Science & Technology Hot topics Animations Vary articles available on the net ====================================================================================== Cosmology website and FAQ given by SFN members : Ned Wright's cosmology website and FAQ. He teaches the undergrad and graduate level courses in cosmology at UCLA and is also one of the team in charge of the WMAP satellite observing the CMB. http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html Wendy Freedman and Michael Turner's "Measuring and Understanding the Universe" : http://arxiv.org/astro-ph/0308418 Note : a lot of good astronomy links are graphic rather than verbal, such as images from the HST and computer animations, also Ned Wright has a calculator that lets you calculate from something's red shift how far away it is. Here are good online cosmology calculators : - Siobahn Morgan's : http://www.earth.uni.edu/~morgan/aj...ogy/cosmos.html and Ned Wright's : http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CosmoCalc.html Professor Murphy's online calculator(Johns Hopkins) : http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/support/tools/eqtogal.html All you ever want to know about Nebulas: http://astronomynotes.com/evolutn/s1.htm http://blackskies.com/neb101.htm http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/sp...h_contents.html Here is a nice free star chart that comes out every month and it also comes with a list of objects to look for with binoculars - a large telescope: http://www.skymaps.com/ A good place for science books... Their Starry Night program is quite simple but would at least help you through the apprehensive feeling of not knowing what your look at. It also updates off the web the daily coordinates of several interesting objects each night, for locations all over the globe : http://www.whfreeman.com/astronomy/ Good place for WMAP data : http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Trove of stuff on relativity, it helps if you know roughly what you are looking for, and keep in mind that reading it on the web sometimes mean it has not been peer reviewed. Some of the ideas in here (^that link^) are misleading, but its still a very good challenge trying to grip some of the concepts laid out : http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Forms/search.html While at first a ghastly sight to look at the links in the light green are a good place to start surfing to try and skim some knowledge off the information superhighway! http://academics.hamilton.edu/physi.../resources.html If you want star maps and much more for any location and time you can try the following program(A good graphics card with OpenGL driver is a must. (Geforce 4 or later) : http://www.starrynight.com/support/...d&Submit=Search http://www.starrynight.com/download...ownload-Win.zip (56MB) To add stars to mag14 you can find them here. (just copy them in the right directory) http://www.starrynight.com/en/backyardfull.shtml You do need a serial number to make it work You can get a 15 day trial key here: http://www.starrynight.com/digitald...al_download.php (if 15day's isn't long enough to test it there are places to get a less limited key) http://www.extrasolar.net catalogue of extra solar planets including minimum mass, distance, and system http://www.superstringtheory.com/ So what is string theory? For that matter, what the heck are elementary particles? Check out online courses. Black holes. History. Cosmology. Mathematics http://www.bell-labs.com/org/physicalsciences/projects/darkmatter/darkmatter.html Bell Laboratories physical sciences research http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html Astrophysical QuickView (AQV) - http://www.dreamscape.com/biology/ This is a collection of informative quick summaries of new press releases dealing with astrophysics, cosmology, astronomy, and space exploration. Atlas of the Universe - http://anzwers.org/free/universe/ Contains 3D maps of the universe zooming out from the nearest stars to the scale of the Milky Way galaxy and onwards to the surrounding superclusters and out to the entire visible universe. Bert Dekker's deep-sky pages - http://www.bert.dekker65.freeler.nl/frset_home.htm Astro-amateurs will find several drawings and observation-reports of deep-sky objects observed through a 6 inch Newton-telescope. BinoSky - best bets for viewing the night sky through binoculars (BinoSky) http://www.lightandmatter.com/binosky/binosky.html A guide to the best bets for viewing the night sky through binoculars. Images and maps on consistent scales, with consistent exposures. Brooks/Cole Astronomy Resource Center - http://www.brookscole.com/astronomy/ Links which are useful to teachers and students of astronomy.Also, an Online Studyguide for the Wadsworth text: Foudations of Astronomy, Fourth edition, by Michael Seeds. CCD Spectroscopy at Mais Observatory - http://members.cts.com/cafe/m/mais/ This site shows what an amateur with only modest equipment can accomplish in the area of astronomical spectroscopy. CMB Astrophysics Research Program (UC Berkeley, LBL) - http://aether.lbl.gov/ Professor George Smoot's group conducts research on the early Universe using the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) and other astrophysical sources. These investigations are directed towards realizing a variety of science goals regarding CMB. http://adswww.harvard.edu/ The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 3.9 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records, which are searchable through our Abstract Service query forms, and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature which can be browsed though our Browse interface. Please note that all abstracts and articles in the ADS are copyrighted by the publisher, and their use is free for personal use only. Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia - http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/encycl.html This resource, maintained by Jean Schneider (Observatoire de Paris), provides updated information about the search for extrasolar planets. It includes a Catalog of Extrasolar Planets http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/gamcosray/legr/bacodine/gcn_main.html The GRB Coordinates Network (used to be called BACODINE) system (1) calculates RA,Dec coordinate positions of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) detected with BATSE and distributes those positions around the world in real time -- a few seconds! -- so that other instruments can make follow-up observations in other wavebands while the burst is still bursting! (2) distributes locations of GRBs detected by other spacecraft. (3) distributes reports follow-up observations made by ground-based optical and radio observers. These three functions provide a one-stop shopping network for follow-up sites and GRB researchers. How to present rotation curves of Galaxies ? (Galaxy Rotation Curves) - http://www.equidem.de/RCAtlas/ An alternative way to present astronomical data by combining atlas and catalogue features: The Galaxy Wanted Poster. The Halpha and NII spectra of nearby spiral edge-on galaxies reveal next to their red shift velocities their individual kinetic fingerprints. Such velocity slices or rotation curves are correlated to the morphological properties of these objects. Based on a sample of 59 galaxies of the southern hemisphere a small rotation curve atlas has been compiled which allows fast comparison between visual and spectral observations. IMSA Astrophysics Home Page (A high school course in Astrophysics) - http://www.imsa.edu/edu/astro/ This is a one-semester course that embeds technology and the use of the internet into the daily experience of the students. Course materials, assessment tools and philosophy, and curriculum documents are all provided through this site. Interferometry Center of Excellence (ICE, JPL) - http://ice.jpl.nasa.gov/ The Interferometry Center of Excellence (ICE), at JPL, has been established to ensure the development and maintenance of a leading edge capability in optical and near-infrared interferometer astrometry and imaging. Kepler Mission (Searching for Earth-Sized Planets) - http://www.kepler.arc.nasa.gov/ The goal of this NASA satellite mission will be to discover and characterize earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars. Kharkov multi-wave station of solar monitoring (KHASSM) - http://khassm.virtualave.net/ Images from the spectroheliograph of Kharkov Astronomical Observatory (Ukraine). This station is designed to carry out a wide range of astrophysical studies of the Sun in monochromatic light. Latest Supernovae (Supernovae in NGC/IC Galaxies) - http://www.ggw.org/asras/snimages/ Current list of observable Supernovae in NGC and IC galaxies. Microwave Background Anisotropies - Physics - http://background.uchicago.edu A series of online tutorials ranging from beginner to expert covering the theory of cosmic microwave background anisotropies. Photometric redshifts (including HDF and HDFS) - http://astrowww.phys.uvic.ca/grads/gwyn/pz/ Includes a view of the Hubble Deep Fields with access to photometric redshifts of individual galaxies. Planetary Nebulae Observer's Home Page - http://www.blackskies.com/ The web site for almost everything related to observations of Planetary Nebulae. Hundreds of images and over 1000 observing reports in addition to many special articles. Links to other PN related sites and databases. SETI : Star Maps for visual use - http://www.memorybankinc.com/SETI.htm Use the 68 star maps to find the location of the data you are proccessing! SciSpy: Science Data Central - http://www.SciSpy.com/ Resource for science data collections, standards, formats, and tools with online catalog for free and commercial downloadable software, specializing in HDF and other formats Solar Terrestrial Activity Report - http://dxlc.com/solar/ The Solar Terrestrial Activity Report has an overview of current solar activity as well as this activity's effect on Earth's geomagnetic field. The report is primarily aimed at radio listeners. Solar cycle and solar wind information is part of the report. Space Astrometry at The University of Texas - http://clyde.as.utexas.edu/SpAstNEW/index.html Present and future results of space astrometry carried out by researchers associated with The University of Texas McDonald Observatory and the Department of Astronomy Sun, Moon & Earth Applet - http://www.jgiesen.de/SME/ This interactive Java applet displays the positions of sun and moon for any date, time and location on the horizon, and on a world map with day and night regions. The times of rise and setting, the declination, the Greenwich Hour Angle of sun and moon, the equation of time and more data are computed. TOPbase at CDS : The Opacity Project (TOPbase) - http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/topbase.html TOPbase is a read-only database system specially designed for general use of the atomic data derived by the Opacity Project. It contains energy levels, f-values and photo ionization cross sections for astrophysical abundant elements. Wavelength-Oriented Microwave Background Analysis Team (WOMBAT) - http://astron.berkeley.edu/wombat/ WOMBAT is dedicated to understanding sources of microwave foreground emission and providing the cosmology community with estimates of foreground emission as well as uncertainties in those estimates. What color are the stars? - http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/starcolor/ Chromaticity and rgb pixel color are derived from spectra for various stellar types/classes. Providing physically motivated colors for astronomy presentations. Wise Observatory Monthly Astronomical Calendar and Schedule - http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il/~eran/Wise/wise_calen.html Generate Monthly Gregorian Calendar with optional Moon Phase, Julian day, Local Sidereal Time, Sun Rise, Sun Set, Moon Rise, Moon Set, Moon R.A. and Dec. Generate Wise Observatory schedule with observer name and instrument. X-rays from Hot Massive Stars (XMEGA) - http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/corcoran/xmega/xmega.html This site is a central location for scientists interested in the problem of X-ray emission from hot, massive stars. It contains a list of current observational projects and planned observations. Schedules of currently planned X-ray observations are also included for those interested in providing ground-based coordinated observations. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Other sites and forums : Time travel Portal – an open discussion on time travel : http://timetravelportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=294 Amateur astronomy and telescope building forum: http://www.njnightsky.com/ Futura Science Generation ; sub-forum Sciences de l’Univers (French) : http://www.futura-sciences.com/ Agence Spatiale Européenne: http://www.esrin.esa.it/ Etats Unis: NASA http://www.nasa.gov http://www.space.com/ Agence spatiale Russe http://www.rosaviakosmos.ru/english/eindex.htm http://www.astronomytoday.com Astronomy Today has articles on astronomy, cosmology and space exploration, with a regularly updated sky guide plus the latest space news. David Darling's Astrobiology Page (Astrobiology) - http://www.daviddarling.info/ Astrobiology discussions, links and books. A site with a strong emphasis on astrobiology and the search for extraterrestrial life and intelligence, reflecting author David Darling current areas of interest. In addition to a description of Darling s books, including his latest work, The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia, the site contains hundreds of links to other sites connected with astrobiology, extrasolar planets, SETI and other topics related to alien life, FAQ s, a forum and a guestbook. UK Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (UKSEDS) - http://www.uk.seds.org/ UKSEDS is the UK's national student space society. Take a look at our web pages for more information on our activities and how to join. The web site also contains information resources related to space in the UK and around the world. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Magazines, Science & Technology: http://www.astronomy.com/ http://www.astrobio.net/news/ __________________________________________________________________________ Hot topics : ALL ABOUT DARK ENERGY : - Dark Energy: Astronomers Still 'Clueless' About Mystery Force Pushing Galaxies Apart, by Andrew Chaikin http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/cosmic_darknrg_020115-1.html - Astrophysics Challenged By Dark Energy Finding, By Ray Villard http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/darkenergy_folo_010410.html - Galaxies Made of Nothing? New Theory of Mysterious Dark Matter By Robert Roy Britt http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/dark_galaxies_010105-1.html - Scientists Map Dark Matter, Prove Einstein Right, By Maia Weinstock http://www.space.com/news/cosmic_shear_000512.html - Scientists Closer to Solving Dark Matter Mystery, By Patricia Reaney http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/dark_matter_wg.html - Feeling Around for Dark Matter By Matthew Fordahl -AP Science Writer http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/dark_matter_000405_wg.html - 'Groundbreaking' Discovery: First Direct Observation of Dark Matter By Robert Roy Britt http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/missing_matter_found_010322-1.html - Understanding Dark Matter and Light Energy, By Robert Roy Britt http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/dark_matter_sidebar_010105.html ALL ABOUT BLACK HOLES : - Black Holes Could Be Major Power Source, By Deborah Zabarenko http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/blackholes_energy_wg.html Several articles about black holes, most recent stories at top http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/headlines-4.html _______________________________________________________________________ Animations : Note : this section should be develloped soon. What it would look like to someone who is falling into a black hole http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml Balloon universe expands then collapses http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/balloon0.html Why the particle horizon is 3X what you naively expect based on age of universe http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/photons_outrun.html Microlensing (gravity bends light from things behind) http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/microlensing.html More lensing, by a cluster of galaxies http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cluster-lensing.html How the bumps on the Microwave Background occurred: animation of what "Equal Power on All Scales" means http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CMB-MN-03/epas.html _________________________________________________________________________ Vary articles available on the net Here you have a good link which is a star map with the Microwave Background dipole temperature variation superimposed http://aether.lbl.gov/www/projects/u2/ Here's some pedagogical links for cosmology: This article by Lineweaver (he was one of the team in charge of COBE an earlier CMB satellite observatory) The second link has a PDF version that is more readable but takes more time to download. Lineweaver's essay has been made into a chapter of a book now in press called "The New Cosmology" (world scientific 2004) "Inflation and the Cosmic Microwave Background" http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/leve...r_contents.html http://arxiv.org/astro-ph/0305179 New paper of Edward Witten in latest issue of Nature link to online copy (for subscribers) is in the 3 June post of Woit's blog http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/blog/ paper involves dark energy (which is an astronomy/cosmology topic!) and concerns dark energy, the Higgs mass, and electroweak symmetry breaking. http://www.astro.spbu.ru/staff/dikarev/valery/ering.html The modeled E ring of Saturn is presented. The page is related to Cassini project, and introduces the research of the faint circumplanetary dust complexes to everybody. Closer To Truth - http://www.closertotruth.com/topics/universemeaning/index.html Closer To Truth television series and Web site brings together leading scientists and scholars to debate how the Universe began, and how it may possibly end. Coded Aperture Imaging in High-Energy Astronomy - http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/cai/coded.html Information about coded aperture imaging as applied in X- and gamma-ray astronomy: - introduction to the principle - specific details about instruments of the past, present and proposed future - bibliography. Colorado Model of the Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC) - http://casa.colorado.edu/~sredfiel/ColoradoLIC.html This web site provides information on the the modelling of the Local Interstellar Medium (LISM) by the Cool Star Group at the University of Colorado in Boulder. A three-dimensional model of the Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC) is provided, as well as a column density calculator based on the LIC model. Comet Observation Home Page - http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/ Provides information on current (bright) comets including recent observations and ephemeridies. Images and light curves of current and past comets are also available Comets and Meteor Showers - http://comets.amsmeteors.org/ This site gives the complete text to the 1988 book Meteor Showers: A Descriptive Catalog, as well as recent meteor shower observations. The site also posts a wealth of comet information from news of recent discoveries, finder charts, and ephemerides, to extensive historical information on individual comets. There is a European mirror site. Cosmic-Connection.com - http://cosmic-connection.com/ A resource for amateur astronomers and space enthusiasts -- worldwide. Astronomy links to international resources, current space science events, news and weather, glossaries, multi-media and educational sites for children with onsite language translation tool.

Hi Martin, Here you have the animation link for the black holes : http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml I'll add the animations. It's a good idea. Anyway, I have to do some changes. I saw the transfert from Word didn't work to well. Alexa

USEFUL LINKS Cosmology websites and FAQ given by SFN members Other sites and forums Magazines, Science & Technology Hot topics Vary articles available on the net Cosmology website and FAQ given by SFN members : Ned Wright's cosmology website and FAQ. He teaches the undergrad and graduate level courses in cosmology at UCLA and is also one of the team in charge of the WMAP satellite observing the CMB. http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html Wendy Freedman and Michael Turner's "Measuring and Understanding the Universe" : http://arxiv.org/astro-ph/0308418 Note : a lot of good astronomy links are graphic rather than verbal, such as images from the HST and computer animations, also Ned Wright has a calculator that lets you calculate from something's red shift how far away it is. Here are good online cosmology calculators : - Siobahn Morgan's : http://www.earth.uni.edu/~morgan/aj...ogy/cosmos.html and Ned Wright's : http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CosmoCalc.html Professor Murphy's online calculator(Johns Hopkins) : http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/support/tools/eqtogal.html All you ever want to know about Nebulas: http://astronomynotes.com/evolutn/s1.htm http://blackskies.com/neb101.htm http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/sp...h_contents.html Here is a nice free star chart that comes out every month and it also comes with a list of objects to look for with binoculars - a large telescope: http://www.skymaps.com/ A good place for science books... Their Starry Night program is quite simple but would at least help you through the apprehensive feeling of not knowing what your look at. It also updates off the web the daily coordinates of several interesting objects each night, for locations all over the globe : http://www.whfreeman.com/astronomy/ Good place for WMAP data : http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Trove of stuff on relativity, it helps if you know roughly what you are looking for, and keep in mind that reading it on the web sometimes mean it has not been peer reviewed. Some of the ideas in here (^that link^) are misleading, but its still a very good challenge trying to grip some of the concepts laid out : http://relativity.livingreviews.org/Forms/search.html While at first a ghastly sight to look at the links in the light green are a good place to start surfing to try and skim some knowledge off the information superhighway! http://academics.hamilton.edu/physi.../resources.html If you want star maps and much more for any location and time you can try the following program(A good graphics card with OpenGL driver is a must. (Geforce 4 or later) : http://www.starrynight.com/support/...d&Submit=Search http://www.starrynight.com/download...ownload-Win.zip (56MB) To add stars to mag14 you can find them here. (just copy them in the right directory) http://www.starrynight.com/en/backyardfull.shtml You do need a serial number to make it work You can get a 15 day trial key here: http://www.starrynight.com/digitald...al_download.php (if 15day's isn't long enough to test it there are places to get a less limited key) http://www.extrasolar.net catalogue of extra solar planets including minimum mass, distance, and system http://www.superstringtheory.com/ So what is string theory? For that matter, what the heck are elementary particles? Check out online courses. Black holes. History. Cosmology. Mathematics http://www.bell-labs.com/org/physicalsciences/projects/darkmatter/darkmatter.html Bell Laboratories physical sciences research http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html Other sites and forums : Time travel Portal – an open discussion on time travel : http://timetravelportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=294 Amateur astronomy and telescope building forum: http://www.njnightsky.com/ Futura Science Generation ; sub-forum Sciences de l’Univers (French) : http://www.futura-sciences.com/ Agence Spatiale Européenne: http://www.esrin.esa.it/ Etats Unis: NASA http://www.nasa.gov http://www.space.com/ Agence spatiale Russe http://www.rosaviakosmos.ru/english/eindex.htm Magazines, Science & Technology: http://www.astronomy.com/ http://www.astrobio.net/news/ Hot topics : DARK ENERGY : - Dark Energy: Astronomers Still 'Clueless' About Mystery Force Pushing Galaxies Apart, by Andrew Chaikin http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/cosmic_darknrg_020115-1.html - Astrophysics Challenged By Dark Energy Finding, By Ray Villard http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/darkenergy_folo_010410.html - Galaxies Made of Nothing? New Theory of Mysterious Dark Matter By Robert Roy Britt http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/dark_galaxies_010105-1.html - Scientists Map Dark Matter, Prove Einstein Right, By Maia Weinstock http://www.space.com/news/cosmic_shear_000512.html - Scientists Closer to Solving Dark Matter Mystery, By Patricia Reaney http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/dark_matter_wg.html - Feeling Around for Dark Matter By Matthew Fordahl -AP Science Writer http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/dark_matter_000405_wg.html - 'Groundbreaking' Discovery: First Direct Observation of Dark Matter By Robert Roy Britt http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/missing_matter_found_010322-1.html - Understanding Dark Matter and Light Energy, By Robert Roy Britt http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/dark_matter_sidebar_010105.html BLACK HOLES : - Black Holes Could Be Major Power Source, By Deborah Zabarenko http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/blackholes_energy_wg.html Several articles about black holes, most recent stories at top http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/headlines-4.html Vary articles available on the net : Here you have a good link which is a star map with the Microwave Background dipole temperature variation superimposed http://aether.lbl.gov/www/projects/u2/ Here's some pedagogical links for cosmology: This article by Lineweaver (he was one of the team in charge of COBE an earlier CMB satellite observatory) The second link has a PDF version that is more readable but takes more time to download. Lineweaver's essay has been made into a chapter of a book now in press called "The New Cosmology" (world scientific 2004) "Inflation and the Cosmic Microwave Background" http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/leve...r_contents.html http://arxiv.org/astro-ph/0305179 New paper of Edward Witten in latest issue of Nature link to online copy (for subscribers) is in the 3 June post of Woit's blog http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/blog/ paper involves dark energy (which is an astronomy/cosmology topic!) and concerns dark energy, the Higgs mass, and electroweak symmetry breaking.

NOTE : The following post is a summary of all the links I could find for this thread. As I consider this as a team work, don't be suprised if you recognize your participation here. Please feel free to comment the presentation form. If you have any idea to improve it, just pick the thread and add whatever you consider useful for a future utilisation. I saw there is a lot of interest on dark energy, so you can find some articles on Hot topics section. If you are interested in onother topic, let me know or add the link by yourself. I do not consider this as a finished presentation. I'm sure there are other useful links on the net. Thanks, Alexa

Hi Thales, I really like your notes about the links you gave earlier. I'll try to find as many useful links as I can. Please feel free to add your comments on it. Thanks, Alexa

WOW Martin, I have checked the quantum gravity and you have quite a collection of links there. In my opinion, we can let all the quantum gravity together (if I can find other links, I'll just add them there) and continue with astronomy links (more general information) here. Once we have a good data base, we'll be able to re-organize them to make an easier navigation through it. Alexa

Ups, I've almost forgot about X prize competition on www.xprize.org If you have the time to check this link, you realise the competition gets really hot. The Romanian team has set the launch date for Sept. 8. On Sept. 29th SpaceShipOne will have its first flight with 3 persons on bord. The Canadian Da Vinci team announced its first launch attempt on Oct 2nd 2004. As I think you already know, the X Prize Foundation is a non-profit organization and sponsors a competition between private international teams to build a low cost and effective craft for space tourism.

Martin, I'll do my best to help you, but I have to confess something. I'm not a specialist in astronomy. I'm only an amateur who believes there is life out there into the space and I like to read whatever I can found to prove that. I do have experience as a documentation coordinator in a pharmaceutical company. Oh, that's for sure I know Asterix ! What exactly do you have in mind with these links ? Do you want to use them as information source for the forum ? I thought it was only a personal interest. Alexa

Hi Martin, Sorry for that unhappy link. I use MyNASA Home as you have the option to bookmark the articles you are interested in and save them in your account. If you go on www.nasa.gov and enter on the main site, you have the option to yours NASA. I found very useful to work this way with NASA's site. On www.space.com you have the option to receive free e-mail news. So I do not need to access every time the main site as I get the new articles by e-mail. I've checked for other links and lookie what I found : http://fraise.univ-brest.fr/~kerrest/IDEI/Liens-nouveaux.html Don't be scared for the French part. Go down on the page and you have all useful links on the world ! Please check it and tell me what you think about it. Alexa

Hi Martin, Here you have another 2 links : http://www.astrobio.net/news/index.php http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?... I usually use space.com and NASA's site, but you already have them. Alexa