Alternative Cosmology Group Newsletter - May 2005

Posted May 31, 2005

Discovery of Strong Lensing by an Elliptical Galaxy at z=0.0345
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504453

The Lithium Content of the Galactic Halo Stars
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0505247

Fractal dimensions of the galaxy distribution varying by steps?
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504442

Fractal Challenge! Looks like a fractal universe.

Fractured Universe
http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/fractured.html

The self-similar Cosmological Model
http://www.amherst.edu/~rlolders/menu.html

Fractal Universe - A Pictorial Hypothesis by Colin Hill
http://www.fractaluniverse.org/

Our Fractal Universe
http://www.cyberian.ca/fractals/

Why Titan and the Earth have similar polar vortexes? What powers Titan's Hot Spot?

Titan's Atmosphere Revealed by New NASA Observation
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2005/Titan_Ozone_Hole.html

Titan's Hot Spot
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-release-details.cfm?newsID=576

Mysterious intense bombardment or something else.

Lunar "dark spots" point to an upheaval in planetary orbits long after the formation of the solar system
http://www.swri.org/9what/releases/2005/Spots.htm

Rings and gaps between them. How do they form? Do they look like fractal?

Bending the Rings
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=1542

Cassini Radio Signals Decipher Saturn Ring Structure
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-release-details.cfm?newsID=575

Solar Fireworks Signal New Space Weather Mystery
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2005/may/HQ_05132_solar_fireworks.html

Do we understand the formation of planets? Has anyone seen a forming planet?

Clues to planet formation revealed
http://www.umich.edu/news/index.html?Releases/2005/May05/r052305

What keeps these black holes from merging?

Twin Black Holes Churn at the Heart of M83
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/twin_black_holes_m83.html?1852005

Why do they dance rather than merge?

MOST SPACE TELESCOPE SEES "TAIL WAGGING DOG" IN STAR-EXOPLANET SYSTEM
http://www.astro.umontreal.ca/~casca/PR/Casca2005_Matthews_b.html

Did Iapetus Consume One of Saturn's Rings?
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/iapetus_consume_saturn_ring.html?1252005

Something really happened here.

Scientists Watch Black Hole Born in Split-Second Light Flash
http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/Sigurdsson5-2005.htm

Shedding Light on Dark Gamma Ray Bursters
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/shedding_light_dark_grbs.html?1052005

Astronomers Confirm the First Image of a Planet Outside of Our Solar System
http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2005/pr-12-05.html

Near Perfect "Einstein Ring" Discovered
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/perfect_einstein_ring.html?2942005

Too hot to handle!

XMM-Newton sees 'hot spots' on neutron stars
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMLY9NQS7E_index_0.html

Something tugs light along its path.

SDSS uses 200,000 quasars to confirm Einstein's prediction of cosmic magnification
http://www.sdss.org/news/releases/20050426.magnification.html