Podcasts about Deneb

Ganz dicht neben Deneb, dem Hauptstern im Schwan, befindet sich eine ausgedehnte Gaswolke mit einer sehr markanten Form. Das glühende Material und dunkle Staubmassen malen gut 2000 Lichtjahre entfernt den nordamerikanischen Kontinent an den Himmel. Lorenzen, Dirk www.deutschlandfunk.de, Sternzeit

En este episodio de la serie de constelaciones, hablamos de una de las regiones del cielo más populares (al menos nominalmente) y que esconde algunos secretos astronómicos bien guardados . Nos referimos al triangulo de verano, el "asterismo" formado por las estrellas Altair de la constelación Aquila (el aguila), Vega de la constelación Lyra (la lira) y Deneb de la constelación Cygnus (el cisne). Como en otros episodios de la serie, comentamos los cuerpos astronómicos de mayor interés en el asterismo, estrellas y objetos de espacio profundo, además de las fechas y condiciones en las que puede verse en todo su esplendor. Invitado especial: Andrés Mejía, experto en cálculo de eventos astronómicos. Producido por: Jhossua Giraldo, Pregrado de Astronomía (U. de A.) Lista de episodios organizados por tema: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/punto-bernal-lista-reproduccion⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Lista de reproducción temática: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/astronomia-en-punto-bernal⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Mike, Seth, & Tommy answer a mailbag on using advanced custom visuals such as Charticulator and Deneb. Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page. Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/powerbitips Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/230fp78XmHHRXTiYICRLVv Subscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/explicit-measures-podcast/id1568944083‎ Check Out Community Jam: https://jam.powerbi.tips Follow Mike: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcarlo/ Follow Seth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seth-bauer/ Follow Tommy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommypuglia/

Podcast guest 1109 is Rob Gauthier aka the "ET Whisperer". Rob is a world renowned professional and public Channeler who has been featured in many documentaries, Gaia TV, internet shows, interviews, and featured in books for his unique channeling abilities. He was a guest previously to talk about his life and Today he has agreed to come back and channel Aridif an Alien being for us! Rob's YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@E.T.whisperer CONTACT: Email: jeff@jeffmarapodcast.com WEBSITE www.jeffmarapodcast.com SOCIALS: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffmarapodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeffmarapodcast/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/jeffmaraP/ JeffMara does not endorse any of his guests' products or services. The opinions of the guests may or may not reflect the opinions of the host. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffrey-s-reynolds/support

In this episode, we chat to Anne Bettens from www.denebspace.com.au about satellites. 

Mariah Parsons, Host of Retention Chronicles and Head of Marketing at Malomo, is joined by SeaMonster Studios' Wes Buckwalter, Creative Director and CEO, and Deneb Pulsipher, Web Developer and Accessibility Specialist. Wes shares the company's origins and evolution into a full-service agency offering branding, graphic design, and compliance. Deneb, previously a high school English teacher, transitioned into web development, focusing on accessibility for ecommerce brands. They discuss the importance of WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliance, emphasizing the need for accessible websites to retain customers and avoid lawsuits. They highlight common issues like alternative text for images and text in images, and the benefits of compliance for SEO and user experience. Episode Timestamps:  4:57 SeaMonster Studios background and evolution into web compliance and accessibility experts 25:33 Sea Monster Studios' Expertise and Offerings With Branding and Web Compliance 25:58 Challenges and Benefits of Accessibility 31:31 Practical Considerations for Accessibility 43:52 Common Accessibility Issues and Solutions For Ecommerce Brands

The stars of the Summer Triangle look a lot alike. Vega, Deneb, and Altair are among the 20 brightest stars in the night sky, and they all shine almost pure white. Vega and Altair really are alike. But except for the way it looks to our eyes, Deneb is nothing like the other two. The triangle is high in the eastern sky at nightfall. It’s easy to see even through the glare of the almost-full Moon. Vega is the highest and brightest of the three stars. Deneb stands to the lower left of Vega, with Altair farther to the lower right. Vega and Altair are both about twice the size and mass of the Sun, and a good bit brighter. And both of them spin rapidly – so fast that they bulge outward at the equator. Vega is farther along in its evolution than Altair is. Because of their mass, both stars will spend about a billion years in the “prime” phase of life. That’s compared to about 10 billion years for the Sun. Deneb is a supergiant – one of the bigger and heavier stars in the galaxy. Some of its details are unclear because its distance is uncertain. It could be about 1500 light-years away, or about 2600. Either way, we know that it’s about 20 times the mass of the Sun, and up to 200 thousand times the Sun’s brightness. It’s no more than 10 million years old, with almost no time left. Before long, it’ll explode as a supernova, then fade away – and the Summer Triangle will disappear. Script by Damond Benningfield

A giant stellar nursery lies just 4500 light-years away. But the complex of brilliant stars and star-making materials is hidden – veiled by clouds of dust. Cygnus X spans more than 600 light-years. It contains enough material to give birth to millions of stars as massive as the Sun. And it’s already spawned several thousand stars that are many times as massive as the Sun, and thousands of times brighter. Astronomers study the region at wavelengths that shine through the dust. They reveal a complex web of ribbons, bubbles, rings, and pillars. They form several interlinked regions of starbirth. A cluster of massive newborn stars is near the middle of the complex. They produce radiation and powerful “winds” that push and erode the surrounding gas and dust. That can stop the process of star formation. But it can also trigger the birth of new stars as it squeezes the gas and dust. Especially heavy stars blow big bubbles in the gas. They also shape dense regions into pillars that can span dozens of light-years. Cygnus X probably has been forming stars for the past 10 million years or so. But it’s just getting started – it’s likely to form tens of thousands more stars. Cygnus X is in Cygnus, the swan, which is high in the east at nightfall. The complex is hidden behind dark clouds that run from the bright star Deneb, the swan’s tail, to Sadr, at the intersection of its long body and graceful wings. Script by Damond Benningfield

Under a dark sky, the Milky Way is impressive – a milky band of light that outlines the disk of our home galaxy. But the band isn’t smooth. It’s lumpy, with some parts much wider and brighter than others. And a dark lane runs down its middle, bisecting the Milky Way into two bands. It, too, is lumpy. That dark lane is known as the Great Rift, and it looks almost empty – as though a cosmic dragon has swallowed most of the stars. Instead, the darkness has simply swallowed the light of the stars behind it. That’s because the dark lane is made of giant clouds of dust. They block the visible light of the stars inside and behind them, just as a dark cloud here on Earth can block the Sun from view. Perhaps the most famous cloud is the Coalsack, an especially big “hole” in the Milky Way. It’s in the Southern Cross, which is too far south to see from the continental United States. The Coalsack is about 600 light-years from Earth, and spans about 60 or 70 light-years. There’s also the Northern Coalsack. It’s just about as big as the southern version, although it’s not quite as dark or well-defined. Still, there’s a definite gap in the stars there. It’s in Cygnus. As night falls now, it’s to the right of Deneb, the bright star that marks the swan’s tail. The Northern Coalsack veils an especially bright region behind it – one of the biggest stellar nurseries in our part of the galaxy. More about that tomorrow. Script by Damond Benningfield

About 10,000 years ago, a massive star in Cygnus, the swan, blew itself to bits. For a few days or weeks, it blazed as the brightest object in the night sky other than the Moon – bright enough to see even during the day. Today, its glowing remains are still visible – a colorful bubble that’s more than a hundred light-years across and growing. The bubble is known as the Cygnus Loop. It’s a supernova remnant – the debris from a star that was about 20 times the mass of the Sun. After a short but brilliant life, the star could no longer produce nuclear energy in its core. The core collapsed, and the star’s outer layers exploded at a few percent of the speed of light. As the bubble expands, it rams into surrounding clouds of gas and dust. That causes parts of the bubble to glow, forming the Veil Nebula and some other structures. Images reveal ribbons of gas and dust that intertwine like the strands of a rope. They shine in shades of red, blue, green, and other colors – the result of the elements they contain. Other parts of the Loop shine in wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye. The Cygnus Loop is in the east-northeast at nightfall, to the lower right of Deneb, the bright star at the swan’s tail. The loop spans about six times the width of the full Moon. Small telescopes equipped with the right filters reveal some of the glowing filaments – the fading remnants of a stellar spectacle. Script by Damond Benningfield

When Dave Carter tried to rescue the Denebians he found himself in a den of thieves. And he had cause to remember Shakespeare's observation: “He who steals my purse steals trash.” The Mystery of Deneb IV by Robert Silverberg, that's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.Special thanks to Bromite Thrip who bought us 5 cups of coffee! Thanks for your contribution and support for our podcast. There is a link in the description if you'd like to buy us a coffee.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsVToday's author is one of my favorites and he's been heard many times on the podcast. From the pages of Fantastic Science Fiction in February 1957, turn to page 56 for, The Mystery of Deneb IV by Robert Silverberg…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, In the city of strange wonders, the lure of the flame drew them on and on… destruction loomed ahead… The City of Singing Flame by Clark Ashton Smith.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV===========================

Three tiny constellations are stacked up in the eastern evening sky this month: the arrow, the dolphin, and the little horse. There’s not a single bright star among them. But under moderately dark skies, at least one of them is pretty easy to make out. The arrow is at the top of the stack. It’s the third-smallest of the 88 modern constellations. In ancient times, it represented a weapon used by Hercules, but there were different takes on his target. All of its stars are faint, but under especially dark skies, it does look like an arrow, aiming toward the left. It’s between two bright stars: Altair, to its lower right, and Deneb, to the upper left. The most prominent of the three figures is the dolphin, which is below the arrow. Its five brightest stars outline the dolphin’s form. It, too, has more than one myth. One of them said the dolphin rescued a rich poet and musician. The man had jumped into the sea after he was threatened by the crew of the ship in which he was sailing. Finally, there’s the little horse. It’s the second-smallest constellation, and it’s quite faint. And it’s not even a complete horse – it’s depicted only as a horse’s head. One of its Greek stories said it was the brother or son of the winged horse Pegasus, which rises below it. If your skies are nice and dark, look for these tiny constellations beginning at nightfall, and rolling across the south during the night. Script by Damond Benningfield

Betelgeuse grew dramatically fainter a couple of years ago. The supergiant star blasted out a giant blob of gas, which cooled to form a dust cloud that blocked part of the star from view. And a similar star might recently have gone through the same process. RW Cephei is at least 900 times the diameter of the Sun, making it one of the larger stars in the galaxy. It’s also hundreds of thousands of times brighter than the Sun. In late 2022, though, it dropped to a third of its usual brightness. By last summer, it was recovering. Astronomers analyzed some especially sharp images of the star. The pictures showed that it was blobby, with bright and dark regions many times larger than the Sun. The astronomers later found that RW Ceph had grown brighter than usual in 2019. It may have blown out a huge blob of hot gas not long after that. The gas cooled and condensed to form a cloud of dust grains. The cloud moved in front of the star, causing it to fade. As the cloud dispersed, RW Ceph returned to its usual brilliance. The hypergiant star is near the end of its life. It’s expected to explode as a supernova sometime in the next million years or so – just like Betelgeuse. RW Cephei is low in the northeast at nightfall. It’s about halfway between Deneb, the star at the tail of the swan, and W-shaped Cassiopeia. Even at its best, though, you need binoculars or a telescope to see it. Script by Damond Benningfield

Author and journalist John Washington returns to the podcast to discuss The Case for Open Borders, the name and subject of his new book from Haymarket Press. John Washington places the current political rhetoric and policy fixated on the "border crisis" many Western nations are seemingly facing, particularly the United States, within the historical and material context of what the modern nation-state actually is. Borders are as much about building the infrastructure to prohibit and deter migrants and refugees from entering a territory, as it is a rhetorical weapon deployed by cynical politicians and nativist settlers to reify artificial differences among the human species. Stripping down the hyperbolic and nativist language exemplified across political parties, John makes clear what borders really are, and the violent realities this ever expanding infrastructure imposes on human and non-human life. John Washington is a staff writer at Arizona Luminaria, a community-focused media outlet where he writes about the border, climate change, democracy, and more. His latest book, The Case for Open Borders was published by Haymarket Books in 2024. He is also the author of The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the U.S.-Mexico Border and Beyond, published in 2020 by Verso Books. Washington is also a translator, having co-translated, most recently, The Hollywood Kid by Óscar Martínez and Juan Martínez, and Blood Barrios by Alberto Arce, which won a PEN Translates Award. Episode Notes: - Purchase a copy of The Case for Open Borders from Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/a/24168/9798888900727 - Subscribe to his newsletter, Lit & Border News: https://johnwashington.substack.com - Read his journalistic work for Arizona Luminaria: https://azluminaria.org/author/john-washington - The song featured is “Deneb” by Nick Vander from the album Kodama (Nowaki's Selection), used with permission by the artist. Listen and purchase at: https://nickvander.bandcamp.com WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast SUBSTACK: https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com BOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

If you're ready for a taste of summer, look no farther than the dawn sky. The constellations in view at first light are just what you'll see as night falls in July and August. Scorpius is low in the south, with Sagittarius in the southeast. The Big Dipper hangs from its handle in the northwest. And the Summer Triangle — the stars Vega, Deneb, and Altair — stands high in the east. As Earth orbits the Sun, our viewing angle on the stars changes. As a result, each star rises about four minutes earlier each night. So a star that rises at dawn now, will rise eight hours earlier in July, 10 hours earlier in August, and 12 hours earlier in September. Now you might think this all means that we'd see the current morning configuration 12 hours earlier in the night during September — half a year from now. And you'd be partially right. The same configuration of stars will be in the sky at that hour. But the Sun sets later then, so it's still daylight when the stars stand in their current dawn positions. So by sunset then, Scorpius and the others will have rotated farther to the west. That means the best time to see this setup in the early evening sky is a month or two earlier — July and August. That all sounds a bit confusing, but trust us: The stars have been following that pattern for a long time — moving the same stars we see in the dawn sky now into the evening sky during the short nights of summer. Script by Damond Benningfield

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Ethereum staat op het punt om een nieuwe update te lanceren. Het gaat om Dencun, een samenvoeging van de Cancun en Deneb-upgrades. Dencun moet Ethereum sneller en goedkoper maken en richt zich daarbij op de tweedelaagsoplossingen rond Ethereum. De transactiekosten voor projecten als Arbritrum, Base en Optimism gaan flink omlaag. Deze, en ook andere projecten, vormen de basis voor het opschalen van Ethereum. En dat is hard nodig. De basislaag van Ethereum is namelijk al tijden overbelast. Er is veel activiteit op de blockchain. Van NFT's tot DeFi en andere decentrale applicaties. Zoveel mensen willen Ethereum tegelijk gebruiken dat de kosten in de tientallen of zelfs honderden dollars lopen voor één transactie. Dat zorgt natuurlijk weer voor extra wind in de zeilen bij concurrenten, zoals Solana. Daar lukt het (met wat concessies) wel om alle transacties op de basislaag te verwerken. Ondertussen steeg Bitcoin deze week weer flink. Op het moment van schrijven staat de koers op 72.000 dollar. Daarmee kunnen we ook in dollars een definitief all time high noteren. Daarmee begeeft bitcoin zich inmiddels op 'ontontgonnen terrein'. Toch zegt dat niet direct vreselijk veel. De fundamentele marktdynamiek tussen vraag en aanbod verandert met recordprijzen niet. Op nieuwe prijsniveaus zullen zich vanzelf nieuwe kopers melden. Macro-economische omstandigheden hebben ondertussen steeds minder impact op bitcoin. Het aanstaande rentebesluit van de FED (volgende week) zal dus ook weinig effect hebben op de huidige rally. Het koersrecord was onder meer te danken aan een nieuwe serie aankopen van Michael Saylor, die met zijn Microstrategy 800 miljoen dollar leende om bitcoin te kopen. De lening lijkt voor Saylor een behoorlijk goede deal te zijn. Voor een rente van 0.63% per jaar is de miljardair verzekerd van 12.000 nieuwe bitcoin. En niet onbelangrijk: Saylor hoeft onder geen enkele voorwaarde zijn lening eerder terug te betalen.  Gasten Daniël Mol Links Alles over Dencun Michael Saylor koopt nieuwe zak Bitcoin Host Herbert Blankesteijn Redactie Daniël MolSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

with @cdixon @pmarca @bhorowitz @rhhackettWelcome to the web3 with a16z podcast. Today's episode is the final installment in our limited series on Read Write Own, the new book by a16z crypto founding partner Chris Dixon. Today's episode features Dixon in conversation with a16z cofounders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen. Their discussion covers the internet's corporate takeover and how that affects startups, creativity, and innovation; blockchains as inheritors of the open source ethos; where AI comes in; and the next battleground in global politics. This episode is a crossover from the Ben & Marc Show, which you can find and follow on the a16z YouTube channel or wherever you get your podcasts.Resources for references in this episode:"How an economic moat provides a competitive advantage" by Chris Gallant (Investopedia, August 2023)"The dynamics of network effects" by D'Arcy Coolican and Li Jin (a16z, December 2018)"Skeuomorphism" (Interaction Design Foundation)"How to rebuild social media on top of RSS" (Hacker News, December 2022)"Cardinal conversations: Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel on 'technology and politics'" (Hoover Institute, January 2018) [see @ 29:00]"Peter Thiel: AI is communist" by Dan Primack (Axios, February 2018)"Sam Altman seeks trillions of dollars to reshape business of chips and AI" by Keach Hagey and Asa Fitch (Wall Street Journal, February 2024)"Join a union—but also join a DAO" by Daisy Alioto (The Nation, December 2021)Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani (Verso, June 2019)"Friedrich Hayek and the price system" by Randal K. Quarles ("The Road to Serfdom at 75" conference, November 2019)Pandora's Box: A Fable from the Age of Science "Part 1. The Engineers' Plot" by Adam Curtis (BBC, June 1992) [see @ 25:00]"Going from web2 to web3: 'Your take rate is my opportunity'" by Chris Dixon (a16z crypto, August 2021)"Blockchain & internet glossary (A–Z): Key terms from Read Write Own" by Chris Dixon and Robert Hackett (a16z crypto, February 2024)"Why decentralization matters" by Chris Dixon (a16z crypto, February 2018)"The Vision Pro needs apps. Now is not a good time for Apple to be at odds with developers" by Hasan Chowdhury (Business Insider, January 2024)"Upgrading Ethereum | 4.2.5 Deneb" by Ben Edgington (Eth2book, September 2023)"What to expect from Ethereum's Cancun-Deneb Upgrade" by Wilfred Daye (Coindesk, February 2024)"Bitcoin Obituaries" (99 Bitcoins)"An Overview of H.R. 4766, Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act" by Paul Tierno and Andrew P. Scott (Congressional Research Service, September 2023)"The Rings of Power" (The Lord of the Rings Wiki)"There's no downplaying the impact of Operation Choke Point" by Dennis Shaul (American Banker, November 2018)"Operation Choke Point 2.0: The Federal Bank Regulators Come for Crypto" by David H. Thompson, et al. (Cooper & Kirk Lawyers, March 2023)"Google Chatbot's A.I. Images Put People of Color in Nazi-Era Uniforms" by Nico Grant (New York Times, February 2024)"This is Worldcoin: Humanness in the age of AI" (Worldcoin, February 2024)The Blocksize War: The Battle for Control Over Bitcoin's Protocol Rules by Jonathan Bier (Amazon, March 2021)"Balaji Srinivasan: The Bitcoin Network State" (Bitcoin Magazine, October 2023)

The Daily Gwei Refuel gives you a recap every week day on everything that happened in the Ethereum and crypto ecosystems over the previous 24 hours - hosted by Anthony Sassano. Timestamps and links to topics discussed: https://daily-gwei-links.vercel.app/recent 00:00 Introductory song 00:39 Goerli shadow fork for Deneb and Cancun https://twitter.com/terencechain/status/1737131517066010810 02:06 Obol's DV Cluster Squad Staking goes Mainnet Beta  https://twitter.com/ObolNetwork/status/1737094101160640706 10:56 EF showcases projects funded in Q3 https://twitter.com/EF_ESP/status/1737075138024399115 11:39 $189 ARM64 running two L1+L2 synced nodes concurrently https://twitter.com/EthereumOnARM/status/1737409687358718304 15:25 Optimism's path towards a "collaborative Superchain"  https://twitter.com/Optimism/status/1737219639346606252 16:41 Next Stylus testnet cuts fees another 2.5x https://twitter.com/CryptoIsCute/status/1737180148070560248 19:25 Based Booster Rollups and how they solve fragmentation https://twitter.com/arixoneth/status/1737171628939776319 21:58 Examples of devs ignoring noise and just building https://twitter.com/jessepollak/status/1737289727227883946 26:20 EigenLayer about to hit $1B in TVL in just ~24h of cap raise https://twitter.com/13yearoldvc/status/1737168422235222255 26:56 A case for referring to Ethereum as “the Ether" in mainstream https://twitter.com/jwmeyer/status/1737240199829012912 27:30 Anthony's modest bull case for Ethereum in 2024 https://twitter.com/sassal0x/status/1737121095042646032 This episode is also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eQGxglb-Gko Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thedailygwei.substack.com/ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvCp6vKY5jDr87htKH6hgDA/ Follow Anthony on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sassal0x Follow The Daily Gwei on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedailygwei Join the Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/4pfUJsENcg DISCLAIMER: All information presented across all of The Daily Gwei's communication channels is strictly for educational purposes and should not be taken as investment advice.

Gods of War. A topical subject given the news over the last couple of years. These Gods are responsible for war, tactics, strategy, combat, soldiering but sometimes just bloodshead and death. There are many Hero stories and great warriors who were responsible for protecting their tribe or clan, city or nation. Many people think of Pagans as peaceful and earth loving, and they can be. But, have you met the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Celts or Vikings. There are many Pagans in the military who are looking for a patron deity and we thank you for your service. And so for a November's Veteran's Day salute, we offer a discussion of these Gods. Includes Ares, Mars, Tyr, Kartikeya, Athena, Svetovit and Sarutahiko. Music Tail of Deneb and Beak of Albiereo.

Many searches for planets in other star systems look for stars like the Sun. Since the Sun is the only star that's known to harbor life, that makes sense. But Sun-like stars are pretty rare. So some searches are taking aim at stars in the next category down — stars that are a little smaller, lighter, and fainter than the Sun. They're known as K dwarfs. They're in the prime of life. And they can stay in that phase for tens of billions of years — much longer than the total lifespan of the Sun. That means there's plenty of time for life to take hold in such systems. And the systems should be good homes for life. The stars are pretty stable, and they don't produce a lot of damaging radiation. And they're good targets for planet hunts because habitable worlds are likely to be fairly close to their stars, making them easier to find. Astronomers have mapped about 5,000 K dwarfs within 50 parsecs of Earth — about 165 light-years. A few dozen of them have confirmed planets. But none of the planets is like Earth, or in the right place for Earth-like life. A double K-dwarf system is high in the sky at nightfall, less than 12 light-years away. It's close to Deneb, the bright tail of Cygnus, the swan. The system's two stars are far apart, so there's plenty of room for planets. So far, though, no planets have been found — prime real estate with no tenants. Tomorrow: the brilliant “morning star” stands high.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

Episode 0796 - Cosmology & Earth History (RA), XII (Click on the above link, or here, for audio.) Continuing discussion of solar system history from Maldek to the present: cosmogenesis, solar system cycles & Earth history from the RA Material (Law of One). Date: 9/6/23. Timeline focus (PDF p.32-3x):Nazca Lines58,000 BP – Attempt at Confederation Aid – Mu53-50,000 BP – Lemurians from Deneb, Fled

If that sounds like beating hearts, that's because it is — in a way. It's the sound of “heartbeat” stars. If you plot how the light from such a star changes, it looks like an EKG — like a beating heart. Scientists have converted some of those beats to sound, and sped them up to show the rhythm of the heartbeats. The stars are actually binaries — pairs of stars locked in orbit around each other. Their orbits are stretched out — they're long and thin. Depending on the system, each orbit takes a few days to a few weeks, so the system “beats” at up to a few times per month. When the two stars are at their closest, the gravity of each star distorts the shape of the other, making the stars bulge toward each other. That creates more surface area for both stars, making the system brighter. At the same time, the surfaces of the stars vibrate like ringing bells. That also changes their brightness. Astronomers have discovered about 1300 heartbeat systems. Most of them consist of stars that are bigger, brighter, and more massive than the Sun. Such stars are more likely to be born in pairs than Sun-like stars are. Several heartbeat systems are in Cygnus. The swan's brightest star, Deneb, is high in the east-northeast as night falls, and passes almost directly overhead later on — surrounded by stars that produce their own heartbeats.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

Ahsoka and Sabine close in on Morgan Elsbeth as Hera tries to convince Mon Mothma and the New Republic to send a task force t0 Deneb in Part 3 of Ahsoka: “Time to Fly.”   In this fully armed and operational episode of Podcast Stardust, we discuss: Huyang and Ahsoka training Sabine aboard Ahsoka's ship, Sabine's abilities, or lack thereof, with the Force, Hera's attempt to convince the New Republic Senate to send a task force to Deneb to investigate Thrawn's return, Mon Mothma's role in Hera's discussion and how this relates to Rogue One, Ahsoka and Sabine discovering Morgan's hyperspace ring, the Eye of Sion, The return of purrgils, and Shin Hati's pursuit of Ahsoka and Sabine. Find our discussion of parts 1 and 2 of Ahsoka in episode 616.   Thanks for joining us for another episode! Subscribe to Podcast Stardust for all your Star Wars news, reviews, and discussion wherever you get your podcasts. And please leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts.   Find Jay and her cosplay adventures on J.Snips Cosplay on Instagram.   Follow us on social media: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube. T-shirts, hoodies, stickers, masks, and posters are available on TeePublic. Find all episodes on RetroZap.com.

Ahsoka and Sabine close in on Morgan Elsbeth as Hera tries to convince Mon Mothma and the New Republic to send a task force to Deneb in Part 3 of Ahsoka: “Time to Fly.”

Join Fiona Powers Ozyurt of the Maria Mitchell Association as she discusses the Summer Triangle. To find the Summer Triangle, head outside after 9pm, look directly overhead and locate the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra. Neighboring Vega are two other bright stars, Deneb in Cygnus and Altair in Aquila, which together with Vega form a large triangle. This is the Summer Triangle asterism. 

This week, we celebrate the emotional coming out of Shinjiro Atae, get some Gotchard* plot and production details, and see a familiar face unmasked in Kamen Rider Outsiders! We also witness Deneb make Yuto the third wheel on his own date in Den-O episodes 40, 41, & 42. *This podcast was recorded before the latest batch of Gotchard reveals. Look forward to an in-depth card and toy discussion in just a few days!   1:11 - Intro 8:00 - News 15:05 - Spoiler Train! 39:26 - Den-O 40, 41, & 42   Website: www.RiderLovePodcast.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/RiderLOVEcast Email: RiderLovePodcast@gmail.com

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In this session, C and Carla channel Hatonn, who discusses the illusion, the nature of predictions, and the upcoming harvest. Next, Jim channels Latwii, who opens the session to questions: Has the spread of knowledge about the harvest accelerated the understanding of Earth people's purpose? Like the Chinese who came from Deneb, do Gypsies come from a certain star system? Does Gypsy knowledge stem from Atlantean mystery schools? Are teachings from Atlantean mystery schools service-to-others oriented? Why are some people afraid of the supernatural or the unknown? Finally, C channels Nona for a brief moment.This meditation can be found at https://www.llresearch.org/channeling/1982/0418L|L Research home page can be found at https://www.llresearch.org/home.aspxDisclaimer: This is not an L|L Research production. However, explicit permission has been granted by L|L Research to create these episodes.......A note about these transcripts from the L|L Research websiteThis telepathic channeling has been taken from transcriptions of the weekly study and meditation meetings of the Rock Creek Research & Development Laboratories and L/L Research. It is offered in the hope that it may be useful to you. As the Confederation entities always make a point of saying, please use your discrimination and judgment in assessing this material. If something rings true to you, fine. If something does not resonate, please leave it behind, for neither we nor those of the Confederation would wish to be a stumbling block for any.......#LawOfOne #LLResearch #Hatonn #Latwii #Nona

The Sun is pretty big as stars go — bigger than perhaps 80 or 90 percent of the stars in the entire Milky Way Galaxy. To get an idea of just how big, consider this: At the speed of a jet airliner, it would take about seven months to circle all the way around the Sun's equator. But if you really want to rack up the frequent-flier miles, try circling around the star at the tail of Cygnus, the swan. Deneb is a white supergiant. The “white” designation means that its surface is thousands of degrees hotter than the Sun's. And the “supergiant” designation means that it's one of the biggest stars in the galaxy. In fact, it could be 200 times the diameter of the Sun. So even at the pace of a typical airliner, it would take more than a century to circle Deneb's equator. One problem you might have is deciding just where the star's “surface” is. Supergiants are so puffed up that their outermost layers of gas are quite thin. And Deneb is blowing a powerful “wind” of material out into space, which makes it even harder to tell where the star ends and space begins. But from our distance of 2600 light-years or so, that's not a problem — Deneb looks like a sharp little point of light. It's in the northeast at nightfall, at the left point of the bright Summer Triangle. And the rest of the swan stretches to its right, with the body roughly parallel to the horizon and the wings spread above and below. Tomorrow: An ancient stellar family.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

One of the most graceful and beautiful of all constellations soars high overhead on summer nights. Cygnus, the swan, lines up in the east and northeast in early evening. The swan's body is roughly parallel to the horizon, with its wings extended above and below. The bright star Deneb marks its tail, with the double star Albireo representing its beak. Cygnus is also known as the Northern Cross. In fact, the pattern is so bright and obvious that quite a few cultures have shown it as a cross. For the Maya of Central America, the cross may have played a role in the succession of kings. Evidence of this role comes from a temple in the Mayan city of Palenque. Murals in the temple depict starry crosses, which some scientists have interpreted as Cygnus. The temple is aligned toward the northwest, to the point on the horizon where Deneb set. Some of the artwork depicts the life of King Chan Bahlum. He was appointed heir to the throne in June of the year 641. From Palenque, Deneb was rising around sunset at that time of year. And Chan Bahlum became king in January of 684 — a time when Deneb was just becoming visible in the morning sky, and dropping from view at dusk — in perfect view from the temple. Look for Deneb and the rest of Cygnus throughout the night. The swan is in the east and northeast as darkness falls, with its body roughly parallel to the horizon. It flies high overhead during the night. More about Deneb tomorrow.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

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Join Fiona Powers Ozyurt of the Maria Mitchell Association as she discusses the constellation Aquila. To find Aquila, head outside after 10pm and look in the East direction. Now locate the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra. Neighboring Vega are two other bright stars, Deneb in Cygnus and Altair in Aquila, which together with Vega form a large triangle. This is the Summer Triangle asterism. 

En este episodio hablamos acerca de la abundancia y la permisión a recibir.  Creo que todos deseamos bajar todas esas barreras que nos impiden recibir, así que ¿qué esperas? Este episodio va a contribuirte un montón si quieres saber acerca de ese tema.  Gracias a Deneb tuvimos el caso perfecto para sacarle jugo a mucha información acerca de esto.  Espero lo disfrutes un montón Con amor,  Mely

Writer John Halstead returns to the podcast to discuss his widely read article, 'Jumping the Gap: Where Green Transphobia Leads,' published at A Beautiful Resistance. John Halstead's article uses the ideological trajectory of Paul Kingnorth, co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project and a fierce critic of “Big Green environmentalism,” to examine trans-exclusionary politics and rhetoric in certain leftist ecoactivist movements and spaces. John has remarked Kingsnorth was an “intellectual idol” of his, helping him form many of his own ideas about humanity's severed relationship with the earth, with poignant ruminations on the roots of anthropogenic climate change, the dead end of techno-optimism, and industrial civilization's inevitable collapse. But, as Halstead began to more closely examine Kingnorth's writings since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, he, like many others who admired his perspective, was disturbed by his “benevolent green nationalism,” defense of the British monarchy, and openly derisive characterizations of “wokeness” and trans identity. John Halstead is the author of Another End of the World is Possible, in which he explores what it would really mean for our relationship with the natural world if we were to admit that we are doomed. John is a native of the southern Laurentian bioregion and lives in Northwest Indiana, near Chicago. He is a co-founder of 350 Indiana-Calumet, which worked to organize resistance to the fossil fuel industry in the Region. John was the principal facilitator of “A Pagan Community Statement on the Environment.” He strives to live up to the challenge posed by the Statement through his writing and activism. John has written for numerous online platforms, including Patheos, Huffington Post, and Gods & Radicals. He is Editor-at-Large of NaturalisticPaganism.com. John also edited the anthology, Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans and authored Neo-Paganism: Historical Inspiration & Contemporary Creativity. He is also a Shaper of the Earthseed community, more about which can be found at GodisChange.org. Episode Notes: - Read Jumping the Gap: Where Green Transphobia Leads: http://bit.ly/40cdXxU - The song featured is “Deneb” by Nick Vander from the album Kodama (Nowaki's Selection), used with permission by the artist. Listen and purchase at: https://nickvander.bandcamp.com WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast SUBSTACK: https://lastborninthewilderness.substack.com BOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

  Galaxy Class A Star Trek The Next Generation Podcast: Episode 122 - Planets of TNG - Deneb IV Kevin and Amy start a guided tour through the planets visited by the Enterprise-D. We start with Deneb IV, home to the mysterious Farpoint Station. Join our listeners group The BQN Collective on Facebook. Follow the network on Instagram @BQNPodcasts Find us on Twitter: The Network: @BQNPodcasts                                                                                                              The Show: @GalaxyClassPod                                                                                                                Amy: @MissAmyNelson                                                                                                                            Joe: @joeyjoe77uk Kevin: @TrueNorthNerds BQN Podcasts are brought to you by listeners like you. Special thanks to these patrons on Patreon whose generous contributions help produce the podcast! Tim Cooper Anonymous Mahendran Radhakrishnan David Willett Peter Hong Tom Van Scotter Vera Bible Jim McMahon Justin Oser Greg Molumby Thad Hait Chrissie De Clerck-Szilagyi Joe Mignone Carl Wonders Matt Harker Jason Anderson You can become a part of the Hive Mind Collective here: https://www.Patreon.com/BQN We'd love to add your uniqueness to our own! Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.STAR TREK and all related marks, logos and characters are owned by CBS Studios Inc. “BQN” is not endorsed or sponsored by or affiliated with CBS/Paramount Pictures or the STAR TREK franchise.

GC: 122 - Planets of TNG - Deneb IVKevin and Amy start a guided tour through the planets visited by the Enterprise-D. We start with Deneb IV, home to the mysterious Farpoint Station.Join our listeners group The BQN Collective on Facebook.Follow the network on Instagram @BQNPodcastsFind us on Twitter:The Network: @BQNPodcastsThe Show: @GalaxyClassPodAmy: @MissAmyNelsonJoe: @joeyjoe77ukKevin: @TrueNorthNerdsBQN Podcasts are brought to you by listeners like you. Special thanks to these patrons on Patreon whose generous contributions help produce the podcast! Tim CooperAnonymousMahendran RadhakrishnanDavid WillettPeter HongTom Van ScotterVera BibleJim McMahonJustin OserGreg MolumbyThad HaitChrissie De Clerck-SzilagyiJoe MignoneCarl WondersMatt HarkerJason AndersonYou can become a part of the Hive Mind Collective here: https://www.Patreon.com/BQNWe'd love to add your uniqueness to our own!Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.STAR TREK and all related marks, logos and characters are owned by CBS Studios Inc. “BQN” is not endorsed or sponsored by or affiliated with CBS/Paramount Pictures or the STAR TREK franchise.

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As twilight fades out this evening, many prominent stars fade in. There's Fomalhaut, the lonely “autumn star,” low in the south-southeast. The stars of the Summer Triangle — Deneb, Vega, and Altair — are pinned high in the sky. And the bright orange stars Aldebaran and Betelgeuse climb skyward later on. The stars are different ages, sizes, and types. But one thing they have in common is their names: all of them were adopted from Arabic. The names were passed down in a couple of ways. Some of them were translations from the “Almagest,” a star catalog compiled by Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy around the year 150. Ptolemy included each star's position in a star picture, such as the mouth of the fish. Centuries later, Arab astronomers translated those descriptions. So the mouth of the fish became “fam al-hut” — a name known today as foh-mahl-HOT or foh-mah-LOW. In the 10th century, Persian astronomer al-Sufi created his own star catalog. He updated the Almagest, and created many new names. Over the centuries, his work was translated into European languages, and the star names entered common usage. So today, we gaze upon Deneb, adapted from a phrase meaning “the tail of the hen;” Vega, “the swooping eagle;” Altair, “the flying eagle;” Aldebaran, “the follower,” because it follows the Pleiades; Betelgeuse, “the shoulder of the giant;” and stars with many other beautiful and ancient names.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

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Summer ended almost a month ago, but some of the stars of summer are still hanging around. And some of them will remain in view until well into winter. On the other hand, a few others are taking their final bows. Scorpius, for example, is quite low in the sky as darkness falls. Some of the stars that outline its curving body have dropped below the horizon by then, and some others are so faint that you can't really see them. Its bright heart, Antares, should be visible for a few days longer, in the southwest. But it's so low that you need a clear horizon to spot it. Sagittarius, the archer, stands to the upper left of Scorpius. Some of its bright stars form the outline of a teapot. It's tilted to the right, as though pouring its brew onto the scorpion's tail. It will linger until around Thanksgiving. Arcturus, the brightest star of Boötes the herdsman, is dropping lower in the west, but it, too, should remain visible through the end of the month. After that, the only holdout is a star pattern named for the season: the Summer Triangle. Right now, it stands directly overhead as night falls, marked by the bright stars Vega, Deneb, and Altair. Because of their high northern latitudes, the stars are in view in the evening sky most nights of the year. And all three will remain in view well into January — bringing a bit of summer to the night skies of winter.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

Death Panel co-host and disability justice advocate Beatrice Adler-Bolton returns to the podcast to discuss their new book 'Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto,' co-authored with Artie Vierkant and published through Verso Books. 'Health Communism' “offers an overview of life and death under capitalism and argues for a new global left politics aimed at severing the ties between capital and one of its primary tools: health.” Throughout this 90 minute interview, Beatrice and I build on our last discussion in March (during which we discussed the “sociological production of the end of the pandemic”), incorporating concepts outlined in 'Health Communism.' Key among those are defining the “surplus” class or population(s), in which, under the economic valuation of life under capitalism, whole populations are relegated to a regime of “extractive abandonment” — “the process by which these populations are made profitable to capital”, and a “means by which the state constructs “health” culturally, politically, and institutionally.” 'Health Communism' is a call to arms; a manifesto for those deemed “surplus” under the political economy of global capitalism. It is a history lesson, drawing on the social, economic, and political forces throughout the development of capitalism and the modern nation-state to commodify health, care, illness, and disability. Along with outlining the concepts and forces that have defined who is “deserving” of care under this regime, Beatrice and Artie draw on potent and revolutionary struggles that provide vital lessons in realizing health communism and “a radical politics of solidarity.” Because, “it is,” as they state, “not necessarily the case that we are all sick. But none of us is well.” Beatrice Adler-Bolton is a blind/low vision and chronically ill artist, writer, and disability justice advocate. Beatrice studies radical patient groups and the capitalist political economy of health as an independent researcher and is earning a master's in Disability Studies at CUNY. She is the co-host of the Death Panel podcast with Artie Vierkant and Phil Rocco. Beatrice's first book, called 'Health Communism: A surplus manifesto,' co-authored with Artie Vierkant, will be published by Verso Books in the US and UK in October 2022. Episode Notes: - Order a copy of Health Communism from Verso, or from Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3TlQOoH / https://bit.ly/35Zby2d - Listen and subscribe to Death Panel: https://www.deathpanel.net - Learn more about Beatrice and her work: https://www.beatriceadlerbolton.com / https://twitter.com/reallandsend - The song featured is “Deneb” by Nick Vander from the album Kodama (Nowaki's Selection), used with permission by the artist. Listen and purchase at: https://nickvander.bandcamp.com WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast / https://venmo.com/LastBornPodcast BOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast EPISODE 300: https://lastborninthewilderness.bandcamp.com BOOK: http://bit.ly/ORBITgr ATTACK & DETHRONE: https://anchor.fm/adgodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://msha.ke/lastbornpodcast

You don't always need a telescope to enhance the beauty of the night sky. For many objects, a pair of binoculars will do just fine. In fact, some objects look better through binoculars. One example is the star cluster Messier 39. It's high in the northeast at nightfall, to the lower left of Deneb, the bright star that marks the tail of Cygnus, the swan. M39 is a bit sparse. Binoculars reveal about 30 stars, which are spread across about seven light-years of space. Seen from the cluster's distance of a thousand light-years, that span is roughly the size of the full Moon. And that's why M39 is best seen through binoculars. A good pair will allow you to see the entire cluster in a single view. Three bright stars form a wide triangle, with the other members of the cluster roughly filling in the space between them. A telescope typically sees a smaller field of view, so it can't take in the entire cluster all at once. And if you have especially clear, dark skies, you might just make it out with your eyes alone. It looks like a faint, hazy smudge of light below the swan. In the future, M39 will undergo periods where it's a lot more prominent. A few of its brighter stars are nearing the ends of their “normal” lifetimes. When they reach that end, they'll puff up to many times their current size, making them shine much brighter. That'll make M39 stand out — no matter how you look at it. Tomorrow: a star disappears.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

The universe can fool you. Objects that look like they're close together can be a good distance apart. And it can take a lot of time and effort to figure that out. An example is the Cocoon Nebula. It's a glowing cloud of gas and dust in Cygnus, the swan. It's half way up the northeastern sky at nightfall, below Deneb, the bright star that marks the swan's tail. The nebula is part of a larger complex of gas and dust known as IC 5146. After the Cocoon, its most prominent feature is a dark nebula — a long ribbon of gas and dust. It absorbs the light of the stars behind it, so it looks black. It extends away from the Cocoon like a long tail. Over the decades, astronomers have come up with many estimates for the distance to the complex — from about 1400 to more than three thousand light-years. And they've assumed that the Cocoon and the dark nebula were at the same distance. But a study a couple of years ago came up with a new finding. Using a space telescope that produces highly accurate distance measurements, it put the dark nebula at about 1900 light-years, and the Cocoon about 700 light-years farther. Regardless of the distance, both nebulas are giving birth to stars. In the dark cloud, the stars are born along thin filaments that are dozens of light-years long. Eventually, those stars will use up or blow away the dark dust around them, and their region will shine as brightly as the Cocoon Nebula.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

Hello friends! On the show today, we have a special treat for you. Straight from the Outback, recorded past midnight, and punny as hell, Kerry Kolosko, freshly minted, accidental Microsoft Data Platform MVP. An avid fan of JIT learning (Just In Time) and a follower of the teachings of Google, Kerry is a self-professed technophobe whose desire to remove redundancies just won't let her disconnect. She has a storied past of chasing answers and creating solutions. She truly is living the dream by dabbling in every interesting technology that comes her way. From Array formulas to Deneb, learning on the fly to save time and frustration is Kerry's superpower. That's not all! Today, we also dig into the age-old question of what hidden fear do many Power BI users share? That great shared doubt when someone asks for the .PBIX file. The irrational trepidation.  The spurt of adrenaline. What one small, inconsequential fear do most OG Dax pros share? BADAXAPHOBIA: The fear of being judged for less attractive DAX coding. Well, friends, we are here to tell you that it is an unfounded fear is. OG DAX was more readable, easily digestible, and inherently more interesting before it was streamlined into mere code. Rob and Kerry agree that bad DAX should enjoy a comeback, and nobody should fear embarrassment for writing human-style DAX. All this and more on today's episode. Don't forget, if you enjoyed this episode, send a link to a friend. Friends don't let friends miss Raw Data by P3 Adaptive where we celebrate data, with the human element. Also on this episode: "MVPness" Doesn't Sound Quite Right w/ MS MVP Ed Hansberry Deneb - Declarative Visualization in Power BI What is Data May Never Die w/ Scree Kerry Kolosko Blog - Visualisations Leaders Need Not Be Flashy, w/ Microsoft VP Dave Gainer LetterKenny: Power BI Workout Abbey Road Paint.net Mullet Man - Dax The Way

The swan climbs high across the southern sky on summer nights. It's marked by its bright tail, the star Deneb. It's the lower left point of the wide-spread Summer Triangle. The swan's body angles to the upper right of Deneb, as though the swan were taking flight from a pond. Its long, graceful wings flank its body. The brightest star of the top wing is Delta Cygni. It's a system of at least three stars. Two of them are a good bit bigger, brighter, and heavier than the Sun, while the third is less massive than the Sun. The heavier stars orbit each other at an average distance of almost 15 billion miles — roughly 150 times the distance from Earth to the Sun. But the little guy is much farther out. It's possible that when the system was born, the third star was closer in. But as the stars danced their complex orbital ballet, they swapped some of their energy. The lightweight star was pushed outward, while the heavier stars spiraled closer together. Those stars were pushed into a stretched-out orbit that looks a bit like an oval racetrack. It takes the two stars almost 800 years to make one lap around the track. But the lonely third member of the trio needs more time. It takes many thousands of years to orbit its brighter companions. Look for Delta Cygni above Deneb as darkness falls. It's about a third of the way up from Deneb to brilliant Vega, the brightest member of the Summer Triangle.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

Michael Laufer of the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective returns to the podcast to reiterate the aims of the group, and update us on the collective's recent and soon to be launched projects.  As a founding member of this project, Dr. Laufer's objective has been to communicate the philosophical and material objectives of the organization, which has been described as "an anarchist biohacking group." Since its founding in 2015, the collective has worked to provide the information needed to produce DIY pharmaceutical drugs safely and equitably, particularly for a population, like those that live within the borders of the United States, that do not have easy and affordable access to them. This is especially relevant when we discuss, in this interview, the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe and Casey, leaving a sizable portion of the US population without access to pregnancy terminating procedures and abortifacient drugs. Dr. Laufer and the collective's response to this has been to provide, in an open and accessible manner, information on how to potentially attain and prepare the materials needed to have a safe DIY abortion, regardless of what a wholly illegitimate political and legal system may prohibit or discourage. But, this is only one facet of the broader conversation Dr. Laufer and I have in this episode. The absolute inaccessibility of the healthcare system for most US Americans is a violation of one of the most fundamental indicators of a healthy, equal, and stable society, which is access to care. Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is a response to that, giving us an inspiring alternative to the for-profit healthcare system that is impoverishing us more and more every day.  Dr. Michael Laufer is Chief Spokesperson and founding member of Four Thieves Vinegar Collective, a volunteer network of anarchists and hackers developing DIY medical technologies outside the dominant for-profit medical establishment. Episode Notes: - Learn more about Four Thieves Vinegar Collective: https://fourthievesvinegar.org - Follow Dr. Laufer and Four Thieves on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelSLaufer / https://twitter.com/4ThievesVinegar - Learn more about the Open Insulin Foundation: https://openinsulin.org - The article referenced in this interview is ‘Anarchist Collective Shares Instructions to Make DIY Abortion Pills' published at Vice: https://bit.ly/3aHs3Tr - The song featured is “Deneb” by Nick Vander from the album Kodama (Nowaki's Selection), used with permission by the artist. Listen and purchase at: https://nickvander.bandcamp.com WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast / https://venmo.com/LastBornPodcast BOOK LIST: https://bookshop.org/shop/lastbornpodcast EPISODE 300: https://lastborninthewilderness.bandcamp.com BOOK: http://bit.ly/ORBITgr ATTACK & DETHRONE: https://anchor.fm/adgodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

The Sun is a fairly big, middle-aged star. And as sometimes happens in those middle years, it moves a little more slowly than it did when it was younger — it takes almost a month to complete one full turn on its axis. Many other stars spin much faster than the Sun does. An example is Altair, the brightest star of the constellation Aquila, the eagle. Altair is almost twice as wide and heavy as the Sun. Despite its bulk, it makes a complete turn in only about 10 hours. At that rate, a point at its equator moves at about 150 miles per second — fast enough to cross from New York to Los Angeles in less than half a minute. One reason Altair spins so fast is that it's much younger than the Sun. The Sun probably turned much faster when it was younger, too. But its magnetic field acts as a brake, slowing it down. One of the effects of Altair's high-speed rotation is that its gas is forced outward at the equator, making the star look a bit like a flattened beachball. It's about 14 percent wider through the equator than through the poles. There's a limit to how flattened the star can get, though; if Altair twirled about half again as fast as it does now, it would fly apart. Altair is low in the east as darkness falls. It forms the southern point of the Summer Triangle. The highest and brightest point is the star Vega, with Deneb forming the triangle's left point. The triangle is high in the west at first light.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

You don't have to be an expert on the night sky to recognize the famous names of some bright stars. There's brilliant Vega, in the constellation Lyra, which is in the east-northeast as night falls; and Deneb, the tail of Cygnus, the swan, to its lower left. Regulus, the heart of Leo, the lion, is to the lower right of the Moon, with Pollux and Castor, the twins of Gemini, low in the west-northwest. Many other star names aren't so well known — even to professional astronomers. That's because quite a few of the names are new. So in the same constellations as those famous stars, we also have Chason, Fawaris, Shama, and Jishui — stars named in just the last few years. Most of the proper names of the stars date back thousands of years. But only bright stars got those names. More recently, astronomers devised new naming systems using the Greek alphabet, numbers, and other schemes. But most stars only have catalog designations — numbers that usually signify their position in the sky. But in the last decade, the International Astronomical Union started bestowing new names, taken from various cultures around the globe. Chason, for example, is a Slovakian name for the Sun. Fawaris comes from an Arabic phrase meaning “the riders,” which applied to a small group of stars. Shama is an Urdu word for a small lamp or flame. And Jishui is a traditional Chinese name for the star — a name both old and new for a star near the twins.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

The planet Saturn is tailing the sea goat these days. It's just a couple of degrees from Deneb Algedi, the star that represents the tail of Capricornus, the sea goat. And Saturn will stick with the star for quite a while. They're in the southeast at first light now. Saturn looks like a bright golden star, with Deneb Algedi — an Arabic name that means “tail of the goat” — to its lower right. They're separated by about two degrees — the width of your finger held at arm's length. The rest of Capricornus, which forms a wide triangle, spreads to the west. Deneb Algedi actually consists of four stars. Two of them form a tight binary. One of those stars is bigger, brighter, and heavier than the Sun. The other is fairly similar to the Sun. The other two stars in the system are far away from the binary. Saturn has been hanging close to Deneb Algedi for a couple of months. And they'll stay about as close as they are now for a couple of months longer. After that, Saturn will slide to the west of the star — across the top line of the sea goat's triangle. That's because the orbital motions of Earth and Saturn will combine to make the planet appear to slide in reverse against the background of stars. That will end around Halloween, when Saturn will resume its normal eastward motion. That will make it cozy up to Deneb Algedi again late this year and into 2023 — as Saturn continues to “tail” the sea goat.  Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory