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		<title>Set up custom background-color for Windows7 photo viewer</title>
		<link>http://blog.designer-wg.de/2010/08/set-up-custom-background-color-for-windows7-photo-viewer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little tutorial how to change the background-color of the "Picture Viewer" under Windows7(64Bit)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have every time the same problem, when I want to look quickly to some pictures on windows, the default viewer is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Picture_and_Fax_Viewer"class="zem_slink" title="Windows Picture and Fax Viewer" rel="wikipedia"  class="extlink">Windows Picture and Fax Viewer</a> (WPFV). This is a fast way to look at all the pictures in a folder without to have to wait until a bigger application has started up.</p>
<div id="attachment_138" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 480px"><a href="http://blog.designer-wg.de/uploads//2010/08/registry-bg-photo-viewer1.jpg" rel="lightbox[136]" title="Windows7(64Bit) Photo Viewer Background-Color changed successfully"><img class="size-medium wp-image-138" title="Windows7(64Bit) Photo Viewer Background-Color changed successfully" src="http://blog.designer-wg.de/uploads//2010/08/registry-bg-photo-viewer1-470x264.jpg" alt="Windows7(64Bit) Photo Viewer Background-Color changed successfully" width="470" height="264" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Windows7(64Bit) Photo Viewer Background-Color changed successfully</p></div>
<p>But there is set a default background-color (white), what seems to be not changeable. (how sick is Microsoft, do deny users to change this?)</p>
<p>There are the global settings for the default window-color under display settings. But even if you change these settings it&#8217;ll have no effect on the Picture Viewer background.</p>
<p>But anyhow there&#8217;s an option to do it if you run in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7"class="zem_slink zem_slink" title="Windows 7" rel="wikipedia"  class="extlink">Windows7</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit" title="64-bit" rel="wikipedia"  class="extlink">64Bit</a> Version).</p>
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<p>Go to Start &gt; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_command"class="zem_slink zem_slink" title="Run command" rel="wikipedia"  class="extlink">Run&#8230;</a> &gt; type in &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Registry" title="Windows Registry" rel="wikipedia"  class="extlink">regedit</a>&#8221; &gt; go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER &gt; Software &gt; Microsoft &gt; Windows Photo Viewer &gt; Viewer &gt;</p>
<p>there are already one entry called: &#8220;MainWndPos&#8221;.</p>
<p>Just add one entry with a rightclick on the blank area, &gt; new &gt; DWORD (32 Bit) Value &gt; change name to: &#8220;BackgroundColor&#8221; &gt; hit Enter.</p>
<p>Doubleclick on the value you just added. change the value to &#8220;ff111111&#8243; if you want a nice almost black background(what I&#8217;ve taken), use &#8220;ff333333&#8243; for a brighter one, or choose your&#8217;s <a href="http://www.farb-tabelle.de/de/farbtabelle.htm" class="external" class="extlink">here</a> and replace the letters after the ff with your preferred HEX-color-code. &gt; press OK.</p>
<p>For maybe existing text in the viewer(like if your image is not ready) add also this value:</p>
<p>Just add another entry with a rightclick on the blank area, &gt; new &gt;  DWORD (32 Bit) Value &gt; change name to: &#8220;TextColor&#8221; &gt; hit Enter.</p>
<p>Doubleclick on the value you just added. change the value to &#8220;ffffffff&#8221; (f*8) for a white font-color if you use a dark background &gt; press OK.</p>
<p>Restart the viewer &gt; you&#8217;ll see the result.</p>
<div id="attachment_137" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 480px"><a href="http://blog.designer-wg.de/uploads//2010/08/registry-bg-photo-viewer.jpg" rel="lightbox[136]" title="Registry Entry to change the Background of the Photo Viewer in Windows 7"><img class="size-medium wp-image-137" title="Registry Entry to change the Background of the Photo Viewer in Windows 7" src="http://blog.designer-wg.de/uploads//2010/08/registry-bg-photo-viewer-470x265.jpg" alt="Registry Entry to change the Background of the Photo Viewer in Windows 7" width="470" height="265" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Registry Entry to change the Background of the Photo Viewer in Windows 7</p></div>
<p>the .reg file is here:<a href="http://www.sevenforums.com/attachments/music-pictures-video/35707d1257719186-windows-photo-viewer-background-yellow-color-fix-windows-photo-viewer.reg"title="Registry entry to add custom color to the background of the windows7 Picture Viewer"  class="external" class="extlink"> viewer.reg</a><br />
just download and execute(only on Windows7 64Bit)</p>
<p>OK, better choice is defenitely this viewer, free fast and with customizable background-color out of the view-panel via right-click:</p>
<p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegview/files/jpegview/1.0.21/JPEGView_1_0_21.zip/download"title="JpegView on SurceForge.net"  class="external" class="extlink">http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegview/files/jpegview/1.0.21/JPEGView_1_0_21.zip/download</a></p>
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		<title>Global consciousness, redefined!</title>
		<link>http://blog.designer-wg.de/2010/04/global-consciousness-redefined/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I describe the global brain paint project, it's a way to visualize brain waves into fractals]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s time to find new ways how to experience and see our world – if we don&#8217;t, the mistakes will go on like in all the previous decades.</p>
<p>We need a new way of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception"class="zem_slink zem_slink" title="Perception" rel="wikipedia"  class="extlink">perception</a>, a new way of thinking about what our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality" title="Reality" rel="wikipedia"  class="extlink">reality</a> (our World) might be, what the truth of our existence could be and where the key to all those incredible existing creatures lays.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll never find an answer to all those questions. But we&#8217;ll find a way to get an idea what we live on this planet for.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve spent our time on this incredibly nice planet for millions of years. What&#8217;s our purpose?</p>
<p>I found a really interesting experiment. Its idea is too simple for not trying it:</p>
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<p>The idea is to plug usual <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroencephalography"class="zem_slink" title="Electroencephalography" rel="wikipedia"  class="extlink">EEG</a> sensors into a computer so that the brain waves generate a pattern of a usual fractal formula (e.g. Mandelbrot).</p>
<p>This pattern is than directly streamed into a fractal program which serves the live visualisation of the &#8220;thoughts&#8221;.</p>
<p>If brainwaves and visuals are similar we can really &#8220;see&#8221; the characteristics of a human <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain"class="zem_slink" title="Brain" rel="wikipedia"  class="extlink">brain</a>. Even negative and positive feelings are visualized.</p>
<p>Here you&#8217;ll find a summary of this project: <a href="http://globalbrainpaint.com/"title="Globalbrainpaint"  class="external" class="extlink">http://globalbrainpaint.com/</a></p>
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		<title>The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a little overview of the Flickr-stream from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt</h3>
<p>The have really amazing images on theyr site: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/"title="NASA Goddard space flight center"  class="extlink">http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/</a> and they&#8217;r FLickr-page: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/"title="Goddard space science Lab on Flickr"  class="extlink">http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4404817866/"title="Guinea-Bissau by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4404817866_951d0ea83d.jpg" alt="Guinea-Bissau" width="500" height="500" /></a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4420216245/"title="Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial Fireworks by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4050/4420216245_f4ccd438bb.jpg" alt="Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial Fireworks" width="500" height="500" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4422597311/"title="View of the entire near-infrared sky by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4040/4422597311_ef4a92f5a4.jpg" alt="View of the entire near-infrared sky" width="500" height="253" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4422066525/"title="GOES 12 Full Disk view March 10, 2010 by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2803/4422066525_db9f7b7a47.jpg" alt="GOES 12 Full Disk view March 10, 2010" width="500" height="500" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4408774543/"title="Winds of Change by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/4408774543_5e3be1c09a.jpg" alt="Winds of Change" width="500" height="500" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4406174499/"title="IMG_6548re by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2759/4406174499_36cf0716b1.jpg" alt="IMG_6548re" width="333" height="500" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4386822005/"title="NASA Blue Marble by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4051/4386822005_c434921844.jpg" alt="NASA Blue Marble" width="500" height="500" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4404818798/"title="Himalayas by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/4404818798_13753a6bf7.jpg" alt="Himalayas" width="500" height="500" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4398656115/"title="hs-2007-16-f-full_jpg by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2796/4398656115_ceb9a987ce.jpg" alt="hs-2007-16-f-full_jpg" width="500" height="240" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4399422648/"title="hs-2007-16-e-full_jpg by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2789/4399422648_1d4b799699.jpg" alt="hs-2007-16-e-full_jpg" width="500" height="240" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4399421610/"title="hs-2004-10-a-full_jpg by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4399421610_45d072076d.jpg" alt="hs-2004-10-a-full_jpg" width="457" height="500" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4398655085/"title="hs-2005-01-a-full_jpg by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2793/4398655085_0320ac7c49.jpg" alt="hs-2005-01-a-full_jpg" width="500" height="285" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4399423028/"title="Hubble Space Telescope by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4399423028_efc0efc608.jpg" alt="Hubble Space Telescope" width="500" height="332" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4399421724/"title="hs-2004-27-a-full_jpg by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4399421724_e09033582b.jpg" alt="hs-2004-27-a-full_jpg" width="500" height="500" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4389668721/"title="Soufriere Hills Volcano Resumes Activity by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2771/4389668721_52342cba97.jpg" alt="Soufriere Hills Volcano Resumes Activity" width="500" height="408" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4390436850/"title="terra_10th_first_light_map_lrg.jpg by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/4390436850_a82fe88ff1.jpg" alt="terra_10th_first_light_map_lrg.jpg" width="500" height="340" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4387582220/"title="NASA Earth's Light by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4387582220_c76e20f5d1.jpg" alt="NASA Earth's Light" width="500" height="250" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4379564497/"title="Carbon Nanotubes 1 by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4069/4379564497_c4181dabd9.jpg" alt="Carbon Nanotubes 1" width="500" height="397" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4380319974/"title="Carbon Nanotubes 2 by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2750/4380319974_2a2275a7e1.jpg" alt="Carbon Nanotubes 2" width="500" height="430" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4364909077/"title="GeV-gamma-ray emission regions by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2767/4364909077_d4c549e97a.jpg" alt="GeV-gamma-ray emission regions" width="441" height="500" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4364907875/"title="Cassiopeia A supernova by Goddard Photo and Video Blog, on Flickr"  ><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4364907875_b18f941350.jpg" alt="Cassiopeia A supernova" width="500" height="378" /></a></p>
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		<title>Nasa&#8217;s astrophysics questions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASA has a new astrophysics page to solve some of the very interesting questions about the universe.]]></description>
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<p>NASA has developed a new Astrophysics page, here they have claimed some very interesting main-questions about the universes future habit!</p>
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<p>They are described as followed:</p>
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<dt> <a href="http://nasascience.nasa.gov/big-questions/what-are-the-origin-evolution-and-fate-of-the-universe"title="Two of the most profound questions that all cultures, both past and present, have asked are: where did we come from and what is our destiny?  Throughout history philosophers, theologians, and scientists have debated these questions.  NASA Science seeks to provide quantitative information pertinent to these basic elements of human curiosity by enabling scientists and engineers to construct instruments and make measurements on these topics that were once the purview of thought experiments only."  class="extlink"> What are the origin, evolution and fate of the Universe? </a> </dt>
<dd>Two of the most profound questions that all cultures, both past and present, have asked are: where did we come from and what is our destiny? Throughout history philosophers, theologians, and scientists have debated these questions. NASA Science seeks to provide quantitative information pertinent to these basic elements of human curiosity by enabling scientists and engineers to construct instruments and make measurements on these topics that were once the purview of thought experiments only.</p>
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<dt> <a href="http://nasascience.nasa.gov/big-questions/how-do-planets-stars-galaxies-and-cosmic-structure-come-into-being"title="In order to understand how the Universe has changed from its initial simple state following the Big Bang (only cooling elementary particles like protons and electrons) into the magnificent Universe we see as we look at the night sky, we must understand how stars, galaxies and planets are formed."  class="extlink"> How do planets, stars, galaxies and cosmic structure come into being? </a> </dt>
<dd>In order to understand how the Universe has changed from its initial simple state following the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang"class="zem_slink" title="Big Bang" rel="wikipedia"  class="extlink">Big Bang</a> (only cooling elementary particles like protons and electrons) into the magnificent Universe we see as we look at the night sky, we must understand how stars, galaxies and planets are formed.</p>
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<dt> <a href="http://nasascience.nasa.gov/big-questions/when-and-how-did-the-elements-of-life-in-the-universe-arise"title="Following the Big Bang and the gradual cooling of the Universe the primary constituents of the cosmos were the elements hydrogen and helium. Even today, these two elements make up 98% of the visible matter in the Universe.  Nevertheless, our world and everything it contains—even life itself—is possible only because of the existence of heavier elements such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, silicon, iron, and many, many others. How long did it take the first generations of stars to seed our Universe with the heavy elements we see on Earth today?  When in the history of the Universe was there a sufficient supply of heavy elements to allow the formation of prebiotic molecules and terrestrial-like planets upon which those molecules might combine to form life. "  class="extlink"> When and how did the elements of life in the Universe arise? </a> </dt>
<dd>Following the Big Bang and the gradual cooling of the Universe the primary constituents of the cosmos were the elements hydrogen and helium. Even today, these two elements make up 98% of the visible matter in the Universe. Nevertheless, our world and everything it contains—even life itself—is possible only because of the existence of heavier elements such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, silicon, iron, and many, many others. How long did it take the first generations of stars to seed our Universe with the heavy elements we see on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth"class="zem_slink zem_slink" title="Earth" rel="wikipedia"  class="extlink">Earth</a> today? When in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Big_Bang" title="Timeline of the Big Bang" rel="wikipedia"  class="extlink">history of the Universe</a> was there a sufficient supply of heavy elements to allow the formation of prebiotic molecules and terrestrial-like planets upon which those molecules might combine to form life.</p>
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<dt> <a href="http://nasascience.nasa.gov/big-questions/is-there-life-elsewhere"title="Are we alone? This question is as old as humankind itself.  For millennia, people have turned their eyes to the stars and wondered if there are others like themselves out there. Does life, be it similar to our own or not, exist elsewhere in our Solar System? Our Galaxy?  Until some 15 years ago it was uncertain whether there were even any planets outside those in our own Solar System.  Today we know of literally hundreds of planets orbiting other stars.  Do any of these planets have conditions that would support life?  What conditions favor the formation of terrestrial-class planets in developing planetary systems?  NASA can help address these questions by developing missions designed to find and characterize extrasolar planetary systems."  class="extlink"> Is there life elsewhere? </a> </dt>
<dd>Are we alone? This question is as old as humankind itself. For millennia, people have turned their eyes to the stars and wondered if there are others like themselves out there. Does life, be it similar to our own or not, exist elsewhere in our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System"class="zem_slink zem_slink" title="Solar System" rel="wikipedia"  class="extlink">Solar System</a>? Our Galaxy? Until some 15 years ago it was uncertain whether there were even any planets outside those in our own Solar System. Today we know of literally hundreds of planets orbiting other stars. Do any of these planets have conditions that would support life? What conditions favor the formation of terrestrial-class planets in developing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_system" title="Planetary system" rel="wikipedia"  class="extlink">planetary systems</a>? NASA can help address these questions by developing missions designed to find and characterize extrasolar planetary systems.</p>
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		<title>Future vision from Microsoft</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the YouTube-animation how Microsoft sees the future on the home consumer market]]></description>
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<p>This is how Microsoft sees the near future of inhouse gadgets, it&#8217;s a vision of a visual world without barriers, that are seamless integrated in our human livestyle. That means you are connected everytime with everyone no matter what kind of regional or sotial backgrounds are between. With the right network and the advanced communication systems we can still communicate.</p>
<p>Who will make the run, who will give us the opportunity to interact with friends visually and without time and space differences, the time will com: sooner than we believe!</p>
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		<title>How to own MARS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Humans going to own our neighbour planet Mars]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m deeply surprised how far this thought&#8217;s are developed, to own another planet like Mars,<br />
it&#8217;s in fact the planet next to us, what makes sense to go there next, after the moon maybe.</p>
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On mars it would be required to heaten up the whole athmosphere, because there it is to cold to supply live.</p>
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Mars has approximately half the radius of Earth. It is less dense than Earth, having about 15% of Earth&#8217;s volume and 11% of the mass. Its surface area is only slightly less than the total area of Earth&#8217;s dry land.[5] While Mars is larger and more massive than Mercury, Mercury has a higher density. This results in a slightly stronger gravitational force at Mercury&#8217;s surface. Mars is also roughly intermediate in size, mass, and surface gravity between Earth and Earth&#8217;s Moon (the Moon is about half the diameter of Mars, whereas Earth is twice; the Earth is about ten times more massive than Mars, and the Moon ten times less massive). The red-orange appearance of the Martian surface is caused by iron(III) oxide, more commonly known as hematite, or rust.[14]<br />
<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Mars_atmosphere.jpg" alt="mars view" /><br />
source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars" class="extlink">Wikipedia/EN</a>
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<p>We are also going fast forward with taking pictures from this amazing planet:<br />
<a href='http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/media/clips/HiRISE-11-December-2009-Q.mov' >HiRISE</a><br />
credits: <a href="http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/" class="extlink">HiRISE</a></p>
<p>So far, the last update from the mars rover from the Jet Propulsion Lab&#8217; (JPL) shows, that there might be an option for the rover on mars, that it could escape from the point it stucks since a long time. that would be nice, because The rover takes stunning real pictures from our next planet, like this one:<br />
<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Victoria_Crater%2C_Cape_Verde-Mars.jpg" rel="lightbox[45]" title="How to own MARS" ><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Victoria_Crater%2C_Cape_Verde-Mars.jpg/800px-Victoria_Crater%2C_Cape_Verde-Mars.jpg" alt="Mars Victoria Crater"/></a></p>
<p>However, this mission is called &#8220;Free Spirit&#8221;<br />
<a href='http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/mer/mer20091112/mer20091112-1280.mov' >Free Spirit update</a></p>
<p>And if that isn&#8217;t enough, the JPL also have built up a special site to show the martian explorations and technical investigations in a cool way here:<br />
<a href="http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/" class="extlink">JPL&#8217;s Martian site</a></p>
<p>to be extended&#8212;-></p>
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		<title>Stunning nightsky spiral in Norway</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here the opinions spread widely, but this is a very strange miracle, Some day&#8217;s ago peoples looked at the sky and then it appeared, a very nice spiral-styled mandala above them, so clear that it was easy to take photo&#8217;s from it like this one: The rumours goes from strange UFO effects over more trustful [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here the opinions spread widely, but this is a very strange miracle,<br />
Some day&#8217;s ago peoples looked at the sky and then it appeared, a very nice spiral-styled mandala above them, so clear that it was easy to take photo&#8217;s from it like this one:</p>
<p><div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 490px"><a href="http://www.altaposten.no/lokalt/nyheter/article316919.ece" ><img title="mysterious spiral on the sky" src="http://www.altaposten.no/multimedia/dynamic/00340/SteinarKarlstr_m__M_340257c.jpg" alt="image @altaposten.no" width="480" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">image @altaposten.no</p></div><br />
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The rumours goes from strange UFO effects over more trustful things like that this was a russean missile that spins around&#8230;<br />
And it comes out in public, it was a russian missile, very strange effect&#8230;.</p>
<p>Here some peoples also put a video on youtube:<br />
<object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KMUhS-S0rGk&#038;hl=de_DE&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KMUhS-S0rGk&#038;hl=de_DE&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x2b405b&#038;color2=0x6b8ab6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object></p>
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		<title>Lebenslauf sonnenähnlicher Sterne</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s quite nice, they used my image for this press release, it&#8217;s a big one, as you can see in the corresponding google search: Gsearch for s.steinhoefel, science Original press release fom ESO: Helligkeitsschwankungen sonnenähnlicher Sterne jetzt noch rätselhafter Eine umfassende Studie mit dem Very Large Telescope der ESO hat ein bereits seit längerem bekanntes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s quite nice, they used my image for this press release, it&#8217;s a big one, as you can see in the corresponding google search:<br />
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;hs=RNh&amp;q=%22s.steinh%C3%B6fel%22%2C+science&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=&amp;aqi=" class="external" class="extlink">Gsearch for s.steinhoefel, science</a></p>
<p>Original press release fom ESO:</p>
<p>Helligkeitsschwankungen sonnenähnlicher Sterne jetzt noch rätselhafter</p>
<p>Eine umfassende Studie mit dem Very Large Telescope der ESO hat ein bereits seit längerem bekanntes Rätsel um sonnenähnliche Sterne weiter vertieft. Es geht um ungewöhnliche Helligkeitsschwankungen, die sich über Jahre hinweg wiederholen und die bei rund einem Drittel aller sonnenähnlichen Sterne gegen Ende ihres Sternenlebens auftreten. Im Laufe der letzten Jahrzehnte haben Astronomen eine Reihe möglicher Erklärungen für dieses Phänomen vorgeschlagen – doch die neuen Untersuchungen sind mit keiner davon vereinbar. Die Suche nach des Rätsels Lösung geht weiter.</p>
<p>ESO PR Photo 48a/09</p>
<div id="attachment_22" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 480px"><a href="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-48-09.html" ><img class="size-medium wp-image-22" title="© ESO/S.Steinhöfel" src="http://blog.designer-wg.de/uploads//2009/12/phot-48a-09-fullres-470x331.jpg" alt="Variable red giants credit's © ESO/S.Steinhöfel" width="470" height="331" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Variable red giants credit&#39;s © ESO/S.Steinhöfel</p></div>
<p>Das Leben sonnenähnlicher Sterne<br />
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“So sehr Astronomen die Dunkelheit schätzen – dass wir in dieser Angelegenheit im Dunkeln tappen, ist kein Spaß”, sagt Christine Nicholls vom australischen Mount Stromlo Observatory, die Erstautorin des Fachartikels, in dem die neuen Ergebnisse vorgestellt werden. “Wir haben für diese Klasse sonnenähnlicher Sterne den bislang genauesten Satz an Beobachtungsdaten gesammelt, mit dem Ergebnis, dass wir nun all die Erklärungen, die für ihr ungewöhnliches Verhalten vorgeschlagen wurden, ausschließen können.”</p>
<p>Das Rätsel, dessen sich die Astronomen angenommen hatten, geht auf die 1930er Jahre zurück und betrifft rund ein Drittel der sonnenähnlichen Sterne in unserer Milchstraße und anderen Galaxien. Gegen Ende ihres Lebens blähen sich solche Sterne gewaltig auf, kühlen dabei ab und nehmen eine rötliche Färbung an: Sie werden zwischenzeitlich zu roten Riesen, bevor sie ihr Leben als Weiße Zwerge beenden. Bei roten Riesen werden starke Helligkeitsschwankungen beobachtet, die sich über Zeiträume von einigen Jahren hinweg wiederholen.</p>
<p>“Solche Helligkeitsschwankungen werden auf Sternpulsationen zurückgeführt”, so Nicholls. “Vereinfacht gesagt wird der Stern abwechselnd größer und kleiner, und seine Helligkeit nimmt dementsprechend abwechselnd zu und wieder ab. Ein Drittel der Sterne zeigt allerdings noch weitere, bislang unerklärte Variationen, die sich über größere Zeiträume von bis zu fünf Jahren hinweg wiederholen.”</p>
<p>Um herauszufinden, was es mit diesen zusätzlichen Variationen auf sich hat, beobachteten die Astronomen über einen Zeitraum von zweieinhalb Jahren hinweg 58 Sterne in der Großen Magellanschen Wolke, der uns nächsten Nachbargalaxie. Mit Hilfe des hochauflösenden Spektrografen FLAMES/GIRAFFE am Very Large Telescope der ESO nahmen sie Spektren der Sterne auf, kombinierten diese Information mit Bildern weiterer Teleskope [1], und erhielten so eine beachtliche Datensammlung über diese veränderlichen Sterne.</p>
<p>Oft sind es solche umfangreichen Datensätze, die den Weg zur richtigen Lösung kosmischer Rätsel weisen – indem sie einige der vorgeschlagenen Erklärungen widerlegen. In diesem Falle zeigte sich allerdings, dass die neuen Daten mit keinem der Lösungsvorschläge vereinbar sind. Damit wissen die Astronomen nun, dass sie nach einer ganz neuen Lösung suchen müssen.</p>
<p>“Den neuen Daten zufolge ist es extrem unwahrscheinlich, dass sich die zusätzlichen Helligkeitsschwankungen durch Sternpulsationen erklären lassen”, so der Leiter des Forscherteams, Peter Wood. “Eine weitere mögliche Erklärung, dass nämlich jeder dieser Sterne Teil eines Doppelsternsystems ist – also einen anderen Stern umkreist – ist mit unseren Daten ebenso wenig vereinbar.”</p>
<p>Die Forscher fanden jedenfalls heraus, dass die noch nicht erklärbaren Helligkeitsschwankungen damit einhergehen, dass die Riesensterne Materie auswerfen – entweder in Form von Klumpen oder als sich ausdehnende Scheibe. “Jetzt brauchen wir einen Sherlock Holmes, der sich dieses frustrierenden Rätsels annimmt”, so Nicholls.<br />
Endnote</p>
<p>[1] Einbezogen wurden Helligkeitsmessungen, welche im Rahmen der Projekte MACHO und OGLE mit Teleskopen in Australien bzw. in Chile durchgeführt wurden. Die OGLE-Beobachtungen wurden zur gleichen Zeit angestellt wie die Beobachtungen mit dem VLT.<br />
Hintergrundinformationen</p>
<p>Die hier beschriebenen Ergebnisse wurden in zwei Fachartikeln veröffentlicht: C. P. Nicholls et al.,“Long Secondary Periods in Variable Red Giants” in der November-Ausgabe der Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, sowie P. R. Wood und C. P. Nicholls, “Evidence for mass ejection associated with long secondary periods in red giants”, in der neusten Ausgabe des Astrophysical Journal.</p>
<p>Das Forscherteam besteht aus Christine P. Nicholls und Peter R. Wood (Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australia National University), Maria-Rosa L. Cioni (Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, UK) und Igor Soszyński (Observatorium der Universität Warschau).</p>
<p>Die Europäische Südsternwarte ESO (European Southern Observatory) ist die führende europäische Organisation für astronomische Forschung und das wissenschaftlich produktivste Observatorium der Welt. Getragen wird die Organisation durch ihre 14 Mitgliedsländer: Belgien, Dänemark, Deutschland, Finnland, Frankreich, Italien, die Niederlande, Österreich, Portugal, Spanien, Schweden, die Schweiz, die Tschechische Republik und das Vereinigte Königreich. Die ESO ermöglicht astronomische Spitzenforschung, indem sie leistungsfähige bodengebundene Teleskope entwirft, konstruiert und betreibt. Auch bei der Förderung internationaler Zusammenarbeit auf dem Gebiet der Astronomie spielt die Organisation eine maßgebliche Rolle. Die ESO betreibt drei weltweit einzigartige Beobachtungsstandorte in Nordchile: La Silla, Paranal und Chajnantor. Auf Paranal betreibt die ESO mit dem Very Large Telescope (VLT) das weltweit leistungsfähigste Observatorium für Beobachtungen im Bereich des sichtbaren Lichts, und VISTA, das größte Durchmusterungsteleskop der Welt. Die ESO ist der europäische Partner für den Aufbau des Antennenfelds ALMA, das größte astronomische Projekt überhaupt. Derzeit entwickelt die ESO das European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) für Beobachtungen im Bereich des sichtbaren und Infrarotlichts, mit 42 Metern Spiegeldurchmesser ein Großteleskop der Extraklasse.</p>
<p>Die Übersetzungen von englischsprachigen ESO-Pressemitteilungen sind ein Service des ESO Science Outreach Network (ESON), eines internationalen Netzwerks für astronomische Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, in dem Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftskommunikatoren aus allen ESO-Mitgliedsstaaten (und einigen weiteren Ländern) vertreten sind. Deutscher Knoten des Netzwerks ist das Haus der Astronomie am Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie in Heidelberg.</p>
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