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Barbarella at Gemini Lounge Portland,OR

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Rosemary Pear tini at Gemini Lounge Portland, OR

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Gemini Lounge signature cocktails

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Romantic cocktail at Gemini Lounge

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Gemini Lounge signature drink

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Ed White: First American Spacewalker

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"Ultra Sexy"

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Saturn’s Youthful Appearance Explained

As planets age they become darker and cooler. Saturn, however, is much brighter than expected for a planet of its age — a question that has puzzled scientists since the late sixties. New research published in the journal ‘Nature Geoscience’ has revealed how Saturn keeps itself looking young and hot.

Researchers from the University of Exeter and the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon found that layers of gas, generated by physical instability deep within the giant planet, prevent heat from escaping and have resulted in Saturn failing to cool down at the expected rate.

Professor Gilles Chabrier from Physics & Astronomy at the University of Exeter said: “Scientists have been wondering for years if Saturn was using an additional source of energy to look so bright, but instead our calculations show that Saturn appears young because it can’t cool down. Instead of heat being transported throughout the planet by large scale (convective) motions, as previously thought, it must be partly transferred by diffusion across different layers of gas inside Saturn. These separate layers effectively insulate the planet and prevent heat from radiating out efficiently. This keeps Saturn warm and bright.”…

Layered convection, like that recently discovered in Saturn, has been observed in the Earth’s oceans where warm, salty water lies beneath cool and less salty water. The denser, salty water prevents vertical currents forming between the different layers and so heat cannot be transported efficiently upwards.

These findings suggest that the interior structure, composition and thermal evolution of giant planets in our solar system, and beyond, may be much more complex than previously thought. Source: exeter.ac.uk Image: [x]

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Our Solar System: Rare Species in Cosmic Zoo

Pulling from 20 years of research since the first discoveries of planets beyond our solar system, scientists have concluded that Earth and its sibling worlds comprise what appears to be a relatively rare breed in a diverse cosmic zoo that includes a huge variety of planet sizes, orbits and parent stars. Read more

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Day 26: Beyond

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Queen of Outer Space on Flickr.

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Terror from the year 5000 on Flickr.