Dancing with the Stars 2013

Dancing with the Stars 2013
The Little Movie That Could: Dirty Dancing Goes On And On!
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Sue Tabashnik
Dirty Dancing has 11 million Facebook fans, a controversial remake in the works, and a gross of $214 million worldwide. This small independent movie made in 1986 on a shoestring budget of about five million dollars--filmed at two different locations (substituting for the New York Catskills) under sometimes harrowing conditions--remains just as popular now after almost twenty-five years.
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id=5340147 - Nov 07, 2010
Stellar "Strobe Light" Dances In The Dark
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Judith E Braffman-Miller
Two of NASA's "Great Observatories", the infrared Spitzer and the venerable Hubble space telescopes have, together, spotted a weird flashing baby star that behaves like a strobe light. In January 2013, astronomers reported that this mysterious stellar source may actually be twins--not one, but two, newborn stars, that orbit each other with sisterly closeness, and emit brilliant flashes that look like a strobe light!
http://ezinearticles.com/?Stellar-Strobe-Light-Dances-In-The-Dark
id=7491949 - Feb 11, 2013
The Essential Attitude for the Beginner Social Dancer
by
Clint Steele
Research into what teachers thought made for a good dance student found a key attitude for a beginner dancer to become the dancer that they want to be. This is separate from the basic need for practice and a focus on attributes that need to be corrected. By understanding this attitude you are able to overcome the negative feeling that many face when they start dance, and see a steady improvement in your dance ability.
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Essential-Attitude-for-the-Beginner-Social-Dancer
id=7730562 - May 20, 2013
Two Little Failed Stars Not Far Away
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Judith E Braffman-Miller
Brown dwarfs are fascinating and relatively small sub-stellar objects that are often referred to as "failed stars." These little objects probably form the same way as normal stars--from the gravitational collapse of a dense pocket embedded within a gigantic, cold, and very dark molecular cloud. However, these little "failed stars" never manage to acquire the critical mass necessary to light their fierce stellar nuclear fires. In March 2013, astronomers made the important announcement that they had discovered a binary system composed of a duo of brown dwarfs. This intriguing binary system of "failed stars" is the third-closest stellar system to our Sun--as well as the nearest system to be discovered since 1917!
http://ezinearticles.com/?Two-Little-Failed-Stars-Not-Far-Away
id=7543024 - Mar 15, 2013
Nova Delphini 2013 Is A Bright New Star
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Judith E Braffman-Miller
The word "nova" is Latin for "new", and in 2013 a new stellar explosion called a "nova" blasted the night sky with its fabulous fires. Called "Nova Delphinus 2013", the new nova could easily be observed with binoculars--and potentially even the unaided eye--by enchanted star-gazers peering up at it under fortuitously clear, dark, night skies. A nova is a fierce stellar eruption, but it is not as powerful as a supernova, which is the catastrophic explosion heralding the death of a star.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Nova-Delphini-2013-Is-A-Bright-New-Star
id=7941799 - Aug 20, 2013
The Light That Bends!
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Judith E Braffman-Miller
When a small star like our Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel, its core collapses, and it puffs its outer layers of beautiful varicolored gases into Space, leaving behind a dense little stellar remnant--its former core--called a "White Dwarf." In April 2013, astronomers announced that NASA's Kepler Space Telescope had beamed back evidence of a White Dwarf bending and magnifying the light of its sister star, a still-"living" Red Dwarf. This light-bending feat is yet another piece of evidence that Albert Einstein was right about General Relativity, one prediction of which is that light can be bent, or warped, by gravity.
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Light-That-Bends!
id=7613083 - Apr 09, 2013
Stars Form Far From The Madding Crowd
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Judith E Braffman-Miller
Our large spiral Galaxy, the Milky Way, is an enormous collection of billions of stars that twirls majestically like a fiery pin-wheel in the darkness of intergalactic Space. Stars are huge spheres of glowing, searing-hot, roiling, mostly hydrogen gas --hydrogen is the lightest, as well as the most abundant, atomic element in the Universe. In June 2013, astronomers announced that new observations derived from NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope show myriads of baby stars forming in our Milky Way's more barren regions; the remote territories, far from the madding crowd of other stellar objects of their lovely, glittering kind.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Stars-Form-Far-From-The-Madding-Crowd
id=7843498 - Jul 08, 2013
Crashing Neutron Stars Are Golden Oldies
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Judith E Braffman-Miller
One of the Universe's best kept secrets is how and where the atomic elements heavier than hydrogen and helium were formed. Hydrogen and helium--the two lightest of all atomic elements--were born in the raging Big Bang fireball itself. However, it is thought that all of the "heavier" elements--termed "metals" in astronomical jargon--were formed in the nuclear fusing hearts of the Universe's billions and billions of stars, or in their explosive supernovae deaths. On July 17, 2013, a team of astronomers announced that a weird glow in Space has provided new evidence that all of the gold on our planet--and elsewhere--was born from ancient collisions of neutron stars, which are dead massive stars!
http://ezinearticles.com/?Crashing-Neutron-Stars-Are-Golden-Oldies
id=7871320 - Jul 25, 2013
Older Starbursts Starve Future Stars
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Judith E Braffman-Miller
The 100 billion galaxies that dwell in our observable Universe are lit up by the fires of myriads of dazzling, dancing stars. In July 2013, observations conducted with the ALMA telescope in Chile provided astronomers with the best view yet of how energetic forceful winds seen in early star-burst galaxies can literally blast the necessary star-birthing gas out of host galaxies, and in so doing stifle the formation of future generations of stars--depriving them of the gaseous nourishment they need to form and grow!
http://ezinearticles.com/?Older-Starbursts-Starve-Future-Stars
id=7904969 - Aug 02, 2013
The Bizarre Behavior Of Sagittarius A-Star
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Judith E Braffman-Miller
Supermassive black holes, that weigh millions to billions of times more than our Sun, probably lurk in the dark and secretive hearts of most, if not all, galaxies floating around in our observable Universe. Our resident Beast, residing in the mysterious center of our own Milky Way Galaxy, is named "Sagittarius A-Star", or "Sgr A-star," for short (pronounced "Saj-a-star"), and it is a relative light-weight as these hefty, hungry supermassive gravitational Beasts go, weighing "merely" millions, as opposed to billions, of solar-masses. Black holes, as their name implies, are quite black! However, in the August 30, 2013 issue of the journal Science, a group of astronomers present new findings that shed light on the weird behavior of our own resident Beast--and by inference, on the other supermassive black holes that haunt the dark hearts of other galaxies that dance around so mysteriously in our Cosmos.
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