Star Light…Star Bright;

Star Light…Star Bright;

A spinning star in the night sky

Report by

F.Comm. DL Wey

DOSR: SFS – SFC

Research conducted by the astronomical department at the OSR on a stellar body designated Wolf-Rayet 104, in the constellation Sagittarius, has discovered one of a class of hot, massive interstellar bodies that, at first glance, look more like a spiral galaxy.

Some one hundred thousand times brighter than earth’s sun, this body [some four thousand eight hundred light years distant], with a spiral some eighteen billion miles across, is created in what is termed the ‘lawn sprinkler’ effect. In other words, it is spewing out gases while at the same time, rotating around an [as yet] unseen stellar companion.

Though unseen, it is known that its companion is a luminous blue OB stellar body with a strong stellar wind of its own. This binary pair completes a rotation once every 220 days.

Analyzing the Heavens:

The mapping of…a universe

Report by:

RAdm. RM Wey

COSR: SFS-SFC

In a slice of the night sky, a mere 15%, and centered on the constellation Sculptor, there are some 3 million galaxies, each one home to billions of stars. Here, we continue the updates on the mapping of the universe. As we have done in other papers during our tenure.

The very effort to map the universe is a rather daunting one. And though much progress has been made, as the technologies become available, we are [as yet] far from the knowing of it all.

In past papers, we have reported in our findings that, galaxies tend to form clusters [or super clusters], containing hundreds if not millions of galaxies within. Yet, there is a paradox, for such ‘clumpiness’ as we have reported goes against a most fundamental tenet of cosmology, that of the cosmological principal [i.e., the concept that the universe is a homogenous and isotropic place].

In the last several years, technological advances have made it possible to observe the ‘universe’ at great distances. But instead of finding a uniform structure, where the matter of the universe was neatly distributed, a fractal arrangement existed on the order of up to 100 million light years.

In research conducted by the OSR, Cosmo-cartographers have systematically begun to unwrap the veil that is our universe, and give us an inside look at its very structure.

In simple laymen’s terms, the first order of universal magnitude is the individual galaxy [which is composed of lumps of stars, gas, dust, and ‘hereunto’ yet to be found conclusively…Dark-matter], at 105 light-years.

The next: At 10⁶ light years [or 10 times wider or 1000 times more voluminous than the previous] is the ‘group of galaxies’.

At 10⁷ light years comes the ‘cluster’ of galaxies’, the single largest body in the universe to be held together by gravity.

At 10⁸ light years exists the ‘super cluster’ a collection of clumped together galaxies separated by large expanses of void.

‘At 10⁹ light years one reaches a point of homogeny, where the expanse of the universe becomes more uniform.

At 10¹⁰ light years, the whole of the universe itself.

Several steps were taken to accommodate such an undertaking. The survey required photometric observations [using a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera mounted on a one-meter telescope in which the auto drive had been switched off]. Using drift-scan photometry, computers read information at the same rate as rotation of the earth, thereby producing a single, continuous image at a constant celestial latitude.

Then came the analyzation of the objects to determine inclusion. From there, the objects selected were observed using a spectrograph [used to measure the red-shift of objects]; Since observing such phenomenon individually would have been impossible, a multiple fiber-optic system was developed.

So called cold dark matter models are used to explain the ‘structure’ of the observable universe, however, such models break down at scales approaching the 600 to 900 million light year mark.

Up to that point the models and the findings hold true, yet it is these very inconsistencies that allow the walls and voids observed to be classified as structures.

Though finding a sound explanation for why this apparent discrepancy exists remains for future surveys of the night sky.

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