With cascading crises – where one event triggers another – set to rise, international disaster risk reduction efforts are woefully underfunded. Global development is supported by. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. @swajones ...Last year, earthquakes, floods, heatwaves and landslides left (pdf). Yet the international community spends less than half of one per cent of the global aid budget on mitigating the risks posed by such hazards ... ....
Papa Wemba, a musician known around the world as the king of Congolese rumba, has died following a collapse on stage during a concert, officials said. He was 66. Culture MinisterBaudouin Banza Mukalay confirmed the musician’s death on Sunday, calling it a “great loss for the country and all of Africa.” ... He was taken to a nearby clinic, but couldn’t be resuscitated ... Keywords....
The country's opposition leaders and international civil society groups have already dismissed Sunday's vote as "not credible". PresidentTeodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo faces six mostly unknown opponents, with most of the opposition boycotting the poll ... Critics accuse the 73-year-old of failing to distribute the country's oil wealth to the population of about 700,000 ... In the last election in 2009, Obiang won 97 percent of the vote....
On the streets, there are rumours. At shops, people murmur to each other that there is a plague of earthquakes going around the world. Some are convinced that the quake is coming back to Nepal. "None of the tailors are back," says the local seamstress, explaining that her staff have left the city. "They're waiting for Baishakh 12," the Nepali date when the devastating quake shook Nepal last year ... READ MORE ... Lost and heartbroken ... READ MORE ... ....
(Source. STScI - Space Telescope Science Institute) ...Named GN-z11, this surprisingly bright, infant galaxy is seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past ... To learn even more about galaxy GN-z11, join a live Hubble Hangout discussion with astronomers and scientists at 3.00 p.m ... See the rest. ... OriginalDocument ... (noodl. 32778275) ....
The elusive Galaxy, named GN-z11 is thought to be among the first generation of galaxies and offers stunning insights into the infancy of the cosmos and the obscure origins of time ... Although somewhat smaller in magnitude than some of the newer galaxies on record, GN-z11 comprises about one billion times the mass of the sun....
An international team of astronomers are closing on the first galaxies that formed in the universe after recently measuring and viewing infant galaxy GN-z11... The GN-z11 galaxy is about 25 times smaller than the Milky Way, the galaxy that includes Earth ... and viewing infant galaxy GN-z11....
When the Hubble Space Telescope stares into the deepest reaches of space, it is also looking backward in time. The further away the light source, the older it is ... The light from the galaxy, called GN-z11, is 13.4 billion years old, or just 400 million years after the big bang (i.e., the beginning of time) ... NASA, ESA, B ... Feild (STScI) ....
Ergo, an objects that is located 13.4 billions of light-years away will appear to us as it was 13.4 billion years ago, when its light first began to make the trip to our little corner of the Universe.This is precisely what the team of astronomers witnessed when they gazed upon GN-z11, a distant galaxy located in the direction of the constellation of Ursa Major....
An international team of researchers discovered the surprisingly luminous infant galaxy, named GN-z11, in the direction of the constellation of Ursa Major with the aid of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope....
This surprisingly bright infant galaxy, named GN-z11, was seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the Big Bang, the team reported in the Astrophysical Journal... We see GN-z11 at a time when the universe was only three percent of its current age," principal investigator Pascal Oesch of Yale University said in a statement....
GN-z11 is located in the direction of the constellation of Ursa Major, said an international team of astronomers who pushed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to its limits ... We see GN-z11 at a time when the universe was only three per cent of its current age,” said principal investigator Pascal Oesch of Yale University ... However, GN-z11 is growing fast, forming stars at a rate about 20 times greater than our galaxy does today....
This surprisingly bright, infant galaxy, named GN-z11, is seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the big bang. The investigation of GN-z11, which is located in the direction of the constellation of Ursa Major, was led by astronomers at UC Santa Cruz, Yale University, and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)....
Astronomers measured the distance to the galaxy, known as GN-z11, by splitting its light up into its component colours ... But GN-z11 has a red shift of 11.1, corresponding to just 400 million years after the universe began ... GN-z11 is believed to be 25 times smaller than the Milky Way, but growing fast and spawning new stars 20 times faster than our galaxy ... How GN-z11 was created remains somewhat of a mystery for now....