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...visiting astrophysicist at the CFA—and his colleagues decided to delve deeper into the periodic eclipses of the NGC 1365 quasar’s emissions. Such eclipses are caused by clouds of gas that drift around the black hole, occasionally blocking X-ray radiation from reaching the earth...
...dilemma seems particularly applicable as of late. Last week, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum teamed up with Google to allow every Google Earth user to visualize the genocide committed by the Janjaweed militia in the Darfur region of Sudan...
...system is remarkably simple: The “Crisis in Darfur” interface adds a layer to Google Earth that makes the region’s sorrows interactively accessible to anyone that has downloaded the free software. Any user can zoom in on burning villages and access pictures and text describing what has happened there. Maps, text, and images are seemingly worth much more than a thousand words...
...this initiative is aimed at more than scattered techies. Like anything undertaken by Google these days, the scale is colossal: Over 200 million people have already downloaded Google Earth since it became available in 2005. According to executives at both the company and the museum, this is just the first in a series of collaborations to highlight past genocides and (the threat of) future ones wherever they may arise...
...media democratization presents us all with a real test: Thanks to Google Earth and the seemingly endless flow of information from all around the world, we can all see and know like never before...