The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
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love2travel:
Logical yes, don't know what I was hoping for. Maybe some type of signpost from an advanced civilization. Trying to give the ones who became advanced enough to find it, a clue or map to that part of the universe. or magnesium residue from great fires set as a gigantic SOS from a crashed spaceship... my fertile imagination running amuck again! Salt...
I guess, that if we can ever find intelligent life on earth, we might be able to find it somewhere else as well.
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Tunguska Mystery solved...
PBS NOVA 2013 -
Star Forming Region S106 Beautiful APOD Picture http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1602/S106_Pimenta_1824.jpg
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SurSteven:
Tunguska Mystery solved...
PBS NOVA 2013WOW That was an especially good NOVA ! I really enjoyed it, thanks for posting it! Going to read about Sentinal. I see that one of the B612 group Sentinal Space Telescope proponents lives close enough to me to keep an eye out for any lectures he may give! That APOD looks like an angel to me, very beautiful...someone should paint that!
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Here's another good one! Vacation in the land of TWO SUNS Kepler 16-b http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160220.html
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SurSteven:
Here's another good one! Vacation in the land of TWO SUNS Kepler 16-b http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160220.html
I think I need a warmer vacation... Is this the exoplanet in the Goldilocks zone, with the red Dwarf Suns ? I seem to remember something like this!
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Time lapse of the Sun, January 1, 2015, to January 28, 2016.
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HaileyMcComet:
Time lapse of the Sun, January 1, 2015, to January 28, 2016.
Time lapse of the Moon, 2016.On the sun time lapse, at the 1:02 point, it almost looks like an ominous face
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love2travel:
SurSteven:
Here's another good one! Vacation in the land of TWO SUNS Kepler 16-b http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160220.html
I think I need a warmer vacation... Is this the exoplanet in the Goldilocks zone, with the red Dwarf Suns ? I seem to remember something like this!
Yes, it sounded familiar to me as well. I recall it being talked about now, when it was first discovered. "In fact Kepler-16b is the first discovered circumbinary planet"
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Long ago we've read about Circumbinary Planets, and now they've become reality! I really like the painting in this article, by artist Mark Garlick... http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/Kepler453b/
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Flying over Pluto's moon Charon... http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160222.html
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SurSteven:
Flying over Pluto's moon Charon... http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160222.html
Dark Polar Deposit ...What the heck is that!? These light pillars in the crystal fog are cool looking. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160208.html
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^ Good question about the deposit. What IS it??? They have had the light pillars on a couple of times. Overwhelmingly beautiful and mysterious! Do you remember when we were talking about blackholes and the big crunch and how I was talking about the matter in our universe eventually gathering and congealing back into blackholes and then binary blackholes that ultimately merge also? That is what happened when we were able to detect gravity waves. Albeit, we are still in an expansive phase of our universe at the moment, there will be a whole lot of mergin' goin' on when we start the big crunch cycle. You probably caught this, but here's the binary blackhole mergence clip they recently posted. Profound! http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160212.html
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SurSteven:
^ Good question about the deposit. What IS it??? They have had the light pillars on a couple of times. Overwhelmingly beautiful and mysterious! Do you remember when we were talking about blackholes and the big crunch and how I was talking about the matter in our universe eventually gathering and congealing back into blackholes and then binary blackholes that ultimately merge also? That is what happened when we were able to detect gravity waves. Albeit, we are still in an expansive phase of our universe at the moment, there will be a whole lot of mergin' goin' on when we start the big crunch cycle. You probably caught this, but here's the binary blackhole mergence clip they recently posted. Profound! http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160212.html
Yes, I do remember you talking about the "Big Crunch" . I did understand the gravity waves were measured from such a merging of black holes, down to the difference of the gravity waves that pass thru everything and windup with the infantessimal displacement. That was duplicated with two different LIGO observatories! I didn't realize they measured the size of the black holes as solar mass black holes, though. I wonder if our sun is the basis of that measurement? And then there's the remaining solar masses given off in energy that that causes the ripple of the gravitational waves, after the two black holes combine! I think I have that right? Interesting, the wobble as it destabalizes and they merge into the big chocolate donut there sending those gravitational waves out into the universe, like a big tsunami after an Earthquake! Very cool Sur Steven!! I'll have to go look at some sun light pillars, that were mentioned. Can't wait to see the photos from the new James Webb telescope. That is going to change everything, especially the infa red heat source detection! Wow! Am watching that link you sent on the JWT, thanks so much!!!
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^ I suppose that if we can have a sombrero galaxy... http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110515.html We can also have a big chocolate doughnut mergence of 2 blackholes.
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One of your favorite Galaxies... It's a beauty! How about a tiny blue marble...the Solar System to scale with astronauts commenting... http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151225.html
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love2travel:
One of your favorite Galaxies... It's a beauty! How about a tiny blue marble...the Solar System to scale with astronauts commenting... http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151225.html
That was very cool and have not seen that one before. Curiously, I had an idea last night that I have never heard of before either. Has anyone ever calculated the halfway point between the size of our solar system and the size of an average atom? What would a scale model of a midway sized particle system look like? Am going to work on the math here in a minute. Whatever the size of it, we could stand within or near it and declare that it is the halfway point between the size of our solar system and the size of an average atom. : : : Edit...Atoms are very small; typical sizes are around 100 pm (a ten-billionth of a meter, in the short scale) Edit... What is the diameter of our Solar System? 287.46 billion km Sedna is three times farther away from Earth than Pluto, making it the most distant observable object known in the solar system. It is 143.73 billion km from the Sun, thus giving the Solar System a diameter of 287.46 billion km. So, what is the halfway point between One 10 billionth of a meter and 287.5 billion kilometers (1,000) meters So that's... -10,000,000,000 of a meter < to < 287,500,000,000,000 meters So, I'm dropping the last 9 zeros in each number and comparing the ratio of One/Tenth Of A Meter to 287,500 meters. So, it's 1 meter to 28,750 meters??? And, halfway between that would be 14,375 meters or a particle system around 14.4 Kilometers wide??? 8 to 9 miles wide!!! :
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SurSteven:
love2travel:
One of your favorite Galaxies... It's a beauty! How about a tiny blue marble...the Solar System to scale with astronauts commenting... http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151225.html
That was very cool and have not seen that one before. Curiously, I had an idea last night that I have never heard of before either. Has anyone ever calculated the halfway point between the size of our solar system and the size of an average atom? What would a scale model of a midway sized particle system look like? Am going to work on the math here in a minute. Whatever the size of it, we could stand within or near it and declare that it is the halfway point between the size of our solar system and the size of an average atom. : : : Edit...Atoms are very small; typical sizes are around 100 pm (a ten-billionth of a meter, in the short scale) Edit... What is the diameter of our Solar System? 287.46 billion km Sedna is three times farther away from Earth than Pluto, making it the most distant observable object known in the solar system. It is 143.73 billion km from the Sun, thus giving the Solar System a diameter of 287.46 billion km. So, what is the halfway point between One 10 billionth of a meter and 287.5 billion kilometers (1,000) meters So that's... -10,000,000,000 of a meter < to < 287,500,000,000,000 meters So, I'm dropping the last 9 zeros in each number and comparing the ratio of One/Tenth Of A Meter to 287,500 meters. So, it's 1 meter to 28,750 meters??? And, halfway between that would be 14,375 meters or a particle system around 14.4 Kilometers wide??? 8 to 9 miles wide!!! :
Wow, those are some large numbers!! I believe I posted this before, since we're on the subject, now is probably a good time to repost.
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Yes...that is a very good one, Love 2 Tango!... I love the visuals very much too, and that is a great one!!
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Julius Caesar and Leap Days... http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160229.html