stars

So I'm watching a few shows last night, one on Supermassive Black holes, and another on Cassini / Huygens, and I found both to be fascinating. I think super-massive black holes to be the birth of a galaxy, sort of like a mini big-bang for every galaxy we know of. I also wonder who specifically...

Here is part one of the only substantial interview Burnham gave in his life. The link to part 2 can be found at the end of the page. The first half of the interview talks about the struggles his book created. From about the halfway mark the discussion becomes about astronomy becoming big...

This is a cool question. I am in Bermuda (33° 22' N 64° 41' W). My girlfriend is in Durham, UK (54°47'N 01°34' W). We have been describing the sky to each other (yeah, yeah, I know). Then she made this point - that it's all the same sky. I was baffled until she clarified that you can...

If the universe in ever expanding and infinite, how can something be halfway across it? Is it just sloppy writing and editing?

So I read an article the other day that astronomers have looked 13.2 billion years back in time basically, or roughly 500 million years before the supposed big bang. So if the big bang actually happened, could astronomers finally prove it by looking back that extra 500 million years? Would...

OK, I put UFO in the tags, only because I haven't identified what I saw. Not because I suspect it's controlled by little green men ;) Last night I was out back, and looked up at the night sky. There was a very bright object up there. It was between West and South West, nearer to being West...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061127_milkyway_life.html :)

...still there, like nothing has moved? I have already heard speeds mentioned of one million miles an hour.

This is an interesting article and all that, but this bit bothers me: How could a star last longer than the universe - I thought one of the suppositions of the "death" of the universe would be no stars shining (to put it incredibly simply)?

I just went outside and looked up at the clear sky. There were many stars in my view. Some were very close together... so close that I could observe two stars simultaneously. More actually. ... So, the conclusion is that ONE ~thing~ observes two+ ~things~ simultaneously. ... The conclusion is...

Just read this article from New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925423.600.html Amazing stuff, really - in a few years the idea of Black Holes may turn out to have been no more substantial than canals on Mars. Essentially, the idea is that there is no such thing...

Prepare to read the least critical, most unskeptical piece of garbage you've ever read. It made me want to puke. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/30/WBGHEGC4AD1.DTL That's just a sample. Ugh. This is from a major newspaper too.

Being that there are so many other wonderful faiths out there. Why would it be weird to have a religion based on Star Wars? It's fictional. It happened a long time ago. And there are also a lot of plot holes. Where did the force come from. Yoda; needs a crutch but can kick butt with a...

In the Bangkok Post we can finde the following: And today we have this in the news: The astral advice might not be so bad, because Thaksin has come under pressure from the press to explain some new cases of corruption!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/11/21/thai.pm.ap/index.html

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/11/21/thai.pm.ap/index.html And the scandals, yeah, that too.

I thought about this as I was showing my daughter some stars this weekend. Since the stars are billions of miles away, their light has to travel that distance to get to the earth. Through all that distance and time, I am sure that the light would hit SOMETHING. . . perhaps a comet, a planet...

"Currently, Polaris is moving closer to the north celestial pole but will never quite reach it. In another 5000, our north star will be Alderamin". This implies that the change is due to stellar movements. But isn't it due to precession of the Earth's rotation? And another reader criticized...

I keep having to answer the "why are there no stars in photos of astronauts on the moon?" question. It must be a biggie with the "we didn't go to the moon" guys. I've actually given up on the explainations, or sending people to a web site. A couple at the school where I teach mentioned it...

I saw a documentary about neutron stars a week or so ago, (at least, that's what I think they were). It was all about the strange radio signals being picked up randomly from what they assumed were some kind of exploding stars. They found out that those random radiosignals were a lot further away...

What can I say.... Indian Astrology strikes again The power of astrology at it's finest. The emperor has no clothes, perhaps? Hmm ... author of books on the science of predictions. Obviously worth reading. But Dubya needs to tread carefully .... Actually, I think that last line is a...

There's a nice little BBC article about exotic future engineering projects at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3691711.stm. However, there's a lovely journalistic gaffe near the start: An elevator all the way to the stars - most impressive. How long would it take to travel 4+ light-years...

When an elderly madonna open mouth kisses Spears and Aguilera on television, it's not sexy to me. It's like watching that scene from Not Another Teen Movie where the elderly lady makes out with the younger one. Madonna isnt sexy to me, she's dumb ( and if you arent convinced of this yet, watch...

Mars, not Islamic militants, to blame for Bombay blasts: astrologers Good thing no one's told them about Planet X...no telling what would happen then...:eek:

Einstien figured out that matter and energy were two forms of the same thing, right? Then they made a nuclear fision reaction and proved it, right? Nuclear Fusion followed. Before the early part of the last century, how did they think the sun produced energy? Just curious.

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