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- Tue Jun 12, 2018 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Complex Jupiter (2018 Jun 05)
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Re: APOD: Complex Jupiter (2018 Jun 05)
I can't help but think this is the sun, just a 'few' thousand degrees cooler. Not quite. Jupiter is one tenth the diameter of the Sun and about one thousandths less massive. You'd need 999 other Jupiters the same mass to get a second star like the Sun. However red dwarfs are also stars and you'd ne...
- Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:56 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Complex Jupiter (2018 Jun 05)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13555
Re: APOD: Complex Jupiter (2018 Jun 05)
I can't help but think this is the sun, just a 'few' thousand degrees cooler.
IS this what stars look like as they compress and before the thermonuclear reactions start?
IS this what stars look like as they compress and before the thermonuclear reactions start?
- Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:05 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Triple Sunrise Over Gdansk Bay (2009 Aug 04)
- Replies: 338
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Re: Cause of Triple Sunrise (APOD 2009 August 4)
I would agree with the window hypothesis except that the sun appears behind the clouds and the cloud pattern is different than it appears in the primary image of the sun. The window examples and "behind the cloud" examples given so far don't seem to have that difference. So, I'm leaning to...
- Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:20 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Voynich manuscript discussion: 2005 January 22
- Replies: 280
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Why would ET come back for something he can just rewrite?
Because it was a library book. Can you imagine the late fees!?!
- Thu Jan 27, 2005 7:49 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Voynich manuscript discussion: 2005 January 22
- Replies: 280
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Did anyone think of this already?
After review of several postings on this subject, I've come to the following amalgam solution to the Voinich problem. The book is a transcripted copy, by a gypsy alchemist from the middle ages, of a book accidently left behind by an alien botanist space navigator named ET. This explains the similar,...