Starship Asterisk*

Yes there are many stars that are in astronomically close proxcimity to each other. Within 1/4 light year and closer. these stars tend to orbit each other around a central point (much like electrons orbit the nucleus of an atom but without the nucleus). They orbit a gravitationally centralized point...

Lurker, We have detected over 150 extra solar planets most of which orbit stars in rural neighborhoods. The problem is that we detect these by the wobble that gravity creates as the orbits interract. Unfortunately, stars that exist in areas where there are many in close proxcimity, are each in turn ...

I am uncertain just how the quote came to be. I thought I was modifying the original post but must have hit the wrong button.

this is a before image that was posted on APOD 01-09-06 with the "Twinkle" effect from the telescope. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0601/pleiades_gendler_big.jpg This is an after image with the "Twinkle" effect removed http://www.imagehosting.us/index.php?action=show&am...

this is a before image that was posted on APOD with the "Twinkle" effect from the telescope. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0601/pleiades_gendler_big.jpg This is an after image with the "Twinkle" effect removed http://www.imagehosting.us/index.php?action=show&ident=10...

An interesting read on this subject (thou some ideas are far fetched) is "The Millennium Project"

Aqua, Intergalactic magnetic fields?!!! A very interesting concept. It would be interesting to send some probe out to the point where you could view any possible galactic magnetic field. If there is one, and it could be measured, then one might have proof of an attractor mechanism that would functio...

I have an updated Pleadies image that was modified to remove the telescopic "Twinkle" artifact. It is the same image that appeared on APOD earlier. http://www.imagehosting.us/index.php?ac ... nt=1057595

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/mpeg/

Well,
Another one bites the dust. look at the LASCO-C3 and LASCO-C2 mpg files. Another cool sight. It will probably only appear 01-06-06 and 01-07-06. so look fast.

Empeda2, I think that they are counting total distance traveled in any direction. if the rover rolls foreward 20', then finding no clear path to travel backs up 18' then turns and rolls foreward 10' it has only traveled 12' from its original point of origin but the odometer indicated it has traveled...

I believe it is correct given that it spent all thet time scoping out Eagle crater and then Endurance crater (wasn't Burns cliff interesting) and the fact that opportunity spent weeks trapped in a sand dune then traveled in 30-40' segments.. When you travel no more that approx 100' per day (average)...

S. Bilderback, you can't convince a "Flat Earther" that the earth is round. Nor could someone else convince us that the earth is flat. We may know the truth but they will still believe what they will.

it resembles polar frosting

I agree. Nothing like Armstromg. I to believe we have been there. The point is, as long as Hollywood can "Fake-it" for the sake of movies, there will be people that do not believe because "it" can be faked.

I would think it would be possible (as Empeda states though there would need to be a gas cloud of sufficient quantity with a central mass large enough to start the gravitational crunch nnecessary to cause a star to evolve.) If it weren't possible, then the first stars might not have formed in the be...

Here is a great one for the hoaxers
http://www.gaiaguys.net/moontruth.htm

click on the "Look at this" link

I would imagine that this would be true of any object that broke-up on one orbit then struck on the next, but not for the object that broke up upon entry into the atmosphere.

Yea, It would only wax and wane over the 29 day period.

Interesting Point Orin

is this picture the stars of orions belt or of the knife hanging from the belt? http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051013.html When I look at Orion, the belt stars seem to be alot farther away from each other that this picture indicates. Also the horse head would be quite naked eye visible. This is ...

Maybe you could utilize the militaries new transparent aluminum as a single 1/4" thick piese with a slightly thickened and shaped center that was mirrored. Thin, Light weight, and one piece.

What should be done id to suspend the central mirror in the middle of a clear flat smooth glass plate then the artifact problem will not be a factor.
It is a good way though, to differentiate between foreground stars and background galaxies.

I would imagine that it would be affected as far as gravity warping the space around the earth. The earth's gravity acts to pull the moon ( to a small degree) around it in a certain direction. (are there any (many) moons orbiting planets in a retrograde orbit?) If the rotation increases then the war...

gordhaddow,
Thanks for the new "favorites" link

I think that 11 is a good presumed number (as good as any other) but better than some as it is the first two digit prime number and it is the number 3 in binary counting (also prime) which is the number of known physical dimensions (x,y,z) to plot a point in space.