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- Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:58 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Redshift
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5741
Washing out the Redshift with the bath water . . .
I remember Mr. Arp and Maartin Schmidt were having a disagreement in the 1960's, and the conventional wisdom sided with Mr. Schmidt a few years later. I wondered what Mr. Arp has been doing all these years, I had kind of forgotten about him. Sounds like he's on to something. I too suspected that red...
- Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:11 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: NGC 1309 And Friends 2/09/06
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6418
"It's a juvenille deliquent,
My vote is for a very seriously disturbed galaxy. Something has altered its swirl big time. That something is not easily seen tho, and speculations are numerous. " It's a juvenille deliquent never learned how to behave, and it's going to take its chances out in; Burma Shave . . ." (tom wai...
- Thu Feb 09, 2006 4:49 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: What man will do just to see stars
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1834
How Deep Is The Sky
Nice photo Orca !! I had no idea it will be so big !! As Palomar used to be the biggest for so many years, Webb's 7 mirrors are over 2-1/2 times Palomar in size, each ! Palomar 218.166 sq ft (200" mirror) Webb 572.55 sq ft X 7 = 4007.88 sq ft !!!!!!! minus a few for the hole in the focal middle...
- Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:28 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: UB 313: Larger than Pluto
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6250
The tenth wonder of the solar system
Wow Orin, What a great link !! And the artwork is very much to my liking for being scientifically relatively correct. It is a bit of a long exposure picture; as the planet back would be really dark! and the sun really small and the dust cloud extremely dim. 3 minute exposure at f8 ! This website pag...
- Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:30 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Question about Peiades
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4008
Leave your Capital One card at home !
Hi Harry, When you google 'magnetohydrodynamics' be sure to go to Amara.com , for Dr. Amara Graps did a bunch of work on the subject and now she is into interstellar dust. Whatever it is that generates magnetic fields in stars, planets, and black holes is a subject for continued studies. The magneti...
- Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:25 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Question about Peiades
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4008
Galactic Center Radio Arc
Here's the link to APOD's Galactic Center Radio Arc;
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050403.html
Many of the blue words lead to many trails for exploration of the subject.
One of APOD's greatest day postings!
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050403.html
Many of the blue words lead to many trails for exploration of the subject.
One of APOD's greatest day postings!
- Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:35 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: emission nebula N44----250 light year hole.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1848
A Little Cloud
Surely you noticed the large group of stars in the middle of the hole. They provide ample solar wind to blow the very lite particles and gasses and dust away from them and the hole, and keep them at bay against gravity. The question was, what started the material up to the speeds it is presently goi...
- Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:23 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: UB 313: Larger than Pluto
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6250
Boo to APOD for choice
The angular width of the supposed our sun is grossly over stated for being 7-8 billion miles out, and extremely misleading, and this is one of the worst 'science artworks' in recent memory for misrepresentation. What could this artist have been thinking? Has he no sense of proportion? The placement ...
- Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:44 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: "strange quark stars."
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10703
Could A Quark By Any Other Name, Be So Small
Harry, Ratio of Space to Time; mainly is concerned with the speed of light. The distance light goes in one year is one light year. Thus a ratio of one to one is extant. Time to Space. This is why when we see an event, we see it when it happened; for us. Not for when it happened, for the event. Our i...
- Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:32 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: "strange quark stars."
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10703
Out , Out , Damned Quark ! bemoaned the King of Space&
Harry, I wrote a post yesterday but was not signed in and it got lost somehow, I was too tired to rewrite. I got dropped by my ISP and after reconnecting I lost my signed in status. How frustrating by the details I failed to notice ! Anyway, the gist was that as gravity increases, the neutron pairs ...
- Sat Feb 04, 2006 5:16 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Question about Peiades
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4008
<<... how do I put it ... the movement in the glowing areas. As an artist, I'm just wondering about the sort of paths of movement that the image shows. Is that sort of pattern of movement really there? Very interesting! >> Hi, Yes, the movement is really there, but it is ever so slow in our time spa...
- Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:47 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APODS Images of Crater Chains, Thank You
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6646
the voodoo of the hoodoo
Craterchains, 'Tis disappointing to read how you feel persecuted and maligned by your theory being not taken seriously. In looking at the pictures, it seems logical to me that a comet like the one the Japanese landed their probe upon, would easily disassociate and make a line of craters on impacting...
- Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:21 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Colliding Stars
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14397
Thank you Harry, Amazing links; 396 space telescope videos !! Amazing Grace In thinking more about neutron stars; Bilderback's fascination with a 'hollow black hole theory' began to sink in As space becomes 'timelike' according to Hawking, the material trying to implode by gravity, has a resistance ...
- Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:24 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Jan 15 Sombrero galaxy photo: twin pin-wheel galaxies
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3820
Sombrero Galaxy Similarities to Saturn
40 years ago a photo of the Sombrero Galaxy reached out and grabbed my attention, and I knew not why at the time. Now I think I see why. As the Voyager and other images of Saturn and our understanding of the complex interaction with gravity and its moons formed the intricate structure of Saturn's ri...
- Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:19 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Jan 15 Sombrero galaxy photo: twin pin-wheel galaxies
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3820
double galaxy
A most curious item. A different thread questioner was thinking that it is two stars, so I looked and it looks like two galaxies. Definately two galaxies, not stars losing atmosphere. Although gas giants might look like that, hard to tell. If it is two galaxies they are so identical as to be suspect...
- Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:55 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Colliding Stars
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14397
stars in collision.
I think I forgot the question. LOL Two stars head on would be a lot of fireworks!! not to mention the attendant radiation. In the thought experiment I see; as they are about a diameter apart they oblate into egg shaped, long ends toward each other. As the gas atmospheres merge, high energy particle ...
- Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:07 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Mars Rocks! (now APOD 26/01/2006)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 18255
The one o'clock rock ! looks to have a color change, but the 9 o'clock rock looks like light reflection of some kind, likewise the 8:30 rock. The rock halfway below the one o'clock rock and the bottom of the picture frame in your zoom in; looks to have the color change across the uniformly illuminat...
- Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:41 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Dark Matter
- Replies: 161
- Views: 41633
Dark Matter
Mr Bilderbeck I must compliment you on having a writing style that incites an argument. In discussing this matter, it seems to me that you have some conceptions that you assume, by the way you express your statements. one is; that the universe is expanding. What if the universe in NOT EXPANDING. How...
- Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:20 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Andromeda, Great Attractor: when do we collide?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 14098
Andromeda, Andromeda, Where For Art Thou Andromeda
Since when is the Big Bang Theory set in stone as true; and it is up to someone to disprove it before BBT is de-throned? It appears to me that Religion is the reason BBT is so entrenched in the faiths of so many institutions of higher teaching. Like the flat earth doctrine, BBT appeals to the Creati...
- Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:37 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Mars Rocks! (now APOD 26/01/2006)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 18255
Two Tone Rock
Hi, This is my first post, so pardon my disorientation please. Where does one begin; The initial thought that hit me was this rock was ejected from Olympus Mons and garnered its evaporative deposite during re-entry from above the then Mars atmosphere. Whatever was in the atmosphere condensed on the ...