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by Chef StiX
Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:17 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Planet question is finally solved!
Replies: 15
Views: 6567

What no love for Sedna?
by Chef StiX
Sun Aug 13, 2006 4:31 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Black Hole Question
Replies: 32
Views: 11084

I don't sapposed you would happen to know any good sites explaining them eh qev?

I could always google it but then you never know what you'll get.
by Chef StiX
Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:43 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Black Hole Question
Replies: 32
Views: 11084

Qev thank you that explained a lot. As for everyone else. I have no university degree and a college certificate for chef training and even I can understand one thing. Black holes are still technically theoritical and technically no point of view is wrong until it can be disprooven in a lab. Now lets...
by Chef StiX
Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:21 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Black Hole Question
Replies: 32
Views: 11084

Ahh ok I thought that probably had something to do with my question. Thanks for clarifying that pete
by Chef StiX
Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:12 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Black Hole Question
Replies: 32
Views: 11084

Perhaps you can answer this one harry as the source was from one of your links "For a very large black hole like the one you're falling into, the tidal forces are not really noticeable until you get within about 600,000 kilometers of the center. Note that this is after you've crossed the horizo...
by Chef StiX
Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:58 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Black Hole Question
Replies: 32
Views: 11084

Black Hole Question

Here is a question I don't understand at all. Hopefully all you smart university grads can break it down for me. Why when falling into a smaller black hole would you get ripped apart by the tidal forces before crossing the event horizon yet in a larger one you wont get torn apart until after you hav...
by Chef StiX
Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:56 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Question about APOD
Replies: 4
Views: 2845

excellent thank you.. this was actually better than I expected. I also agree we should have hubble take pictures of them. Definately before hubble breaks completely.
by Chef StiX
Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:12 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Question about APOD
Replies: 4
Views: 2845

Question about APOD

Does APOD have each one of the"M" objects in it's collection? I believe there is 110 if the site I read is correct.
by Chef StiX
Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:28 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Spiral and Seyfert Galaxies
Replies: 4
Views: 2607

Seyferts

Thanks for the help. The first article harry is a bit out of my league. The Chandra x-ray observatory sent me one of those. I understand it to an extent until the complex math. Seems everytime I try to understand seyferts ya gotta get into that stuff. Oh well. I think my question was answered so I'm...
by Chef StiX
Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:31 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Spiral and Seyfert Galaxies
Replies: 4
Views: 2607

Spiral and Seyfert Galaxies

Does anybody know if there is a way to look at an APOD picture of a spiral galaxy and visually tell if it is a seyfert galaxy as well? I know there some of the cores in pictures appear brighter but does that mean anything?