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As for the Big Bang. Its funny how they assume it to be a fact and than add ad hoc ideas to make it fit the model. Eg. Lets make everything move faster than the speed of light to make it work and if we need more speed just ask the captain. "Just have not got the power captain". The BB is ...

The description reminds me of "The Nothing" from The Never Ending Story. Do we see any of this behavior currently in the visible universe?

what? if I were standing where? maybe we should also discuss an afterlife and st peter gates, imagine how would it be like standing there... If you were standing there, We wouldn't be able to have this conversation,AND all these questions would be almost answered. :wink: If you believe in all that ...

I would look at it as, how many galaxies in that small amount of space can we not see? =)

Thats no moon!!! Nice catch andy.

Nice job indeed, you can tell they dont line up perfectly.

What causes the grooving? and no impactors =(

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap071009.html

Another breath taking picture, nothing makes you appreciate the cosmos more than living in a concrete jungle, smothered in light pollution.

Thank you Bud, and APOD for taking my breath away once again.

Some galaxies do appear to "tumble" the case I know about is NGC 524, is obvious when you look at it it is a face on S0, essentially a dead spiral galaxy, you can see the residual spiral structure. However when you measure the velocity of different parts of the galaxy (as the SAURON colla...

Vision, I don't think we've had telescopes that are capable of letting us view other galaxies for long enough to observe it. Even if we had telescopes 10,000 years ago, cameras didn't get invented until just a few hundred years ago, and photographic cameras only started to come around a little over...

Thats an interesting theory, if galaxies are tumbling though should we not see some movement over a long period of time? Also what would they tumbling towards? I tthink if galaxies were spinning on more than one axis, it would be fairly apparent, even though it would probably take billions of years ...

I think the question is why are spiral galaxies not all oriented in parallel planes. We cannot see the entire universe from earth, but we can see a spherical portion of the universe from our vantage point with a radius of about 12.7 billion light years. Imagine if we did a survey of all the visible...

I,m not quite sure how to word this, but i,ll try my best. With the countless stars in a given galaxy all bound together by gravity, I find it very interesting that the gravitational "plane" these stars are all orbiting around differ in terms of their hypothetical ground plane. I guess wha...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071003.html Wow!! It looks like the coronal mass ejection occurs in three waves. The first wave almost carries the comet tail away, the second wave knocks the tail off completely. By the time the third, smaller wave passes, the tail has grown back. It really makes...

I find this very interesting, if this cosmic radiation is deflected around us by our planets magnetic field(protecting us from being burnt to oblivion, but also putting on a spectacular light show in the northern regions of our planet),I always wonder, is it possible to harness this tremendous power...

I am not sure about the validity of this image

impactor? on the moon?

http://www.boredstop.com/moonhi.htm

edit: some of these craters seem quite shallow, and although most likely ancient, no impactors? low denisty impacts at high velocities?

craterchains wrote:uh huh, , , explain Hyperion then, , FOCLMAO

This sight had a good theory about Hyperion. I assume you were talking about its surface.

http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=1507&js=1

I didnt find one on laser beams *pew pew* yet though

My new back ground, truly humbling.

If our own atmosphere burns up a large amount of any in bound impact, why is it that on other moons and planets lacking such 'atmosphere' (I use that term loosely :D) , there are for the most part no remnants other than impact craters? I realize there is some 'atmosphere' on these planets, but even ...