Your page is permanently locked in my browser, and I enjoy it every day.
It seems to me, as has been noted, that today's image was made (or was commissioned) for the second aniversary, but it still is a great image you have posted.
Congratulations, and many more years of wonders, please.
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- Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:01 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: APOD is 15 Years Old Today (2010 Jun 16)
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- Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:15 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: CMBR Dipole: Speeding through the Universe? (2009 Sept 6)
- Replies: 31
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Re: CMBR Dipole: Speeding through the Universe? (2009 Sept 6
If there was an "absolute space" then: One could perform an experiment WITHIN the confines of an enclosed space ship (e.g., a Michelson-Morley experiment ) to determine how fast and/or in what direction the ship was moving. One is NOT permitted to look out a window at ANYTHING (include th...
- Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:17 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: CMBR Dipole: Speeding through the Universe? (2009 Sept 6)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3674
Re: CMBR Dipole: Speeding through the Universe? (2009 Sept 6
When I first started reading Asimov and other science authors, a while ago, they said that one of the reasons Newton was worng was because he proposed an "absolute space" relative to which everything moved (or not). Einstein came up with his theories that said that there was no such thing,...