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That's really interesting. I'm interested in anything that has to do with star formation, at least as long as we are not talking about low-mass star formation only. Low mass star formation is so common that it wouldn't surprise me if there is a little of it even in elliptical galaxies.

Ann

Would you believe it's the same word? It is. Same word, same spelling, same pronunciation. Different meaning. Ouch.

Well, you know, context is everything.

"Honey, how about some 7 tonight?"

"Don't you mean 6?"

"I don't mean the number. I mean the activity."

Ann

Fascinating. Personally I get a kick out of massive stars. They are so flamboyant and often so colorful. I love their "blue phase" best!

Ann

How do we Swedes pronounce the number 6 ("sex" in Swedish)?

We pronounce it like you pronounce the activity.

Ann

Hi Rob,

Even though you weren't too happy with my kiddie drawing and interpretation of it, I must thank you for your color-versus-wavelength graph. Just what I needed!

Ann

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/B_ward01.JPG <<Hugh Beaumont was extremely unassuming. On one occasion in the early 1960s, he went alone to play golf at a course in the San Fernando Valley. He walked up to a twosome and asked if he could join them because the course was busier than ex...

Chris said: I am considered "white", but I am not white. I have friends who are "black", "yellow", and "red", but they are not black, yellow, or red. And most people are well aware that human beings don't have white, black, yellow or red skin. People know that...

Well, I've been putting on weight lately :( but maybe I can take comfort in the fact that I live in Sweden, where the local gravity seems to be just a tiny bit above the earthly average. Maybe I should try to get a green card and move to the United States, where everything seems to weigh a little le...

Bystander wrote:

Well, it is an AONB!

Okay, that explains it!
Apart from enjoying the local sights and doing the two step in the wheat fields, look how handsome this alien is when he is dressed up in the local produce!

Ann

Guess why I don't like planetariums? Because, at least in the few I have visited, they project the stars on that dome so that all the stars get the same artifical light color. All yellow.



Unsaturated yellow stars, all of them.

Ann

Wow! The crop circle people are getting absolutely amazingly good at their craft, aren't they? By the way, the newspaper said this: Nearly 200 crop circles have appeared in just one formation not far from Warminster, Wiltshire, known as the UFO capital of Britain. Why would the little green men be s...

Chris, since you are the staunch defender of the idea that the Sun is yellow... Why do you say that? I consider the Sun to be white Wow! Thanks, Chris! I'll hold you to it. G stars are called "yellow", a terminology that has nothing to do with their actual apparent color. :roll: :evil: Th...

I love that picture of the church towers getting a good grip on the Moon, like a pair of tweezers! And the Lady in the Moon blushes all orange and smiles, too: she likes being squeezed!

Ann

Wow, that is a pretty crop circle!!! I don't know about you, but personally I'm amazed at what humans beings have been able to achieve: http://blog.jameslist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/taj-mahal.jpg http://hamzajennings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/the-lhc-or-the-large-hadron-collider.jpg And ...

All the colors of the "bright yellow, almost white" Sun reflect off the cloud droplets, and therefore clouds look white. Shouldn't the clouds look "bright yellow, almost white" if they really reflect the color of the Sun? Maybe you have a better idea what this physicist means by...

Well, when you are speaking about a green nebula it's grey, eh? Bet you would have insisted that a red nebula is red, no matter how hopelessly grey it must always appear to our eyes! "Color" describes a physiological response to some mix of wavelengths and intensities. If the intensities ...

Chris wrote: The Sun's wavelength of strongest intensity is yellow-green. The Sun's spectral class is G2V, making it a yellow star (because the peak output of G stars is around the yellow part of the spectrum). I have always thought that the Sun's wavelength of strongest intensity is green, and that...

Why are people so convinced that flying saucers exist? My answer is that people believe that flying saucers exist for the same reason that they believe that the Sun is yellow - because they are told so all the time. I googled "flying saucer" and got 2,110,000 hits. That's a lot of hits for...

The code linked to a page where a physicist said this about the color of the Sun: it appears to us to be a bright yellow, almost white color. But what about the white color of clouds? Clouds include little condensed droplets of water. These droplets are a LOT bigger than atoms, and so they are not a...

Ahhhh, the Moon in agony!!!! (Can't you see it keening its angst at the cosmos? It has two wide-open, staring eyes, a nose and an open, gaping mouth. Open wide for the dentist of the universe!)

Ann

Chris said: The true color of the nebula is actually gray, since that's the only way the eye could ever perceive it. Well, when you are speaking about a green nebula it's grey, eh? Bet you would have insisted that a red nebula is red, no matter how hopelessly grey it must always appear to our eyes!...

If the Coat Hanger is an asterism, have you got an asterism for my coat?



Ann

http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/denmark/den_islam2.jpg Here the Danish flag is being burned by Muslims who think that Denmark has offended their religion. Let's hope that neither the gay flag nor the solar spectrum will be burned by people who feel that their own heterosexuality has been offende...

APOD Robot wrote:
our yellow-appearing Sun

(Ann just shot Otto or set off the Big Bang. Let's have a poll.)

Ann

Indeed! And it isn't inaccurate; in a view like this, the Sun is yellow, although nowhere near as saturated as a dandelion. I think you just like needling Ann. I think he does, too, but in this case he is right. In a picture like this the Sun would look yellow-white instead of white, precisely beca...