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- Tue Feb 17, 2015 8:36 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Fibrils Flower on the Sun (2015 Feb 17)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 210623
Re: APOD: Fibrils Flower on the Sun (2015 Feb 17)
Todays image illustrates the importance of being able to see subtitle contrast. Most observations of this region would reveal nothing but monotonous oversaturation; hiding the true complexity of what we see. Such observations may lead one to believe there is nothing worth studying here. However, the...
- Fri Feb 13, 2015 12:38 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Exploring the Antennae (2015 Feb 12)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 234359
Re: APOD: Exploring the Antennae (2015 Feb 12)
Gas clouds can have their orbits modified just like stars can. I think we sometimes see actual structures like spiral arms perturbed by tidal forces, so we end up with tight tails rather than big blobs. That also stirs things up, forming shocks and regions of high density, and that often results in...
- Thu Feb 12, 2015 5:36 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Exploring the Antennae (2015 Feb 12)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 234359
Re: APOD: Exploring the Antennae (2015 Feb 12)
Since they broached the subject, where IS the "scene of the accident" in this field? At the lower end of larger left star trail, or at end of smaller right trail? I cannot make sense why there are two antipodal star trails. The Newton in me knows they cannot reverse course on their own. T...
- Tue Feb 10, 2015 11:08 pm
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: No Big Bang?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 37226
Re: No Big Bang?
So the general consensus is that the claims of this paper are , Inflated?
- Mon Feb 09, 2015 8:43 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Kepler
- Replies: 265
- Views: 323618
Re: Kepler
....Ah, the Cambrian Explosion of multicellular, complex life. There is an explanation that doesn't involve luck or random chance for these things, and for ... ...But stating the explanaton is not permitted here... Of course it is, the planet had just emerged from an extreme extinction event. See S...
- Mon Feb 09, 2015 6:33 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Jets from Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2015 Feb 03)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 213975
Re: Stars and Blobs
YOU MISSED ONE!alter-ego wrote:There's a question about how many, if any, stars are visible in today's APOD, ... ... there are roughly 50 to 100 specks that don't map to stars (including the foreground specks).
- Mon Feb 09, 2015 6:24 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Layered Rocks near Mount Sharp on Mars (2015 Feb 09)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 34806
Re: APOD: Layered Rocks near Mount Sharp on Mars (2015 Feb 0
Chris Peterson wrote:Caltech.Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:The "dry and empty of water for billions of years" comment made me curious if we have ever dated Martian rocks? Cal Tech was up to the task.
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- Wed Feb 04, 2015 6:00 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Stars, Sprites, Clouds, Auroras (2015 Feb 04)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 166760
Re: APOD: Stars, Sprites, Clouds, Auroras (2015 Feb 04)
NOVA did a show covering sprites last year http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/edge-of-space.html
- Tue Feb 03, 2015 8:35 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Jets from Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2015 Feb 03)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 213975
Re: APOD: Jets from Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (2015 Feb 03
Ok, we are not accustomed to seeing a brightly lit objects with stars in the background. Has the overexposure in this image revealed background stars or are the flecks of light surrounding the comet from some other source?
- Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:42 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Kepler
- Replies: 265
- Views: 323618
Re: Kepler
So, since we can take this as evidence that the universe has been cranking out new planetary systems for well over 10 billion years, Fermi's paradox is stronger now than when he first asked: Where is everybody? (By "everybody" he meant alien civilizations.) I am wondering if a planetary s...
- Sat Jan 31, 2015 3:19 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Yellow Balls in W33 (2015 Jan 31)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 22656
Ole Yellow Balls
Finally! A space formation named after me!
- Thu Jan 29, 2015 4:30 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Close Encounter with M44 (2015 Jan 29)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 136858
Re: APOD: Close Encounter with M44 (2015 Jan 29)
Has anyone seen any discussion on how M44's encounter with the Earth/Moon system may have perturbed the orbit of the "moonlet" ?LocalColor wrote:Oh my, it has its own "moonlet". Great APOD today.
- Thu Jan 29, 2015 4:26 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Close Encounter with M44 (2015 Jan 29)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 136858
Re: APOD: Close Encounter with M44 (2015 Jan 29)
I'm trying to figure out the patterns in the asteroid trail... it's not clear if this is a single exposure or multiple. why does the track wiggle around like it does? (magnify it to see what I mean) More information would be useful. Here is my educated guess. The image was made with a single-shot c...
- Sun Jan 25, 2015 3:38 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Music Thread.
- Replies: 334
- Views: 356056
Mary Gauthier
Mary Gauthier - Long Way To Fall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znHZVc1fns0 Mary Gauthier - The Sugar Cane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVWsBDaeSOc Mary Gauthier - Drag Queens In Limousines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPZ-rIpIPqw Mary has an amazing story. The story in this song about her st...
- Fri Jan 23, 2015 9:44 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Music Thread.
- Replies: 334
- Views: 356056
Re: Music Thread.
Terra Firma - Orphans and Vandals
Better with a high fidelity recording and LOUD!
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
- Fri Jan 23, 2015 4:48 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Interior View (2015 Jan 23)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 66651
Re: APOD: Interior View (2015 Jan 23)
I understand why there's a guardrail around the joystick, but I'm having a hard time visualizing how the joystick could be handled effectively with the guardrail in place - and the guardrail looks very securely bolted on. I guess it's not meant to be gripped.... Here's a short video with Chris Hadf...
- Mon Jan 19, 2015 3:03 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Infrared Orion from WISE (2015 Jan 19)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 26853
Re: APOD: Infrared Orion from WISE (2015 Jan 19)
It really looks SO unfamiliar! There is a big lesson in that: if you think you know anything, about anything, well, you only know one small fraction of it. Even applies to people! The more you know of a complex subject, the more questions you have and the more aware of your lack of knowledge you be...
- Fri Jan 16, 2015 2:31 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Huygens Lands on Titan (2015 Jan 16)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 177560
Re: APOD: Huygens Lands on Titan (2015 Jan 16)
I never could have imagined that in my own lifetime I would see the surface of Titan! Less than 400 years after Titan's discovery by Christian Huygens! http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Welcome_to_ESA/ESA_history/Christiaan_Huygens_Discoverer_of_Titan But, consider how short a period it was between the i...
- Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:27 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Super Planet Crash (2015 Jan 12)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 27986
Re: APOD: Super Planet Crash (2015 Jan 12)
One problem with presenting this simulator as a game which ends when a planet is ejected is that we lose sense of the evolutionary nature of planetary systems. In real life, no system with more than two bodies is stable- the mathematics of chaos is present, and all such systems will eventually fall...
- Mon Jan 12, 2015 3:57 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Super Planet Crash (2015 Jan 12)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 27986
Re: APOD: Super Planet Crash (2015 Jan 12)
Ok, to score high go for the Habitability Bonus, 27,378,457 in 500.2 years...
- Mon Jan 12, 2015 3:35 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Super Planet Crash (2015 Jan 12)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 27986
Re: APOD: Super Planet Crash (2015 Jan 12)
Over 244,000 in 500.1 years. Clicked to register the score and the program said it was #1 ! Woo Hoo !
- Wed Jan 07, 2015 3:47 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: 100 Million Stars in the Andromeda... (2015 Jan 06)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 38542
Re: APOD: 100 Million Stars in the Andromeda... (2015 Jan 06
Chris,Chris Peterson wrote:With only rare exceptions, stars are blackbody radiators-...
Can you tell us what kind of star would be the exception and not be a blackbody radiator ?
- Mon Dec 22, 2014 9:11 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Reflections on the 1970s (2014 Dec 19)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18594
Re: APOD: Reflections on the 1970s (2014 Dec 19)
I like the caption here. :D I like the picture too. Tell me, what is the Running Man wearing on his head? Could it be something like this , except the long end of his hat is being lifted up by the air pressure inside the nebula as he is running? :wink: Ann Why does it have to be a running man ?
- Thu Dec 11, 2014 3:20 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Moondog Night (2014 Dec 11)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 23247
Re: APOD: Moondog Night (2014 Dec 11)
How common are they at 28°N ?
- Fri Nov 28, 2014 5:51 pm
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: ESO: Alignment of Quasars across Billions of Light-years
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7854
Re: ESO: Alignment of Quasars across Billions of Light-years
Given our theories on how all this got started this should be expected. Nothing spooky here.