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by Robinegg
Tue Sep 24, 2024 8:22 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Inside a globular cluster
Replies: 1
Views: 425

Inside a globular cluster

Does APOD have any artist’s renditions of what the night sky would look like from a world near the center of a globular cluster?
by Robinegg
Sat Aug 31, 2024 7:38 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Are space storms a thing?
Replies: 3
Views: 1616

Are space storms a thing?

If you watch scifi shows you’ll notice that to create conflict space ships are subjected to a whole lot of dangerous storms in space analogous to hurricanes and rogue waves to terrestrial ships. “Ion storms”, a “nebula” that wreaks havoc, etc. Have astronomers found anything like that? Assuming a de...
by Robinegg
Sun Mar 17, 2013 3:56 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Spiral direction
Replies: 3
Views: 2082

Spiral direction

Is the direction of spiral structures in the cosmos evenly distributed between those evolving clockwise and those counterclockwise, or is there a bias in one direction?