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by ricky302
Sun Feb 12, 2017 5:30 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Comet 45P Passes Near the Earth (2017 Feb 12)
Replies: 22
Views: 5175

Re: APOD: Comet 45P Passes Near the Earth (2017 Feb 12)

Weary of guest users posting erroneous information, I went ahead and removed guest user Scott. The pertinent part of his post remains in Chris's reply. If you must know what else Scott posted about it concerned comets as charged objects, which is part of EU theory, and is also a banned topic at the...
by ricky302
Fri Jun 10, 2016 6:15 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula (2016 Jun 10)
Replies: 15
Views: 7733

Re: APOD: NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula (2016 Jun 10)

Wolf–Rayet stars are thousands of times brighter than the Sun and hence at least a thousand times younger . Today's lovely cosmic debris field could have once harbored an earth like planet inhabited by primitive bacteria capable of traversing the vast distances between stars. These germs could be h...
by ricky302
Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:40 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Big Dipper to Southern Cross (2016 Mar 31)
Replies: 50
Views: 8273

Re: APOD: Big Dipper to Southern Cross (2016 Mar 31)

As noted, what was catching Ann's eye was that orientation so close to the horizon, not the orientation itself. Really? I can't see anything in her post referring to the orientation of the big dipper to the horizon? For me as a northerner, seeing the Big Dipper "upside down" is fascinatin...