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by Saeed Khan
Thu Nov 09, 2017 1:38 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: NGC 1055 Close-up (2017 Nov 09)
Replies: 25
Views: 8890

Re: APOD: NGC 1055 Close-up (2017 Nov 09)

Recently I heard about a theory that our Solar System not only rotates around the Milky Way Galaxy, it also moves up and down while doing so. Whenever it passes through the Central Disk of Dark Matter, the Dark Matter dislodges asteroids of the asteroid belts. Some of these then hit our planet, caus...
by Saeed Khan
Tue Dec 20, 2016 6:21 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Sharpless 308: Star Bubble (2016 Dec 20)
Replies: 15
Views: 5167

Re: APOD: Sharpless 308: Star Bubble (2016 Dec 20)

Quote: "Wolf-Rayet stars have over 20 times the mass of the Sun and are thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova phase of massive star evolution."

All of them? All Wolf-Rayet stars in the Universe?