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- Mon Oct 09, 2017 7:20 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: New Supernova
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2898
Re: New Supernova
Apod's sister website Epod has scooped the discovery of a new supernova by nova hunter Patrick Wiggins of Utah. SN2017 is in the well named Fireworks Galaxy, NGC 6946, and he found it early in its development, on May 14. No doubt more news about it in due course. See: http://epod.usra.edu/ for 22nd...
- Mon Oct 09, 2017 7:20 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Why is Vega's Rotation Rate so High?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5441
Re: Why is Vega's Rotation Rate so High?
Is Vega's rotation rate particularly high for a star of its type/age, and does it tell us anything about its formation history? (Am I in fact asking the wrong question, should it be "Why does the Sun rotate so slowly?") <<Most main-sequence stars with a spectral class between O5 and F5 ha...
- Mon Oct 09, 2017 7:18 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Voyager I and II
- Replies: 214
- Views: 562877
Re: Voyager I and II
These missions caused us trillions of dollars
- Mon Oct 09, 2017 7:17 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Is anyone traveling for the eclipse?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12483
Re: Is anyone traveling for the eclipse?
cool photographsFred the Cat wrote:Some friends of ours have a nice spot on Lake Cascade about a hundred miles north of Boise.
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The weather was glorious and the event was short but sweet.