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- Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:53 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Astronomical numbers
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2811
Is that why I always get emails from people saying they are from some family and they have aacounts in the millions already set up for me to receive if I help them transfer funds to my own US bank account...?????? They are detached from the reality of what money is actually worth. Sounds like Yen. 5...
- Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:59 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Moon Museum: New Race to Save Space Relics
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1001
Moon Museum: New Race to Save Space Relics
Moon Museum: New Race to Save Space Relics http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080725-google-xprize.html http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/080725-google-xprize1-02.jpg Sacred ground: Tranquility Base, the Apollo 11 mission's Eagle lunar lander touchdown site. Credit: NA...
- Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:54 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: European Team Discovers New Alien World
- Replies: 1
- Views: 886
European Team Discovers New Alien World
European Team Discovers New Alien World http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080724-new-exoplanet.html http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/080724-corot-02.jpg This artist's view shows the COROT satellite, launched in 2006 to search for extrasolar planets by monitoring chan...
- Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:49 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: New Solar System Guide: The Latest Lingo
- Replies: 0
- Views: 894
New Solar System Guide: The Latest Lingo
New Solar System Guide: The Latest Lingo http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080728-mm-solar-system-guide.html http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/080728-makemake-02.jpg An artist's illustration of Makemake, a dwarf planet out beyond the orbit of Neptune that also qualifi...
- Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:45 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Virgin Galactic Unveils Space Liner Mothership
- Replies: 0
- Views: 822
Virgin Galactic Unveils Space Liner Mothership
Virgin Galactic Unveils Space Liner Mothership http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/WK2-DEBUT1-02.jpg http://www.space.com/news/080728-whiteknight2-rollout.html MOJAVE, Calif. — With all the pageantry of a king's arrival, the WhiteKnightTwo — a huge flying launch pad to supp...
- Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:39 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Astronomical numbers
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2811
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:25 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Universe(s)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1428
Just as no man is an island unto himself..... =) John Donne.... Pretty much, all things in this Universe are a piece of the whole, or 'clods' of the entire 'mass' of everything we consider the Universe (as in not just what we see, but what we don't see and will never see; the entirety of all things ...
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:09 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Spitzer's M101 (APOD 25 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5589
No Life Possible at Edges of the Pinwheel Galaxy http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/22/no-life-possible-at-edges-of-the-pinwheel-galaxy/ Using Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera and the Infrared Spectograph to carefully analyze the spectra of the PAHs, astronomers can more precisely identify the PAH ...
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Spitzer's M101 (APOD 25 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5589
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:18 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Spitzer's M101 (APOD 25 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5589
- Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:29 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Plasma Bullets Trigger Northern Lights
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2377
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:07 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Plasma Bullets Trigger Northern Lights
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2377
Plasma Bullets Trigger Northern Lights
Plasma Bullets Trigger Northern Lights July 24, 2008: Duck! Plasma bullets are zinging past Earth. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/24jul_plasmabullets.htm?list71415 That's the conclusion of researchers studying data from NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft. The gigantic bullets, they say, are lau...
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:00 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Galaxy Formation Images Based on Hubble Data
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3271
Galaxy Formation Images Based on Hubble Data
Here is a cool graphical depiction of Galaxy formations based on the Hubble classifications: http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/galaxy-8.gif http://science.howstuffworks.com/galaxy.htm Galaxies come in a variety of sizes and shapes. They can have as few as 10 million stars or as many as 10 trillion...
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:49 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Ancient Galactic Magnetic Fields Stronger Than Expected
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1174
Example for Merging Magnetic fields: http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/6849/arpbz7.jpg This recent APOD image is a good example of the interaction I mean from above, of what may be happening to the magnetic field lines of these two galaxies as they merge. http://www.holoscience.com/news/img/m82.jpg...
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:26 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Ancient Galactic Magnetic Fields Stronger Than Expected
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1174
Ancient Galactic Magnetic Fields Stronger Than Expected
Ancient Galactic Magnetic Fields Stronger Than Expected http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Ancient_Galactic_Magnetic_Fields_Stronger_Than_Expected_999.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v404/n6779/images/404732aa.2.jpg M82 Magnetic Field Mining the far reaches of the universe for clues about ...
- Thu Jul 24, 2008 5:05 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Is the death of 'baby red' so unusual? (APOD 24 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5583
I don't get it. Yesterday it was some rocks, and today it's just some clouds. They told me this is the place to go to see videos of dancing people. SO WHERE ARE THE DANCING PEOPLE? I'm so confused... Under the red spots... wayyyy off base.... look for the topic with the 8 pages so far called..........
- Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:19 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: High Cliffs Surrounding Echus Chasma on Mars (23 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 15182
- Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:10 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Happy People Dancing On Planet Earth (APOD 22 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 112
- Views: 36020
*gotta be home to view it as well* ;) I wouldn't call anyone 'whiners' just because they have something wrong with something thats been done, even if its not wrong for the reasons they think. They just want to increase their post counts and seem like they are contributing. =) And since someone start...
- Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:50 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Happy People Dancing On Planet Earth (APOD 22 Jul 2008)
- Replies: 112
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I guess I'm lucky I can't view the flash image since our work computer wont allow us to upgrage to version 9 without Admin permission..... =D hehehehe INDIGO SUNSET: You have some pretty weak comebacks... those are funny to read though. =b And APOD will never ever have a shortage of space images to ...
- Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:27 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 876
Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy
IMAGE ADVISORY: 2008-138 July 21, 2008 Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. http://ipac.jpl.nasa.gov/media_images/ssc2008-14a_small.jpg The fluffy-looking galaxy, officially...
- Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:08 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Jupiter over Ephesus (2008 Jul 18)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6626
- Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:36 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World
- Replies: 1
- Views: 948
NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World
NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/260354main_EPOXItimelapse3.jpg Series of images showing the Moon transiting Earth, captured by NASA's EPOXI spacecraft. Credit: Donald J. Lindler, Sigma Space Corporation/GSFC; EPOCh/DIXI Science Teams During a full...
- Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:12 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: was this someone here?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1279
OMG!! You have to be kidding me!!!!!!! http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/side/5453748.html Maj. Karl Lewis, a spokesman for the 301st Fighter Wing at the Joint Reserve Base Naval Air Station in Fort Worth, said no F-16s or other aircraft from his base were in the area the night of Jan. 8, when mos...
- Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:57 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: was this someone here?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1279
I get sick whenever I read junk like this: After talking to witnesses, MUFON investigators ended up looking into 300 reported UFO sightings spanning several weeks and said most were probably planets, cloud formations or stars. ARE WE THAT STUPID!!!??? Are you kidding me??! Can we not tell a planet, ...
- Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:48 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Multi-Spectrum Glasses?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3606
Okay okay... so then glasses/goggles equiped with this type of filter can have a knob that finely tilts the interference filter lense and changes the viewable spectrum of the incoming light. Nice..! But how far out can you view incoming light and actually tune the wavelengths to view certain section...