Where am I?

[Ann]

I'd just luurve to have some of that chocolate cake, Margarita!

But if it's my turn to take us someplace, I'm afraid this captain has run out of destinations. At least for now.



Maybe Stephen's kite will fly, and take us somewhere fantastic?

Ann

[Beyond]

Amazing, Ann You even have blue drool

[stephen63]

Thanks, Margarita! In continuing my quest for an unhealthy diet, I'll take the cake, Ann can have the flowers!

[Beyond]

I like fruit also. It's substance that helps push the cake through, while you're smelling the flowers.

[MargaritaMc]

Thanks, Margarita! In continuing my quest for an unhealthy diet, I'll take the cake, Ann can have the flowers!

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I will have a slice of that cake after all - and possibly a piece of fruit to salve my conscience...

And here's a cup of coffee to go with the cake.

And has any other bright Asterisk*ian got a quiz question?
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Sorry about speaking when my mouth is full
Margarita

[Moonlady]

I am not bright!


That is the first statement for the hunt.

Looking to all the yummies posted I got so hungry and ate a sneakers icecream bar, which was so yummy I ate a second. At this rate, the package won't last till sunday.

[MargaritaMc]

I am not bright!


That is the first statement for the hunt.

Looking to all the yummies posted I got so hungry and ate a sneakers icecream bar, which was so yummy I ate a second. At this rate, the package won't last till sunday.

Oh, sneakers ice cream bar....!!!. I need that drooling smiley that Ann had!

I'll have to have a cup of hot chocolate to quell the chocoholic passions - it's the only chocolate in the house!

I will muse upon the first statement for the hunt, Moonlady, and sleep on it.

Night- night!
Margarita

[Ann]

I am not bright... how about a brown dwarf? And speaking of chocolate, a brown dwarf is chocolate-colored...not!!! They are red until they turn black, unlike red dwarfs, which are yellow-orange!

Speaking of chocolate, I had a fantastic chocolate and vanilla ice cream yesterday, and it was big, too! I can feel my blue drool start dripping when I think of it!

Ann

[Moonlady]

I appear dark due to my surrounding, without my background I am told to look orange.

[Ann]

A sunspot?

Ann

[MargaritaMc]

Yes, I'll go a along with Ann's guess of a sunspot, if a brown dwarf is incorrect. And clearly my other overnight idea of a black hole is a non-starter!

So, Ann - brown dwarfs are "red turning to black" not brown?! And - I've never even HEARD of Red Dwarfs.
Margarita

[starstruck]

And - I've never even HEARD of Red Dwarfs.

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[MargaritaMc]

And - I've never even HEARD of Red Dwarfs.

Click to play embedded YouTube video.

Oh my GOODNESS! IMAGINE MY FORGETTING RED DWARF!!!

I am clearly so focused on practical astronomy that I'd forgotten just about the best and funniest sci-fi series EVER!
As it began before video recorders existed (or, at least, before I had one) I used to turn the telephone off and pretend I wasn't at home when it was broadcast.
Margarita
A All-Time Fan of The Cat!

[Ann]

Margarita wrote:
So, Ann - brown dwarfs are "red turning to black" not brown?!

Well, brown dwarfs are either emitting visible light, or they are not. As long as they emit visible light, that light is red. Nothing naturally emits brown light. Consider - what part of the rainbow is brown? What parts of a fire dying down are brown?

The color brown is just a dark shade of red - it's a combination of MURKY + RED. (Or MURKY + ORANGE.) For us to see this murky redness as brown, we have to see it against a lighter background, in the fashion of Moonlady's sunspots. In space, however, it is unlikely that a brown dwarf will be silhouetted against something brighter than itself, and it is probable that it will be silhouetted against the blackness of space. Therefore, as long as we can see it at all, it will look red to us, not brown.

Ann

And oh, P.S. - a red dwarf is a small, light-weight, faint, cool, hydrogen-fusing star. Its color is yellow-orange.

[MargaritaMc]

Margarita wrote:
So, Ann - brown dwarfs are "red turning to black" not brown?!

Well, brown dwarfs are either emitting visible light, or they are not. As long as they emit visible light, that light is red. Nothing naturally emits brown light. Consider - what part of the rainbow is brown? What parts of a fire dying down are brown?

The color brown is just a dark shade of red - it's a combination of MURKY + RED. (Or MURKY + ORANGE.) For us to see this murky redness as brown, we have to see it against a lighter background, in the fashion of Moonlady's sunspots. In space, however, it is unlikely that a brown dwarf will be silhouetted against something brighter than itself, and it is probable that it will be silhouetted against the blackness of space. Therefore, as long as we can see it at all, it will look red to us, not brown.

Ann

Yes, it is obvious when pointed out - and I've not yet learnt much about brown dwarfs so haven't thought about it. Have you any idea about WHY they were first ever called BROWN dwarfs? I'll look up Wikipedia later, but am just curious and know that you are our Star Colour Expert

And oh, P.S. - a red dwarf is a small, light-weight, faint, cool, hydrogen-fusing star. Its color is yellow-orange.

OR - an absolutely hilarious sci-fi spoof comedy which - I have today discovered to my great delight - is back in production, with the original cast, after a thirteen-year gap! HURRAH! (And it seems to be available to watch online, even for people outside the UK)
Margarita

[MargaritaMc]

PS. A thought about BROWN. How do we perceive this colour? This really isn't for this thread - but it's opened up a lot of questions about colours for me. I had assumed that we perceived some thing as being a particular colour or colours because that/those wave lengths were being reflected. We see BLACK because all wave lengths are absorbed.

SO - what happens for us to perceive what we know as BROWN, I wonder? (Say, in a newly dug field.)

Margarita

[MargaritaMc]

...
And - I've never even HEARD of Red Dwarfs.
Margarita

Jim Kaler writes
The red dwarfs are hugely numerous, their creation from interstellar matter preferred. Of the stars on the main sequence (classes O through M), 70 percent are dim red dwarfs
http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/sunstar.html#hr

Margarita - still very much a Newbie!

[Beyond]

Ahh... the things that sometimes 'slip' the overworked mind.

[Moonlady]

A sunspot?

Ann

Yes, I am a sunspot , though I come in company.

Your turn.

[Ann]

Time to travel somewhere, eh?

They say I'm blue
but I don't know
I'm past my prime
but in my time
I was blue, oh, oh!
At least I think so.
Can't really remember
cause I'm a member
of the living dead!

Ann

[Moonlady]

Time to travel somewhere, eh?

They say I'm blue
but I don't know
I'm past my prime
but in my time
I was blue, oh, oh!
At least I think so.
Can't really remember
cause I'm a member
of the living dead!


Ann

Oh, I think you are a smurf zombie!

Something astronomical that was active and blue, now dead and not blue...
Are you a dead star? A dwarf?

[Beyond]

Gee, sounds like a blue star that blew up and became a blue nebula.

[Ann]

You are both right, Moonlady and Beyond, but I need you to be more specific!

(I need to say that it isn't certain that the blue nebula ever was a blue star.)

Ann

[Ann]

Okay... another clue?

[img]http://listenlearnmusic.com/wp-content/ ... wman.jpg[c]Source:%20http://listenlearnmusic.com/2010/12/snowman-song-for-kids.html[/c][/img]

Ann

[Ann]

Okay... another clue?


Source: http://listenlearnmusic.com/2010/12/sno ... -kids.html

Ann