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This and other factors led many to conclude that most type Ia supernovae arise from the mergers of two white dwarf stars. ... Because of; or due to the fact, that astronomers looking out in to space see that the majority of stars have companions / are in a binary system. I hope i said that right. Be...

I'm sad to say that this optics focal length thing is really confusing for this astronomy 101 guy, darn it. Question regarding my 10 inch reflector, Am i doing something wrong in that each time i drop in a higher magnification eye piece whatever i'm looking at grows darker and darker. I have the cor...

None of you are actually serious right, after all it is common knowledge that the langoliers eat spacetime

If one were to place a nuclear reactor in orbit around the earth / On even placed it upon our moon, and run it with no cooling whatsoever so as to purposely have it go in to an uncontrolled meltdown what would it look like ? Would it glow red ? Would it glow bright white like the spots on Ceres or w...

Thank you Chris So my next question What size of asteroid or comet would this be possible / say it's the consistency of ice. BTW Chris, any idea at all / educated guess for why we're not being afforded clear close-up images from dawn? I cannot find any information on the subject anywhere, that is ex...

A general view of Pluto, Charon and New Horizons ... Do you realize that Charon is over half the (linear) size of Pluto? Pluto radius = 1170 km Charon radius = 603 km Theoretically speaking With Charon's radius being only 603 km could a person standing on it escape it's gravitation pull by jumping ...

YouTube / Ceres bright spots / Not very happy with the pictures (All Blurry) That NASA keeps releasing
That's all I'm going to say

The most recent pictures seem to hint colors real close to the that which you have used ( BTW, awesome artwork ) and i really hope to see a colorful Pluto upon arrival, that is to say i won't be disappointed by pictures of a frozen Ice ball, I'd just rather pluto have a colorful rocky surface, flowi...

Thanx bystander

Thanks all i understand the situation fully now As the white spots go, were I a conspiracy type person ( which i am certainly not ) I'd have thrown the book at this one. Imagine they are all up in arms over over this ??? Think I'll google it to find out just for a laugh right now CYA and thanks agai...

I'm not understanding why pictures were available all the way up until Dawn was close enough to see the rock up close, in orbit. Now that its close enough to see what the bright spots are................We have to wait????

I've known some women that turned out to be real snakes in the grass. On another note and possibly slightly off topic but it does have to do with animals The apod planet earth photo that gets recycled now and then, it reads along the line of / This is the planet earth, it is home to several intellig...

Dressed up like a chicken with my ex at the Long beach Octoberfest. Polka, the chicken dance, so much fun

Freezing fog, it sounds like its the name of some horror movie ( The Freezing Fog )
No such thing as seasons here in LA, sad.
Right after I click on the submit tab i'm going to google pictures of freezing fog as I've never even heard of the stuff

A class act by all accounts RIP Leonard Nimoy

The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.
Leonard Nimoy

Thinking of ordering some for my den, does anyone here have any experience with the stuff / does it look as good as the picture or pictures imply

My bet is that a hard dirty snowball hit that spot hard and hot, the surface stayed hot long enough for the dirt mixture in the ice that was melted to settle to the bottom and that left a slightly cleaner ice to re-freeze on the surface around the impact area.

I live just outside of Los Angeles..............Enough said I imagine Nonetheless a four hour drive out to someplace like blyth Az. and the heavens are beautiful, sorta like chocolate chip ice cream in reverse. I wonder if the nighttime sky was like that across the entire lower 48 in say the 1920s a...

In order for earths moon to hold an atmosphere it would need a much greater magnetic field Seems to me the simplest way, the cheapest way and the fastest way to accomplish this could be treating the moon as if it were an electric motor. Set up some nuclear power plants and run an electrical grid acr...

With the many millions of dollars its taken to send a probe to Pluto and beyond why not send a probe to the south pole of Mercury, who cares if it's easier to land a probe in any ice fields on our moon, theres no atmosphere. If there is some goldilocks zone where water is in a liquid state where bet...

@ BDanielMayfield
I like the name Ice Planet Zero, for some reason it seems less boring than all the rest

I was hung-up on this light thing with the idea that if a single photon were to strike the ground right in front of two people and they could both visibly see this happen then / well what would that mean about the structure of a photon. Seems the closest thing to this ever happening though is person...

Rephrased, but i think what you said already answers my question Two people in a dark room, one single photon in that room That photon happens to run in to one persons eye / retina and so for an instant the person will see a single flash through one of his eyes while the other person in the room obs...