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- Sat Sep 13, 2014 3:10 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Median Mashup: Hubble's Top 100 (2014 Sep 13)
- Replies: 63
- Views: 39492
Re: APOD: Median Mashup: Hubble's Top 100 (2014 Sep 13)
What would a Monet painting look like if he wore corrective lenses for his near-sightedness? Ruben?
- Wed Sep 10, 2014 6:15 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster of... (2014 Sep 10)
- Replies: 64
- Views: 143504
Re: APOD: Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster of... (2014 Sep 10
In one of the links, https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/supercluster-gbt, we find the term 'ginormous', perhaps as a contraction of giant and enormous? Newtonian gravity is accurate to one part in a million, just to give a perspective on when to use relativity formulae for curved space-time....
- Wed Aug 27, 2014 4:55 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Milky Way over Yellowstone (2014 Aug 27)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8492
Re: APOD: Milky Way over Yellowstone (2014 Aug 27)
Beautiful panorama! Was the comment about the Yellowstone Caldera going badaboom necessary? There's even an hour video on yootoob describing the possible event and how active the Yellowstone region is. Southeast of Yosemite is Mammoth Mountain, in another active caldera region. There are dead-tree z...
- Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:09 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Star Trails Over Indonesia (2014 Aug 18)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7401
Re: APOD: Star Trails Over Indonesia (2014 Aug 18)
Nevermind. There is no bright star marking the South Celestial Pole. I learned that today, thus answering my own question.
- Mon Aug 18, 2014 3:52 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Star Trails Over Indonesia (2014 Aug 18)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7401
Re: APOD: Star Trails Over Indonesia (2014 Aug 18)
I noticed on the full-size image that the South Celestial Pole star remains a dot; in similar photographs, Polaris is off-center leaving a small streak. If the perceived motion of Polaris off center is the result of Earth's precession, why then doesn't the South Pole star wander as well?
- Wed Aug 13, 2014 3:47 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Rings Around the Ring Nebula (2014 Aug 13)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 34039
Re: APOD: Rings Around the Ring Nebula (2014 Aug 13)
Dr. Gendler never ceases to amaze me.
Is it serendipity that the axis of this nebula points in our direction, or would the same view be visible, say, from someplace out on the X-axis?. (Z-Axis from Earth to the center, X-axis horizontal, Y-axis vertical)
Is it serendipity that the axis of this nebula points in our direction, or would the same view be visible, say, from someplace out on the X-axis?. (Z-Axis from Earth to the center, X-axis horizontal, Y-axis vertical)
- Thu Aug 07, 2014 2:56 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Rosetta's Rendezvous (2014 Aug 07)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 75467
Re: APOD: Rosetta's Rendezvous (2014 Aug 07)
What happened to my rubber duckie? Waah. This is the testbed for changing the orbit of a doomsday comet/asteroid. Acquisition: check. Orbit, determine best landing, land: WIP. The doomsday mover would have a lander that could push the object out of its collision window. Now we know we can do this ea...
- Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:05 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Saturn's Swirling Cloudscape (2014 Aug 06)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8919
Re: APOD: Saturn's Swirling Cloudscape (2014 Aug 06)
Spectacular image, hidden to Earth-based telescopes. People on the Moon, satellite orbiting Saturn, causes for awe for those over 40.
- Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:00 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Four Billion BCE: Battered Earth (2014 Aug 05)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 43655
Re: APOD: Four Billion BCE: Battered Earth (2014 Aug 05)
Thanks, Bystander, but I lost my JSTOR access the day I retired. Don't have "free" access to the Nature article, $35 to view.
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 3:33 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Four Billion BCE: Battered Earth (2014 Aug 05)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 43655
Re: APOD: Four Billion BCE: Battered Earth (2014 Aug 05)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v5 ... E-20140731
I don't have access to the full article, but it might be the case that four billion is a bit on the low end of the age guestimate.
I don't have access to the full article, but it might be the case that four billion is a bit on the low end of the age guestimate.
- Mon Aug 04, 2014 4:33 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Shadows and Plumes Across Enceladus (2014 Aug 04)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17088
Re: APOD: Shadows and Plumes Across Enceladus (2014 Aug 04)
Last time I tried talking to a sea bass, it didn't have much to say. I'd be surprised if there were no extraterrestrial life at all. Bacteria and other single-celled organisms like those found near deep sea vents, that are currently being mined for gold, are possible. Life forms with which we can co...
- Sun Aug 03, 2014 3:25 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Dark Shuttle Approaching (2014 Aug 03)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14157
Re: APOD: Dark Shuttle Approaching (2014 Aug 03)
Sunlight reflecting off of the starboard top window?
- Thu Jul 31, 2014 2:57 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Veins of Heaven (2014 Jul 31)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 26132
Re: APOD: Veins of Heaven (2014 Jul 31)
Noctilucent clouds are lit by sunlight scattered by ice crystals. That's why you can see them only a short time after the sun sets. In the land of perpetual sunlight, whenever the sun sinks below a particular degree below the horizon, voila! To calculate the degrees below the horizon, draw a tangent...
- Thu Jul 31, 2014 2:52 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Veins of Heaven (2014 Jul 31)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 26132
Re: APOD: Veins of Heaven (2014 Jul 31)
How does water get up there? I recall that after the Space Shuttle drops the external solid fuel rockets, liquid hydrogen and oxygen take over. That leaves a water vapor trail. Does that water vapor then disperse to become condensed by meteor dust? 80 Km is a bit of a stretch for even the most power...
- Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:49 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: M31: The Andromeda Galaxy (2014 Jul 30)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 25524
Re: APOD: M31: The Andromeda Galaxy (2014 Jul 30)
Are there any stars that belong to Andromeda visible in this image? The outer blue ring is all local stars? The galaxies above and below Andromeda, M32 and M110, are definitely too far away to resolve individual stars in this image. The imagination is staggered to think there are billions of individ...
- Fri Jul 25, 2014 3:44 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Cosmic Crab Nebula (2014 Jul 25)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13054
Re: APOD: Cosmic Crab Nebula (2014 Jul 25)
The badaboom was recorded by Chinese astronomers with buck-nekkid eyeballs. They wrote that it was visible for about a month. http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/15year/15year_lg.jpg brings out the two jets in detail. The front jet appears to shoot out a couple of light years, then pour into a bow...
- Tue Jul 22, 2014 4:06 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Cave with Aurora Skylight (2014 Jul 22)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20010
Re: APOD: Cave with Aurora Skylight (2014 Jul 22)
Ancient cave art proves it was warm enough to surf the Iceland beaches less than 4,600 years ago.
- Mon Jul 21, 2014 2:51 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Spacecraft Rosetta Shows Comet has... (2014 Jul 21)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 37469
Re: APOD: Spacecraft Rosetta Shows Comet has... (2014 Jul 21
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(Sorry, had to clear my brain of the Bard of Avon, or I'd be reciting that passage all day. -Shakespeare Ear Worm)
Obquote:
QVACK!
QVACK!! QVACK!
-SETI
(Sorry, had to clear my brain of the Bard of Avon, or I'd be reciting that passage all day. -Shakespeare Ear Worm)
- Thu Jul 17, 2014 2:22 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: 3D Homunculus Nebula (2014 Jul 17)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 33884
Re: APOD: 3D Homunculus Nebula (2014 Jul 17)
A trench-faced homunculus? I've heard a politician described as a pig-faced homunculus, but that was in response to a "Doctor Who" episode (091 - The Talons Of Weng-Chiang).
- Mon Jul 14, 2014 3:55 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Auroras over Northern Canada (2014 Jul 14)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13311
Re: APOD: Auroras over Northern Canada (2014 Jul 14)
[Comment regarding the effects of drinking caffeinated tea deleted.] Glowing curtains waving in the sky. See that in person, you won't soon forget it!
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- Tue Jul 01, 2014 2:10 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Wolf-Rayet Star 124: Stellar Wind... (2014 Jul 01)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8706
Re: APOD: Wolf-Rayet Star 124: Stellar Wind... (2014 Jul 01)
Bet I can: for ((i=0, i<10; i++)) ; do echo "Glowing gas globs"; done. Speaking of glowing gas globs, when the glowing gas globs get far enough away from the star so they no longer glow, thus joining the interstellar medium, that sort of diffuse stellar ejecta is insufficient to account fo...
- Thu Jun 26, 2014 3:53 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Conjunction by the Sea (2014 Jun 26)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7548
Re: APOD: Conjunction by the Sea (2014 Jun 26)
It is so difficult to find good timber any more. The newer piles are a lot thinner than the original ones. The only second-growth forests I know of are in protected parks, towering over a hundred feet overhead with trunks you can't put your arms around. Perhaps if that kind of lumber were used at th...
- Sun Jun 15, 2014 2:22 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: CMB Dipole: Speeding Through the... (2014 Jun 15)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8434
Re: APOD: CMB Dipole: Speeding Through the... (2014 Jun 15)
Was the 600km/s speed adjusted to account for space-time expansion? My guess is that since space-time expansion is constant in all directions, it would not affect the speed relative to the CMB. quo vadis - where are you going (present indicative singular) quo vadimus - where are we going (present in...
- Wed Jun 11, 2014 2:24 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Three Galaxies over New Zealand (2014 Jun 11)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10364
Re: APOD: Three Galaxies over New Zealand (2014 Jun 11)
I really need to get someplace dark enough to see that again. In my yoot it was dark enough in the Adirondacks to see the entire arch, but along came light pollution.
Somebody better get a tech out there, the dish is leaking galaxies.
Somebody better get a tech out there, the dish is leaking galaxies.
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
- Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:23 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: How to Identify that Light in the Sky (2014 Jun 09)
- Replies: 63
- Views: 31811
Re: APOD: How to Identify that Light in the Sky (2014 Jun 09
Weather balloons sent aloft during twilight will reflect the sun when they get high enough. When such objects are moving directly toward you, they appear stationary. However, rivers of air can criss-cross, causing the balloons to rapidly change direction. Then when they get to a jet stream, off they...