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by 50bmg
Wed Feb 17, 2016 11:24 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Two Black Holes Merge (2016 Feb 12)
Replies: 67
Views: 15225

Re: APOD: Two Black Holes Merge (2016 Feb 12)

So, gravitons are carrying away the energy/mass? I'm not sure how to ask this question intelligently, but here is a try: In a nuclear reaction where mass is lost in the form of radiated energy - are particles "turned into" photons as they radiate away, and in this way mass/energy is lost? ...
by 50bmg
Fri Oct 24, 2014 3:54 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Rosetta's Selfie (2014 Oct 16)
Replies: 34
Views: 115134

Re: APOD: Rosetta's Selfie (2014 Oct 16)

50bmg wrote:What are the spots on the solar panel? Perhaps micrometeoroid impacts?

Does anyone know anything about the spots on the solar panel? Thanks!
by 50bmg
Thu Oct 16, 2014 4:10 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Rosetta's Selfie (2014 Oct 16)
Replies: 34
Views: 115134

Re: APOD: Rosetta's Selfie (2014 Oct 16)

What are the spots on the solar panel? Perhaps micrometeoroid impacts?
by 50bmg
Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:07 pm
Forum: The Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources
Topic: Dark Matter in the Solar System
Replies: 17
Views: 2074

Re: Dark Matter in the Solar System

That was excellent. Thanks so much for the time you put into that.
I have a much clearer picture now.
Thanks again!

Ben
by 50bmg
Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:29 am
Forum: The Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources
Topic: Dark Matter in the Solar System
Replies: 17
Views: 2074

Re: Dark Matter in the Solar System

Maybe I'm starting to understand, but not quite there. Chris Peterson's response about the distrubition being different is what I was originally guessing. But that seems like a different reason than Art Neuendorffer's reason. If I understand correctly - It was stated that "The period of an orbi...
by 50bmg
Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:19 am
Forum: The Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources
Topic: Dark Matter in the Solar System
Replies: 17
Views: 2074

Re: Dark Matter in the Solar System

But the average density of dark matter would be the same regardless of orbital size/period, even though the total amount of dark matter would differ with a larger orbit - right? Or, more likely, I'm misunderstanding something. Is the average density of dark matter smaller in a star system than it is...
by 50bmg
Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:35 pm
Forum: The Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources
Topic: Dark Matter in the Solar System
Replies: 17
Views: 2074

Re: Dark Matter in the Solar System

Thanks for your help. What are some of the other examples of physical observations that imply there is dark matter? Why doesn't dark matter have the same effect on planets in a solar/star system as it does on stars in a galaxy? (In other words, why doesn't it make Jupiter orbit at the same speed as ...
by 50bmg
Sat Mar 12, 2011 5:52 pm
Forum: The Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources
Topic: Dark Matter in the Solar System
Replies: 17
Views: 2074

Dark Matter in the Solar System

If I understand correctly, the search for dark matter is due to the fact that the observable mass (normal matter) in a galaxy is not sufficient to account for its form or the motions of the stars. If normal matter was all that was there, then the stars around the edge of the galaxy should be rotatin...
by 50bmg
Thu Nov 04, 2010 3:29 pm
Forum: The Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources
Topic: The biggest BLACK HOLE
Replies: 8
Views: 978

Re: The biggest BLACK HOLE

I was also under the false impression that black holes somehow held galaxies together. What holds the stars together? Their mutual gravitational attraction? Dark matter?
by 50bmg
Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:28 am
Forum: The Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources
Topic: Size and Age of the Universe
Replies: 62
Views: 6488

Re: Size and Age of the Universe

I believe this is the information that I was lacking, given by Chris above - "In fact, there is no physical law being broken by two objects moving apart faster than c. The rules only require that information can't be transferred between them in that case." I had understood before that no r...
by 50bmg
Fri Oct 22, 2010 2:36 am
Forum: The Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources
Topic: Size and Age of the Universe
Replies: 62
Views: 6488

Re: Size and Age of the Universe

So the geometry of the universe is or can expand faster than the speed of light? Isn't that expansion a measured quantity? Is that quantity less than c? If so, for two galaxies to be further than 13 billion years apart would require either the big bang to have happened longer ago than we think, or m...
by 50bmg
Fri Oct 22, 2010 1:44 am
Forum: The Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources
Topic: Size and Age of the Universe
Replies: 62
Views: 6488

Re: Size and Age of the Universe

Asking the same question another way: If the universe is only 13 billion years old (or, in other words, all matter in our visible universe was contained in a singularity 13 billion years ago at the time of the big bang), how can two galaxies be 26 billion light years apart if they can't move faster ...
by 50bmg
Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:13 pm
Forum: The Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources
Topic: Size and Age of the Universe
Replies: 62
Views: 6488

Size and Age of the Universe

I just read an article called "Scientists pinpoint the farthest galaxy" at : http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/10/20/5322427-scientists-pinpoint-the-farthest-galaxy It discussed Hubble finding a galaxy with redshift 8.55 in the Hubble ultra deep field image. My question is - If we ...