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Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:They may not be real words but they are quite descriptive. For instance I might be accused of being "seccentric" from time to time.

Time to time?? I thought that was pretty much your normal state of being.

Careful or I'll turn you into Darth Matter.

They may not be real words but they are quite descriptive. For instance I might be accused of being "seccentric" from time to time.

In case you feel the need to spoil your cat even more here's an option.
Or write your own?

Between Cepheid variables and dark matter models it makes you wonder how many astronomers just want to go back to good old-fashioned telescopes . Speaking of Cepheid variables did you know they are being used to study dark matter ? (That dead dark horse is going to haunt my subconscious) :yes: I cou...

Light century – all the flavor of a light year with but fewer photons. Going back in history we found even light needs to loose weight.

If a star gives good evidence for close-up investigation, journeying there will need to be planned exquisitely with respect to where it will be. (As Art pointed out) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Back_to_the_Future.jpg Good point, Ron! Michael J. Fox, if you had a time machine that...

I hate to beat a dead horse.

Any chance it's a dark horse?

Yes I know. Now I'm beating a dead dark horse.

My curiosity was satisfied by sand in the past.

I was curious about the current redshift record holder when wondering how they knew the distance for these quasars. It appears they are getting warmer.

If a star gives good evidence for close-up investigation, journeying there will need to be planned exquisitely with respect to where it will be. (As Art pointed out) Though others in the area are fun to watch too.

Sean tweets.

Space X reports.

Merriam defines.

"Stuff" happens.

Not necessarily in that order.

Well, the problem is, the premise is inconsistent with any theory based on observation. So that kind of makes the rest of the conjecture fall apart. And that's fine if you would choose to educate me on "why it's inconsistent" so I would learn of my error. That was another point in my post...

Let's say I suggest that dark matter surrounds all matter from the smallest quantum bit to the largest clusters of galaxies. Well, the problem is, the premise is inconsistent with any theory based on observation. So that kind of makes the rest of the conjecture fall apart. And that's fine if you wo...

Let's say I suggest dark matter surrounds all matter from the smallest quantum bit to the largest clusters of galaxies. It is functional in ways unique to each size dimension. In the atom's nucleus it functions to separate charge and spin forcing electrons to exist in shells and the nucleons to sep...

“Roses Are Red That Much Is True But Violets Are Purple Not Freaking Blue”


The merger of two galaxies occasionally turn into “ a one liner”.

Emanating from the poles of the Milky Way are these Fermi Bubbles . When we first heard about them a few years back I think all our curiosities were spiked. With all the energy being exhausted into discovering the nature of dark matter, I find it almost too convenient that the bubbles are located in...

The dwarf galaxies The Local Group.jpg discovered in orbit around the Milky Way are paving the way looking for evidence of dark matter and how it influences our galaxy. These dwarfs may also give information about our galaxy's globular clusters and how they rotate in the halo of the Milky Way. Globu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtX3EJ9M4UU If someone had never read a single Shakespeare play, and I'm not saying who, which one would you recommend as a first? I'd recommend a comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream . I'd recommend checking out a Shakespeare DVD at your local library. I would also str...

Want to leave Earth soon for a journey to the stars?

Sounds like we are stuck with just eating one. That's a little hard to digest.

If someone had never read a single Shakespeare play, and I'm not saying who, which one would you recommend as a first? I'd recommend a comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream . Or if you (sorry... someone ) want something a little more dramatic, but not a tragedy, The Merchant of Venice . Thanks. For ̶m̶...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Act 2, Scene 2 LORD POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Troilus and Cress...

What in the world would we do without words? I enjoy them and, I suspect, so do others.

Sean Carroll gives us his view on the Word of the Year.

Earthquakes, rain or fire? Makes one wonder if the cartographers knew something...
Groovy!

starsurfer wrote:I'd really like it if there was either an Alaska Nebula or a Canada Nebula.

I suppose the North American nebula represents too far south but they have the Aurora Borealis. Each land mass only gets one major attraction.