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In the link 'inflationary epoch' I found something interesting. The theory of inflation was create to explain some unsolved question of the Big Bang theory, like that the universe as flat as we see it today would require an extreme fine-tuning of conditions in the past, which would be an unbelievabl...

I never saw this before. A complete address with the final quote 'planet Earth'. May be we need to included that in our address and possibly another final quote: 'Milky Way galaxy'...

I presume that a planet around one of the Pleiades would be unaffected by that dust cloud. But what would their night sky look like? Fantastical, surely? John Now that you mention it, what can do a cloud of dust if pass near ours Solar System or our Sun? I don't know. I have no idea but one thing t...

It would be nice to know if the stars which are very 'close' to each other in the photo are members of double or even triple systems. Interesting also is some of the very faint "close' stars appear reddish, like red dwarf stars. Are they? The majority of stars are in multiple systems, so there...

holds 1,000 stars? where are they? i can see only a dozen or so here Yes. With others image of the M44 you can see more, not hundred's of them but much more. Here are a more deep information about the quantity from Wikipedia "Altogether, the cluster contains at least 1000 gravitationally bound...

poor guy never saw a single comet althougt the purpose of the catalog was precisely that. Wikipedia says Messier discovered 13 comets . May be I was to much categorical, my bad. He was a comet hunter and logicaly he must see multiple of them. Messier's catalogue was of things that were not a comet ...

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jsanchezjr wrote:The poor guy never saw a single comet althougt the purpose of the catalog was precisely that.

Wikipedia says Messier discovered 13 comets.

May be I was to much categorical, my bad. He was a comet hunter and logicaly he must see multiple of them.

Messier had been very happy of seeing the Lovejoy comet. Yesterday I was in a conference about supernovas(very, super very interesting) and talk about the messier catalog. The poor guy never saw a single comet althougt the purpose of the catalog was precisely that. You can image Messier looking to t...

Since massive stars live fast and die young , it is not so surprising that the cosmic Tarantula also lies near the site of a close recent supernova . Thinking about that. We all know that when all the fuel is gone a star begin to die and at the final stage end like a white dwarf, neutron star, blac...

6,500 light years away... Well, this is not to much away like others celestial objects. The todays famous supernova in the cigar galaxy is 12 millions light years away. And others galaxys is even more away. That distance blow the mind of any person. Btw, a few days ago I saw the movie 'Ender's Game'...

Beautiful image for those who celebrate the festivity(there are those who don't celebrate it, like myself, for having a pagan origin with a beginning in a pre-Roman celebration call it 'Lupercalia') but something that interested me was the link 'spiral arm' that explain the theory of the two spiral...

Beautiful image for those who celebrate the festivity(there are those who don't celebrate it, like myself, for having a pagan origin with a beginning in a pre-Roman celebration call it 'Lupercalia') but something that interested me was the link 'spiral arm' that explain the theory of the two spiral ...

This is my story: I'm 36 years old, my job software developer and live in a urban area in Puerto Rico near the capital, San Juan. We are here w/o many dark places, so much light pollution. So if you want to see a full blast night sky you will need to go very inside the Island. I see a full starry ni...

Well, this is my first post here so I'm glad to join this forum. I'm a very amateur on all this but I have so much interest in all that is out there. And sorry for my english, is my second language