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by harry
Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:17 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Milky Way Centre
Replies: 22
Views: 1207

Re: Milky Way Centre

G'day Bystander

Thanks for the link

Don't you think the MW is quite amazing as in Wow!!!!!!!

I have to build a space ship that is able to travel at mind speed.

Sometimes its good to dream.
by harry
Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:58 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Quasar
Replies: 36
Views: 1724

Re: Quasar

G'day I have read the link from wikipedia on Quasars and its written like a journal writing. Who ever wrote it has a secondary science schooling. Eg While there was initially some controversy over the nature of these objects — as recently as the early 1980s, there was no clear consensus as to their ...
by harry
Sun Dec 20, 2009 7:02 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Herschel Views The Milky Way (2009 Oct 16)
Replies: 13
Views: 2676

Re: Herschel Views The Milky Way (2009 Oct 16)

G'day Bystander What a silly question. Do you not find it amazing the images and the beauty of the cosmos? I have been seeing the sky for decades and still find it amazing. As for filaments, filaments are filaments small and large and their formation is extraordinary, how they connect from one objec...
by harry
Sun Dec 20, 2009 6:40 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Milky Way Centre
Replies: 22
Views: 1207

Re: Milky Way Centre

G'day Sometimes we do not think of the time taken to TAKE a photo image. The fields, degrees, multiply images and hours of exposure. We see it and say Wow!!! and no second thought to the work behind the image. Thank you to NASA and the hubble site. Gigagalaxy Zoom: Galactic Center http://antwrp.gsfc...
by harry
Sun Dec 20, 2009 2:54 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Herschel Views The Milky Way (2009 Oct 16)
Replies: 13
Views: 2676

Re: Herschel Views The Milky Way (2009 Oct 16)

G'day

Its amazing how star formation occurs along filaments. The origin of these filaments holds the secrets to the universe.
by harry
Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:22 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Milky Way Centre
Replies: 22
Views: 1207

Milky Way Centre

G'day From the land of ozzzzzzz

The Milky Way Centre

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghezgroup/gc ... skytel.pdf

This is fanatsic information and images about the centre of the Milky Way.

APOD has similar images.
by harry
Sat Dec 19, 2009 4:28 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Solar System
Replies: 47
Views: 4294

Re: Solar System

G'day MakC

Thanks mate for the link, and who said that you were not helpful.
by harry
Sat Dec 19, 2009 4:25 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Dark Flow
Replies: 161
Views: 12678

Re: Dark Flow

G'day makC You said Yeah, I can't see electrons no matter how hard I squint Is that before the Xmas party or after. There are enough images out there to give us some idea of the movements of the Milky Way, local group of galaxies, the cluster of local groups of galaxies and the super cluster that th...
by harry
Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:01 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Dark Flow
Replies: 161
Views: 12678

Re: Dark Flow

G'day

Its just amazing that from a theory comes out and expanding universe that in the mind of most is a fact and yet it is based on theory and not observable images.
by harry
Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:58 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Solar System
Replies: 47
Views: 4294

Re: Solar System

G'day Hubble Observes Planetoid Sedna, Mystery Deepens http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/14/ Image http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/14/image/ Hubble Finds 'Tenth Planet' is Slightly Larger than Pluto http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/16...
by harry
Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:45 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Kuiper Belt Objects
Replies: 2
Views: 520

Re: Kuiper Belt Objects

G'day Comparison of Kuiper Belt Object Sizes http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/16/image/d/ This is a photo illustration of the largest known Kuiper Belt objects. "Xena," officially catalogued at 2003 UB313, is slightly larger than Pluto. Somebody must be out there maki...
by harry
Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:24 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Phobos & Deimos together
Replies: 5
Views: 608

Re: Phobos & Deimos together

G'day

I agree and also plant more trees.

The carbon cycle is the key to producing Oxygen and Carbon dioxide.
by harry
Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:20 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Hubble's festive view of a grand star forming region
Replies: 4
Views: 567

Re: Hubble's festive view of a grand star forming region

G'day orin

That image looks like a Vincent painting. Fantastic

I will do a painting of it and sell it for a million dollars.

Or the nearest dollar.
by harry
Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:25 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: NASA's WISE Surveyor
Replies: 9
Views: 503

Re: NASA's WISE Surveyor

G'day Neufer

Thanks mate, must read later

Merry Xmas

Darn got to go.
by harry
Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:24 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Solar System
Replies: 47
Views: 4294

Re: Solar System

G'day Chris

Chris please research star dynamos and properties of so called core collapse and Neutron Stars and so on.

Must go

The wife is pulling me away from this box.

Merry Xmas, on the run.
by harry
Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:21 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Origin of the universe
Replies: 26
Views: 1726

Re: Origin of the universe

G'day Chris

I will come back to that

Right now its Xmas party time.

Merry Xmas all
by harry
Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:19 am
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: heic0917: Born in beauty: proplyds in the Orion Nebula
Replies: 0
Views: 409

heic0917: Born in beauty: proplyds in the Orion Nebula

G'day Photo Release - heic0917: Born in beauty: proplyds in the Orion Nebula http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0917.html 14-Dec-2009: A collection of 30 never-before-released images of embryonic planetary systems in the Orion Nebula are the highlight of the longest single Hubble Space Tele...
by harry
Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:59 am
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: How can The Asterisk be improved?
Replies: 60
Views: 58456

Re: How can The Asterisk be improved?

G'day

A reading forum on subjects without censorship.

Yes I know that 90% will be crap and yet its great to know that there is crap and to be awear.

Even a flower can grow on a Cactus.
by harry
Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:53 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Weird phenomenon over Norway
Replies: 42
Views: 9192

Re: Weird phenomenon over Norway

G'day Neufer

Darn and I thought it was a you know what.
by harry
Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:50 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Origin of the universe
Replies: 26
Views: 1726

Re: Origin of the universe

G'day Chris

The ultra gravity vector forces created can alter the speed of light.
If you wish for links proven such ideas, they are easy to search.
by harry
Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:59 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Origin of the universe
Replies: 26
Views: 1726

Re: Origin of the universe

G'day

Two points

One: EMR near condensed matter from within to out the speed slows down. If the condensed matter forms a trapping Horizon than EMR cannot escape along that path.

Two: Clocks are affected by inertia and thefore alter their recording of time.
Twin Paradox is a prime example.
by harry
Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:51 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Weird phenomenon over Norway
Replies: 42
Views: 9192

Re: Weird phenomenon over Norway

G'day

and one from China

Does not look like an illusion

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixLE3ius ... r_embedded
by harry
Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:18 am
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: How can The Asterisk be improved?
Replies: 60
Views: 58456

Re: How can The Asterisk be improved?

G'day

By moderators not directing science to a particular line of thought and allowing science not to be censored.
by harry
Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:00 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Solar System
Replies: 47
Views: 4294

Re: Solar System

G'day Chris "Never say never again" I think they made a movie about it. You are mistaken about its rotation. The way you say it implies that the star rotates. This is not the case. Its created by the internal dynamo. Red Dwarf Dynamo Raises Puzzle over Interiors of Lowest Mass Stars http:/...