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I have discussed elsewhere that some identifications may be wrong. This may just be a decrease in brightness of a related star. Think logically, could a star's brightness decrease in a regular way? Yes. I do not have the measurements in front of me, but I still maintain that there is a possibility t...

There are definitions of stars that say they are objects with reactions in the core that radiate light. Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, and even Earth meet that definition. It is just as likely to end up that the object is a double star. There are cool stars. That near infrared spectra is probably also se...

THere probably is some relationship to Poseidon, the moon illusion and the issues you describe. The discussion of Greek and Turkish conflict is interesting. In the United States, the elderly are sometimes tortured by states or counties for having experiences that are different than the experience of...

I enjoy the pattern provided by the Bernoulli equation logarithm. It helps see a pattern in spiral galaxy and hurricane. Further one gains an understanding that ellipticals and barred spirals could have similar vortical structure like a Bernoulli equation logarithm. I do want to say that not all spi...

THere is an unpublished article i wrote which talks about the CMBR not being related to the big bang or just as likely related to a local event like a supernovae or local big bang similar to what George Gamow discussed in constant production ideas. One of the arguments is that there should not be on...

From a brief look at Imagine the Universe from GSFC, Goddard Space Flight Center, I got the feeling that the event horizon has not really been established. While there might be large areas of dark mass or large mass, that does not establish that matter cannot be compressed further or that nothing ca...

I just checked the local Chicago Public Library catalog and there are a few books on the topic. I will check out one or two out today. I am interested in the direction of the tree fall down. Is it consistent with Lake Cheko's location? Why would say that some trees are standing? I appreciate the ima...

According to the Atlas of the Universe, the comet was found in 1892. It was not seen again until 1906 and then until the 1960's. The period is like 8 or 7 years however according to that resource. (Found at a local University) Interestingly, I sent an email on October 21st, 2007 to some resources ab...

Several of us have observed differences between Hobbel Ebberly and SDSS besides the alleged Supernovae. It might be good if the Michigan Technical University or other NASA staff involved in Astronomy picutre of the day posted a before and after image from SDSS Before and After or now Hobbell Eberly ...

I am not sure this is not a novae rather than Supernovae. Look at C and D dimming with A brightening. Why Supernovae versus novae. Has this been seen by many observatories? SN 1987 A certainly was, but has this been observed multiple times. I learned this summer how our constitution is about the rig...

Could be just a cold area of space. A close up area of cold area passing through cold gas area passing though cold dust I am not really clear on what basis void is concluded. Clearly there are many great voids seen, but I think clarity needs to be established in these studies. one pass of WMAP showi...

Fred Hoyle's steady state theory argues for many separate areas of growth rather than an expansion from a big bang like lemaitre and much of modern astrophysics. My question is about your knowledge of clusters of galaxies like Hercules, Coma, and Virgo being evidence of lack of homogeneity and lack ...

Neil De Grasse Tyson's posting is wonderful for me because it says to me that effects we see with Irish rock collections, Stonehedge, South American temple effects are similar to things that we build. The field of archaeastronomy is explored a little at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. I like the e...

My question is about the amount of atmospheric effect in that spectral image. I am pretty sure that observatory is land based. How much of the image has atmospheric chemicals visible? There are still tests of nuclear weapons. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, I believe, was not signed by the United...

Something I had written about in an article on Mistakes in Astronomical Imaging which no one, except a professor who did not have enough recent posts on arxiv, would post for me is that galaxy collisions can be a factor in dark matter. Unlike the argument of Vera Rubin, Dr. Krauss, others that the s...

One sees certain objects based on what is popular at the time. Planet finding is popular, so one sees planets. Asteroid finding is popular so one sees asteroids. Being the center is important, so we are the center. Fast spin based on dark matter is popular, so the spin is fast based on dark matter w...

When you look at R136, do you think that 100 years ago someone thought it was a galaxy or globular cluster or some other sexy object of the time? I want to assert that "sexy Object" ideas need to be understood. Planets are seen by observatories when the star is actually showing a limb dimm...

I was just talking yesterday about a Physics Today submission I did last December or November that the real point of e=mc2 is that radiation has an inertia. That is the last line of Einstein's Annalen De Physika article on e=mc2. One conceptualization of that is that it takes a lot to multiply mass ...

I wrote an article last year that the arXiv would not post about mistakes in astronomical identification. One of the arguments was about the difficulty of making distinctions between globular clusters and galaxies or what the technical distinctions were between globular cluster and galaxies. The obj...

My immediate reaction was about Sptizer's detection ability with regard to Ganymede, Io,Europa, Enceladus, etc. I do not recall right now how many Solar System planets have water vapor detected. I wrote on a similar topic to Science Magazine last Christmas. It was about how the Calcium around a star...

My own hypothesis is exposure of the far side to asteroids, micrometeroids and comets. The concept is that collision frequency is just higher on the far side. The earth's atmosphere burns up meteroids on a monthly basis. These do not then collide with the moon. The other concept is that there are mo...

The date was december 17th http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061217.html I recalled that quote from Article #4 from the top of my head. I will sometimes forget things like the "Doctor from Vermont who runs the democratic national committee" and recall "Radiation may have an inertia.....

Yes, I agree that the light of the infrared spitzer telescope is more clearly not just close radiation. Still, the infrared background could still represent recent not 13 billion year old objects. One could say "This is looking back 13 billion years in time", but the light could also refle...

There was a recent APOD discussing the idea that the Casimir effect relates to the dark energy effect. An explanation which I mentioned to NASA Public Affairs line is from Einstein's Paper #4 in Annalen Physika. I sent something similar to several resources. The last line is "Radiation may have...

This was my reply to Dr. Kashlinsky, Sptizer Space Telescope and Astrophysics Journals Letters a Few weeks ago--no Reply from any of them Is it not possible the Infrared light in the images is just from the current objects and does not come from earlier time? How could we test that? Take a number of...