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Would Andromeda and the Milky Way appear this close together from 70 M light years away?

I'm curious. Would one have to take this sequence of photos on the equator for the Analemma to be the perfect figure 8? The farther north, the smaller the upper 8 arc? The farther south the smaller lower 8 arc?

Eloquent. Thank you. So I suspect "A flight through the universe, APOD, Aug 13, shows most of the galaxies moving slower than "c" in relationship to us, the Milky Way, when their photons were first emitted? If so, can we observe "winking out" galaxies as they approach c? Can...

Light Speed Relativity Dance Please forgive me if I cannot write clearly enough to capture my question in copy. But I'll try. (http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=575) Assuming it's true that a galaxy can travel faster than the speed of light through space [relative to another galax...

This is a tremendous effort. Thank you. However, have you ever considered this: We all know the farther away we gaze the farther back in time we're looking. So, this map is really a very, very old map. Could we extrapolate "where the galaxies would be now"? Since we could never, ever, trav...

Excellent answer. Thank you. Though the star forming (an annihilating) tumultuous regions of our Milky Way and beyond are stunning optical dazzlers I suspect the tracks left by Goldilocks and her flock might be more fruitful searching Ann's random star field? Truly, no matter where we sleuth, I do s...

Curious what our solar system and neighborhood would look like @ 5000 light years away? Would we have "dust" and ribbons of "dark clouds"? Or just an uneventful section of uninteresting space?

Howdy... sensational image today. Question: As the speed of light is "absolute." And "absolute zero" is, well, absolute. Is there an "absolute" high temperature? OK... here's the real answer: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/absolute-hot.html (hint: there is no ans...

Howdy... sensational image today. Question: As the speed of light is "absolute." And "absolute zero" is, well, absolute. Is there an "absolute" high temperature?

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So what is "between" them?

Just above the lunar seismometer is an angle'd white "box." I'm assuming this is the packet of corner cube retro reflectors deployed about all the landing sites? An earthbound laser would target the retroreflectos for several reasons. First, to time the light's return to accurately measure...

A straw filled with air, sealed at both ends. I press on one end and the other end bulges. Or a stick. I move one end and the other end moves. The straw goes between here and the moon. I could tap out "hi" in morse code on my end of the straw. Would my "hi" reach the moon faster ...

The lighting in this painting is all wrong! The crescent moons indicate the direction of the main light source, which should be where these two lines intersect. There is nothing there! You could send an email to the artist and tell him so..... (his contact info is directly underneath the image.) :r...

Perhaps it is our "definition" of the color light that is confusing. We describe it in simple terms like RGB, CMYK, Pantone, etc. One could ask if the absence of "color" is also "part of our universe"? You have to admit that we all see black. We see these black pixels (...

Color? Additive color? Subtractive color? Transmissive color? Reflective color? Is black a color? In reflective coloring it is. In spectral color is it? I'd suspect a lot of analytics and math when in to determining the exact "color" of the electromatic spectral spectrum. But the brain, th...