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- Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:51 pm
- Forum: The Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources
- Topic: Astronomy Websites
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1116210
Re: Astronomy Websites
Hello Vichug :) I wish you to be successful as a student composer. It looks so original and interesting :D I just have two places i would like to suggest you, in Youtube. Listening to Northern Lights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHvdZdsIZxg Intergactic wandering and sounds of the Universe: http:/...
- Sun Dec 05, 2010 12:02 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2010 December 4-7
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2355
Re: Recent Submissions: 2010 December 4-6
Thank you for your great picture Stefano
It seems the moon belongs to the structure of the church. Or, the church could belong to the night sky structure.
Tu foto es una maravilla!!
Muchas gracias,
Céline
It seems the moon belongs to the structure of the church. Or, the church could belong to the night sky structure.
Tu foto es una maravilla!!
Muchas gracias,
Céline
- Sun Dec 05, 2010 11:57 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Great Astronomers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1150
Re: Great Astronomers
Hi Deeby ! Thank you a lot!!! Your book is so full of informations about History of Sciences, it is a really great project :D I have read just some parts of this huge online book. I join a picture i have taken, last September, showing a statue of one of the great scientists your book is about Le Ver...
- Sun Dec 05, 2010 11:28 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Frosted Leaf Orion (2010 Nov 17)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 53639
Re: APOD: Frosted Leaf Orion (2010 Nov 17)
This is deeply interesting, thank you a lot! go back more than about 100 years, and window glass was made by spinning large discs. These were thicker at the center than the edges, so window panes were generally wedge shaped.Glazers usually installed the panes with the thick side down, which is one r...
- Sun Dec 05, 2010 11:00 am
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4329
Re: NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery
Hello Neufer :) Unfortunately, i can't read your image (or video?)... There is a red cross at the top of the empty square :( , where you put your image (video), on the left side... The same event occurred in the forum topic about "motivation and dreams". I guess i am alone in this situatio...
- Sun Dec 05, 2010 10:46 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: 2010 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2492
Re: 2010 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar
Thank you Bystander, "the most great retiree", it is so strange to discover a structure like this "Rectangle" around a star, in the Universe. I thought we could find geometric structures above all in microcosms, i mean worlds at the scale of snow flakes, quartz cristal, ADN... I ...
- Sun Dec 05, 2010 10:32 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Moonrise Through Mauna Keas Shadow (2010 Dec 05)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3038
Re: APOD: Moonrise Through Mauna Keas Shadow (2010 Dec 05)
Hello, I love this picture! We have a wonderful image of our origins. Indeed, life depends on light (the Sun), which is born in the Oceans : here, the light (the Sun) comes from a sea (ocean) of clouds, in this picture. Both the volcano and its shadow look like waves on the ocean :D . It is so surpr...
- Sun Dec 05, 2010 2:27 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Expanding Universe, Infinity, and The Philosophy of Science
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9163
Re: Expanding Universe
I would like to go on a little further with you idea: The "standard" explanation for this is that the expansion is "intrinsic." This seems to mean that space itself is expanding - that new "locations" are constantly being created. It seems the Universe creates new "...
- Sun Dec 05, 2010 2:17 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Expanding Universe, Infinity, and The Philosophy of Science
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9163
Re: Expanding Universe
Hi, thank you for your answer :) The "standard" explanation for this is that the expansion is "intrinsic." This seems to mean that space itself is expanding - that new "locations" are constantly being created. It is beautiful. I have an idea, just an image, an analogy: ...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:18 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: I wonder how dark the skies are in these areas?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 222
Re: I wonder how dark the skies are in these areas?
Hello Orin, I guess if you have the basics; you don't need the glitter and fast life of the big cities. While the rural areas have a more peaceful and slower pace; there is still plenty to do. :wink: :) 8-) Yes, indeed, rural areas are more peaceful. I prefer to heard the singing of birds than the h...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:46 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Expanding Universe, Infinity, and The Philosophy of Science
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9163
Expanding Universe, Infinity, and The Philosophy of Science
Hello, Thank you a lot for this movie. If you accept questions, i am happy, because i have one :D An infinite Universe expands related to what? Observations and theory show the Universe is expanding. Nevertheless, if the Universe expands, as a balloon, it expands related to what? Indeed, a balloon e...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 3:24 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Read a Carl Sagan Day Essay.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 181
Re: Read a Carl Sagan Day Essay.
Hello :) I love the essay you put here. I love the poesy inside it, the wondeful images. Nevertheless, i think the earth is not "the shore of the cosmic ocean", but just "one of an infinite number other shores". There are so many worlds, i hope, so many other worlds than ours. I ...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 3:08 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Anticrepuscular Rays Over Colorado (2010 Nov 28)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4244
Re: APOD: Anticrepuscular Rays Over Colorado (2010 Nov 28)
This picture is so clear and so beautiful , i could imagine this:
From a moving car? We can see very well the animals and the landscape. So wonderful !APOD Robot wrote: Anticrepuscular rays photographed in 2001 from a moving car just outside of Boulder
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:58 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: ESO: ISAAC: Looking into the Milky Way’s Heart
- Replies: 12
- Views: 863
Re: ESO: ISAAC: Looking into the Milky Way’s Heart
That's impressing. Now i don't want to travel to the heart of a galaxy anymore
But it is strange we can see stars, instead of a black area. Or, maybe the stars we see in your picture are far away in front of the black hole.
Thank you a lot!
But it is strange we can see stars, instead of a black area. Or, maybe the stars we see in your picture are far away in front of the black hole.
Thank you a lot!
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:45 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Weather!
- Replies: 2868
- Views: 1040432
Re: Weather!
This is a great movie! I have seen it, thank you Owlice! I know some people can make movies like that, making the time quicker, but for art : you can see the passing of clouds, very quick; or flowers which open and close each day (you might have seen the movie "Microcosmos", a wonderful on...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:37 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Frosted Leaf Orion (2010 Nov 17)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 53639
Re: APOD: Frosted Leaf Orion (2010 Nov 17)
Thank you a lot Chris! That's a myth that doesn't seem to ever go away. Glass is not a liquid, it is an amorphous solid. It does not change dimensionally with time. Glass windows don't eventually get thicker at the bottom edges. I am so surprised :o I remember a friend showed me a glass in my univer...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:25 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Remember When
- Replies: 82
- Views: 2346
Re: Remember When
Hi Owlice, Caroling is a "song of prey or joy"? I googled it just now. I have the impression it is a party. I know what are "Christmas carols", but i am not sure you speak about Christmas Carols. You told me your friends have a long "door to door" tradition: does it mea...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:15 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Weather!
- Replies: 2868
- Views: 1040432
Re: Weather!
Hi Owlice, this is incredible!! Where have you taken those pictures? At the top of the North Pole or in Washington DC? There is so many centimeters of snow on the garden seat, and on the car :shock: There is never so much snow in my garden... Fortunately, because i think it was pretty difficult to u...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:00 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Sunset at the Spiral Jetty (2010 Dec 04)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5727
Re: APOD: Sunset at the Spiral Jetty (2010 Dec 04)
I love this spiral, with trees, inside a salt lake, at sunrise. At the beginning, i thought it was snow
Beautiful, really very beautiful
Beautiful, really very beautiful
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:55 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: ESO: ISAAC: Looking into the Milky Way’s Heart
- Replies: 12
- Views: 863
Re: ESO: ISAAC: Looking into the Milky Way’s Heart
Hello, the picture showing the heart of the galaxy is beautiful! :D Nevetheless, i don't see the black hole. I can see only many stars, while i am looking for a black area :? Is there a black hole at the heart of all the galaxies? Or is it an inner caracteristic of our galaxy? Have a very good day, ...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:51 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: 2010 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2492
Re: 2010 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar
It is so beautiful!
I like the expression "snowstorm of distant galaxies", because i like the analogy. It reveals the current weather. This picture is a poem
I like the expression "snowstorm of distant galaxies", because i like the analogy. It reveals the current weather. This picture is a poem
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:46 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: I wonder how dark the skies are in these areas?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 222
Re: I wonder how dark the skies are in these areas?
I don't know how is the sky.
I'm afraid there is no many attractive places in those towns. When politicians want people to live in a rural zone, sometimes you don't find work in those places, because it looks like a desert, a no man's land. So lands are "given"...
I'm afraid there is no many attractive places in those towns. When politicians want people to live in a rural zone, sometimes you don't find work in those places, because it looks like a desert, a no man's land. So lands are "given"...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:35 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Remember When
- Replies: 82
- Views: 2346
Re: Remember When
my son (...) the adults in the party -- my friend, her sister, their parents, a few others -- (...) all making little speeches and turning this into a Presentation and Ceremony. This is a hard crowd to sing with if one hasn't sung this work before. This is a tradition -i mean making little speeches...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:15 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Weather!
- Replies: 2868
- Views: 1040432
Re: Weather!
It looks as though Europe is getting our weather from this past February. :shock: Hi Owlice, I don't know which weather you had this past February, but i have seen in the Internet it was supposed to rain a lot today, at the North of Europe, included in my city, while it is snowing a lot!! Roads are...
- Sat Dec 04, 2010 1:11 pm
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Weather!
- Replies: 2868
- Views: 1040432
Re: Weather!
Thank you a lot, Rob
Have a very good day,
Céline
Have a very good day,
Céline