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So, I'm too late to get either solar glasses or other eclipse viewing paraphernalia (I'm only in a 95% totality band anyway), but if I was interested in getting something to use with binoculars in the future, what's the best choice? I know there are specialty "solar-only" binoculars with ...

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So, I'm too late to get either solar glasses or other eclipse viewing paraphernalia (I'm only in a 95% totality band anyway), but if I was interested in getting something to use with binoculars in the future, what's the best choice? I know there are specialty "solar-only" binoculars with ...

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TY Chris and Ann. Ann, that is too many stars to have in our sky for me lol.. I very much like night time, and the night sky. It must be quite an energetic place for so many stars to be so near each other. Talk about turbulence - and the insane math that goes with it... And the next wonderment: so i...

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I've asked this before re the Hercules cluster: do astronomers know the approximate distance between the closest stars to each other here? They seem to know the approximate number of stars, and the size and distance of the structure. I'm assuming things are not homogeneous tho: some stars are relati...

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It's pretty, but as a sound engineer, I would have rather heard it in a more natural way. I have listened to clips that audio folks have created using interpretation of the frequencies to ear-audible. Not as sonically lilting as this, but having some real relation to whatever is being scanned. I hav...

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Thanks. That makes a lot of sense.

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Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 4:10 pm

Most of the volume of space is free of any particles (other than virtual ones). A true vacuum. But the density of particles is high enough that in most of the Universe the volume of particle free areas is small- cubic millimeters or less.

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"...the dust boils away, the gas gets swept away..." There are a lot of tiny motes out there getting swept and blown hither and thither. I wonder if there is a 'particle to 3D area' ratio that determines when there is and when there is not a vacuum. Or is a vacuum such an absolute that it ...

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Ann said: The elongated spiral galaxy NGC 6872 is truly gigantic, but that is mostly (or only partly?) because its arms have been "unwound" and "stretched out", likely because of tidal interaction with its small satellite galaxy, IC 4970. Even though NGC 6872 is huge, giant elli...

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[ Color is amazing. But for us on the Earth, indeed in the Solar system, it all starts the Sun. Which isn't yellow. But never mind. 🌞 Ann I am so fascinated by color. It means so much for all of us. No wonder plants are green; they have to reflect away all that poisonous green light from the Sun! A...

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johnnydeep wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 1:42 pm
jeanfoxall@live.com wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2023 10:27 pm Help, someone, I'm stuck!
Or, "I've fallen and I can't get up!"

That is truly a beautiful color scheme Johnny. I think I want to save it!

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Can you find a designation for the lovely three-armed spiral galaxy behind M101?

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No designation, but at least this little ditty exists. Someone else likes it too.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla ... lepictures

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Are there two Pinwheel Galaxies, M101 and M33?

From Astronomy.com

"The Local Group’s third-largest member, the Pinwheel Galaxy (M33), resides in the constellation Triangulum. It is only about one-tenth the size of the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way."

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This photo reminds me of when I snuck up to the very tippy top of a cruise liner one very late clear night. No land, but the sky and the sea were similar. I was transfixed for hours; finally climbed down when the first hint of dawn appeared. If ever you take a cruise, do this...

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Jupiter has nothing on Earth when it comes to clouds... https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KjH31jxYIx8/T_m_jusWLxI/AAAAAAAACd4/muicUMsPxMA/s1600/Asperatus+Cloud2.jpg https://strangesounds.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/undulatus-asperatus-1.jpg https://external-preview.redd.it/sa-DK666FkDsCZgfCEqIvw7WZq5w4w...

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Yes they always reminded me of vacuum cleaner bags. And why not? It's basically what they are, and man seemingly modeled vacuum cleaner bags after them unwittingly. I find it endlessly fascinating that even creatures as odd as these still share most of our features. I don't know if they get digested...

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Their Achilles heel though are sustained high temperatures. Even desiccated tardigrades of the toughest species will succumb to sustained temps above 100C. So it is still the seeds of certain plants that will win the ultimate heat race, as tardigrades cannot withstand fire, while seeds can. Neverthe...

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I didn't know so many arms could be seen: "The structures of our galaxy are as follows- -The centre of our galaxy resides in sagittarius, not far from M6, but is obscured from view due to the dust clouds of the sagittarius-Carina spiral arm which is the next spiral arm in from our own. -We can ...

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Far more than in my night sky, this photo lets us know how close it is us to us. I wonder tho: is it the central body we are looking at or the body of the Orion/Cygnus Arm we live in? Or perhaps one of the major arms?

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So impressive it looks like a Midjourney fantasy painting.

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A beautiful cosmic Tea Rose.

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I don't know what you mean by "single". We would be unlikely to be able to detect if any of these stars have planetary systems. Ann seems to mean stars that are not "multiple"s, as in binaries, trinaries, etc. But holding on to planets seems like it would be a lot easier than ho...

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So let's say S5-HVS1 had a couple planets. Are they still in capture by the star hurtling thru space, or has all the upheaval overcome the gravity that held them? Have they become runaway planets, now alone in the dark?

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Thank you Ann. It almost sounds like a giant centrifuge of sorts - not working exactly the same way, but having similar results. Well, we have a limited number of wavelength colors, though many shades. Does each element correspond to a color shade? Can we have 98 shades of color providing the elemen...

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