Professor Toffee
On and on, over the hill and the craic is good
All 7 planets art closer to the dwarf sun than Mercury is to Sol
Cool!
The sky is full of planets !
Cool!
The sky is full of planets !
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TheFinnFan
Finners
Nice. Now that we've found their worlds we're doomed. I'll give humanity few months.
Seathestars
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There's one in Stockholm
The Sweden Solar System is the world’s largest model of our planetary system, at a scale of 1:20 million.
The sun is represented by the Globe Arena in Stockholm, the largest spherical building in the world. The planets, all appropriately scaled, are all around Stockholm and its suburbs. Jupiter (diameter 7.3 m) is at the Stockholm-Arlanda International Airport, Saturn is in Uppsala, and Pluto in Delsbo, 300 km from the Globe Arena. At each planet, a small exhibit provides information about astronomy and the mythological figure after whom each planet is named.
Even a few non-planets are represented in the Swedish solar system. Sedna, a trans-Neptunian object, can be found 912 km from the Globe Arena in the “Technical House” in Lulea.
everton2004
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You must be seriously stinking rich to be able to afford two tickets.....
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) put up a satellite for the USAF yeserday on a Delta IV rocket.
This 16 year old has been taking pictures of launches at the Cape for a little while now, and he is doing an excellent job. He sets his camera up to be activated by the noise of the launch, and has some pretty specific settings to overcome the brightness of the engines contrasted with the night sky and not lose all the detail.....I am sure the photographer types will understand:
This 16 year old has been taking pictures of launches at the Cape for a little while now, and he is doing an excellent job. He sets his camera up to be activated by the noise of the launch, and has some pretty specific settings to overcome the brightness of the engines contrasted with the night sky and not lose all the detail.....I am sure the photographer types will understand:
Amazing photo thatThe United Launch Alliance (ULA) put up a satellite for the USAF yeserday on a Delta IV rocket.
This 16 year old has been taking pictures of launches at the Cape for a little while now, and he is doing an excellent job. He sets his camera up to be activated by the noise of the launch, and has some pretty specific settings to overcome the brightness of the engines contrasted with the night sky and not lose all the detail.....I am sure the photographer types will understand:
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Soviet food for the Mir space station.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
http://rbth.com/multimedia/pictures/2017/02/21/russian-astronomers-map-out-the-heavens_706683
Russian astronomers map out the heavens
Astronomers at Moscow State University (MGU) have created the world’s largest catalog with information about 800 thousand galaxies.
By Diana Petrenko, Anastasiya Karagodina, RBTH
The MGU catalog includes every galaxy known to science. They are located within a radius greater than 30 billion light-years from our planet.
The catalog details 800 thousand galaxies, their stellar composition and brightness in the electromagnetic spectrum - from ultraviolet to infrared. According to the researchers, the project was made possible thanks to big data.
The publicly available work is called the Reference Catalog of Galaxy SEDs. Its analysis of emission lines and their shapes is more detailed and accurate than any other, say the scientists.
So far, the information collected pertains only to galaxies that are close (by cosmological standards), i.e. those with a red shift (a displacement in the spectral lines towards longer wavelengths when moving away from the observer) of no more than 0.3. There is less information about the early Universe. However, the astronomers plan to add a further 300-400 galaxies in the near future.
Rose, UGC 1810 and UGC 1813 / Nasa, EsaThe disc of the galaxy UGC 1810 in the constellation of Andromeda is visibly deformed by tidal forces emanating from the rose-shaped neighboring UGC 1813. The necklace of blue diamonds at the top is formed from clusters of hot, bright young stars.
The Whirlpool Galaxy, M51 / Martin Pugh/NASAThis galaxy is very close to its companion NGC 5195. Due to the swirling spiral, it appears as if the main galaxy M51 is pulling all the matter towards itself, turning the other into a blurry lump and giving the impression of a whirlpool.
Andromeda, M31 / Lorenzo Comolli/Nasa
This huge galaxy is one of the closest to Earth and is visible to the naked eye. Scientists believe that in a couple of billion years it will crash into the Milky Way and swallow it up.
Cartwheel Galaxy / ESA, NASA, HubbleThis galaxy is said to have undergone a head-on collision with another about 200 million years ago, causing a powerful shock wave. Star formations appeared around the central part.
M64 / Michael Miller, Jimmy Walker/NasaThe structure of this galaxy contains prominent dust lanes concealing stars behind.
Ring galaxy Hoag's Object / NASA/JPL-CaltechThe first ring galaxy to be discovered. There is no consensus regarding the processes that formed such objects. According to one hypothesis, they were formed as a result of one galaxy passing through the disc of another.
M82 / NASA, ESAThis galaxy is adjacent to our own Milky Way, and also consists of spiral arms.
The Sombrero Galaxy (M104 or NGC 4594) / Giovanni Paglioli/NASAThe Sombrero Galaxy is so named because its dark dust lane gives it the appearance of a sombrero — a wide-brimmed Mexican hat.
Galaxy NGC 3370 / Nasa, EsaIn late 1994 a star inside this galaxy exploded with such force that it momentarily eclipsed billions of other celestial bodies. Light from the explosion reached Earth.
Russian astronomers map out the heavens
Astronomers at Moscow State University (MGU) have created the world’s largest catalog with information about 800 thousand galaxies.
By Diana Petrenko, Anastasiya Karagodina, RBTH
The MGU catalog includes every galaxy known to science. They are located within a radius greater than 30 billion light-years from our planet.
The catalog details 800 thousand galaxies, their stellar composition and brightness in the electromagnetic spectrum - from ultraviolet to infrared. According to the researchers, the project was made possible thanks to big data.
The publicly available work is called the Reference Catalog of Galaxy SEDs. Its analysis of emission lines and their shapes is more detailed and accurate than any other, say the scientists.
So far, the information collected pertains only to galaxies that are close (by cosmological standards), i.e. those with a red shift (a displacement in the spectral lines towards longer wavelengths when moving away from the observer) of no more than 0.3. There is less information about the early Universe. However, the astronomers plan to add a further 300-400 galaxies in the near future.
This huge galaxy is one of the closest to Earth and is visible to the naked eye. Scientists believe that in a couple of billion years it will crash into the Milky Way and swallow it up.
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