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There is a super-tornado on the surface of the sun that is 5X the size of the earth that moves at 186,000 mph!
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/supermassive-swirling-solar-tornado-5-times-size-earth-213755952.htmlBe Excellent To Each OtherParty On, Dudes!0 -
Jason P wrote:There is a super-tornado on the surface of the sun that is 5X the size of the earth that moves at 186,000 mph!
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/supermassive-swirling-solar-tornado-5-times-size-earth-213755952.html
saw this on the news this morning ...
that speed and size is just incredible :shock:
The sun has sure been in the news lately ...
and what a weirdly warm winter and spring ... we have fireflies already
and hee hee frogs
I wonder ... will summer arrive just after Easter ?
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:shock: :shock: :shock:
The Tarantula Nebula .... to put it in perspective, it takes light 650 years to get from one side of the picture to the other ...
http://news.yahoo.com/amazing-hubble-photo-reveals-tarantula-nebulas-star-filled-140801377.htmlBe Excellent To Each OtherParty On, Dudes!0 -
SweetChildofMine wrote:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120227111238.htm
The picture is awesome... scientist re thinking galaxy formation models.
If I was going to be a heavenly body... I wanna look like this!
(the pink dancing butterfly on the astral plane)
very beautiful .... thanks for sharing*********************************************************************************************
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i use of light year is fantastic and mindbogglingJason P wrote::shock: :shock: :shock:
The Tarantula Nebula .... to put it in perspective, it takes light 650 years to get from one side of the picture to the other ...
http://news.yahoo.com/amazing-hubble-photo-reveals-tarantula-nebulas-star-filled-140801377.html
1 light year
2
3 light years
4
like that... and very far and deep away
like an ant herd walking to the moon and back or something
maybe ants walking to the sun and back
might take awhilefor poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7
"Hear me, my chiefs!
I am tired; my heart is
sick and sad. From where
the sun stands I will fight
no more forever."
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce0 -
Space... the final frontier!
Fascinating!
I also Like what Edward O. Wilson said about the other frontier: the minuscule. I don't have his statistics in front of me but he's pointed out that we've only identified a small percentage of the very tiny life forms on earth and have a lot to learn about them and from them."It's a sad and beautiful world"-Roberto Benigni0 -
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47091385/ns ... 5A5m2Bbklk
watched a show on this last evening
they spoke of many having the right conditions for life ...
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This is incredibly beautiful - I find this stunning.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/short ... h-res.html*********************************************************************************************0 -
This is a picture taken from a spacecraft orbiting Mars of the new Mars Rover parachuting down to the surface. Pretty cool stuff! It's amazing what human ingenuity and $2.5B can do. :ugeek:
Now the two-year search for life begins ...Be Excellent To Each OtherParty On, Dudes!0 -
That is cool.mikalina wrote:This is incredibly beautiful - I find this stunning.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/short ... h-res.html
Side Note. M31 (Andromeda) is on a path to collide with the Milky Way, destroying both galaxies in the process. Don't worry, it won't happen until 4 billion years from now ... almost 2 billion years after Earth is inhabitable.Be Excellent To Each OtherParty On, Dudes!0 -
Another meteor shower the night of Aug. 11th. Make sure you look up that night!
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essential ... ower-guide0 -
We watched an episode of Through the Wormhole this weekend, about parallel lives and deja vu, which spurred such a good conversation between my guy and me (we were either slightly or very high at the time
).
It just gets the brain going. It feels so good - nutritious, almost - to think about these things that are beyond the regular courses of our consideration.
I also love how it puts the trivial in perspective, in its place.0 -
I meant to thank you for this reminder! This Saturday night, I shall be looking up in the hopes I can see it.Jeanwah wrote:Another meteor shower the night of Aug. 11th. Make sure you look up that night!
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essential ... ower-guide
Never have yet, dammit.
*shakes fist at smog and city lights*0 -
hedonist wrote:
I meant to thank you for this reminder! This Saturday night, I shall be looking up in the hopes I can see it.Jeanwah wrote:Another meteor shower the night of Aug. 11th. Make sure you look up that night!
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essential ... ower-guide
Never have yet, dammit.
*shakes fist at smog and city lights*
I haven't had much success with meteor showers either, I either forget or it's cloudy here. I love "the wormhole" series, I haven't seen the one on parallel lives and deja vu! Must look that one up... thanks!0 -
Jeanwah wrote:Another meteor shower the night of Aug. 11th. Make sure you look up that night!
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essential ... ower-guide
Thanks - I've got this date posted....*********************************************************************************************0 -
Jason P wrote:
That is cool.mikalina wrote:This is incredibly beautiful - I find this stunning.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/short ... h-res.htmlSide Note. M31 (Andromeda) is on a path to collide with the Milky Way, destroying both galaxies in the process. Don't worry, it won't happen until 4 billion years from now ... almost 2 billion years after Earth is inhabitable.
Thats quite interesting, thanks for sharing...*********************************************************************************************0 -
An amature captured this amazing photo of solar eruptions on the sun! He must have a better setup then my $400 dob scope.
Be Excellent To Each OtherParty On, Dudes!0 -
Jason P wrote:An amature captured this amazing photo of solar eruptions on the sun! He must have a better setup then my $400 dob scope.
Wow - just beautiful.... that must be some scope he has in order to capture that. Thanks for sharing.*********************************************************************************************0 -
*nudge*Jeanwah wrote:Another meteor shower the night of Aug. 11th. Make sure you look up that night!
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essential ... ower-guide
Looks like it might be a cloudy evening here so we may not see much.
But I'll be checking!0 -
hedonist wrote:
*nudge*Jeanwah wrote:Another meteor shower the night of Aug. 11th. Make sure you look up that night!
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essential ... ower-guide
Looks like it might be a cloudy evening here so we may not see much.
But I'll be checking!
A cloudy evening for me too....*********************************************************************************************0
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