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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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31 October 2012
VdB 152: A Ghost in Cepheus
Image Credit & Copyright: Stephen Leshin
Described as a "dusty curtain" or "ghostly apparition", mysterious reflection nebula... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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18 October 2012
A View from Next Door
Illustration Credit: European Southern Observatory, L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)
Located just next door, Alpha Centauri is the closest star sy... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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3 October 2012
Goat Aurora Over Greenland
Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado (TWAN)
Sometimes it's hard to believe what you see in the sky. During the Shelios Expedition to Gr... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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3 January 2013
Open Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158
Image Credit & Copyright: Dieter Willasch (Astro-Cabinet)
Open clusters of stars can be near or far, young or old, and diffuse or compact.... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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27 September 2012
Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis
Image Credit & Copyright: Marco Lorenzi (Glittering Lights)
Cosmic dust clouds sprawl across a rich field of stars in this sweeping t... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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12 October 2012
Pan-STARRS and Nebulae
Image Credit: PS1 Science Consortium
Processing: Nigel Metcalfe, Peter Draper (Durham Univ.), Gene Magnier (IfA Hawaii)
A single field from the world'... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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22 November 2012
Night of the Long Leonid
Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Vetter (Nuits sacrees)
A cosmic grain of sand left the long and colorful trail across this all-sky view. Its g... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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19 October 2012
Merging NGC 2623
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing - Martin Pugh
NGC 2623 is really two galaxies that are becoming one. Seen to be in the final stages of... |
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AstronomyDecember 21st 2012
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many of you that click this thread already know the signifigance of this date, however for those of you who don't...
The mayan civilization was an incredibly advanced civilization in every way... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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30 October 2012
Planetary Nebula PK 164 +31.1
Image Credit & Copyright: Descubre Foundation, CAHA, OAUV, DSA, Vicent Peris (OAUV), Jack Harvey (SSRO), PixInsight
Is this what will become of... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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30 November 2012
Clouds in Cygnus
Credit & Copyright: Image Data - Bob Caton, Al Howard, Eric Zbinden, Rogelio Bernal Andreo;
Processing - Rogelio Bernal Andreo
Cosmic clouds of gas and dus... |
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AstronomyAstronomy Picture Of The Day
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16 October 2012
A Spiral Nebula Surrounding Star R Sculptoris
Visualization Credit: ALMA Observatory (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
What's happening around that star? An unusual spiral structure has been... |
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GodQuestioning God's Existence
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Is there a god?
What i exspect is yes...
why? Well I know for a fact there are Spirits , playing the Quija board and living in a haunted house proves that fact to me personally. what that means... |
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Physics & CosmologyWhere does the material from black holes go?
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Hmm . . . the problem being the statement of closure!
To think a black hole would spit you in another space and time is immediately shot down even by the limited knowledge we have of black holes. Wit... |
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Physics & CosmologyParadox?
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So science states that the at some level, we have the inertia => rotational momentum of our spin. Then another is represented by the earth-moon spin, then another by our solar system; as our system... |
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AstronomyExcerp: Stars
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The stars are always there, even in the daytime when they are blotted out by the sun. That is something we do not understand as children. As the earth revolves in its yearly orbit, different parts of... |
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Physics & CosmologyWhere does the material from black holes go?
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Remember, black holes may be portals, or doors, or anything (as Ancient mentioned). This is not well understood by scientists yet though. It may be true that wormholes don't exist at all.
It... |
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Physics & CosmologyWhat does it mean there are Four Dimensions?
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One of the classical test examined the Newtonian Theoritical Values relating to precession in the orbit of Mercury
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http://astro.physics.sc.edu/ SelfPacedUnits/Unit57.html .
The three classi... |
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AstronomyExcerp: History of Astronomy
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Each period in history sees the sky in a different way. The way a civilization perceives the sky is related to its travel capabilities. As man's knowledge of geography has increased, so has his u... |
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Sentience vs. Sapience
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knowledge is basically how to do something
wisdom is basically how to do something right, or not do it ;)
sapience... ooooooo sounds all "collegey"
you labeled the top of your thread... |
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The Mind
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"What are the postive uses of the mind? There aren't any"
"MIND" is an illusory reflection of cerebral fidgeting. It comprises all the random, uncontrolled thoughts that bu... |
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FuturologyProgression of Humanity
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Some great points in here.
FIrst, Jacker, I admire and share you revelation that I've had too about the shame of not properly affecting change.
Second, I thought baby's point about how far... |
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Physics & CosmologyBlack Holes
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Random House Webster College Dictionary
The arch or vault of heaven; sky .
Firmament in the midst of the waters
According to Relativity, light emitted by the sun should circumnavigate the unive... |
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Life & DeathMy Theory on Life
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before you read, their is more that I did not put in here. A lot more. If I didn't explain some parts clearly, its mainly the wording. Play with the theories in your own mind.
Life...is it r... |
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