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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Westerhout 5 (Sharpless 2-199, LBN 667, Soul Nebula) is an emission nebula located in Cassiopeia.

    W5, a radio source within the nebula, spans an area of sky equivalent to four full moons and is about 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. Like other massive star-forming regions, such as Orion and Carina, W5 contains large cavities that were carved out by radiation and winds from the region's most massive stars. According to the theory of triggered star formation, the carving out of these cavities pushes gas together, causing it to ignite into successive generations of new stars. The image in the gallery above contains some of the best evidence yet for the triggered star formation theory. Scientists analyzing the photo have been able to show that the ages of the stars become progressively and systematically younger with distance from the center of the cavities.[1]

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  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    I can't believe I forgot about those last two for a couple years! The last one made me really happy.

    I went camping once several years ago in the country around here....middle of nowhere and the sky looked kind of like that. So many stars, I remember thinking that the sky actually looked thick with stars. It is something to see, that's for sure.

    A few years ago I hiked up to Heliotrope Ridge on Mt Baker, a gorgeous spot above the tree line and right below the ice cap. I camped cowboy style that night, laid out a sleeping bag under the stars, and that was that. Right next to a pile of rocks to break the wind. It was the middle of August and I had spent just about every weekend night outdoors that summer, so this was no different.

    Somebody on the other side had a catapult and was launching flaming boulders over the mountain at me! No, wait, those are shooting stars.

    I've made special plans for the Perseid meteor shower ever year since then.

    And you're right, the night sky is incredible when you get out into the middle of nowhere.

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    The wildflowers were incredible.

    Sorry for the photo quality. Mediocre camera back then.
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  • thisonetimeatthegym
    thisonetimeatthegym Posts: 1,977 Member
    I can't believe I forgot about those last two for a couple years! The last one made me really happy.

    I went camping once several years ago in the country around here....middle of nowhere and the sky looked kind of like that. So many stars, I remember thinking that the sky actually looked thick with stars. It is something to see, that's for sure.

    A few years ago I hiked up to Heliotrope Ridge on Mt Baker, a gorgeous spot above the tree line and right below the ice cap. I camped cowboy style that night, laid out a sleeping bag under the stars, and that was that. Right next to a pile of rocks to break the wind. It was the middle of August and I had spent just about every weekend night outdoors that summer, so this was no different.

    Somebody on the other side had a catapult and was launching flaming boulders over the mountain at me! No, wait, those are shooting stars.

    I've made special plans for the Perseid meteor shower ever year since then.

    And you're right, the night sky is incredible when you get out into the middle of nowhere.

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    The wildflowers were incredible.

    Sorry for the photo quality. Mediocre camera back then.

    Gosh those mountains look gorgeous. Wow.
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    edited November 2016
    Maximus wrote: »
    How much raw materials would it take to build the Death Star?

    The Death Star has a volume of 17.16 quadrillion cubic meters. At 1/10 volume, we'll need 1.71 Quadrillion cubic meters of steel, weighing in at 134 quadrillion tons.
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  • Karb_Kween
    Karb_Kween Posts: 2,681 Member
    Does anyone get views like this anymore?

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    Is that another galaxy beyond the stars? Or a lone cloud?
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  • Karb_Kween
    Karb_Kween Posts: 2,681 Member
    Cats, dogs, spiders, fish, monkeys, chimps, reptiles, and frogs, nematodes, have all been up to space. I wonder if birds have gone up? I don't remember hearing about birds in space.


    https://youtu.be/g_Oxw4g2URc
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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Or you attach a giant laser beam on the planets head and call it a day. #TheForceAwakens #SharksWithLaserbeamsAttachedToTheirHead
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  • thisonetimeatthegym
    thisonetimeatthegym Posts: 1,977 Member
    CNN has a documentary interviewing military brass about space. :/
  • Sinistrous
    Sinistrous Posts: 5,589 Member
    I understand it, now. The color gray. I've got a strong feeling I'm on the right path.
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    A red sprite above the white light of an active thunderstorm

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    A View of San Francisco’s Leaning Tower From Space

    New satellite data showed the city of Pleasanton, bottom right, rising as well as movement along the Hayward Fault, running north-south on the center right. Green indicates no detected movement. Yellow, orange and red indicate where structures are sinking. Blue represents rising sites. Credit European Space Agency


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    Colored dots represent targets observed by the Sentinel satellite radar. Green dots are stable targets. Red dots, seen on the Millennium Tower at center and Salesforce East behind it, are targets that have sunk. Credit European Space Agency

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    The left "lobe" of Pluto's heart-shaped feature is a 600-mile-wide (1,000 kilometers) ice plain known as Sputnik Planitia.

    But a new study suggests that the ice buildup came first and the accumulated material eventually pushed the underlying landscape down, much as Greenland's enormous ice sheet has done here on Earth.

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Because the earth rotates, and revolves around the sun, and the sun moves around the center of our galaxy, which moves through space itself, you will never be in the same place twice. Ever.


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  • thisonetimeatthegym
    thisonetimeatthegym Posts: 1,977 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    Because the earth rotates, and revolves around the sun, and the sun moves around the center of our galaxy, which moves through space itself, you will never be in the same place twice. Ever.


    Cool thought.
  • thisonetimeatthegym
    thisonetimeatthegym Posts: 1,977 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    The left "lobe" of Pluto's heart-shaped feature is a 600-mile-wide (1,000 kilometers) ice plain known as Sputnik Planitia.

    But a new study suggests that the ice buildup came first and the accumulated material eventually pushed the underlying landscape down, much as Greenland's enormous ice sheet has done here on Earth.

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    I object! Speculative.

    (He he he. Just kidding, although I'm not:-). :)
  • zenaxe
    zenaxe Posts: 203 Member
    cee134 wrote: »
    Because the earth rotates, and revolves around the sun, and the sun moves around the center of our galaxy, which moves through space itself, you will never be in the same place twice. Ever.


    Nah I'm sitting in the exact same place i sat in yesterday
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  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member

    Do you think it would be like the devil's lettuce?

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Stellar 'Circle of Life' Captured in New NASA Photo

    The life cycle of stars comes full circle in a new photo taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA), which may reveal new clues for studying star evolution.

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  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    Maximus wrote: »
    Maximus wrote: »
    does a planet have enough raw materials to build that?

    How much wiring? And drywall?

    No, no, no, you find the planet made of steel then machine it down to a Death Star.

    I may not be smart man but I do know what planets are made of.

    I don't understand, is Maximus banned or not? How did he come back and then get banned again? What's going on?
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    As Cassini nears the end of its mission, it continues to beam data back to Earth, including this image of Saturn, its rings and the tiny moon Mimas. The craft's wide-angle camera captured the image of the sunlit rings on July 21, 2016.

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