The Astronomy Thread
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Araxen
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NASA Finds Mysterious Bright Spot on Dwarf Planet Ceres: What Is It? - Yahoo News
NASA Spacecraft Almost to Pluto: Smile for the Camera!
It's going to be a fun year. New Horizon's will be getting images of Pluto finally with it's closest approach in July. Dawn is supposed to enter orbit around Ceres in March!
NASA Spacecraft Almost to Pluto: Smile for the Camera!
It's going to be a fun year. New Horizon's will be getting images of Pluto finally with it's closest approach in July. Dawn is supposed to enter orbit around Ceres in March!
Burnem Wizfyre
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Some screenshots I took from Space Engine...
Taken from a planet orbiting a binary star system inside a globular cluster:
Another planet orbiting a binary star system. This one is in the dwarf elliptical galaxy (Messier 110) that orbits the Andromeda Galaxy (seen here in the sky).
Seriously considering contributing to the project. Apparently the entire thing was created by one guy.
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Most binary stars in actuality are extremely far apart with orbits in the thousands if not tens of thousands of years. If you were on a planet orbiting one of the stars, the second star would appear to be little more than a particularly bright star that was stationary in the sky.
Merrith
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Surprised nothing posted here yet about the new dwarf planet in our solar system they discovered. Or that it's orbit seems odd somehow and one of the possible reasons could be a Super Earth size planet out beyond 250 AU from the sun (pure speculation but something that would explain it's orbit)
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Merrith
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/26/tech/i...-solar-system/
Edit: Hell I just looked at the date on that, from 10 months ago. Wonder why it popped up in a news feed I had the other day.
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Here's a more recent one think this was the one I glanced over couple days ago
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/01/2...stem/21133080/
This more recent update on it claims there could be two large planets out that far that are affecting the orbits of these other dwarf planets.
http://www.aol.com/article/2015/01/2...stem/21133080/
This more recent update on it claims there could be two large planets out that far that are affecting the orbits of these other dwarf planets.
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HAVEN'T CLEARED ORBIT NOT PLANET.
Going to have a nice chuckle if that is confirmed. Tyson gonna be upset.
Going to have a nice chuckle if that is confirmed. Tyson gonna be upset.
Burnem Wizfyre
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Serious question, do you honestly believe that shit or are you making a joke because when it comes to your blatant ignorance it's really hard to tell what you legitimately don't understand and what you are making fun of.
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iannis
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It is widely surmised.
I don't think they've actually managed to see the oort cloud and I don't think even Veejah has gotten close to where it's supposed to happen. But they know it's there because it must be and because comets have predictable orbits.
Burnem Wizfyre
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300 more years until Voyager reaches the Oort cloud, 30,000 to exit it according to this report.
Nasa confirms that the Voyager 1 probe has entered interstellar space (again) - Gadgets and Tech - Life and Style - The Independent