Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


1 posted on 07/02/2019 10:12:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: Red Badger

Looks like a big oops in space.


2 posted on 07/02/2019 10:15:58 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

Videos of fireworks usually have a technical delay challenge to synchronize the sound with the picture.

The sound here will come after we’ve been dead for a gazillion years.


3 posted on 07/02/2019 10:19:03 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: lonevoice

ping


8 posted on 07/02/2019 10:25:23 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger
That's an astounding picture of an astounding object!

Just to demonstrate the incredible optical power that made that picture possible, here is a picture of Eta Carinae in its surrounding environment (it's near on the horizontal centerline of the picture, about two-thirds of the way from the vertical centerline to the left edge, directly under the letter 'I' in the word MOSAIC2 at picture's upper left):

The line labeled "3 arcminutes" (at upper right) is about one-tenth the apparent diameter of the full moon as seen from Earth.

10 posted on 07/02/2019 10:35:45 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

Little Johnny Q plays with matches


11 posted on 07/02/2019 10:37:44 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

One of my big sailing goals is to get far enough south to see this in a telescope. It won’t look the same, but, I still want to see it.


14 posted on 07/02/2019 10:53:59 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger
RELATED Solar winds, polar heat explains Jupiter's warming atmosphere

So, it's NOT SUV's???

16 posted on 07/02/2019 11:02:17 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger
Carina is part of the wreckage of the Argo. Originally there was one huge constellation Argo, which was later broken up. Carina is Latin for "keel"--it is the keel section of Argo.

The brightest stars were designated by letters of the Greek alphabet, in order of apparent brightness. (Sometimes they got it wrong--Beta Orionis is brighter than Alpha Orionis, for example.) The designations were made before Argo broke up, so Eta Carinae was perceived to be the seventh-brightest star in all of Argo, not the seventh-brightest star in Carina.

17 posted on 07/02/2019 11:02:56 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger

20 posted on 07/02/2019 11:09:40 AM PDT by Rebelbase
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Red Badger
I've been thinking for the past few days about Hubble's future.

And also about the abandoned TAU Project. TAU stood for Thousands of Astronomical Units. It was intended as a way to get a telescope up above the galactic plane, and over the dust in that plane to get a direct optical view of the center of the galaxy.

See where I'm going with this?

We have a perfectly good (indeed, OUTSTANDING!) telescope already in space. A few modifications, remove the solar panels, replace them with deep space SNAP generators. Add an ion drive rocket, a bigger data transceiver, and a few other odds and sods. Orient the telescope to roughly the galactic plane and very slowly spin it like a bottle so that it pans the entire galaxy say once a day (week or month).

Visualize this as the telescope being the top bar of a 'T' (or tau) with the enhanced data link, ion engine, and such forming the stem of the 'T'.

At a very modest 0.01g acceleration, it would be 10,000 AU above the galactic plane in 8 years.

We'd have clear photos, clear optical photos of the galactic core. We'd have millions of images of our local neighborhood, and a very long baseline for exactly calibrating distances to stars in our own galaxy.

We'd be able to actually see the other arms of our galaxy! Right now we're stuck down in the smog, and like a mid 70s Angelino, we can't even see the local mountains! (execept they had occasional clear days!)

24 posted on 07/02/2019 11:23:00 AM PDT by null and void (Stamp out philately!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson