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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #910 on: September 11, 2015, 07:00:26 AM »
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #911 on: September 11, 2015, 07:05:03 AM »
Those are phenomenal. 
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #912 on: September 11, 2015, 07:31:33 AM »
Volcanoes on Io.



https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/io-volcano-tides

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"This is the first time the amount and distribution of heat produced by fluid tides in a subterranean magma ocean on Io has been studied in detail," said Robert Tyler of the University of Maryland, College Park and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "We found that the pattern of tidal heating predicted by our fluid-tide model is able to produce the surface heat patterns that are actually observed on Io." Tyler is lead author of a paper on this research published June 2015 in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

Io is the most volcanically active world in the solar system, with hundreds of erupting volcanoes blasting fountains of lava up to 250 miles (about 400 kilometers) high. The intense geological activity is the result of heat produced by a gravitational tug-of-war between Jupiter's massive gravity and other smaller but precisely timed pulls from Europa, a neighboring moon to Io that orbits further from Jupiter. Io orbits faster, completing two orbits every time Europa finishes one. This regular timing means that Io feels the strongest gravitational pull from its neighbor in the same orbital location, which distorts Io's orbit into an oval shape. This modified orbit causes Io to flex as it moves around Jupiter, causing material within Io to shift position and generate heat by friction, just as rubbing your hands together briskly makes them warmer.
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #913 on: September 11, 2015, 11:50:42 AM »
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #914 on: September 11, 2015, 12:14:05 PM »
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #915 on: September 11, 2015, 12:15:49 PM »
I can't wait to see the new pics of Nix and Hydra to be released... And I'm hoping for some pics of Styx and Keroboros
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #916 on: September 15, 2015, 01:46:06 PM »
According to a post on Reddit, this quasar is 5000 light years long.

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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #917 on: September 15, 2015, 01:47:58 PM »
Fuckin hell.

So basically - if you were travelling the speed of light - it would take you FIVE THOUSAND YEARS to travel from one end to the other. . .


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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #918 on: September 15, 2015, 01:50:09 PM »
Quote from: Kotowboy on September 15, 2015, 01:47:58 PM
Fuckin hell.

So basically - if you were travelling the speed of light - it would take you FIVE THOUSAND YEARS to travel from one end to the other. . .


 :o :|

Yes. If you were moving 186,000 miles per second, it'd still take 5000 years. It's hard to wrap your head around it.
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #919 on: September 15, 2015, 03:57:58 PM »
Um, that's the gamma ray burst from the Quasar.  The gamma ray burst is 5000 LY long and still travelling.  The Quasar itself is a super massive black hole.
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #920 on: September 16, 2015, 12:49:31 PM »
These kinds of numbers, thinking about how big space is, thinking about the edge of space or if it's infinite... This hurts my brain... Yet I can't stop thinking about it.
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #921 on: September 18, 2015, 02:20:32 PM »
Quote from: splent on September 16, 2015, 12:49:31 PM
These kinds of numbers, thinking about how big space is, thinking about the edge of space or if it's infinite... This hurts my brain... Yet I can't stop thinking about it.

The wonders of life.  Cant wrap your head around it.
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #922 on: September 20, 2015, 12:45:43 PM »
It's mad that this is our actual reality and yet we get bogged down with the minutiae of when is the new Dream Theater coming out and I hope it doesn't rain tomorrow.


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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #923 on: September 27, 2015, 08:58:39 PM »
So... blood supermoon. Are you seeing it? It's awesome.
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #924 on: September 27, 2015, 09:28:47 PM »
Wasn't able to take a good shot of the blood moon tonight, all I could muster, with the 200 mm zoom lens.


And this was last night with the full moon.

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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #925 on: September 28, 2015, 06:51:56 AM »
Cloudy here in the northeast, so I only got a few glimpses here and there.  I didn't see any red color though.

Also, if the red color is caused by light passing through earth's atmosphere en route to the moon, why isn't every lunar eclipse red?  Isn't the edge of earth's shadow always fringed by its atmosphere?
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #926 on: September 28, 2015, 09:40:08 AM »
Liquid water confirmed on the surface of Mars!!
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #927 on: September 28, 2015, 10:01:28 AM »
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Liquid water confirmed on the surface of Mars!!
Mars is better off than California.
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #928 on: September 28, 2015, 10:07:54 AM »
Damn!




(you're right, tho)
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #929 on: September 28, 2015, 12:13:54 PM »
Well is that real liquid water, bicarbonated or dehydrated?
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #930 on: September 28, 2015, 12:14:37 PM »
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Liquid water confirmed on the surface of Mars!!
That's pretty damn cool that water is most likely running on Mars at present day.

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“This is a significant development, as it appears to confirm that water -- albeit briny -- is flowing today on the surface of Mars.”

NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #931 on: September 28, 2015, 06:52:11 PM »
Nice discovery... but I was hoping they would announce they have found a black monolith of unknown origin instead. Lol!  ;D ;D
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #932 on: September 28, 2015, 10:24:22 PM »
well, they found one, but there is no way they're going to announce it
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #933 on: September 29, 2015, 06:09:33 AM »
Quote from: hefdaddy42 on September 28, 2015, 10:01:28 AM
Quote from: Chino on September 28, 2015, 09:40:08 AM
Liquid water confirmed on the surface of Mars!!
Mars is better off than California.

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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #934 on: September 29, 2015, 06:51:02 AM »
The chances of anything liquid on mars are a billion to one they said.

But still...
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #935 on: September 29, 2015, 06:51:57 AM »
Quote from: Kotowboy on September 29, 2015, 06:51:02 AM
The chances of anything liquid on mars are a billion to one they said.

Pretty sure no one has been saying that.
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #936 on: September 29, 2015, 08:38:32 AM »
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“Our quest on Mars has been to ‘follow the water,’ in our search for life in the universe, and now we have convincing science that validates what we’ve long suspected,” said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “This is a significant development, as it appears to confirm that water -- albeit briny -- is flowing today on the surface of Mars.”
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #937 on: September 29, 2015, 08:50:39 AM »
My girlfriend made me this for our anniversary.

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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #938 on: September 29, 2015, 08:55:12 AM »
Quote from: Chino on September 29, 2015, 08:50:39 AM
My girlfriend made me this for our anniversary.



Awesome shirt!  :hat
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #939 on: September 29, 2015, 08:56:36 AM »
Nice!
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #940 on: September 29, 2015, 09:20:34 AM »
Quote from: Chino on September 29, 2015, 06:51:57 AM
Quote from: Kotowboy on September 29, 2015, 06:51:02 AM
The chances of anything liquid on mars are a billion to one they said.

Pretty sure no one has been saying that.


:facepalm: :facepalm:
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #941 on: September 29, 2015, 09:37:30 AM »
Quote from: Kotowboy on September 29, 2015, 09:20:34 AM
Quote from: Chino on September 29, 2015, 06:51:57 AM
Quote from: Kotowboy on September 29, 2015, 06:51:02 AM
The chances of anything liquid on mars are a billion to one they said.

Pretty sure no one has been saying that.


:facepalm: :facepalm:

Care to elaborate?
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #942 on: September 29, 2015, 12:35:10 PM »
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #943 on: September 29, 2015, 12:39:30 PM »
It's now official that Nasa has found evidence of "recent water flowing" on the surface of Mars.


This is quite an incredible discovery.  :eek :eek
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Re: The Official Space and Astronomy Thread v. Well, this is weird.
« Reply #944 on: September 29, 2015, 12:41:58 PM »
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