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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:19 pm    Post subject: Favorite Cosmic Object

What is your favorite object that exists outside of the Earth's atmosphere?

Mine would have to be pulsars. Here's something to make you think:

Blink as fast as you can 15 times. In the time it took you to blink all 15 of those, a pulsar somewhere in the Universe just spun 50+ times.

It's mind-boggling.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 5:36 pm    Post subject:

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:27 pm    Post subject:

Oort cloud. Asteroid belt. Saturn's rings. There's so many things to discuss.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:54 pm    Post subject:

Uranus
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:35 am    Post subject:

Enceladus



Those jets are geysers of water shooting up through cracks in the surface. Either that, or it's on full afterburners....I'm not sure.

It has heat (due to tidal forces), an atmosphere, water in liquid form beneath its surface, and they have detected hydrocarbons -- all the essential ingredients of life. And it's right here in our solar system -- it's one of the moons of Saturn.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:27 pm    Post subject:

LarryCoon wrote:
Enceladus

http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/6232_15672_1.jpg

Those jets are geysers of water shooting up through cracks in the surface. Either that, or it's on full afterburners....I'm not sure.

It has heat (due to tidal forces), an atmosphere, water in liquid form beneath its surface, and they have detected hydrocarbons -- all the essential ingredients of life. And it's right here in our solar system -- it's one of the moons of Saturn.


I love astronomy so much!!!
Here's to Enceladus!
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 6:46 pm    Post subject:

Horsehead Nebula


Striking resemblance to my first girlfriend.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:15 pm    Post subject:

Alaskan Laker Fan wrote:
I love astronomy so much!!!
Here's to Enceladus!


You'll love this one, if you haven't already seen it:



It's not an artist's depiction. It's a photograph. (Well, a composite of many stitched-together photographs, but a photograph nonetheless.)
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:39 pm    Post subject:

angrypuppy wrote:
Horsehead Nebula


Striking resemblance to my first girlfriend.


You dated Exick?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 3:04 pm    Post subject:

That picture of Saturn really is quite exquisite. It's amazing to think what grandiose phenomena and matter can be found lurking in the dark, vast depths of the Cosmos.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 3:08 pm    Post subject:

LINK

Long URL I know, but the picture is worth it.

Every point of light, every smear and smudge is a galaxy. Containing billions upon billions of stars.

It's mindbogglingly huge.

AND this was taken in a patch of sky not much bigger than one hundredth the size of the Moon.


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 9:33 am    Post subject:

I fixed your URL. Hit the edit button on your post to see what I did -- that's what you need to do to post URLs without a long link showing.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 2:16 pm    Post subject:

LarryCoon wrote:
I fixed your URL. Hit the edit button on your post to see what I did -- that's what you need to do to post URLs without a long link showing.


Thanks!
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 3:28 pm    Post subject:

George Clinton.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 26, 2010 6:10 pm    Post subject:

LarryCoon wrote:
Enceladus

http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/6232_15672_1.jpg

Those jets are geysers of water shooting up through cracks in the surface. Either that, or it's on full afterburners....I'm not sure.

It has heat (due to tidal forces), an atmosphere, water in liquid form beneath its surface, and they have detected hydrocarbons -- all the essential ingredients of life. And it's right here in our solar system -- it's one of the moons of Saturn.


Pandora?
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