Posted on 12/30/2024 12:30:02 PM PST by Red Badger
Save this headline...We can use it again.................
“Bob”
Al...............
Astronomy books in the future will be forever defined as before JWST and after JWST.
Zhúlóng? Why? It’s Chinese and from Chinese mythology. Why pick this name?
Good question.................
I find all the JWST data fascinating. It has shattered the age/size/assumptions of the universe. A a full fledge creation believer, God set everything in motion for a reason. Some of it is just to humble us in our beliefs that try to explain away Gods creation.
I can still be amazed at his ability to create complexity and a few head fakes. It’s all amazing and glorious.
Ok.
“WHY???” does it have a chinese name!!!
I should have scrolled.
Same question in my comment.
So that a billion years later you can name it again.............
A day is as a thousand years and thousand years is as a day...............
Looks like a torch turtle.
😂👍
I agree, should have named it Gamera instead.
To continue from the Zhulong aka Zhuyin wiki page...
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The Classic of Mountains and Seas (c. 3rd century BCE - 1st century CE) records parallel myths about Zhuyin and Zhulong.
“The Classic of Regions Beyond the Seas: The North” section (8) describes Zhuyin on Bell Mountain 鍾山, Zhōngshān):
The deity of Mount Bell is named Torch Shade. When this deity’s eyes look out there is daylight, and when he shuts his eyes there is night. When he blows it is winter, and when he calls out it is summer. He neither drinks, nor eats, nor breathes. If this god does breathe, there are gales. His body is a thousand leagues long. Torch Shade is east of the country of Nolegcalf, which “lies East of Longtigh country”. Nolegcalf “people have no calves on their legs”.[4][citation needed] He has a human face and a snake’s body, and he is scarlet in colour. The god lives on the lower slopes of Mount Bell.[2]
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Mount Bell is this place (sorry the auto links went wonky, I don’t have time to format right now):
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Purple Mountain is a mountain related to many historical events of both ancient and modern China. It was originally known as Bell Mountain...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Mountain_(Nanjing)
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I thought it worth mentioning because the recent comet was discovered there (🤔 9 January 2023) and named for the Purple Mountain Observatory:
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C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) is a comet from the Oort cloud discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China on 9 January 2023 and independently found by ATLAS South Africa on 22 February 2023. The comet passed perihelion at a distance of 0.39 AU (58 million km; 36 million mi) on 27 September 2024,[1][4] when it became visible to the naked eye.[7][8][9] Tsuchinshan-ATLAS peaked its brightest magnitude on 9 October, shortly after passing the Sun, with a magnitude of −4.9 per reported observations at the Comet Observation Database (COBS).[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2023_A3_(Tsuchinshan%E2%80%93ATLAS)
“Bob” works for me. Yell “Hi, Bob!” at it and see if it answers up. In 26 billion years. You gotta be patient with this sort of thing.
Astronomers believe in dragons! Said Joy Behar.
MEANWHILE-—THE DRONES OVER NEW JERSEY, et Al, CANNOT BE EXPLAINED
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