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Hyperfast Star Was Booted from Milky Way
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| 7/22/2010
| ScienceDaily
Posted on 01/19/2011 5:30:39 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: dragnet2
We've got a small to average star. Put it next to a giant in comparison.
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posted on
01/19/2011 7:28:07 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: cripplecreek
You bet. There are videos out there that depict the sized of stars compared to ours...The size of some of these stars are almost beyond comprehension.
Thanks for that.
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posted on
01/19/2011 7:33:12 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: JRandomFreeper
"I'll get that sumbich. What we're dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law!"
To: cripplecreek
Shot this image recently of M-13 star cluster.
M-13 is a Globular star cluster in the Constellation Hercules, which contains several hundred thousand stars. This system is approximately 25,000 light years from earth. Many of the stars in this image, are much larger than our own sun.
10"SCT-15x20s calibrated and combined in DSS. 6.3focal reducer, with LPfilters, Canon 40D @ISO800.
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posted on
01/19/2011 7:42:19 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: dragnet2
I’m a lifelong insomniac and I’ve found that wandering the universe is a great way to get to sleep.
Lately I’ve been thinking about conditions that would make life possible on a planet tidally locked to its sun. One I came up with that’s interesting to think about is a planet orbiting close to a red dwarf which in turn orbited a giant. If the stars were far enough apart you could get a planet with a stable orbit. The planet would have one side in perpetual sunlight and the opposite hemisphere would have a day/night cycle which would equal its year.
Obviously the variables are incalculable but its fun to think about.
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posted on
01/19/2011 7:51:15 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Calvin Locke
every thousand years
this metal sphere
ten times the size of Jupiter
floats just a few yards past the earth
you climb on your roof
and take a swipe at it
with a single feather
hit it once every thousand years
`til you've worn it down
to the size of a pea
yeah I'd say that's a long time
but it's only half a blink
in the place you're gonna be
Lyrics from Built To Spill ("Randy Described Eternity")
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
It is blazing across space at a speed of 1.6 million miles (2.5 million kilometers) an hour, three times faster than our Sun's orbital velocity in the Milky Way. So we're going about 150 miles per second. It doesn't feel like it.
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posted on
01/19/2011 7:59:46 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(Half of all Americans are above average. Politicians come from the other half.)
To: cripplecreek
Thanks Crip, I’ll check it out.
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posted on
01/19/2011 7:59:58 PM PST
by
Islander7
(There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
To: cripplecreek
I don’t worry too much about that, as I’m really confident life exists amongst the hundreds of billions of star systems throughout the universe. Even with our primitive technology, I think we’ve already discovered over 800 planets orbiting other stars, right in our own neighborhood. Given this fact, I would assume there are literally multiple trillions of planets where life might be possible.
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posted on
01/19/2011 8:00:37 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Islander7
The new worlds atlas on the site is pretty cool too. Kind of a 3-D map showing where the known exoplanets are in relation to us.
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posted on
01/19/2011 8:05:52 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: SunkenCiv; CJ Wolf; houeto; Quix; null and void; B4Ranch; Whenifhow; Silentgypsy; FromLori; ...
Did-you-get-that-guy's-license ping.
"Space Energy/Solar Weirdness" ping.
Ping list dealing with odd space phenomena and solar events.
FReepmail me if you want on or off
The Comedian's "Space Energy/Solar Weirdness" ping list...
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
01/19/2011 8:11:57 PM PST
by
The Comedian
("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" - B. Goldwater)
To: The Comedian
Of course they
KNOW such things sooooooooooooo emphatically
because they’ve been there and taken close measurements.
LOL.
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posted on
01/19/2011 8:15:45 PM PST
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: Eaker
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posted on
01/19/2011 8:23:34 PM PST
by
xone
To: cripplecreek
That is very humbling. Puts things in perspective quite well. Thanks.
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posted on
01/19/2011 8:25:46 PM PST
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: dragnet2
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posted on
01/19/2011 8:31:56 PM PST
by
mowowie
To: cripplecreek
That’s a huge star. Is there any speculation as to when it’s going to blow up?
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posted on
01/19/2011 8:40:46 PM PST
by
dragonblustar
("... and if you disagree with me, then you sir, are worse than Hitler!" - Greg Gutfeld)
To: All
This is HE 0437-5439
To: Moonman62
It takes the Solar System 200-250 million years to orbit the Milky Way
To: mowowie
Thanks. When I processed the data, I honestly didn’t expect to see it’s companion star due to focus issues prior to the shot.
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posted on
01/19/2011 9:05:12 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
We’re going about 18 miles per second around the sun. I’m getting dizzy.
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posted on
01/19/2011 9:14:18 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(Half of all Americans are above average. Politicians come from the other half.)
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