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ninty · 06-01-2004, 12:41 AM

[quote="Unknown_Sniper":54233]I was star gazing the whole weekend. fri, sat, and tonight. I learned a shit load of contalations. And I swear I saw 3 space craft, either that or highly syncronized satillites traveling the same speed, staying the same dstane apart, and moving together in a very sharp orbit.[/quote:54233]

Well the ISS is clearly visible pretty much every night more than once. I have never seen three objects travel in the same orbit because you can't really see standard small satellites.

[quote:54233]-Our solar system was created through a big bang, but how was the universe created?
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Isn't the theory that the entire universe was created in a big bang? I suppose that galaxies and stars would also be created in big bangs as well, just on a smaller level.

Video on expansion of universe:
[url="http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/videos/metafiles/ksc_052004_chandra.ram"]http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/vide ... handra.ram[/url]

[quote:54233]Does space end?
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http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/questi ... number=166

But yeah, ktog all of your questions we probably will never know the answer to. The only thing we can do is have theories.

More on the Venus Transit like I was saying in my original post:
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/wat ... ansit.html

Video of the transit of Venus from 1882. A combination of 147 surviving photos from John Philip Sousa (1854-1932):
http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/ob ... odd640.mov

Another cool vid:
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/vide ... plaque.ram

Here's an article on Gravity Probe B that I posted on a while back and everyone thought I was crazy:
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/sol ... etism.html

[img]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/58397main_gyroscope1_med.jpg[/img]
GP-B's gyroscopes are the roundest objects ever made. Engineers at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center polished them to within 0.01 microns (less than 40 atom-widths) of perfect sphericity. Irregularities must be eliminated; otherwise the gyroscopes could wobble on their own without help from gravitomagnetism.

For some reason I find that extremly cool. ^^^^

[img]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/56532main_MM_image_feature_142_jw4.jpg[/img]
Each one of those is a galaxy. Amazing since we don't even know whats on the other side of our own galaxy. How the hell are we ever going to explore this entire place?

Galaxies, galaxies everywhere - as far as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope can see. This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind.Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, this galaxy-studded view represents a "deep" core sample of the universe, cutting across billions of light-years.

The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors. The smallest, reddest galaxies, about 100, may be among the most distant known, existing when the universe was just 800 million years old. The nearest galaxies - the larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals - thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old.

In vibrant contrast to the rich harvest of classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there is a zoo of oddball galaxies littering the field. Some look like toothpicks; others like links on a bracelet. A few appear to be interacting. These oddball galaxies chronicle a period when the universe was younger and more chaotic. Order and structure were just beginning to emerge.

The Ultra Deep Field represents a narrow, deep view of the cosmos, like looking through an eight-foot-long soda straw.
ed: ed: ed: If we're looking through a straw here, we're missing about 99.9999999999999% of the entire picture. Amazing.

To learn about the big bang, we have to look really friggin far away for the galaxies that existed when it happened. There we might beable to find some answers.

http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/spacesci/ ... .0539.mpeg

http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2004/ ... rdisk.html

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/new ... stars.html

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/new ... Stars.html

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so much to learn...so little we know.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegal ... e_142.html

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ninty is Offline Major General Posts: 12,683 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Calgary	06-01-2004, 12:41 AM [quote="Unknown_Sniper":54233]I was star gazing the whole weekend. fri, sat, and tonight. I learned a shit load of contalations. And I swear I saw 3 space craft, either that or highly syncronized satillites traveling the same speed, staying the same dstane apart, and moving together in a very sharp orbit.[/quote:54233] Well the ISS is clearly visible pretty much every night more than once. I have never seen three objects travel in the same orbit because you can't really see standard small satellites. [quote:54233]-Our solar system was created through a big bang, but how was the universe created? [/quote:54233] Isn't the theory that the entire universe was created in a big bang? I suppose that galaxies and stars would also be created in big bangs as well, just on a smaller level. Video on expansion of universe: [url="http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/videos/metafiles/ksc_052004_chandra.ram"]http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/vide ... handra.ram[/url] [quote:54233]Does space end? [/quote:54233] http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/questi ... number=166 But yeah, ktog all of your questions we probably will never know the answer to. The only thing we can do is have theories. More on the Venus Transit like I was saying in my original post: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/wat ... ansit.html Video of the transit of Venus from 1882. A combination of 147 surviving photos from John Philip Sousa (1854-1932): http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/ob ... odd640.mov Another cool vid: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/vide ... plaque.ram Here's an article on Gravity Probe B that I posted on a while back and everyone thought I was crazy: http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/sol ... etism.html [img]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/58397main_gyroscope1_med.jpg[/img] GP-B's gyroscopes are the roundest objects ever made. Engineers at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center polished them to within 0.01 microns (less than 40 atom-widths) of perfect sphericity. Irregularities must be eliminated; otherwise the gyroscopes could wobble on their own without help from gravitomagnetism. For some reason I find that extremly cool. ^^^^ [img]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/56532main_MM_image_feature_142_jw4.jpg[/img] Each one of those is a galaxy. Amazing since we don't even know whats on the other side of our own galaxy. How the hell are we ever going to explore this entire place? Galaxies, galaxies everywhere - as far as NASA's Hubble Space Telescope can see. This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind.Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, this galaxy-studded view represents a "deep" core sample of the universe, cutting across billions of light-years. The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors. The smallest, reddest galaxies, about 100, may be among the most distant known, existing when the universe was just 800 million years old. The nearest galaxies - the larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals - thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old. In vibrant contrast to the rich harvest of classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there is a zoo of oddball galaxies littering the field. Some look like toothpicks; others like links on a bracelet. A few appear to be interacting. These oddball galaxies chronicle a period when the universe was younger and more chaotic. Order and structure were just beginning to emerge. The Ultra Deep Field represents a narrow, deep view of the cosmos, like looking through an eight-foot-long soda straw. ed: ed: ed: If we're looking through a straw here, we're missing about 99.9999999999999% of the entire picture. Amazing. To learn about the big bang, we have to look really friggin far away for the galaxies that existed when it happened. There we might beable to find some answers. http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/spacesci/ ... .0539.mpeg http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2004/ ... rdisk.html http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/new ... stars.html http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/new ... Stars.html ================= so much to learn...so little we know. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegal ... e_142.html