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Re: Astronomy and the Heavens
« Reply #45 on: April 11, 2019, 09:37:58 AM »
Coming from the age of incandescent lightbulbs and red spectrum flashlights I say, I've seen this before as a remnant fractal I believe...

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« Reply #46 on: April 14, 2019, 05:46:27 PM »
My non-scientific mind says "how do you take a picture of a blackhole, if a blackhole 'sucks in' all light?"

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« Reply #47 on: April 14, 2019, 05:51:31 PM »
My non-scientific mind says "how do you take a picture of a blackhole, if a blackhole 'sucks in' all light?"

Doh!

I vote for better CGI wormholes:


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Re: Astronomy and the Heavens
« Reply #48 on: April 17, 2019, 06:39:12 PM »
We've imaged a Black Hole. Yet at the same time 6.5 million Americans believe the Earth is flat. The latter is not so much an issue of science, but rather a mental health issue. It cannot end well and will be tied to other types of societal decay.

I am offended that they tied the Flat Earthers to the "paranormal." Rest easy, we can still all have our sandsquatches, ghosts and UFOs, but the Earth is an oblate spheroid dammit!

Public Service Announcement over.


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Re: Astronomy and the Heavens
« Reply #49 on: April 17, 2019, 08:15:30 PM »
Some astronomers calculate that there are 100 Million Invisible Black Holes --in our Milky Way Galaxy. No wonder other civilizations have not reached here... space is just too darned dangerous. The odds, it seems, of running into and being swallowed by an invisible black hole is just too great.


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Re: Astronomy and the Heavens
« Reply #50 on: April 17, 2019, 08:45:27 PM »
My non-scientific mind says "how do you take a picture of a blackhole, if a blackhole 'sucks in' all light?"

They were right about one thing...the damn thing was black.

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« Reply #51 on: April 18, 2019, 09:09:10 AM »
Some astronomers calculate that there are 100 Million Invisible Black Holes --in our Milky Way Galaxy. No wonder other civilizations have not reached here... space is just too darned dangerous. The odds, it seems, of running into and being swallowed by an invisible black hole is just too great.

Which brings to mind the then to prescient Yellow Submarine and the "sea of holes"...



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Re: Astronomy and the Heavens
« Reply #52 on: April 23, 2019, 11:35:35 AM »

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Re: Astronomy and the Heavens
« Reply #53 on: June 27, 2019, 11:05:47 PM »
Total Solar Eclipse July 2, 2019

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Re: Astronomy and the Heavens
« Reply #54 on: June 28, 2019, 11:44:04 AM »
https://www.universetoday.com/142594/our-complete-guide-to-the-july-2019-total-solar-eclipse/

You couldn’t order up a geekier solar eclipse from the cosmos. Next Tuesday on July 2nd, the second of three eclipse seasons begins for 2019, with the only total solar eclipse of the year spanning the southern tip of South America, including the nations of Chile and Argentina.

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Re: Astronomy and the Heavens
« Reply #56 on: July 02, 2019, 04:43:56 AM »
My non-scientific mind says "how do you take a picture of a blackhole, if a blackhole 'sucks in' all light?"
Seems ironic that they are surrounded by so much light! I never knew that.

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Re: Astronomy and the Heavens
« Reply #57 on: July 02, 2019, 08:40:40 AM »
https://www.universetoday.com/142594/our-complete-guide-to-the-july-2019-total-solar-eclipse/

You couldn’t order up a geekier solar eclipse from the cosmos. Next Tuesday on July 2nd, the second of three eclipse seasons begins for 2019, with the only total solar eclipse of the year spanning the southern tip of South America, including the nations of Chile and Argentina.

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2019-july-2

https://www.timeanddate.com/live/

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Re: Astronomy and the Heavens
« Reply #58 on: July 03, 2019, 01:26:12 PM »
Black Hole Sun, or, Sun with a Black Hole



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Re: Astronomy and the Heavens
« Reply #59 on: July 16, 2019, 02:21:23 PM »
Partial lunar eclipse here tonight. I caught moonrise through my binocs on my iPhone 
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