Forum: Space and Astronomy

So, scientists seem to have found a very interesting neighborhood that might prove to be worth exploring. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/science/trappist-1-exoplanets-nasa.html?smid=fb-nytscience&smtyp=cur&_r=0 7 "earth-sized planets" orbiting a dwarf star a mere 40 light years away. ...

It's hard to grasp the enormity of "what's out there" and this chart brings that home even more. Whether you attribute it all to a higher being or to something along the lines of the big bang theory, it's awe inspiring! See 2nd post!

I'm not certain that's what it was called. A few years back I read a theory hypothesis that goes something like this: If there are parallel Universes, then it could be reasonable to assume that the unfolding of each Universe would be pretty much copies of the first one. Which means you exist...

I had not read much on this star, but it is apparently causing a bit of a stir in the world of Astronomy and the search for alien life. Comets May Not Explain "Alien Megastructure" Star's Strange Flickering after All - Scientific American...

Black hole caught 'burping' galactic gas supply - BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35237863)

The size of the universe is unknown. Is the universe infinite with no end? I guess that's easy to accept simply because, as Carl Sagan once said "The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be." I mean that isn't like a very profound observation because if it wasn't then there would have to...

Blue Moon from dusk until dawn night of August 20, 2013 | Tonight | EarthSky (http://earthsky.org/tonight/blue-moon-from-dusk-until-dawn-night-of-august-20-2013)

No matter where you live worldwide, the 2013 Perseid meteor shower will probably be at its best on the nights of August 11 - 12 and/or August 12 -13. Before the dawn viewing is best. From northerly latitudes, you often see 50 or more meteors per hour, and from southerly latitudes in the southern...

All that we are aware of (know) is about 14 billion years old. That, give or take a gazillion years or so, is the approximate age of the Universe, which was so beautifully described thus, by a genius, the late Carl Sagan: “The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.” According to...

http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white Scrolling to the right or left will show you the scale of physical objects in the larger scheme. As I moved the scroll bar further and further to the right, I started to feel increasingly insignificant! :-6

If the sun represents Visnu the moon, Siva. The argument which is greater Visnu or Siva simply opened the portal for Kaliyuga to come into our lives. Followers of Visnu say Siva`s effulgence or moonlight is but a reflection of Visnu`s radiant light. In reality however, there`s no greater or...

Note to all scientists, astronomers, historians, mathematicians, nuclear physicists & sticklers for detail. I wrote this without any regard as to the accuracy or otherwise of any scientific facts in regard to the Mayan calendar, the planets, nuclear missiles or extra-terrestrials. It is a...

Perhaps dark energy/cosmic expansion is simply an affect of a big crunch? Allow me to elucidate;- When a 'crunch' condenses below its Schwarzchild Radius, I propose a duality is formed, being the Lorentz Transform imaginary values associated with <Sr distances - we know time = 0 at an event...