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Post by Leda EmBorr on Mar 14, 2007 22:26:07 GMT -5
Wow... awesome! And you can see the sun rotating as well!
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Mar 22, 2007 0:05:45 GMT -5
Dude that is sooo frekin sweeeeet!
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Mar 22, 2007 0:06:01 GMT -5
Oh has anyone ever bought a star??
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Solinbeb Newau
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Post by Solinbeb Newau on Mar 22, 2007 3:32:40 GMT -5
Yeah, I did...named it after a system my wife and I roleplayed in during one of our sessions. I did it for our first wedding anniversary.
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Mar 25, 2007 12:23:22 GMT -5
awwwww.. That's so sweet! I was thinking of wanting to buy a star but I wasn't sure..
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Mar 26, 2007 19:50:18 GMT -5
I think it's a cute and romantic idea! However, I strongly suspect a scam.... like the "Buy real estate on the moon" deal. They actually sent you a deed and everything for that one!
But if it doesn't cost too much, and you get a plaque or a certificate or something, then as a sentimental gesture, it's still a sweet thing to do for someone.
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Post by Mon-Jas Charan on Apr 2, 2007 11:21:18 GMT -5
Big Auroras on Jupiter
[/center] Above: X-ray auroras observed by the Chandra X-ray Observatory overlaid on a simultaneous optical image from the Hubble Space Telescope. [More] [/color][/size]
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Apr 16, 2007 23:57:39 GMT -5
Now that's pretty cool, Mon-Jas! How about this--- Dennis Simmons of Brisbane, Australia took this video clip of Comet Lovejoy. "Watching the fuzzy nucleus glide so eerily, effortlessly and silently past the fixed pattern of stars was quite mesmerizing, " he says. "Soon, two hours had been swallowed up by the night as dawn rushed in with birdsong and twilight bursting all around." Comet Lovejoy is too faint to see with the unaided eye, but at 8th magnitude it is an easy target for backyard telescopes. Look for it in the constellation Aquila before dawn--just to the left of Jupiter
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Apr 16, 2007 23:58:20 GMT -5
It seems that he's a poet as well. lol!
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 19, 2007 7:02:22 GMT -5
Nice!!
I didnt know jupiter got Auroras...
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 25, 2007 7:26:07 GMT -5
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Apr 25, 2007 16:41:46 GMT -5
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Post by himiko sabbrawrra on Apr 26, 2007 7:15:52 GMT -5
OOOOOO.. Nice,,, Lets hope we actually see some results from this descovery
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Post by Cara Drume on Apr 26, 2007 8:38:13 GMT -5
Life, maybe, but intelligent? And would they be friendly, hostile, or harmless creatures like Jar-Jar? And would any of that matter if they had technology to travel however far it is from there to here?
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Post by Mon-Jas Charan on Apr 26, 2007 14:41:25 GMT -5
Well at 120 trillion miles away (about 500 Light years), but the star it closely orbits, known as a "red dwarf," is much smaller, dimmer and cooler than our sun. So life as we know it would be unlikely.
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