I've run into an incredible range of distances from us given for this star...and a good summary of many of them at http://wnt.cc.utexas.edu/~ecannon/ What is...

Thunderbolts.info for 12-2-04 picture of the day.

Okay, I had read a lot about "Planet X" and read a lot of the ZetaTalk uh... "crap", and decided not to go that route simply due to the complete lack of...

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Curious what the group makes of this recent (Sol 288) image...

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MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES November 25 - December 1 , 2004 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor...

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Hi All When an astronomer/astrophysicist uses the word "metals" he/she is referring to the group of all elements other than H and He. Does anyone know the...

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I have a couple questions, they all related to the future of spece telescopes: 1. Hubble's Telescope has 0.1 arcsec resolution in visible and ultraviolet...

Hello all, Can a Raytracing software program also evaluate Contrast on (telescope) images? What are the existing softwares that can evaluate Contrast? How...

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"Richard DeLuca" wrote: I'm not a complete stranger to celestial mechanics, being familiar and comfortable with such concepts as nutation and cyclical...

Hi! Some days when the sky goes up or down the sky is very very red so the air around us looks red to. Why is this happening? Guess there must be something...

The disturbing thing about Min is, he would be happiest if an attack against his own country were to happen, because it would vindicate his delerium. In...

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Hi Please can someone help. Why is it that when the mean molecular weight is quoted for a planet it ONLY refers the the planet's atmosphere. Why is it that...