Astronomy & Space - August 2006

If this basketball size object was to fall into the sun, would the sun be absorded? Would it dissapear? Would it be the end?

2006-08-31 04:47:54 · 16 answers · asked by blackec2000 1

2006-08-31 04:43:02 · 21 answers · asked by qisyia 2

Can it leave these objects at a slower speed because they are not quite "dense enough"?

2006-08-31 04:41:19 · 4 answers · asked by blackec2000 1

Is anybody else experiencing post traumatic stress disorder from the crippling news that a ball of gas lightyears away is no longer considered a planet? Has this rocked the very foundation in which you based your existance on? 5th grade science a waste of time? Can you go on?

2006-08-31 03:19:42 · 14 answers · asked by Tuan 2

It dawned on me that the big bang has a bit of magic thrown in for good measure, whereby space itself inexplicably expanded faster than the spead of light for a while and then stopped expanding.

But what if it didn't? What if the reason for red shift is not because galaxies are moving away from eachother within space, but is due instead to the ever present expansion of space? What if space expands at a greater and greater rate relative to distance from an observer? From our perspective, distant galaxies would appear to be accelerating away from us (which we observe), there would be an event horizon of sort where the rate of expansion exceeds the speed of light so that the amount of background light would be limited (which we observe).

For this to really make sense, there would have to be a mechanism by which energy/matter is created by such an expansion at some probabilistic rate.

Putting it all together, is this a plausible steady state alternative to the big bang?

2006-08-31 03:08:52 · 9 answers · asked by lenny 7

2006-08-31 03:02:39 · 13 answers · asked by lmr134 1

2006-08-31 03:00:31 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

The stars were blinking different colors real fast, blue, red yellow, green and white. I have noticed this several times now.

2006-08-31 02:34:33 · 14 answers · asked by carsugmar 1

How many responses do you think I'll get with the answer "nothing"?

2006-08-31 02:21:49 · 10 answers · asked by DetroitDublin 2

2006-08-31 02:18:53 · 18 answers · asked by ? 1

Although I realize this is pointless if it really happens, but I'll ask anyway. They say if an asteroid hit the planet it would be so fast we wouldn't see it for more than a second before it hit. It would supposedly be able to dig into the core, shoot a mushroom could into space and coat the earth with fire and smoke before we knew it even happened. Really wouldn't the first thing to happen be inertia? The earth spins at millions of mph and if that were to change we'd all feel it at the same time right? So wouldn't we all be either shot into the stratosphere or dug into the mantle before we could be burnt alive?

2006-08-31 02:14:03 · 9 answers · asked by imajiknation 2

I'm looking for an accurate scientific reason. I'm too lazy to look it up.

2006-08-31 02:00:45 · 14 answers · asked by slimshady 2

Since nothing can escape a black hole (not even light) is it true to say that over an infinite period of time all of the matter contained in the universe at this point will eventually end up being swallowed up? Seeing as light cannot escape being sucked in, and based on the pemise that nothing can move faster than the speed of light therefore everything will eventually disappear down a black hole. Is this the case - that the universe will be consumed by black holes?

2006-08-31 01:20:21 · 16 answers · asked by Northstar 3

Where is the end of the universe? is there one? if yes, what is behind the end? Another universe? nothing? so when there is nothing, where is the end of nothing? I might be narrow minded and stupid for thinking that an end is not possible, yet there must be one somewhere,.. I`d like to know if you`ve ever thought about it and if so what you think! Thank you for your answers!
- Keep on thinking!

2006-08-31 01:08:45 · 54 answers · asked by Egemen 2

2006-08-31 00:35:31 · 28 answers · asked by bwadsp 5

If we use the rotation of the Earth as a benchmark, are the motions of other bodies in the universe in the same direction or just as many in the opposite direction. Perhaps, I am wondering if the conservation of centripetal & centrifugal forcesplay a role in these motions.

2006-08-31 00:25:14 · 5 answers · asked by cliff630 1

Does anyone really give a shi t ?

2006-08-31 00:16:47 · 18 answers · asked by Feel My Fun Fork 1

Just after dark last night I saw a satellite. As I was watching it, it slowly got brighter until it was almost too bright to look at, but quickly went back to a faint star-like light. I assume the satellite turned and the sun hit a reflective surface..... any ideas?

2006-08-31 00:12:17 · 7 answers · asked by Tuan 2

The big "suckhole" was scary. I thought the "machine" theory was way "out there", since it takes humans to actually make them. What are y'all's thoughts?

2006-08-31 00:08:12 · 3 answers · asked by Scorpius59 7

2006-08-31 00:05:18 · 10 answers · asked by Ah Boi 3

Do they wear tampons and, if so, how do they change them? Where do the used ones go? I wonder if discarded used tampons are orbiting us as we speak.

2006-08-30 23:17:23 · 8 answers · asked by angrysandwichguy1 3

2006-08-30 22:52:11 · 3 answers · asked by astrobill 1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060830/sc_space/strangeexplodingstarunlockssupernovasecrets
GRB 060218 occurred in a star-forming galaxy about 440 million light-years away towards the constellation Aries, making it the second-closest supernova ever detected. The closest was SN 1987A, which went off about 165,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy.

Does this mean that this supernova happenned 440 million light years ago and this may not be the current event?

2006-08-30 22:29:16 · 13 answers · asked by SciFi 1

2006-08-30 20:40:06 · 18 answers · asked by Ah Boi 3

2006-08-30 20:29:45 · 9 answers · asked by LP 2

2006-08-30 19:54:55 · 32 answers · asked by As Chilli 1

2006-08-30 18:51:01 · 17 answers · asked by lisette 4

Were the pharaohs of Egypt hinting at the exploded planet which later formed the asteroid belt when they used Osiris as a metaphor to indicate a dead planet which resurrected as Horus?

2006-08-30 18:34:45 · 9 answers · asked by kitty 2

2006-08-30 18:20:15 · 17 answers · asked by Chase 4

2006-08-30 17:50:53 · 9 answers · asked by Miky 1