Astronomy & Space - December 2006

Does our solar system( including our sun) orbit around another star greater than the sun? If so.. are there any books or web sites you recommend me to read? And also.. how long does it take for this orbit to take place and how far away from our sun is whatever we are orbiting?

2006-12-24 09:12:06 · 6 answers · asked by Just Me 2

i want to buy cheap but nice telescope of less than 100$. i want to c stars,detail view of moon and other planets.. and i want such feature that i can take pictures or movie....(so that i can add device to take photo later on).
where can i buy it.
what things i need to focus on?
give me some ideas i dont have any ideas abt telescope...

2006-12-24 09:09:32 · 3 answers · asked by eminent_youtom 1

If our universe is constantly expanding, what is it expanding into?

2006-12-24 09:02:25 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why should we destroy somethiong as beautiful as the moon? Shouldn't we try to "repair" what we've destroyed and preserve what's left? The population is DECREASING as due to how busy life's becoming, people know they don't have time for kids and choose to not have big families so the excuse that earth will one day be to small to accomodate us is invalid. Why bother wasting all that money on trying to get people to the moon (which would require a lot of that little substance called oxygen) when there are people who have to make a bed out of cardboard boxes everynight and others dying of everything from cancer, malaria and AIDS to even things like cold, hunger and thirst!? Also, the moon is a fraction of earth's size. So how would NASA and/or the governments make the choice of who gets to live there or not!? I'm sorry for the complete rant but it was something I had to get off my chest. Does anybody agree?

2006-12-24 08:34:51 · 11 answers · asked by Spongebob 1

if so can you give me some hard evidence..

2006-12-24 08:33:23 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-24 08:26:12 · 35 answers · asked by Silver Fox 2

2006-12-24 08:18:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-24 08:13:29 · 18 answers · asked by Silver Fox 2

2006-12-24 06:37:59 · 9 answers · asked by stm06 2

....why is it black

2006-12-24 05:48:06 · 10 answers · asked by kvcreom 4

instead on burying or burning our dead, why aren't we launching them into space? where it's then possible for a corpse to land on some other planet somewhere else in the galaxy. a dead corpse on a lifeless planet just may speed up the process of making life on other planets. I don't mean that another human being will spawn there, but maybe some bacteria or something will be able to multiply, feeding on the corpse and accelerating life on other planets by maybe a couple million years. Or, an alien civilization may stumble apon one of our dead bodies and give them awareness of us if they didn't already have it. it's just a thought. I don't want to be buried or creamated. I want to be tossed into space. don't I have the right to make that decision?

2006-12-24 05:37:41 · 9 answers · asked by JizZ E. Jizzy 2

i've heard that the plan is to get men on mars, then start warming up the planet so that the ice under the surface melts so oceans can form and to fill the atmosphere with carbon dioxide so that plant life can survive so that they can start producing oxygen so that we could eventually live there.
well here is my idea; fly a ship containing large amounts of hydrogen gas, and another ship with oxygen gas. when released and mixed and shot with a laser beam from earth a chemical reaction should then occur. resulting in three crucial things. heat, water, and carbon dioxide. only i'm a bit confused where the carbon comes from.
Then, using electricity, split the water back into hydrogen gas and oxygen gas and repeat the process. I'm assuming it would be a net loss of energy, but is there a such thing as a loss of energy? not according to einstein. the normal concept of losing energy is just it being converted into heat. But that is exactly what we want to have on mars.

2006-12-24 04:57:45 · 11 answers · asked by JizZ E. Jizzy 2

Because we have never recieved a signal from anywhere in space

2006-12-24 04:13:58 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-24 04:09:46 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-24 03:45:53 · 11 answers · asked by rajeevan 1

student of class 9

2006-12-24 03:22:41 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

There is a custom at The Space Center that the Commander of the shuttle mission must play and lose a hand in a specific card game (appeared to be a variant of blackjack) with the Mission Controler before the crew may board the shuttle for blast off. I imagine it has something to do with leaving 'bad luck' behind and on the ground. Can anyone give us the history of this? Who started it? Why? When was it started?

2006-12-24 02:56:07 · 2 answers · asked by Nightstalker1967 4

2006-12-24 02:54:03 · 3 answers · asked by rajeevan 1

cant look at a planet that is alot closer and tell if there is any kind of life on that planet

2006-12-24 02:04:46 · 11 answers · asked by llamasrocknroll 2

i am from goa at may me a bit difficult to get good quality equipment.

2006-12-24 01:59:10 · 6 answers · asked by abhi 1

We are the inhabitant of the Milkey way galaxy. Our solar system occupied a tiny space of that Milkey way galaxy! Our galaxy occupied a very tiny poration of the "Universe"! There are hundreds of thousands of millions of billions of trillions of galaxy in the "Universe"! How is the Universe? What we are in compared with the Universe! There might be many civilized technicaly advanced creatures / life. What you people think ? Will any body share with me his experience ? Because I think some of the allien are trying to communicate with me / with my family!

2006-12-24 01:31:27 · 12 answers · asked by Pintu 1

I have followed the space program from the start and workrd in the aerospace field and nobody has intellegently explained why spacecraft are required to re-enter the atmosphere at 17,000 mph when it seems to me that they could simply slow the vehicle down and 'fly ' it to it's landing site. I understand the extreme velosity needed to escape earths gravity but I just can't get my head around why coming back needs to be as suicidal as it is.This may sound really simpleminded,but the atmosphere is just air,and in the upper atmosphere it's thin air at that!In the early days of the space race NASA flew the X-Planes out of the stratosphere and back at speeds that were nowhere near the speeds used today. Please, I'm not stupid,help me to understand why we have to risk astronauts lives when it seems we could do the same job a lot safer.

2006-12-24 01:27:14 · 8 answers · asked by rick m 3

2006-12-24 01:10:56 · 8 answers · asked by Ishfaq A 3

2006-12-24 00:44:49 · 11 answers · asked by lindseynemo 1

2006-12-24 00:38:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

i watched it land the other day, and it was loud, i didnt know that it was running when it came back into the atmosphere. I thought it glided back to land because it cant fly on its own? And if it does glide, what if its going to fast/slow on approach?

2006-12-24 00:36:37 · 4 answers · asked by Brian 4

here's my questions bout the sun!!


1. Is the air heated directly by sunlight? Explain your answer.

2. Explain the Law of Inverse Squares.

3. When and why does earthshine occur?

2006-12-24 00:17:34 · 2 answers · asked by Yisi 3

2006-12-23 23:51:51 · 19 answers · asked by Jordi 2

Recently saw the first sight of saturn with my 130P65 skywatcher. Felt pretty good. I was wondering if a barlow lense would help in magnifying the details of saturn and other planets. As an ameture and just like anyone else I am wanting to see more of it (atleast as far as optically possible) with the 130mm.

So wondering if a barlow would provide additional magnification with my 10mm super.

thanks

2006-12-23 23:27:02 · 5 answers · asked by planck12 1

I've been reading in the news that NASA is planning to have an opperational moon base around 2024. A long list of countries supports the idea. However, I haven't been able to find anywhere what the use of it is.

2006-12-23 22:55:42 · 12 answers · asked by Martin vM 2