Astronomy & Space - September 2007

read some books and stuff on the internet actually claiming that the sun is actually a cube but that it rotates so fast that it looks and is captured as a sphere....soo anyone got any idea?

2007-09-04 00:40:01 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

likes stars that burn out, will the sun die someday?

2007-09-04 00:22:38 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-03 23:21:37 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-03 22:57:11 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have homework so i am going to put a bunch of questions into one post.
So is a black hole basically like a round black door in space?
or is it like an orb into which nothing can escape?
Could we even see it because of the fact that no light is emitted from it and that it basically kills all light around it?
What class would i have to focus on if i didnt want to wait for you guys to answer me? :P

2007-09-03 21:01:57 · 4 answers · asked by Phoenix 2

I search some website and they said Pluto from the milkyway doesn't exist. Is it true anyway? Yes or No?

2007-09-03 20:28:26 · 15 answers · asked by Kah Yee. :P 3

Maybe it's a stupid question, but I would like to know the answer anyway.

From what I've read, the earth is about 4.5 billion years old, while the universe is 13-20 billion years old.

My basic understanding of the big bang theory is that all the matter of the universe was compacted and at some point it exploded and was disbursed. Correct?

If that is correct, why is the earth so much younger than the universe? Shouldn't the material of the earth be the same age as the rest of the material in the universe?

What exactly do they mean by the age of the earth? The age of the matter? The time that it formed into a sphere? What? Again, from what I've read, the material of the earth (rocks, etc) are carbon-dated to about 3-4 billion years old.

Anyway, why the discrepancy between the age of the earth and universe?

Thanks for helping. Sorry if it's a 9th grade science question.

2007-09-03 19:05:34 · 10 answers · asked by blooming chamomile 6

2007-09-03 18:46:00 · 7 answers · asked by manoj n 1

2007-09-03 17:54:43 · 15 answers · asked by Asteria 2

2007-09-03 17:42:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

i believe its an 8 minute delay for what we see from the sun. If you use a telescope, does it cut down on some of the time?

2007-09-03 17:36:28 · 11 answers · asked by swelzba 1

why the light can go 300,000 km/sec
but the other things can not?
what is the reason?
Do you think one day we will be able to travel about light speed?
and how?

2007-09-03 17:35:58 · 2 answers · asked by Mohsen J 2

What if the entire universe it just one little bity atom, that's a part of something else, and one day we could just cease to exist if the bigger part dies?

2007-09-03 17:06:53 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

kind of like purgatory, where it's just void?? God put it there because he doesn't want us to go beyond it. What if he just put that void there???

2007-09-03 17:01:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

please help!

2007-09-03 17:00:03 · 13 answers · asked by Giggle Bear 3

2007-09-03 16:47:19 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I can see what looks like a very, very bright star in the southwest part of the sky the past few nights. I'm on the east coast of the US. Is that a planet?

2007-09-03 16:30:52 · 8 answers · asked by Lefty 2

2007-09-03 16:30:36 · 6 answers · asked by bianca marie 1

2007-09-03 15:56:47 · 5 answers · asked by pumpkin 4

how far it is compared to land distance her on earth

2007-09-03 15:38:14 · 11 answers · asked by bagunsday 1

Why couldn't alien space ships be as large as the moon, or as small as a speck of dust? Would there be any scientific reason why not?

2007-09-03 15:33:36 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

and does anyone else belive that arguing about religion and real estate is pointless, and that we should be furthering MANKIND - colinizing new planets- finding alien races, (I mean, personlly, I want to really fing other world that are habitable for humans, and learn new sciences and make the impossible possible... I want to see this world move beyond dead plants and animals for our main energy sources. I want scientists and physistist and doctors to be our heros. I want to progress into something more and not waste time with individual, insignificant personal opinions and making any one else conform to our "RIGHT" way of thinking? Anyone else out there want this kind of progression? ANyone else other look at the sky and see the beautiful blue, and then want to see that dark space above our atmosphere, and not feel so unfamilar about it?( I really mean this question not for the "dreamy artsy types"-but for those that want to see it as a reality, and what their thoughts are about it)

2007-09-03 15:33:26 · 8 answers · asked by aliaysleighbasic 3

I've often thought that we are inside something larger. We could very well be the building blocks of a atom in a much larger universe where a billions of years would be only a second. Time is relevant to size and I really think that if you keep cutting something in half when would you have nothing. You'd eventually get so small that you couldn't even see it or detect it but something would be there. I think this is a never ending chain and it really doesn't matter where we fit in because it goes on forever both ways. There are probably even universes inside of our bodies inside the very atoms that makes up our minds. I don't hear much people speculating on this because I think people want to think they are more important than that but I just want the truth which I will never get but I'd like to get some other people's take on this.

2007-09-03 14:50:44 · 23 answers · asked by Matthew S 2

Total Internal Reflection

2007-09-03 14:35:55 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I read on a website that it was because of heavy elements that are formed in the sun near the end of its life cycle. But our sun is to young to do this.

2007-09-03 14:30:57 · 10 answers · asked by tjtfgjnf hddd 1

2007-09-03 14:30:51 · 6 answers · asked by GomerPyle 1

I need the list of the equipment which is used by astronauts and space scientists to test which gases are present in the atmosphere of mars.

2007-09-03 14:25:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-03 13:55:59 · 7 answers · asked by Domina 1

2007-09-03 13:50:42 · 6 answers · asked by Stacie A 1

I am confused here.

As I understand, Gravity is teh warping of space and time.
On this premise I dont see the requirement for a force particle such as teh Graviton.

If you fell into a black hole, would you be ripped particle by particle due to accelleration of teh nearest part of you being faster than the furthest part of you.
OR
Would you remain in tact and feel nothing too bad as you are only feeling the warp of space and time. i.e. you dont feel any different but observers would see you stretching really long.

2007-09-03 13:45:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous