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Ask me anything about Astronomy
As an aspiring astrophysicist, I know a thing or two about space. I also know that space is super cool and almost everyone I've ever talked to wants to learn more about it. This is a technique of studying I do with friends and family, as by teaching something that I know, if better cements that concept into my brain.
Fair warning: I don't know everything, and I will let you know if what you're asking is out of my grasp. But I'm pretty good, so fire away.
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6 RepliesEdited by moist nana: 4/5/2016 1:58:26 AMHey i'm an Astonomer! Some coooool things to look out for this month. Jupiters very clear in the sky if you want a good look AND April 9th it'll be passing over a very bright star. So not only will you get a good look at it but you'll see it moving aswell 8) pretty cooooool compared to just being still in darkness. That and Mars. Earth will be inbetween the Sun and Mars this month (starting April 17th) so if you ever wanted to see Mars's polar ice caps or thin cloud/surface details nows the chance to get a good view :D
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3 RepliesEasy question for you probably: what is the closest Galway to the Milky Way?
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3 RepliesI'm a fan of space too, and I want to study it in college. What exactly is red shift? I've read about it, but it kinda confuses me.
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7 RepliesDo you think that it would be possible for a city to exist in/on Jupiter similar to the one in the movie "Jupiter Ascending"? This question is mainly asking for the sake of Destiny. There are many people that say Jupiter could never be an explorable planet but what if there were man made cities?
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9 RepliesEdited by Joyaboi: 4/5/2016 1:22:21 AM[quote]As an aspiring astrophysicist[/quote] Same fam. What college? I'm Cornell [spoiler]Also, there are two twins, exactly the same age, Bob and Jill. Bob is on Earth and Jill decides to take a near-light-trip around the local supercluster. Jill travels the 4 lightyears to Alpha Centauri and back at just below the speed of light. To Jill, it takes 8 years to travel to the star and back moving at almost light speed. As you probably know, the faster something is moving the slower time seems to flow to it. To Bob everything Jill does is in slow motion and thus to him Jill appears to age less and by the time she returns, only eight years have passed to her and much more have passed to Bob. Now according to Einstein's Theory of Relativity all motion depends on your point of view. Jill can just as surely claim that she herself isn't moving, but rather everything else is moving and she is staying still. To her Bob (and the Earth) is the one first moving away from her and then moving closer as it comes back to her. Since they are the ones moving in her perspective, they are the ones moving through time slower. Jill sees everything Bob does as in slow motion and when she returns she can claim he has only aged 8 years and she has aged much more. This is a seeming paradox, but Einstein's Theory of Relativity seems to allow it. Can you save our universal constant?[/spoiler]
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1 ReplyWhat are your favorite and least favorite things about astronomy? [spoiler]my answer to both is black holes. I want to know what's inside them and how they work beyond what we know. But that's millenium beyond what humans can know - if it's even possible[/spoiler]
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1 ReplyWhat are the odds of me visiting Uranus?
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1 ReplyEdited by ThatJuanDude: 4/5/2016 12:53:39 AMWhat are your thoughts on Modified Newtonian Dynamics, as an explanation for the way galaxies move as opposed to explaining it with dark matter?
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4 RepliesWhat benefit would I gain in life, by understanding astronomy?
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Why are there stars?
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8 RepliesIf nothing can escape a black hole then how can radiation? [spoiler]if black holes exisw in the first place[/spoiler]
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4 RepliesWhy is Pluto no longer considered as a planet?
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6 RepliesFigured out the unified theory yet?
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What is your favourite moon, and why? [spoiler]Titan...because it sounds [i]cool[/i][/spoiler]
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What are quasars?
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3 RepliesCan we let Pluto be a planet again
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7 RepliesI forgot, but what is the point that a gravitational collapse in a star has to pass to become a black hole? I think it was like the neutron degeneracy pressure or something
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Going to take any quantum mechanics courses?
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3 RepliesHow many femtograms does the sun weight and an average summer's eve?
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Edited by GreyPooponya: 4/5/2016 12:10:41 AMWhen mercury is in alignment with ur moms butt...what happens?
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Why does the sky be what it are?
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1 ReplyWhy is dark matter being such a dick over being detected? Also, I don't feel like people are as afraid of pulsars as they should be.
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2 RepliesMy school dropped the class because of the lack of student interest. Even though I know many people who wanted to take the class. Is there something even going on there?
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6 RepliesEdited by Crimson Lupi: 4/4/2016 10:38:12 PMHow feasible is terraforming at the moment? Any prospective planets we looking to get our grubby ol' meat hooks on? [spoiler]That's moon-talk for hands...[/spoiler]
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2 Replies[b][i][u]STARS?[/u][/i][/b] [i]~Killionare357[/i]
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Out of the four fundamental forces (electromagnetic, gravitational, strong nuclear, weak nuclear), which one is your favorite?
