Recreation Commons - Tenth Floor : A View from the Space Elevator

[Skanky Burns]

While the game is on in any capacity, people can still want to be involved in it.

[Makahlua]

/me twirls the telescope around looking for another nice view

Oh! Now that's a right picture there - take a look at this :

This image resembling Vincent van Gogh's painting, "Starry Night," is Hubble's latest view of an expanding halo of light around a distant star, named V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon). This Hubble image was obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on February 8, 2004. The illumination of interstellar dust comes from the red supergiant star at the middle of the image, which gave off a flashbulb-like pulse of light two years ago. V838 Mon is located about 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, placing the star at the outer edge of our Milky Way galaxy.

[GeoModder]

Hey Makahlua, post a few of other galaxies. The Sombrero or Andromeda galaxie are beauties as well.

This one I haven't seen yet. The clouds look like 2 dragons with an uptight bending tale joining in the tip.

[Makahlua]

/me twirls the telescope about again

Here's that Sombrero :

[Makahlua]

/me fiddles with the controls a bit

And th' Andromeda - I got t' tell ye, this is one nice telescope!

[GeoModder]

/me pours another xenorum while enjoying the scenery and starts making a list for other marvelous views.

[Jamski]

What are all these places? Do they rotate around the Eath too like the sun does?

-Jam

[Mart]

Originally posted by Jamski
What are all these places? Do they rotate around the Eath too like the sun does?

-Jam

I believe they just only escape from us. Last one appears even framed... it's of course CyCon's doing...

[Hercules]

Hercules visits the Rec. Com and views the night sky throughthe Hubble.

Hmm interesting feature.

These supernovae belong to a class called Type Ia, which are considered reliable distance indicators. Looking at great distances also means looking back in time
because of the finite velocity of light. SN 1997ck exploded when the universe was half its present age. It is the most distant supernova ever discovered (at a
redshift of 0.97), erupting 7.7 billion years ago.
SN 1997ck is in the constellation Hercules,

[Hercules]

Hercules visits the Rec. Com and views the night sky throughthe Hubble.

Hmm another interesting feature.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture resolves, for the first time, one of the smallest stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. Called Gliese 623b or Gl623b, the
diminutive star (right of center) is ten times less massive than the Sun and 60,000 times fainter. (If it were as far away as the Sun, it would be only eight times
brighter than the full Moon).

Located 25 light-years away in the constellation Hercules, Gl623b is the smaller component of a double star system, where the separation between the two
members is only twice the distance between Earth and the Sun (approximately 200 million miles). The small star completes one orbit about its larger companion
every four years.


If you look very closely and long enough you can just about discern a Planet Delta Centauri

[Maniac]

Hmm, I must have drunk too much. I'm starting to see posts double.

[GeoModder]

Originally posted by Jamski
What are all these places? Do they rotate around the Earth too like the sun does?

Well, it depends what worldview you follow, Jam.

If your worldview is geocentrisch, then you're right.

But out of your answer, I suppose you haven't even noticed that their is a heliocentrisch worldview. In that view your presumption is also in error.

But even that doesn't come close to what these days is considered the 'thruth' in astronomical circles.

There is a slightly more chance that our galaxie rotates around the Andromeda galaxie since that one has more mass, but in general they are likely to hit eachother in another 10 billion years or so.

For the Sombrero galaxie, that one is fairly far off, and belongs to another 'cluster' of galaxies. The Andromeda galaxie an ours belong to the same cluster, logically named the 'Local Cluster'.

Does this answer your question a bit?

[GeoModder]

Originally posted by Maniac
Hmm, I must have drunk too much. I'm starting to see posts double.

Nah, the first one isn't visible to me. I think a new interstellar phenomene, called the Red Cross Nebula blinked into existence while uploading. Or else a gamma burst has mixed up the bits a bit.

[Jamski]

Does this answer your question a bit?

I get it. So a galaxy is like the moon, but smaller, and lighter, but we can't see them because we don't have a telescope, but they are fixed to the dome of the sky anyway?

-Jam

[Maniac]

The universe revolves around me!