Posts Tagged ‘asteroids’

How Large is the Universe?

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

The universe has long captivated us with its immense scales of distance and time. How far does it stretch? Where does it end and what lies beyond its star fields and streams of galaxies extending as far as telescopes can see? These questions are beginning to yield to a series of extraordinary new lines of investigation and technologies that are letting us to peer into the most distant realms of the cosmosBut also at the behavior of matter and energy on the smallest of scales. The mind-blowing answer comes from a theory describing the birth of the universe in the first instant of time.

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Why Isn’t Pluto a Planet Any More?

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Dr. Robert Hurt explains why Pluto got… well… plutoed.

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Planets and Stars (please read (more info) )

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

READ THIS FIRST! : The Size Of Planets and Stars to Scale (see NOTE)
Name of planets as shown:
Pluto Mercury Mars Venus Earth Neptune Uranus Jupiter Saturn
Name of Stars as shown:
Sun Sirius Vega Pollux Arcturus Aldebaran Rigel Deneb Pistol Star Betelgeuse Antares VV Cephei
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Name of Song: Stakka & K Tee – Rubber Bullet
Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1NkoZeTEWc
Author: jaxxrr
Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/jaxxrr
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NOTE: This video is a edited version of “Energy vs Information” made by jaxxrr (to which all credit goes to), I was very impressed by the production value both the video and music.

Seeing that it received few hits, which may be due to the title and tags. In order for more people to see and enjoy this video I mirrored the edited version, so people won’t get too side tracked on the political message. (Although I’m against wars and big oil as well)

Please see the original version if you like here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1NkoZeTEWc

-=NOTE=-
This video was made BEFORE “VY Canis Majoris” was listed as the largest known star, When this video was made 2006 by it’s author JAXXrr, the star “VV Cephei A” was listed as the largest known star.

For a list of current largest “known” stars see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_known_stars
Keep in mind while watching this video that the “largest known stars” are all found in our own galaxy (The Milky Way). We know of only of a very few of the estimated 200-300 Billion stars that make up our galaxy, which is just ONE of at least 300-500 billion galaxies in the visible Universe.
To learn more about the universe see this site; it will blow your mind!…
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/12lys.html
Just keep zooming out……..

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