Castronomy

I find Astronomy extremely interesting, hence the name Castronomy. I rather spend a sunday afternoon watchin documentaries about the Universe and the earth than anything else.Im going to post alot of unnecessary facts but those facts are the most interesting.I have inconceivably HUGE life projects and goals that one day will hopefully benefit the planet.I love soccer and the show futurama

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Q: What is the estimated age of the Universe? A: 14 billions years old

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NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed that Kepler-22b is the first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count. Ten of these candidates are near-Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of their host star. Candidates require follow-up observations to verify they are actual planets.

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In the final minutes Manchester City stole away what is arguably the most exciting title race ever from Manchester United, giving City fans something to finally cheer about after 44 years without a title.

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There should be no excuses in life.You cause your own downfall but in the same way your capable of creating success

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What is the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)?

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What is Dark Matter?

Something that doesn’t emit light and doesn’t interact with other matter in collisions. We see evidence for dark matter in clusters of galaxies. 

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 Abell 1689 is home to about 1,000 galaxies and trillions of stars.

Abell 1689 is a galaxy cluster in the constellation Virgo. It is one of the biggest and most massive galaxy clusters known and acts as a gravitational lens, distorting the images of galaxies that lie behind it.  It is 2.2 billion light years (670 megaparsec) away from the Earth.

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LIFE ON SATURN'S MOON TITAN? WHAT THE HELL IS CONSUMING THE HYDROGEN AND ACETYLENE IN THE ATMOSPHERE??

Two new papers based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft scrutinize the complex chemical activity on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. While non-biological chemistry offers one possible explanation, some scientists believe these chemical signatures bolster the argument for a primitive, exotic form of life or precursor to life on Titan's surface. According to one theory put forth by astrobiologists, the signatures fulfill two important conditions necessary for a hypothesized "methane-based life."

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Seen at a depth thousands of times more faint than the dimmest visible star, tens of millions of other suns appear, still perhaps only a hundredth of one percent thought to exist in our galaxy alone. Our Milky Way galaxy is the dominant feature, its dusty arms sweeping through the frame, punctuated by red clouds of glowing hydrogen. To the lower right are our nearest neighbors, each small galaxies themselves with their own hundreds of millions of stars.

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Dark Matter

Where are you?

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Q: How many stars are estimated to reside in our Milky Way Galaxy

100-400 BILLION STARS. Also it is estimated to have at least 50 billion planets, 500 million of which could be located in the "habitable zone" of their parent star.

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I wonder how the architecture on another planet might be?

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Q:How many Earths could fit in the sun???

A: 1 million

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Orion’s Belt

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Cassiopeia A 3-D Model: A Star From the Inside Out

To create this visualization, scientists took advantage of both a previously known phenomenon - the Doppler effect - and a new technology that bridges astronomy and medicine. When elements created inside a supernova, such as iron, silicon and argon, are heated they emit light at certain wavelengths. Material moving towards the observer will have shorter wavelengths and material moving away will have longer wavelengths. Since the amount of the wavelength shift is related to the speed of motion, one can determine how fast the debris are moving in either direction. Because Cas A is the result of an explosion, the stellar debris are expanding radially outwards from the explosion center. Using simple geometry, the scientists were able to construct a 3-D model using all of this information. A program called 3-D Slicer - modified for astronomical use by the Astronomical Medicine Project at Harvard - was used to display and manipulate the 3-D model. Commercial software was then used to create the 3-D fly-through.

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Look VERY CLOSELY at the top of Saturn to discover a mysterious HEXAGONAL shape cloud.The pattern’s origin is a matter of speculation. Most astronomers seem to think it was caused by some standing-wave pattern in the atmosphere but who really knows.Polygonal shapes have been replicated in spinning buckets of fluid in a laboratory tho.