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Kepler’s Cosmic Geometric Series by Tallmadge Doyle

About the project:

In an effort to determine the distances between planets in our solar system the great German Astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) determined that the planetary intervals are defined by the relationship between the five regular geometric solids.

In ancient geometry the regular solids held a special, almost sacred significance. Of particular interest to Kepler was their association with the four elements: the cube with Earth, Tetrahedron with Fire, Octahedron with Air, Icosahedron with Water as well as the dodecahedron’s association with the heavens. The Intention was to demonstrate that these geometrical forms were building blocks in creation.

Kepler built on the ideas of Copernicus, creating the fabric of a new system that paved the way for Newtonian theory. Retaining the sun as the focal point of our system, he described the planetary orbits, no longer in terms of circles, but ellipses. It is said that Kepler was seeking to discover the divinely instituted harmony that pervades the universe and binds its diverse parts into a concordant whole.

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November 19, 1969 — The Copernicus Crater photographed from lunar orbit.

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What’s the largest star in the Universe?

Largeness in terms of mass the star would be R136a1. The most massive star we’ve ever found. It’s currently a staggering 265 times more massive than the Sun.

R136a1 has been constantly blowing charged particles out for millions of years. This means it may have been 320 times more massive than our Sun at birth… there’s a big problem though:

This is too massive a star for our understanding of stellar evolution to allow to exist. It’s most likely that R136a1 was created when several other massive stars merged together.

When it’s life ends it will go hypernova: an explosion approximately 100 times more powerful than a supernova.

The largest star relative to size however is VY Canis Majoris. A red hypergiant.

This star is 1,300-1,540 times wider than the Sun. It’s so huge that if it were our Sun, every planet all the way out to Saturn would be within the star!

The universe is a big place, however and we’re seeing farther as time passes. It’s only a matter of time before we see something even larger: the largest possible star, according to our understanding of stellar evolution, is about 2,600 times the size of the Sun.

If you’re mind hasn’t been blown yet then just think: that hypothetical 2,600 times-the-size-of-our-Sun star is out there…somewhere.

(Universe Today)

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John Martineau - Patterns of rotation.

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Sometimes all it takes is something this simple to change how you see the world

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Paint Eruption by RHADS

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Galileo’s sketches from Sidereus Nuncius (1610), the first published scientific work based on observations made through a telescope.

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**Factogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.

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Planetary nebula NGC 2440 contains one of the hottest white dwarf stars known. The white dwarf can be seen as the bright dot near the photo’s center as it violently ejects its shell of gas. White dwarfs are stars in their final evolutionary state but whose mass is not high enough to become a neutron star. Our Sun will eventually become a white dwarf, but luckily not for another 5 billion years. (Image Credit: Post-processed by Forrest Hamilton. | Bond (STScI), R. Ciardullo (PSU), WFPC2, HST, NASA)