Heavenly Bodies

[deviadah]

YouTube - Planets and stars size in scale

Some of the largest stars really blow my mind!

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Sun_and_VV_Cephei_A.svg/180px-Sun_and_VV_Cephei_A.svg.png

VV Cephei (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VV_Cephei)

[Naomi]

Very cool, thanks for posting dev...

[MythMath]

Yeah, that was great...!

This is something similar that I tweaked last year:

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q48/MythMath/SolarSystemScalecopy.jpg


original source: http://www.essex1.com/people/speer/model.html

[deviadah]

If indeed it was all created by a God, he sure has got some big balls!

:p

If we could only live on (or in) Uranus, we would solve the growth of our population for at least a 1000 years!

YouTube - Betelgeuse

Betelgeuse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse)

[Carbon Class Six]

Wow...some of those stars are really incredible. When I want to totally paralyze my rational thought processes I usually gaze at the Hubble Ultra Deep Field:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Deep_Field

I think there's a pretty cool youtube video that puts it into perspective....lemme see what I can find...

http://www.youtube.com/v/fgg2tpUVbXQ&hl=en

Pretty sweet tunes as well...Pink Floyd definitely fits the incomprehensible.

[Naomi]

If we could only live on (or in) Uranus, we would solve the growth of our population for at least a 1000 years!


I knowww that's what I always say...unfortunately you still have to use a condom to prevent HIV....

[Naomi]

Wow...some of those stars are really incredible. When I want to totally paralyze my rational thought processes I usually gaze at the Hubble Ultra Deep Field:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Deep_Field

I think there's a pretty cool youtube video that puts it into perspective....lemme see what I can find...

http://www.youtube.com/v/fgg2tpUVbXQ&hl=en

Pretty sweet tunes as well...Pink Floyd definitely fits the incomprehensible.

Everytime I look at one of these starfield photos I think "Yeah ok, that's powerful" and I want it to be some kind of potent way to tap into outerspace, but then I realize by the time the photo has gotten to me, the picture has already changed, and I feel slow.

I also realize there is some sort of distortion so that the stars don't actually appear how they might look up close, which leaves room for the imagination.

I have seen that perspective video though - a bit similar to the string theory presentation comparison on the Nova website.

I would like to be able to view the stars in real time, hopefully this summer I will get a chance to do so on a visit to New Mexico since the skies are so clear there. I would also like to go into outerspace on a spaceship or something.

[m1thr0s]

When I want to totally paralyze my rational thought processes I usually gaze at the Hubble Ultra Deep Field:makes perfect sense. I think maybe I'll create a mirror or two around that one...one of the things we know, speed of light aside, is that thought itself is able to traverse these distances just so long as it has a basic coordinates to guide it...so a picture like this is extremely valuable. Seers in antiquity would have killed for such a prize, knowing that the image itself acts as a map and guide all by itself...

m1thr0s

[Amur]

One of the fun things with planets is that they are all multi-dimensional, which means that there are very many levels in each of the planets. Haven't really been in the astral universe yet so don't know about that side but I would guess that it could be quite a great place to explore :)

In the bhagavad-ghita they mention celestial controllers, which is really the planets in our solar system and the stars in the same galaxy which affects our earth. Some worship the celestial controllers to get what they want or something but I think that the best games come when one just Is.

[deviadah]

So far it has only been BIG, what about small!

The smallest planet in the Solar System has become even smaller, studies by the Messenger spacecraft have shown. Data from a flyby of Mercury in January 2008 show the planet has contracted by more than one mile (1.5km) in diameter over its geological history. - source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7489557.stm)

The smallest extrasolar planet around a normal star – weighing just 5 times that of Earth – may have been found, using a new technique that analyses changes in a known planet's orbit. Though some scientists are sceptical of the claim, the research team says the new planet's existence could be confirmed with further observations later this year.

Dubbed GJ 436c, the planet orbits a dim red star 30 light years away in the constellation Leo and is one of the smallest exoplanets ever discovered – astronomers have previously found one around a normal star that may be 5.5 times Earth's mass and even smaller planets have been found around a dense stellar corpse called a neutron star. - source (http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13644-smallest-exoplanet-may-have-been-found.html)

YouTube - Smallest planet may have been found

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