Re: What was the first galaxy you ever observed?RAKing
Many scientists think that there are super-massive black holes at the center of galaxies."This special black hole, which is about 30 billion times the mass of our sun, is one of the biggest ever discovered.* It is an exciting discovery," said James Nightingale, a scientist at Durham ...
If you are looking for the ultimate viewing experience, a Dobsonian telescope with an aperture of 12″ or more will show fainter objects than most other telescopes. The telescope shown below (Sky-Watcher FlexTube 350P) is the biggest visual telescope I have ever used, and I was able to se...
Planetarion is a science fiction war game where thousands of players and scores of galaxies fight for the domination of the universe or merely survival. Planetarion is played through your web browser via an HTML interface and does not require any download or installation of any kind of software...
The biggest star in the universe (that we know of), UY Scuti is a variable hypergiant with a radius around 1,700 times larger than the radius of the sun. To put that in perspective, the volume of almost 5 billion suns could fit inside a sphere the size of UY Scuti. ...
What's the biggest planet in the known universe? Which planet has rings that were discovered by Galileo? Who discovered the planet Mercury? Was Neptune the first planet to be discovered? What is the second largest planet in the Solar System? Who found the planet Jupiter? What has the Hubble...
The first-ever composite image of a dark matter "bridge" that connects galaxies together. Credit: University of Waterloo Thus, dark matter's gravitational impact is extremely spread out and, it turns out, can only be observed when we look at the large-scale distribution of visible matter in...
If you're interested in trying to capture an impressive lunar image yourself and want to learn the right techniques and tools, check out our handyhow to photograph the moonguide. Can the moon ever turn blue? Yes! But this is an extremely rare event, you could even say it happens "once...
Pluto, which had at that time been known as a planet, was downgraded. Instead of being downgraded to anasteroid, it became adwarf planet. A dwarf planet is a small planet that fails the third test. The asteroid Ceres, in orbit around the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, was upgraded from...
Which is to say, Nintendo is fully aware of this potential issue and has taken steps to minimize the risk. Despite many games having static HUDs, you'd need to play just that one game, for hours upon hours, every day without ever using the screen for anything else, at the highest bri...