Our Sun is a small star

[davmat787]

Fuck you, not I have to throw up.

Excuse me?

 

[davmat787]

Sucks how we basically gave up space exploration.

Not in the least have we given up space exploration. See: Andrew Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble, scheduled for launch in 2014.

IMO, these space telescopes teach us far more about space than the Shuttle program. The Shuttle won't find other worlds capable of supporting life, these telescopes can.

 

[Albatross]

Not in the least have we given up space exploration. See: James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble, scheduled for launch in 2014.

IMO, these space telescopes teach us far more about space than the Shuttle program. The Shuttle won't find other worlds capable of supporting life, these telescopes can.

Ftfy.

 

[davmat787]

Ftfy.

Thank you. To make up for that, here is a link for more info on the project should anyone be interested.

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

 

[dainthomas]

Sucks how we basically gave up space exploration.

Why? Pretty much every place outside of the Earth is a supremely inhospitable hellhole. Well, everywhere else in the solar system certainly which is anywhere that matters until we develop FTL propulsion.

The only reason to go is the scenery or scientific curiosity.

 

[Printer Bandit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q

 

[yhelothar]

Thank you. To make up for that, here is a link for more info on the project should anyone be interested.

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

So it's official, it's not getting scrapped? That's seriously good news if so!

 

[yhelothar]

Our sun is only about 4.5 bil yrs old out of its 7-9 bil life span. Relative to a person, it's only 40 years old.

The modern human intelligence is only about 100K to 250K years old? And in the mere last 500 years, we globalized our world, traveled to the moon, and made remarkable technological advancements.

The sun will outlive mankind a thousand times over. In a fucking BILLION years (not one thousand, or ten million), we probably evolved to a pure energy form traversing the galaxies.

Sun is the probably the LEAST of our worries.

:thumbsup:

 

[CPA]

Excuse me?

Thinking of death makes me nauseous.

 

[Nintendesert]

Not in the least have we given up space exploration. See: Andrew Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble, scheduled for launch in 2014.

IMO, these space telescopes teach us far more about space than the Shuttle program. The Shuttle won't find other worlds capable of supporting life, these telescopes can.

LOL!! Good example to use that we haven't give up on space exploration, considering the damn project is CANCELLED. It's done. Killed and gone. We've given up.

 

[Mem]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4iD-9GSW-0
From now on,I shall refuse to get a tan from such a puny a$$ star.D:
All bow down to VY Canis Majoris.

Our sun like most stars goes through changes,it will become a red giant down the road then shrink to a white dwarf,we are so lucky that we have a very stable and long life star...Remember high mass stars have much shorter life span then our sun,now which star would you like to live next too .

Just wait until Andromeda galaxy meets our Milky Way galaxy ,we will have a whole new bigger galaxy .

 

[Albatross]

Our sun like most stars goes through changes,it will become a red giant down the road then shrink to a white dwarf,we are so lucky that we have a very stable and long life star...Remember high mass stars have much shorter life span then our sun,now which star would you like to live next too .

Just wait until Andromeda galaxy meets our Milky Way galaxy ,we will have a whole new bigger galaxy .

Thank you for your encyclopedic knowledge,small star lover.

 

[davmat787]

LOL!! Good example to use that we haven't give up on space exploration, considering the damn project is CANCELLED. It's done. Killed and gone. We've given up.

Damnit! I thought there was still some life in the program, that it was not completely cancelled. DAMNIT!

 

[alkemyst]

would it be proper to greet Canis Major with 'sup dawg?

 

[Albatross]

would it be proper to greet Canis Major with 'sup dawg?

Doesn`t have enough bling at this distance for that.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's crazy how vast and beautiful the universe is. And some people think it just happened by accident out of no where.

 

[Mem]

Thank you for your encyclopedic knowledge,small star lover.

You want big, check this out http://earthsky.org/space/largest-known-black-hole-could-swallow-our-solar-system .

Astronomers meeting in Seattle this week discussed new observations of the largest black hole known so far. It’s thought to contain a mass equal to 6.6 billion of our suns.

Think of our Earth’s orbit around the sun. Light from our sun takes 8 minutes to travel to Earth. Now think of the planet Neptune, officially the most distant known planet in our solar system, according to the International Astronomical Union. Light from our sun takes about 4 hours to travel to the orbit of Neptune. M87′s black hole has an event horizon about four times as large as Neptune’s orbit. Hence the idea that it could swallow our solar system whole.

That's a lot of mass even for a black hole.

 

[feralkid]

From now on,I shall refuse to get a tan from such a puny a$$ star.D:

Agreed; skin cancer is so 90's.

 

[Nintendesert]

Damnit! I thought there was still some life in the program, that it was not completely cancelled. DAMNIT!

I was so pissed when they cancelled it. But it's ok, we need to give more money to Israel and Pakistan and hey, let's float a few hundred million to Somalia but we can't fund something as awesome as this. :'(

 

[nageov3t]

"The star has been discovered to be very unstable, having thrown off much of its mass into its surrounding nebula. Astronomers, with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, have predicted that VY Canis Majoris will be blown up, as a hypernova, in less than 100,000 years."

no thanks!

 

[AstroManLuca]

Doesn`t have enough bling at this distance for that.

I dunno, Canis Major has Sirius, which is the brightest star in the night sky... pretty blingy if you ask me.

If you catch a look at Sirius when it's near the horizon, it shimmers too.

 

[shortylickens]

Our star is a small son.

 

[JTsyo]

"The star has been discovered to be very unstable, having thrown off much of its mass into its surrounding nebula. Astronomers, with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, have predicted that VY Canis Majoris will be blown up, as a hypernova, in less than 100,000 years."

no thanks!

It has probably already happened

 

[DaveSimmons]

The politically correct term is "Little Star"

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDOkGx1gAZQ

. . . .or is it!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLkGSV9WDMA

 

[Evadman]

For you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_J5rBxeTIk

You win the thread.