General Astronomy

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

Anyone see that moon last night?

Which one ?

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

Lol : it was a good question we want to know our nearest galaxy or the Milky Way. Even our solar system Mars and it’s moons.

I understand it revolves round our sun?

That's a bit forward thinking surely? I

My apologies Dr BlueBob it’s ‘Backwood thinking’ missing important words something I do all the time
This is correct I hope “the James Webb telescopes orbits between earth and the sun.”

 

[ultimateharold]

Probably looking at another 20 years, but the next generation are going to dwarf Webb as well..

 

[idahoblues]

Which one ?

The big one up in the sky

 

[DrBlueBob]

My apologies Dr BlueBob it’s ‘Backwood thinking’ missing important words something I do all the time
This is correct I hope “the James Webb telescopes orbits between earth and the sun.”

My apologies KB but I think we have crossed wires. What I meant was that back in the day people believed that everything in the cosmos revolved around the earth rather than the fact that we now know that the earth (and everything in our solar system) revolves around the sun, hence the (new and radical) idea of yours that things revolve around the sun is forward thinking.

It's rather late so I hope I make some sense.

 

[idahoblues]

Full Buck moon

 

[idahoblues]

 

[Le Havre Oswald]

All this talk of looking into the past fascinates me.

So if we're looking at distance galaxies that are billions of light years away, where are we on the scale?

Is someone looking at us who are in the next Galaxy with the same perspective?
Are we past, present or future?

If an alien was on a planet that was let’s say 70 million light years away and they had a mint fuckin telescope and could zoom on the earth they would see the Dinosaurs.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Absolutley stunning photo and a stunning subject, i am constantly amazed at how people have no concept of the size of the universe.

I don’t think humans’ brains are big enough to imagine the size of the universe

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

The big one up in the sky

I don't know how many moons you have over there in the good old US of A, but over here we only have one :)