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[Londonrake]

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[Londonrake]

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[Londonrake]

Carina Nebula.

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[Londonrake]

Happy 460th Birthday Galileo.


Now. Odds on Lordo finding an anti West angle?

[repulsewarrior]

...a successful launch of the moon lander.



...at ten km/sec it is an autonomous craft, given the time delay involved with NASA ground stations.

[Londonrake]

https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... -sun-a-day

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[repulsewarrior]

...the landing is successful



...more to come, images and data to be transmitted for about eight days.

[Pyrpolizer]

Amazing, and EXTREMELY INTERESTING University courses on Astronomy from professors of the University of Crete.
https://mathesis.cup.gr/dashboard
Each lesson is split to about 10 video discussions/presentations each of about 10 minutes duration.

First session (2022) is still available:
Ταξίδι στο Σύμπαν - Σταθμός πρώτος: Το ηλιακό μας σύστημα (E)
Voyage to the Universe - Station One: Our Solar System (E)
Unfortunately this can't be followed by non Greek speaking persons

This year session:
Ταξίδι στο Σύμπαν - Σταθμός δεύτερος: Είμαστε μόνοι; (Νέο)
Voyage to the Universe - Station Two: Are We Alone? (New)
This one can be followed by non Greek speaking persons.
Just copy the text next to each video and Google translate it.
https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab ... =translate

From the very first video of the 2022 session:
Why is the sky totally black of few Km outside of planet Earth, and why astronauts can not see anything unless the sun rays hit it directly? And even then cannot see anything behind that object.

From this years course.
Starts with an interesting experiment you can do at home demonstrating the parallax phenomenon -->basic principle to measure the distance of stars in our Universe.

PS. No online translator works with this Web site, as they all need some kind of authorization. Tried Yandex and Google so far...

[Lordo]

Amazing, and EXTREMELY INTERESTING University courses on Astronomy from professors of the University of Crete.
https://mathesis.cup.gr/dashboard
Each lesson is split to about 10 video discussions/presentations each of about 10 minutes duration.

First session (2022) is still available:
Ταξίδι στο Σύμπαν - Σταθμός πρώτος: Το ηλιακό μας σύστημα (E)
Voyage to the Universe - Station One: Our Solar System (E)
Unfortunately this can't be followed by non Greek speaking persons

This year session:
Ταξίδι στο Σύμπαν - Σταθμός δεύτερος: Είμαστε μόνοι; (Νέο)
Voyage to the Universe - Station Two: Are We Alone? (New)
This one can be followed by non Greek speaking persons.
Just copy the text next to each video and Google translate it.
https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab ... =translate

From the very first video of the 2022 session:
Why is the sky totally black of few Km outside of planet Earth, and why astronauts can not see anything unless the sun rays hit it directly? And even then cannot see anything behind that object.

From this years course.
Starts with an interesting experiment you can do at home demonstrating the parallax phenomenon -->basic principle to measure the distance of stars in our Universe.

PS. No online translator works with this Web site, as they all need some kind of authorization. Tried Yandex and Google so far...

I can understand that people find this subject so interesting but I do not see why?
What good will it do to know how far some of these stars are? There are billions of galaxies out there and there are trillions of stars and probably billions of earth like planets too. Something that interests me is how they worked out whether a star has a planet revolving around it or not. Perhaps I shall find an astronomy course as an online open university course soon just as I find some time to myself and take it to PHD. Somehow Dr. Lordo has ring to it that I like. But I would hate it to find that I have no time to annoy my Swine friends here.

This is what I will do.
https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/modules/s284

You’ll have gained skills that enable you to:

use appropriate searching, graphical, and mathematical methods to gather, analyse and interpret astronomical data and information

combine astronomical concepts with basic physics and mathematics, to solve unfamiliar problems
to understand limitations and ambiguity of astronomical measurements

produce coherent and clear written arguments in appropriate scientific language

use software and other tools to analyse and present data and models

acquire and analyse scientific information from a wide range of sources

carry out investigative science; make and accurately record observations; and use these to draw informed conclusions.

[Londonrake]

Lordo, you should trust me on this. It would make far more sense and serve you better if you went for a GCSE O level in English Language.