Hi all, I am very new to astronomy. I just got a telescope two days ago (birthday present)... a 6" Sky Watcher reflector (1 1/4" eyepiece and a 2X Barlow)...

Flowing Space 101 Many of the people who believe that space is energy that flows often say what a "no-brainer" the idea is. To them, it is *obvious* that...

wrote: Can someone please tell me where I can obtain a copy of the night sky for January 21, 1959? Please respond to...

How can black holes have gravity when nothing can get out because escape speed is greater than the speed of light?

This problem has been seemingly one of the largest conceptual problems of the quantum physics. How a 'probability wave' can be in a superposition of states,...

Which is faster: Speed of Pizza Consumption or the Speed of Dark? Greetings Fellow Stargazer, There is a subject that has been overlooked for far too long in...

I'm wondering what y'all use for observing. I've been using my trusty-rusty Bushnell (yeah yeah I know lol) 7x50. Believe it or not I have been able to make...

I think it is around $100million. Though nothing preventing some fool if they want to spend more lol. Unfortunately though, chances are though such scope...

The idea of time dilation due to gravitation pull was first proven at Harvard by having instruments at the bottom of a building and instruments at the top. The...

Friday night proved to be somewhat of a new "revelation" for me on the observation of close visual binaries. The sky was generally quite hazy and disappointing...

I was wondering if anyone knows about a good Astronomy book that shows close-up photos of objects in the night sky. I've always thought it would be neat to...

Kooks in alt.astronomy are obsessed with nonsense because they have nothing new to suggest to the astronomy profession. They have no ideas, no original...

THe Pentagon had a recent report made available to the mass media in which the scenario of Abrupt Climate change was analysed. Some people in here like Tom...

From the Sidewalk: Wanted to go last friday (7/30) but I had one of my knees act up so I stayed home soaking it. Saterday night came and I got up to my corner...

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Sorry for the off-the-wall (and quite possibly off-topic) post, but is there any scientific evidence that some people can "feel" when the moon is full or...

The folks over on Bad Astronomy demonstrate why no one really pays attention to them. If we wanted insults, we can just flick the channel over to SNL and have...

THe Pentagon had a recent report made available to the mass media in which the scenario of Abrupt Climate change was analysed. Some people in here like Tom...

From here in Sunnyvale, CA this evening I swear the moon is just huge! Anyone else around here see this? If I didn't know better i'd say there's rocket...

Before you read this, please keep in mind that almost the entire religious world, from many gun-toting, and bible thumping fundamentalist Christians in the USA...