In what direction is the universe expanding?

[Generalzod]

Lagoon Nebular taken last night...

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

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Lagoon Nebular taken last night...

cheers.

 

[Nutz]

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cheers.

Can you see that really small star in the middle right, we don't live there.

 

[Nutz]

My thoughts are that we will never know how the universe began, what was around before it, and what will happen at the end. People are going to dedicate their lives for hundreds / thousands more years and will never know. Personally, the whole thing is mystifing and brain melting, but I'm comfortable not knowing because I know that I'll never know. I'm at peace with that.

Exackery Nuke.
The trillions of dollars the world as a whole spends on universal research is unbelievable when you think of how many houses could be built or hungry mouths could be fed if that money was directed towards looking after our kind and looking after our planet.
Super powers like Russia, USA, China, Korea, all have thousands of desperate needy people.
I'm happy to let my imagination run free and to save our platypus, koalas, and indigenous folk.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Can you see that really small star in the middle right, we don't live there.

Well I do:


The constellation of WestsTigerus.

The ancients Neanderthals would pray to it when they lost their wooden spoons.

The General only found it in the heavens after he visited a museum and became inspired by cave drawings.

 

[Twizzle]

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

I’m surprised one of the belligerent countries in the world hasn’t fired a missile trying to blow 31 Atlas up!

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Any chance of atlas photo’s @Generalzod?

According to the report, its tail is 50,000kms long.

 

[Generalzod]

I'll have a look.

Any chance of atlas photo’s @Generalzod?

According to the report, its tail is 50,000kms long.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

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[horrie hastings]

@Generalzod , are you goimg to photograph Saturn tonight ?

 

[Generalzod]

@Generalzod , are you goimg to photograph Saturn tonight ?

My telescope is only for taking pictures of nebular and galaxies , its not used to take pictures of planets, i did take the telescope out the other day pointed it at Saturn it only looks like a star.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

My telescope is only for taking pictures of nebular and galaxies , its not used to take pictures of planets, i did take the telescope out the other day pointed it at Saturn it only looks like a star.

We’ll just have to tough it out I guess lol.

I’ve seen Saturn through a telescope, years ago, the rings are quite profound.

Reading up on them, unfortunately, they are going to disappear.

 

[horrie hastings]

We’ll just have to tough it out I guess lol.

I’ve seen Saturn through a telescope, years ago, the rings are quite profound.

Reading up on them, unfortunately, they are going to disappear.

I remember sometime back in the 70s i saw Saturn through a telescope in the backyard, the rings were amazing, they looked like they were standing upright at the time.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

I remember sometime back in the 70s i saw Saturn through a telescope in the backyard, the rings were amazing, they looked like they were standing upright at the time.

Saturn depicting its satellites.

One of my favourite planets.

 

[Nuke]

The first time I pointed my el cheapo Kmart telescope at Saturn, my uncle came outside to see what I was doing. I told him I just saw Saturn and asked if he wanted to look. Now, my uncle isn't one to show much emotion or amazement at anything, but he looked through the lens and saw Saturn and the rings clearly, and he was like "Bugger me...".

I've not been keeping up to date with Saturn / the planets of late, but I'm guessing, based on @The Silverdale Phantom's comment, that Saturn must be going more side-on (from Earth's point of view) as those rings are incredibly thin. I think I've read that they're only about 30m thick or something? Huge distances wide, but unimaginably thin.

 

[hindy111]

Thanks a lot for going to the trouble.

So, the furthest astral bodies are moving faster away than the ones that turned up later in the bang thing.

Where are we located in the rushhour to expand?

if furthest known body is say 100 units away, how old are we? Are we more like 80 or are we young?

Also, is the centre of the bang still happening or is the source of it all gassed out like a Tigers forward?

And on the theories on the start of it, nothing comes from nothing or it’s not nothing, so universe mate couldn’t have just rocked up at the front door of space as the Johnny kolk of sub sub sub atomic particle things, held up a beer and just exploded.

That doesn’t make any sense. Its impossible!

Are there any Religions that support Big Bang?

thanks and I’ll consider your other points as well. Good stuff.

Perhaps this is a program and the big bang was turning on the computer / simulation.
GRONK maybe a virus.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Perhaps this is a program and the big bang was turning on the computer / simulation.
GRONK maybe a virus.

lol, but I don’t mind the old Gronkenstein. A bit of a soft spot for him.

 

[Generalzod]