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Favorite Astronomical Topic?

What's your favorite cosmic topic?

  • Stars

    Votes: 6 10.2%

  • Solar System

    Votes: 6 10.2%

  • Black Holes

    Votes: 10 16.9%

  • Comets

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • SETI

    Votes: 3 5.1%

  • Big Bang Theory

    Votes: 9 15.3%

  • Other (What did I forget)?

    Votes: 18 30.5%

  • Study of Planet X is the bomb

    Votes: 7 11.9%
  • Total voters
    59
NoahFence said:
Wow... there's a lot of interesting stuff up there, eh?



Supernova?
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Yeah or something like that. We are really not sure whats going to happen. There is evidence of two supernova like events in the last 1000 years, yet the star is still there.

We had a series observations that suggested there was a companion star involved then suddenly the observations changed in 2008 and we are back into the not sure department.

If stars had personalities, then Carinae would definately be the Chuck Norris of the Milky Way ;)
 
I like the idea of the Haystack Observatory at MIT.

Maybe I can get a job there mopping the floor! Their data center is amazing.
 
Other: extrasolar planets.

Second place is black holes and consequences of relativity.
 
I selected our own solar system. What we've learned about our neighbor planets, just within my lifetime, has been stunning.
 
Uranus

Someone had to say it. I like the search exoplanets, but more for sampling issues than for the planets themselves.
 
I suppose it's "big bang" theory really, but I'm waiting for the day when someone says "Whoa! Old light was actually a different frequency to modern light when it started out way back when. All this red-shift stuff is nonsense" :D
 
Other: all of it. It has everything, visual beauty, amazing theories (BBT), even more amazing conclusions (we are made of star stuff), and still so much to find out. It's almost as good as biology ;)
 
I voted other, because I find the human or engineer side of it all really fascinating. Building (radio) telescopes, rockets, satellites, firing the engine just so that you arrive at your destination half a billion km away...
 
Other. Nebulae and galaxies are by far the prettiest things to look at through a telescope. That's my answer to the title at least, the poll question of what my favourite cosmic topic is is a very different question. Astronomy and cosmology are not the same things.
 
Cuddles said:
Other. Nebulae and galaxies are by far the prettiest things to look at through a telescope. That's my answer to the title at least, the poll question of what my favourite cosmic topic is is a very different question. Astronomy and cosmology are not the same things.
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Don't forget Open and Globular clusters.

The Jewel Box:
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Omega Centauri:
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What is your favorite cosmic topic?

[X] Whether Galactus and other cosmics "let the Beyonder whoop their ass" in an asinine retcon, and don't get me started on the stupidity of the even retconnier "he was a mutant" BS. :mad:
 
Other: Dark matter. Obviously nothing pretty to look at (er... nothing to look at, really), but the mystery of it intrigues me greatly. Not sure that it's exactly what you were looking for as an "astronomical topic" though.
 
I put other, although I could have just as easily said all.

(Actually, it wouldn't be just as easy since "all" is not an option in the poll)

I guess I'm the rare type that finds interest in both the local system and the remote galaxies and stellar systems. For some reason I've always been fascinated by the Voyager missions, and lately I've been on a Hubble kick.
 
MG1962 said:
Nice... I have an 8 inch computer controlled Nexstar. Spent years pushing glass. Now I can go 30 minutes without getting out of my chair lol. I didn't realize you lived far enough south to see Carinae. But dont feel bad I used to check in on it on a regular basis waiting for the big one :D
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:D Yah, I used to live far enough south to ovserve some things I miss... like Omega Centauri for example... but then there's M13 here and of course when you have to "settle" for having Orion in the sky most nights, well... :D
 
I read that after 1988 Los Angeles earthquake JPL got flooded with calls asking what are all the lights in the sky. These people had never seen stars before. :(
 
BenBurch said:
I wish for a major blackout.
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Irresponsibly, I used to sabotage certain lights.

Then there was the night cops were looking for a killer and we were relocated... any crazy "While I was observing one night..." stories?
 
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