Yeh crazy storm predicted can’t wait to roll a spliff and watch that **** cause havoc Had a telescope years ago when eldest was growing up…not sure if he’s got it at his mums or what not One of them things I would like to invest in one day again
yeah I had one growing up. Loved looking at Jupiter and Saturn and seeing the giant spot and the rings of Saturn with my own eyes, something about bearing witness to the majesty of the universe seeing that for yourself. The one my bro has bought is some fancy pants one where you can link it to your phone and it will point at the planets or stars that you ask it to. He’s in the process of moving down here atm, so I think it’s boxed up. Will chat to him later and see if we can get it set up
Theres an app called Night Sky it does the same maybe that defo gonna sort it out for my young un he loves that stuff
Yeah I've got that Night sky app. I think the one for the Telescope is an actual app for that particular telescope, it's got voice commands too so you can literally say, show me Jupiter and the telescope will find it. Makes a huge change from my childhood days, scanning the sky and then trying to zoom in without knocking the scope and keeping eveything in focus. I guess there's some satisfaction to that manual approach, but I can't wait to get this new scope set up. Probs not gonna get a chance before this storm hits, but the alignment should still be visible for a while yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal In August 2024, the Planetary Habitability Laboratory published a preprint reporting observations made in 2020 at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico—where they conclude that the Wow! signal was likely caused by a rare astrophysical event, in which stellar emissions energizing a cold hydrogen cloud caused it to suddenly surge in brightness.
James Webb telescope has revealed that the universe is expanding at different rates Hubble tension, as outlined in your video above. https://www.livescience.com/space/c...isis-in-our-understanding-of-cosmic-expansion
Yeah I've been looking at a fair amount of stuff last few days, and that was something I saw but not delved into yet. I've got an article that I've saved that I need to have a read of titled cosmic inflation, which is all about a mirror universe, in reverse I think, probably a load of bolloxs, but I'll have a look because it covers string theory and there is another article embedded in it chatting about Stephen Hawkings view on this. Fairy stories about multi universes is to me like aliens are to Sucky lol. I'm noticing that JWST is throwing up a lot of fascinating stuff, but generally once questioned and challenged enough, always seems to comeback to the fact that Einstein was right. It took them 50 fooking years just to work out what created that space sound lol - but I'm glad they kept looking even if it was bit of a wild goose chase. I don't know why I take an interest in all this stuff, I gain nothing of use from it, but some people like reading fiction stories so I suppose this is my version of that. I expect a lot of it comes from being the age to have done the origianal space race at school.
I'm interested in it all too. My step grandad had a really powerful telescope and had built an observatory in his back garden shed, with a rotating roof and everything, so that peaked my interest at a young age. I grew up under the Space Shuttle programme in the 80's when the US was really pushing the envelope of space travel again. Read all of Stephen Hawkings books, which are actually brilliant. I remember him saying that he had an assistant writer, to help make it all understandable for the layman. The assist told him for every equation you put in those books, you will lose half of your readers. So I'm really glad they made those books accessible to all of us non astro physicists lol. I think were blessed to have people like Brian Cox, Neil de grasse Tyson in the popular media now, as they help to explain these mind bending cosmological theories, which would otherwise leave us all baffled. Although a lot of modern cosmology is simply just that, mind bending. We have theories that help us to understand the universe, but at the same time, these theories end up contradicting themselves at the same time that they explain things. The double slit theory, phenomena changes if it's observed. I mean, that in itself is just bonkers. And now you have the James Webb telescope revealing things like the fact that the Universe expands at a different rate, and again, that is dependent on where you're observing it from. It's hard to wrap your head around it all, but it's infinitely fascinating all at the same time.
I was trying to think back when the timeline of discoveries of events took off, and it was probably from 1977 with the launch of Voyager 1 Then from the millennium things went batshit crazy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_discovery_of_Solar_System_planets_and_their_moons
Just saw this and thought this would be enough to get @luvgonzo into Astronomy lol please log in to view this image
Interesting, because Kyoto hospital is involved in this trial, and from memory of past stuff I've researched regarding Parkinsons disease, which Dr Tilo Kunath was involved in (I've put his stuff up in the past on the forum) they are involved in stem cell research - the background to that is Dr Tilo followed up on the works of Professor Ian Wilmut (RIP) who created dolly the sheep. In summary, good find mate, what next growing bones? Edit: Just some of the amazing work these guys do... https://biology.ed.ac.uk/centre-eng...kinson-s-regenerative-medicine-project-funded
It is amazing stuff....only problem being is how much will the drug companies charge for it! I say that because it would replace expensive dentistry work, so there's a market there to be exploited.
