Astronomy Thread

[stew]

love this from the bbd:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/future/bespoke/20140304-how-big-is-space-interactive/index.html

Heganboy thank you for posting that, the dimensions are staggering.

[muppet]

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/short-film-showcase/a-hundred-million-stars-in-3-minutes?source=searchvideo

Andromeda, the next town over.

[laoislad]

This meteor shower taking place tonight. Is there a time on it?
I've looked out a few times and can't see anything.

[trileacman]

This meteor shower taking place tonight. Is there a time on it?
I've looked out a few times and can't see anything.

You live in Dublin yeah? Too much background light I'd imagine, head up Carantoohill.

[laoislad]

This meteor shower taking place tonight. Is there a time on it?
I've looked out a few times and can't see anything.

You live in Dublin yeah? Too much background light I'd imagine, head up Carantoohill.

Im down home in Laois tonight so no issues with background light.

[macdanger2]

This meteor shower taking place tonight. Is there a time on it?
I've looked out a few times and can't see anything.

You live in Dublin yeah? Too much background light I'd imagine, head up Carantoohill.

Im down home in Laois tonight so no issues with background light.

I think 11-4 is the window

[general_lee]

Apparently every ten minutes if you live in a town, every minute in the country, you should be able to see something. I'm assuming it's cloudy overhead so not going to bother..

[finbar o tool]

went out last night for 15/20 minutes and saw 11 shooting stars/meteoroids. it was very cool!
PS im a culchie! 

[armaghniac]

Einstein vindicated, gravitational waves identified from a black hole collision 1.3 billion years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/live/2016/feb/11/gravitational-wave-announcement-latest-physics-einstein-ligo-black-holes-live

The effect required noting a distortion  the equivalent of about one 10,000th the width of a proton. We have all been subject to this distortion.

[heganboy]

this is the biggest thing to happen in physics possibly ever. Up there with Einstein, Newton and the greats.

We all got a little bit smarter today...

[Itchy]

this is the biggest thing to happen in physics possibly ever. Up there with Einstein, Newton and the greats.

We all got a little bit smarter today...

Does this mean Mayo will win Sam?

[mouview]

They'll have won it in Croker about 1,000,000th. of a second before it's known down home.

[oakleaflad]

Anyone have any thoughts about the TRAPPIST-1 discovery?

[stew]

Anyone have any thoughts about the TRAPPIST-1 discovery?

1E would do me, I think that is the best option based on the information at hand so far, problem is we would need half light speed capability to even try and get there at all and we absolutely not even close to that speed yet, even then the people that started out there would be dead by the time they got there, if they got there.

Fascinating find however.

[ONeill]

Yea, but we don't have to get there. Just send signals.