Space stuff thread

The future in understanding our past is like good wiskey. Slowly little sipps of New knowledge will make the hole picture come together like a jigzaw puzzle we will get there with time. Fasinating !!!

It could be debated that we descended from fish: Your Inner Fish Episodes | You Tube The precedence would be: Fish >Amphibians >Reptiles >Mammals

375 million-year-old Fish Fossil Sheds Light on Evolution From Fins to Limbs [VIDEO]

Yes Anak I think that is very possible. In England the BBC has made some really good programs with professor Brian Cox. They are called " the wonders of the universe " and so on and are really to get more people interested in things that are considered "too difficult".
The program " wonders of live " is about the questions around the evolution and what we know for sure nowadays. I find all these documentaries really worth watching.

Virgins new space plane is COOL!

Virgin Galactic unveils new spaceship - CNN.com

From the; "Can they get any bigger department?" You betcha!

A dramatic new image from the Hubble Space Telescope may offer fresh insight into one of the great mysteries of the universe: black holes.
The image shows a bright white orb against a starry black background. Located in the Coma Cluster, about 300 million light years away from Earth, the orb is actually a distant view of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4889. At the center of that galaxy lies a sleeping giant: a supermassive black hole that is 21 billion times the mass of our sun.

Source: Stunning Photo Reveals Galaxy With Supermassive Black Hole

21 billion times?!? Now try and wrap your head around that! I'm probably way off but can't a million Earths fit inside the Sun?

Right there in the center folks!

thelma said:

Yes Anak I think that is very possible. In England the BBC has made some really good programs with professor Brian Cox. They are called " the wonders of the universe " and so on and are really to get more people interested in things that are considered "too difficult".
The program " wonders of live " is about the questions around the evolution and what we know for sure nowadays. I find all these documentaries really worth watching.

Ditto that Thelma have all his stuff and he puts ii all in a non jargonstic manner.

ATLASGAL Survey of Milky Way Completed | ESO

Isn't it so that in space there is no direction, there is no up or down, left or right, backwards or forwards?

Doesn't that mean that we have no idea in what direction we are spinning around the sun?