Comments on: Astro round-up

By: Ooooo, pretty! And a little scary. | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Ooooo, pretty! And a little scary. | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:47:56 +0000

[...] that cluster sounds familiar, then you are a major BA geek: I’ve written about it in the past here and here. It’s a beefy cluster: if you added up all the stars, they would mass 100,000 times [...]

By: webmaster

webmaster — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:27:05 +0000

I canâ€™t believe some people believes in thatâ€¦ But theyâ€™re happy when someone tells them theyâ€™ll be happy today because Venus is somewhere in some constellationâ€¦ Well, suits them.

By: Irishman

Irishman — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:28:55 +0000

In the Westerlund 1 description, check your numbers. You have “Its light is dimmed by a factor of 100,00 “. You either have a misplaced comma or a missing zero.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:03:01 +0000

That is what fasinated me by space, you never know what you may find in your back yard, let along milians of lightyears away

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 05:24:29 +0000

The beauty here is that with infrared telescopes, we *can* see into the disk, and with radio and gamma rays, we can see through it! The image of that clusters shows this! So keep watching those websites. They’ll have more as time goes on.

By: Michelle Rochon

Michelle Rochon — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 04:39:51 +0000

Our own galaxy hides up so many things from us that I’m frustrated. It also makes me wonder what things we would see with our eyes on the OTHER side of the disk? Too bad I won’t live that long!