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Are there really stars in the sky?

  • 17-11-2012 8:10pm
    #1
    Knit wit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭


    Or are there just holes in the sky behind which some really really bright sun is shining?


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
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    We can see stars moving.

    So there aren't fixed holes in the sky. :)


  • #3
    TheBegotten
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    Knit wit wrote: »
    Or are there just holes in the sky behind which some really really bright sun is shining?
    The sky isn't an actual thing...we have the atmosphere, layers of various gases which insulate us from the vacuum of space. The reason the sky appears blue at day time is due to different light spectra (colours) reflecting and bouncing off these gases, which are mostly colourless themselves. Stars are extremely distant suns some of which are ten times the size of our own. If it took 8 mins to get to the sun, it'd take 4 YEARS to get to the nearest star.


  • #4
    amen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭amen


    So there aren't fixed holes in the sky
    of course those holes could also be rotating :)


  • #5
    Capt'n Midnight
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    amen wrote: »
    of course those holes could also be rotating :)
    They are moving relative to each other.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_stars#Future_and_past


    And you also have to take into account the redshift and and the orbital wobbles when a planet goes around a star


  • #6
    Maximus Alexander
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    Not mention parallax.


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  • #7
    Cookie_Monster
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    Knit wit wrote: »
    Or are there just holes in the sky behind which some really really bright sun is shining?

    updown.gif


  • #8
    stoneill
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    Knit wit wrote: »
    Or are there just holes in the sky behind which some really really bright sun is shining?

    appropriate username.


  • #9
    endacl
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    Knit wit wrote: »
    Or are there just holes in the sky behind which some really really bright sun is shining?
    This really tests the truism that the only stupid question is the unasked question...


  • #10
    longhalloween
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭longhalloween


    They're butterflies...stuck up in that big bluish black thing...


  • #11
    nocoverart
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    stoneill wrote: »
    appropriate username.

    Well! if you don't ask, you don't know


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