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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

Entry: Yawn - the Top Ten Most Unexciting Things in the Galaxy - A87832155
Author: Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor - U128652

OK here's my top ten most boring aspects of astronomy.

GB
smiley - galaxysmiley - diva


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bobstafford

This is excellent, well done smiley - cheers

When I first read the title I thought porridge and sheep dog trials would be on the list smiley - laugh


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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

Thank you Bobsmiley - smooch

I must admit that's the kind of responses I got on Facebooksmiley - laugh and I got none at all on this month's BATS so I went ahead and used my own thoughts.

I am not sure the title's correct. Should it be "Yawn - the Top Ten Most Unexciting Things in Astronomy"? (but then it wouldn't be so funny when you actually read it)smiley - biggrin


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Gnomon - time to move on

An interesting concept, GB.

I think it would better if you told us the boring things first, then ended up with the Messier list as somthing its creator thought boring which turned out interesting after all.


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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

smiley - okMessier section switched to the endsmiley - biro

GB
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Bluebottle

Excellent entry - but are you prepared to get tear-stained letters from children asking Pluto to not be on the 'most unexciting things in the Galaxy' list?smiley - winkeye

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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

Thanks BBsmiley - towel

smiley - laugh
it's the argument about whether it should be reinstated as a planet or not, that's boring, not the planet itself. Pluto gets more interesting the better the technology allows research. It has 5 moons and is probably a double-planet system! http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130708.html

smiley - cool

GB
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Gnomon - time to move on

OK, now for a more detailed read.

Shouldn't it be "the Cosmos" rather than the Galaxy? Some of your boring things are outside the Galaxy.

softwear --> software

I think brown dwarfs deserve more of an explanation than just "are failed stars". You could add a sentence:

They are balls of hydrogen which are too big to be called a planet, but not big enough to self-ignite and become a star.

I think a sentence introducing the Messier section would be worthwhile:

"Sometimes, things that one person thinks boring turn out to be of great interest to others."

smiley - oksmiley - booksmiley - galaxy


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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

smiley - birogot all that thanks very much Gnomonsmiley - towel

GB
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ITIWBS

In a sense, even Jupiter can be classed as a brown dwarf, since it is self-luminous in the microwave.

Its only on account of the sensitivities of human eyes that there seems to be a dramatic difference between a red dwarf radiating with a peak emission around seven hundred nanometers and something with a high frequency cut off just below that level.

61 Cygni's infrared dwarf companion discovered back in the 1960s, for example, only misses being visible to the naked eye by a band no wider than the visible spectrum itself.


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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

You have no idea how close I came to that particular pick being "the difference between a gas giant and a brown dwarf"smiley - yawn

GB
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ITIWBS

smiley - biggrin


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Gnomon - time to move on

ITIWBS, there's a big difference between a brown dwarf, which is heated by compression, and a red dwarf, which it heated by internal fusion.


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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

Jupiter was never going to make the list anyway, it's my daughter Helen's favourite planet and the cloud formations are beautiful. The photos of Jupiter that Damian Hurst uploads to his Facebook account are just amazing. Thanks to his research I know that Jupiter's great red spot is shrinkingsmiley - biggrin

GB
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ITIWBS

Stipulated, Gnomon.

There is some doubt though as to exact!y where the demarcation lies.

61 Cygni's infrared dwarf companion, discovered by the gravitational displace method, was initially thought to be a planet, but was reclassified when it was discovered that there was an object self luminous in the very near infrared located there.


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ITIWBS

'displace' should have been 'displacement'


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ITIWBS

Meanwhile, does anyone have anything current on the temperature difference between Jupiter's great red spot and the planetary mean?

If I remember correctly, the great red spot is somewhat cooler.


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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

That's a conversation for elsewhere, ITIWBSsmiley - cheers

GB
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Icy North

This is fun smiley - smiley

I seem to remember suggesting the title a while ago - it began with "Zzz" rather than "Yawn" if I remember correctly.

Oh well, it's fine by me, as now you can link to:

A54557607 - Yawning

smiley - smiley


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minorvogonpoet

This is fun - particularly the section about the weather.smiley - rofl I agree with you that comets can be disappointing.

What about clusters? When I look at my husband's photos of galaxies and clusters, I'm not sure what's interesting about clusters. smiley - galaxy


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