Stars

[Boris5000]

Just looking out of my window, I notice the white glimmers we call stars, a rare sighting in London I look in awe, every time I see them clearly, I notice the beauty of the moon.

 

 

 

There are hundreds and thousands stars in our galaxy (I read in a book), billions to be vague... A billion suns, a billion solar systems? A billion chances of similar human life forms? A billion chances of life?

 

I sometimes lie and look out of my window, staring at the stars I can see... Wondering when we will encounter this "life" I dream of.

 

 

 

Does anyone think this... I would like to try and get more out, but My brain is too small to cope with this.

[dragoonson]

Just looking out of my window, I notice the white glimmers we call stars, a rare sighting in London I look in awe, every time I see them clearly, I notice the beauty of the moon.

 

 

 

There are hundreds and thousands stars in our galaxy (I read in a book), billions to be vague... A billion suns, a billion solar systems? A billion chances of similar human life forms? A billion chances of life?

 

 

 

Yeah stars are rare sightings here too.They're usually satellites anyway.

 

 

 

If there are n stars/suns,that doesn't mean there are n "solar systems".One planet revolving a sun does not constitute one,and no planets obviously doesn't either.Or places like Tatooine have two suns,so its in two systems?

 

 

 

Anywho,I hope the first batch of aliens to come to Earth are from Mon Calamari/Dac.

[assassin_696]

I don't think there's a more beautiful sight in nature than a starry night. Unfortunately they're becoming increasingly rare with light pollution. I think knowing something about them only enhances their beauty as well.

 

 

 

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?

 

 

 

Nobody has said it better.

[ThurinEthir]

One of my favorite things I've ever done was go into a [small] forest at night, and lie there staring up at the stars.

 

Second favorite was going to Danshui (Basically a town by a beach in Taiwan) at sunset, sitting there watching the waves, the moon, and the stars for a few hours.

 

Then I realized how much I still love astronomy. (Used to be obsessed with it as a kid :P )

 

I'm definitely a night person, I prefer the faraway stars and the moon over the Sun. Perhaps it's also because it's so quiet, so peaceful.

[purfishx]

omfg, tip.it is filled with DEEP people! :shock:

[indy500fan]

I love looking at the stars. Some are satellites, and there are actually two planets close to each other and pretty bright right now.

[deloriagod]

there are actually two planets close to each other and pretty bright right now.

 

 

 

Yeah, I notice them every night when I'm out since I'm not used to seeing them there. Pretty cool imo.

 

 

 

 

 

I love to just sit outside at night and look at the stars and wonder what's out there. I always used to think "shooting stars" or "falling stars" were a rare sight but I've seen a lot of them. I even saw quite the fireball in the sky one night but nobody seemed to believe me

 

 

 

On the topic of stars, one night I was tripping on a substance I won't mention and I thought I could really move the stars. Ended up leaning out my window (on the second story) reaching out towards them.

[ThurinEthir]

there are actually two planets close to each other and pretty bright right now.

 

Oh right, my physics teacher told us today, Jupiter and Venus (I think?) are both in the sky around this time, and both quite bright. And since the moon is in the crescent stage, apparently those three together look like a smiley face. ;)

[indy500fan]

there are actually two planets close to each other and pretty bright right now.

 

Oh right, my physics teacher told us today, Jupiter and Venus (I think?) are both in the sky around this time, and both quite bright. And since the moon is in the crescent stage, apparently those three together look like a smiley face. ;)

 

 

 

Yep, Jupiter and Venus, just looked it up. Tonight is the night it's supposed to look really cool with the moon :) .

[Lenticular_J]

Go to a great plains on a winter night. Jesus it's amazing. I live in a fairly populated city, and I can see a good number of stars, but when I go out to family reunions or anything, it's brighter than the city. The stars and moon are just that bright.

 

 

 

Ont he subject of planets, you can also see the ISS if you live near Florida for the next few nights.

[megakiller32]

Which part of London? Up here in North London all you ever get is the Orange glare of street lighting.

[Will H]

 

 

 

He's a picture of the Moon/Venus/Jupiter conjunction, forming a smiley face, taken in Thailand. It's so awesome when things like that happen in the sky, it's amazing how beautiful the world we live in really is. And the more we explore it, the more beautiful and mesmerising it becomes.

[ThurinEthir]

Oh wow, right now at least, the moon is on the other side of Venus and Jupiter. So it's a frowning face. :lol: #-o

 

I'm surprised I can see it so early, it's not even 5 yet. Ugh, guess winter's here... :x

 

 

 

I think it was warri0r45 that posted a thread about Stellarium a while back, worth a download for anyone who likes this stuff.

[indy500fan]

Go to a great plains on a winter night. Jesus it's amazing. I live in a fairly populated city, and I can see a good number of stars, but when I go out to family reunions or anything, it's brighter than the city. The stars and moon are just that bright.

 

 

 

Ont he subject of planets, you can also see the ISS if you live near Florida for the next few nights.

 

 

 

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/si ... index.html

 

 

 

Use the skywatch applet, it will tell you when the best time to see the ISS is. For the US you can put in zip code, then it has preselected international cities to choose from. Make sure to choose ISS from the drop down menu, but you can look up all the other satellites too if you want.

[Lenticular_J]

I dunno. I woulda loved to have lived during the Age of Discovery. All the adventure, new things being discovered every day...Would be great.

[Skull]

Where I live you can see hundreds/thousands of stars on a clear night. Makes you feel small.

[RichieMcD]

I do some time think about the prospect of other life forms and solar systems out there like ours which is more than likely happening right now when you think of the true vastness of space.

 

 

 

But when I think of this I also think of reality, many solar systems are 100's or even thousands of light years away, and there is no possible way of surpassing the speed of light so coming into direct contact with them will probably, logically anyway never occur.

 

 

 

I live about 3 -4 miles from Dublin city center so unfortunately nearly all viewing of stars is blocked off by "light pollution"

[llcoolguy972]

there are actually two planets close to each other and pretty bright right now.

 

Oh right, my physics teacher told us today, Jupiter and Venus (I think?) are both in the sky around this time, and both quite bright. And since the moon is in the crescent stage, apparently those three together look like a smiley face. ;)

 

 

 

Yep, Jupiter and Venus, just looked it up. Tonight is the night it's supposed to look really cool with the moon :) .

 

Of course... I always seem to miss things like this. Damn you Buffalo and your cloudy skies. -.-

[indy500fan]

Of course... I always seem to miss things like this. Damn you Buffalo and your cloudy skies. -.-

 

 

 

I'm missing them too (Cincinnati) :( .

[The Observer]

I do get them, but only once in a while. I guess it's because I live in a humble city of 132,000 in the Niagara Region.

[warri0r45]

Every now and then I take a break from living the daily grind, look up and stand in awe. It's mostly just a fleeting glimpse, but still, it's a reminder of what's out there.

 

 

 

I'm definitely with Assassin and Richard Feynman on this - knowing the vast dimensions of space, the unimaginably massive size of stars and the ancient age of their light sure is inspiration for wonder. Also knowing the likely chance that there is some other life-form out there, perhaps even something like us, definitely makes you wonder.

 

 

 

The things I wonder about most are if they're like us, how they live, if they have things like art, love, war, sport or music, and whether they wonder the same things we do.

[stan18]

I love just looking at the stars, its really relaxing

 

 

 

though, even in the suburbs i live in, the light pollution is astonishing. the meteor shower last summer i could only see a small patch of sky

[Yomyth105]

whenever visiting rural areas or taking a vacation in a 3rd world country the sight of so many starts is always fascinating.

[Zierro]

Looking at a starry sky has always been thought invoking. You never know... maybe there is someone by that star looking at our star and thinking the same exact thing that we're thinking.

 

 

 

Far out man. 8-)

[Rebdragon]

Wall of cliche :o.