Comments for Tom's Astronomy Blog http://tomsastroblog.com Astronomy News, Notes and Observations. Wed, 16 May 2012 22:14:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on You Need To Follow This Link – It’s Great by Marian http://tomsastroblog.com/archives/12516/comment-page-1#comment-176371 Marian Wed, 16 May 2012 22:14:25 +0000 http://tomsastroblog.com/?p=12516#comment-176371 SafirXP - Got it! Yeah, I'm kinda' bummed about that issue, also. SafirXP – Got it! Yeah, I’m kinda’ bummed about that issue, also.

]]> Comment on You Need To Follow This Link – It’s Great by SafirXP http://tomsastroblog.com/archives/12516/comment-page-1#comment-176368 SafirXP Wed, 16 May 2012 21:18:28 +0000 http://tomsastroblog.com/?p=12516#comment-176368 WTF! Enceladus comes before Mars & Europa just because the water is accessible? Sorry, I get very subjective when people make that list. My last comment in your previous post should explain my reaction... Lol. WTF! Enceladus comes before Mars & Europa just because the water is accessible? Sorry, I get very subjective when people make that list. My last comment in your previous post should explain my reaction… Lol.

]]> Comment on Talking About Big by SafirXP http://tomsastroblog.com/archives/12512/comment-page-1#comment-176367 SafirXP Wed, 16 May 2012 21:03:17 +0000 http://tomsastroblog.com/?p=12512#comment-176367 Oh, a red dwarf. I tutor a 6 year old. His school taught him about the solar system a few weeks ago. He's really intrigued by the size of Jupiter (especially after I showed him Jupiter & Venus up in the sky) & the Sun. Asking me questions like what would it take to "kill" Jupiter? Can the Moon destroy Jupiter? Wondering if I should show him this image... :D Btw, anybody else depressed, devastated actually, about the cancellation of the Europa orbiter? I was really looking forward (ever since I read 2010: Odyssey Two decades ago) to some Europa discoveries before my time is up! Glad ESA okayed the JUICE mission, should get some flyby data but just not enough. Oh well, something is better than nothing. Oh, a red dwarf.

I tutor a 6 year old. His school taught him about the solar system a few weeks ago. He’s really intrigued by the size of Jupiter (especially after I showed him Jupiter & Venus up in the sky) & the Sun. Asking me questions like what would it take to “kill” Jupiter? Can the Moon destroy Jupiter? Wondering if I should show him this image… :D

Btw, anybody else depressed, devastated actually, about the cancellation of the Europa orbiter? I was really looking forward (ever since I read 2010: Odyssey Two decades ago) to some Europa discoveries before my time is up! Glad ESA okayed the JUICE mission, should get some flyby data but just not enough. Oh well, something is better than nothing.

]]> Comment on You Need To Follow This Link – It’s Great by Marian http://tomsastroblog.com/archives/12516/comment-page-1#comment-176365 Marian Wed, 16 May 2012 19:09:59 +0000 http://tomsastroblog.com/?p=12516#comment-176365 Thanks, Sir Hugo. It's great to be back. I love the idea that there is possible microbial life in the Venusian atmosphere. I consider Venus to be one of the most forbidding planets in the solar system. If life could find a niche anywhere NEAR Venus, it would surely be explosive in more ... forgiving environments. Thanks, Sir Hugo. It’s great to be back.

I love the idea that there is possible microbial life in the Venusian atmosphere. I consider Venus to be one of the most forbidding planets in the solar system. If life could find a niche anywhere NEAR Venus, it would surely be explosive in more … forgiving environments.

]]> Comment on You Need To Follow This Link – It’s Great by Hugo http://tomsastroblog.com/archives/12516/comment-page-1#comment-176364 Hugo Wed, 16 May 2012 18:49:33 +0000 http://tomsastroblog.com/?p=12516#comment-176364 Welcome back, Marian. Good to hear from you again. The theory of life in high-altitude Venusian clouds seems to rely on the fact that some chemicals are present that may serve as a food chain for microbes. It doesn't explain how the microbes might get there in the first place though. Could they have evolved there or somehow have been introduced via a comet colliding with Venus? Either way, finding life in Venus's atmosphere would be astounding. Welcome back, Marian. Good to hear from you again.
The theory of life in high-altitude Venusian clouds seems to rely on the fact that some chemicals are present that may serve as a food chain for microbes. It doesn’t explain how the microbes might get there in the first place though. Could they have evolved there or somehow have been introduced via a comet colliding with Venus?
Either way, finding life in Venus’s atmosphere would be astounding.

]]> Comment on Talking About Big by Hugo http://tomsastroblog.com/archives/12512/comment-page-1#comment-176362 Hugo Wed, 16 May 2012 18:39:54 +0000 http://tomsastroblog.com/?p=12512#comment-176362 Welcome back, Marian. It's good to hear from you again. Welcome back, Marian. It’s good to hear from you again.

]]> Comment on Talking About Big by Marian http://tomsastroblog.com/archives/12512/comment-page-1#comment-176356 Marian Wed, 16 May 2012 13:24:50 +0000 http://tomsastroblog.com/?p=12512#comment-176356 Wolf 359 is a red dwarf. It's an interesting little critter in its own right. Wolf 359 is a red dwarf. It’s an interesting little critter in its own right.

]]> Comment on Talking About Big by SafirXP http://tomsastroblog.com/archives/12512/comment-page-1#comment-176352 SafirXP Wed, 16 May 2012 12:12:14 +0000 http://tomsastroblog.com/?p=12512#comment-176352 Wolf 359, its pretty small. A brown dwarf? Wolf 359, its pretty small. A brown dwarf?

]]> Comment on Talking About Big by Roger http://tomsastroblog.com/archives/12512/comment-page-1#comment-176348 Roger Wed, 16 May 2012 03:57:11 +0000 http://tomsastroblog.com/?p=12512#comment-176348 Welcome back I seem to remember a video that did the size comparison thing, set to some music by a group that did some work on the soundtrack for the Matrix movies. I think that it was posted here, and in fact a link to it was what first brought be here. *Looks around Youtube" Here it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X47B9x670E Welcome back

I seem to remember a video that did the size comparison thing, set to some music by a group that did some work on the soundtrack for the Matrix movies. I think that it was posted here, and in fact a link to it was what first brought be here.

*Looks around Youtube”

Here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X47B9x670E

]]> Comment on Talking About Big by Marian http://tomsastroblog.com/archives/12512/comment-page-1#comment-176347 Marian Wed, 16 May 2012 00:30:24 +0000 http://tomsastroblog.com/?p=12512#comment-176347 Nothing like a great editor, is there, Jeanette? Nothing like a great editor, is there, Jeanette?

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