Recent questions tagged stars

Description : If our sun were not a small yellow star and was a different color, would rainbows still look the same?

Last Answer : No. The colors of the our rainbows occur because white light is in effect. Different sunlight colors would produce different colored rainbows. A red sun might have a rainbow that didn't have red, ... yellow, or the same green, or purple. Different colors would occur if our sun was actually yellow.

Description : What celebrity reactions to commoners have you enjoyed most?

Last Answer : I used to work for a security company who worked at premiers and concerts and most celebrities are ass wads. Except Willie Nelson. I met him face to face one night when I got stuck working at a greasy ... nothing bad happened to you! I'll have to admit, Willie impressed me. He's a good person.

Description : What celestial l body you see in the sky tonight, Jan 13, 2017?

Last Answer : Do snowflakes count as celestial bodies?

Description : What was your last encounter with a celebrity?

Last Answer : Not being a Metallica fan, I didn’t know who he was when she told me. I asked if it was the one armed drummer. She thought that was funny.

Description : What do you think about Christine Lagarde?

Last Answer : answer:Who? I don’t think she is a popular celebrity. She’s a politician. And she’s a lawyer. She is smart, and she is blunt. And her having the same birthday is not a reflection on you.

Description : Why can't I see the International Space Station the coming ten days in my neck of the woods? [Details inside].

Last Answer : Check this web page Canadian Space Agency. It show the multiple orbits and the three lines and shows that they are not one on top of the other. So those three time in one night are are when the orbits ... head. The other times it goes over may be during daylight or is on the other side of the Earth.

Description : Do you wish on falling stars?

Last Answer : answer:No, I don’t wish on falling stars. I just smile in amazement, I love seeing meteors. A couple months ago my girlfriend and I saw one while we were driving to dinner. We both said “hey did you see that?” at the same time. So she kissed me and we both smiled.

Description : Looking out through a window of the International Space Station, will I see stars?

Last Answer : As you may or may not have noticed, at night you can not see what is outside your window if your lights are on. I would say the same applies in space.

Description : Why are the orbits of planets in the same plane?

Last Answer : answer:Gravity. Think about objects passing each other and pulling on each other. Over gazillions of years, they are going to pull each other to the shortest distance between them that they can maintain, and that's ... plane. So I just made that up. Let's see is a real physicist can set us straight.

Description : Why is the Milky Way galaxy so flat? Are most of the other galaxies flat too?

Last Answer : I think it would be flattened for the same reasons the orbits of the planets tend to be in the same plane: gravity. All the stars are pulling on each other, and eventually they arrive at a ... pretty much, on average, created the shortest distance between themselves, which, it seems, is in a plane.

Description : Why don't stars clump together?

Last Answer : Star systems are too far away from each other to be significantly affected by each other’s gravity.

Description : Is it a comet? Or something else?

Last Answer : answer:There is no comet that is easily visible to the naked eye now. And a comet is stationary and would not move. What you saw could either have been a meteorite or a piece of space hardware - both ... atmosphere.More likely a meteor, also known as a shooting star. (My friend and I were ..)

Description : Question about star wobble as it relates to planet discovery?

Last Answer : answer:Intuitively, I would say that several smaller planets would cause the wobble to not be as cyclical or regular as it would be with just one huge planet. With one planet, to simplify, you would see the ... such as not wobbling as much in one direction or another). I don't know if I am clear

Description : How come you get a 3 star when creating xbox live?

Last Answer : The three stars represent your popularity. For example if I went to your account and clicked submit player review and then clicked prefer this player your popularity will go up and you will get more ... stars will decrease so just get alot of friends and get them to submit a good player review.

Description : "We're made of stars"; science Jellies, could you explain this in layman's terms?

Last Answer : Essentially everything heavier than Hydrogen and Helium, including the stuff we’re made out of, was produced inside stars. So everything that forms us was once inside a star at some point in time.

Description : How are Zodiac signs assigned to each time of year?

Last Answer : I think you may find your answer here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac Welcome!

Description : Why are most stars in the Milky Way much smaller than our Sun?

Last Answer : But most of the stars you observe from your backyard are giants.

Description : What do you think about astrology & horoscopes?

Last Answer : They’re something I like to occasionally have fun with. It’s eerie when they’re actually right on. Most are so vague though that anyone could find a meaning that relates to themselves.

Description : Feel like looking up again, if skies are clear (and dark)?

Last Answer : Would you be able to see Jupiter in the southern hemisphere, Gail?

Description : How To Make A Stars And Stripes Shirt

Last Answer : Materials: Cotton or cotton-blend T-shirt Red and blue fabric paints Paint brush Stiff paper or light cardboard for star templates Heavy aluminum foil or shirt size cardboard Pencil Scissors Masking tape - ... from inside the shirt. Press: Heat-set the paint if required by the paint manufacturer.