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Originally posted by Mayura
Nibiru is about to show itself, profoundly; Late 2011 to mid 2012.
It is being played off as a supernova from Orion, Betelgeuse to be exact.
Have any professor tell me that... and I'll laugh.
Nibiru is about to show itself, profoundly; Late 2011 to mid 2012.
It is being played off as a supernova from Orion, Betelgeuse to be exact.
Have any professor tell me that... and I'll laugh.
Originally posted by Crutchley29
My god. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS NIBIRU. Seriously..how people believe this stuff is absolutely beyond my logical comprehension.
Yeah, sweet f*cking timing for a supernova!
Brad Carter, Senior Lecturer of Physics at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia, claimed yesterday that the galactic blast could happen before 2012 – or any time over the next million years.
But experts claimed that even if the big bang is looming, it will still happen way too far from Earth to do us any harm.
The first technique uses triangulation (a.k.a. parallax). The Earth's orbit around the sun has a diameter of about 186 million miles (300 million kilometers). By looking at a star one day and then looking at it again 6 months later, an astronomer can see a difference in the viewing angle for the star. With a little trigonometry, the different angles yield a distance. This technique works for stars within about 400 light years of earth. (For details on triangulation, check out How GPS Receivers Work.)
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There is no direct method currently available to measure the distance to stars farther than 400 light years from Earth, so astronomers instead use brightness measurements. It turns out that a star's color spectrum is a good indication of its actual brightness. The relationship between color and brightness was proven using the several thousand stars close enough to earth to have their distances measured directly. Astronomers can therefore look at a distant star and determine its color spectrum. From the color, they can determine the star's actual brightness. By knowing the actual brightness and comparing it to the apparent brightness seen from Earth (that is, by looking at how dim the star has become once its light reaches Earth), they can determine the distance to the star
Originally posted by daleomaleo
Your all nuts. Get your heads out of the clouds. There's no rogue planet. Go watch football. It's Sunday.