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  • Bunnyinthelights
    Bunnyinthelights Posts: 15,278 Forumite
    Actually Snags,
    When we were watching WALLE on Sunday, joe pointed out the Milky Way! I didn't even know he KNEW what the Milky Way was! I was v impressed...I forget he is only just 3 sometimes he is so clever, and tall.
    Empty pockets never held anyone back, only empty heads and empty hearts can do that -Peale
  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    I can, however, tell you all about Pulsars, which *I think* can form when REALLY BIG (the technical term ;)) stars collapse and are so dense that a tennis ball sized piece would apparently weigh more than planet earth!

    See, I was listening! :D:p


    Aww, bless Joe, he's such a smart boy! :T

    And Len, yes, I do really love watching the sky. My Dad used to point out all the constellations to me as a kid, and I still look for them now. :o
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  • tigtag02
    tigtag02 Posts: 6,857 Forumite
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    Snaggles wrote: »
    Well, Ryan is in bed - he would know the proper names but I'm a bit blonde when it comes to all that sort of stuff. My interest in space is more along the lines of 'oooh, pretty stars'.

    and................



    ................can we make a wish on them :p
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  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    You can if you like Tig.....nothing naughty now! ;):D
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  • System
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    tigtag02 wrote: »
    and................



    ................can we make a wish on them :p
    You may have to hold your breath though:D
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  • tigtag02
    tigtag02 Posts: 6,857 Forumite
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    Snaggles wrote: »
    You can if you like Tig.....nothing naughty now! ;):D

    I thought norty was nice ;)
    :heartpuls baby no3 due 16th November :heartpuls
    TEAM YELLOW
    DFD 16/6/10
    "Shut your gob! Or I'll come round your houses and stamp on all your toys" The ONE, the ONLY, the LEGENDARY Gene Hunt :heart2:
  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    tigtag02 wrote: »
    I thought norty was nice ;)
    Good point......wish for whatever filthiness you fancy then! :D:D
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
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  • tigtag02
    tigtag02 Posts: 6,857 Forumite
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    Snaggles wrote: »
    Good point......wish for whatever filthiness you fancy then! :D:D

    next post is censored :o:o:o
    :heartpuls baby no3 due 16th November :heartpuls
    TEAM YELLOW
    DFD 16/6/10
    "Shut your gob! Or I'll come round your houses and stamp on all your toys" The ONE, the ONLY, the LEGENDARY Gene Hunt :heart2:
  • barnaby-bear
    barnaby-bear Posts: 4,142 Forumite
    Snaggles wrote: »
    I can, however, tell you all about Pulsars, which *I think* can form when REALLY BIG (the technical term ;)) stars collapse and are so dense that a tennis ball sized piece would apparently weigh more than planet earth!

    See, I was listening! :D:p
    They are neutron stars, because they are so dense the magnetic fields get distorted in like a doughnut so radiation kind of can only escape and gets beamed out at the poles in two cones, they rotate really regularly and it's when this beam hits the earth (like a lighthouse) we see a pulse - so we see blip-blip-blip really regularly... at first it was thought it might be someone out there so they were initially nicknamed LGM (little green men)... a bloke called Anthony Hewish was in charge of the project that found them and lots of people thought his student Jocelyn Bell-Burnell should have got a Nobel prize for actually spotting the signal (I've met both of them - separately - he's a very old gentlemen (80s?) but still working) - she's now a professor, one of perhaps three (?) in Physics in the UK at the OU... They once destroyed a planet in Dr Who by accreting it onto a Neutron star.
  • Bunnyinthelights
    Bunnyinthelights Posts: 15,278 Forumite
    Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool BB



    *Bunny wishes she actually retained some of the information when she took astronomy at Uni*
    Empty pockets never held anyone back, only empty heads and empty hearts can do that -Peale
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