/sci/ - Science & Math

I'm looking to get into some amateur astronomy. Any advice for picking out a first telescope?

>>3029412
not OP but just wondering: is the light we see from galaxies from their stars or from this big ball of light in the middle?
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so are laws of physics considered completely fundamental, or could they be different in a parallel universe/multiverse?

The probability is higher that aliens do exist then that they do not exist

How much of this is accurate?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk
too lazy to link
lyrics then
whenever life gets you down Mrs brown and things seem hard or tough. and people are stupid exhausting or daft and you feel that you've had quite enough.
Just remember that your standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at nine-hundred miles an hour, that's orbiting at ninety miles a second so it's reckoned a sun that is the source of all our power.
the sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see are moving at a million miles a day. in an outer spiral arm at forty-thousand miles an hour of the galaxy we call the milky way.
our galaxy it'self contains a hundred billion stars, it's a hundred thousand light-years side to side, it bulges in the middle sixteen-thousand light-years thick but out by us it's just three-thousand light-years wide.we're thirteen-thousand light-years from galactic central point, we go round every two-hundred million years, and our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe.
the universe it'self keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whiz. as fast as it can go, the speed of light you know, twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is, so remember when you're feeling very small and insecure just how amazingly unlikely is your birth, and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space because there's bugger all down here on earth.