/sci/ - Science & Math

Sol.

It gives me that warm fuzzy feeling when I look at it.

>>6098797
Don't look too much anon.

>>6098795
Betelgeuse!
Betelgeuse!
Betelgeuse!

>>6098795
Saturn.

At least, it will be a star, once the Lucifer project succeeds and NASA's true agenda is revealed.

>>6098808
how the fuck do you say that?

>>6098830
Beatle juice

>>6098830
About halfway between "Beetlejuice" and "Baytullgoose"

>>6098830

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hovKm9oFiM

>>6098808
Come on guys, this is siruis.

stars have no names for science its only numbers that count

Menkalinan master race.

>any of these stars may not live anymore

>>6098889
man theres a lot of fucking stars that have names.

Polaris

>>6098797
goddamn I hate when people call it "sol"
The name of our star is The Sun, not sol. A sol a single rotation of a planet, what we on Earth call a "day."

My favorites are the binary star Mizar and Alcor in Ursa Major.

>>6098919

>tfw sometime in the winter i'm going to drive out to the beach around 1 AM and attempt to make my first star trail photo
>tfw i know i'm going to fuck it up somehow

>>6099051
sounds comfy

>>6099061


should be. It takes awhile to do so i plan to bring a chair, lunch box, coffee and a book. shud b fun

Fomalhaut.

I fucking love Fomalhaut.

Its debris disk is so fucking tight it's insane, the thing in his disk is driving astrophysicists insane: it can't really be a cloud of gas, even if it could, what the fuck would a cloud of gas do in the middle of a dusty disk ? Or it is a planet, but a Saturn-like with a HUGE disk.

Awesome shit.

Also, I did my master thesis on her. Yes. I'm french, and stars are feminine for us.

Aldebaran

Eta Carine.
There is a small chance we will see relative close supernova within our lifetime.

>>6099071
Maybe it's a ring world

Sol

>>6099045
Its also Latin for sun.

But there is still no reason to refer to it as sol.

>>6099071
>in his disk
>stars are feminine for us.
>Yes. I'm french
French have a weird interpretation of feminine.

>>6099091
see >>6099045

luna

The sun made of lava and the sun made of ice

>>6099204
>>6099045
I would like to see the source

>>6099071
please post your masters thesis so I can read about it

>>6099221
damnit, I just realized it would be in french

Betelguese. It's close to Rigel and Sirius, and its the brightest red star I can see from my driveway in the morning.

Alpha Centauri.

>>6099222
perfect, I'm fluent.

I like Sandra Bullock.
Azimuth 27.3 elevation 0 on my telescope.

>>6099469
Im fluent in your mom

>>6099546

#rek'd
#shotsfired

Methuselah, because it was first calculated to be older than the universe.

>>6099220
https://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming/

>>6099222
It might not be.
Even if it is, it should have pretty pictures and you could get the general idea by staring it down

Sol.

It's the only reason why I can have a favorite star.

>>6098795
>What's /sci/'s favorite star?
Robert Downey Jr.

The middle one in orion's belt. He seems slighly cheeky in an endearing way because he's riding on top of orion's dick.

>>6099682
There is an elephant in the room, all the recent marvel movies are complete shitty overhyped standardized(even for hollywood standards of standardization) pieces of crap.
anyone who feels nothing but an urge to vomit when exposed to one is guilty of no having sense of shame

>>6099448
It's also the easiest star to find because it and Rigel has those 3 faggot stars between them.

venus because it shines the strongest xD

>>6099112
Oops. Actually in french, we use the same word for "his", her" or "its" so I kinda dun goofed.

>>6099221
>>6099222
It's in english, but I won't post it. My name is on it and I'm just too lazy to recompile it without the name and put it online. Sorry.

>>6098795
Aldebaran is pretty cool. Nice and bright and orange as fuck. Looks swanky in 'nocs.

These ones here.

I love Pleiades too.

Or just pick one.

They're all amazing.

the brown star between the 2 quasars named left cheek right cheek

>>6100891

Good one.

The Sun is the best

My favorite star is actually a geosynchronous satellite over my house that looks like a giant penis shooting through the sky.

Gianna Michael

Deneb, Altair, Vega

>>6098827
Making saturn into a star
>not using Jupiter, which has a higher mass

but, why?

VY Canis Majoris

>>6100855
What's the star above betelgeuse? If it's Meissa it should be more directly above bellatrix, no?

>>6100952
>b-but sadr

>>6100958
that shit isn't even the biggest now

Praise the Sun!

>go outside
>see bright star right above castor
>is that you jupit-
>jupiter is to the right
>go inside and check stellarium
>no bright star there
>go back out
>star is now gone

I want to get off the astronomy ride.

>>6100958
Is it amazing that it only has 17 ± 8 times the amount as mass as the sun?

>>6098903
>death reaching us with the speed of light

>>6100954

Because Galileo has already fallen into it and nothing happened, kind of messing up conspiracy theorist's ideas.

I don't have a favorite star but one I am pretty interested in is Betelgeuse. We look at that shit every day here as it was 427 years ago (because of its distance) and it looks like its almost all out of H. Did it already explode and the light has yet to reach us here on Earth? Maybe.

*Tips fedora*

>>6101151
>either it's already dead, or we will never see it die

>>6101154
yeah, that shit doesn't work here.

>>6101170

The fact that you acknowledged it, says to me that it does.

>ctrl+f
>no procyon

<div class="math">\star</div>

But I also like <span class="math">\ast[/spoiler]

>>6101157
Stars have blinked out before.

SWIFT J1822.3–1606.

it's a weird hybrid Pulsar-Magnetar .

Is there a good infograph about star classifications, or other interesting space shit?

Sci what happens to the night sky when beetle juice goes sooper nova? The moar I learn about the life's cycle of stars the more it scares me.

>your favorite star might be dead

>>6101310
the sky will go bright for a few seconds, then no more beetlejuice ;_;

Venus

>tistsMe Lord

>>6101369

>>6099045
The what is the "SOLar system"

I guess we should start calling "The Sun's System."

learn2 morphology

>>6101371
actually it should be bright for about a couple months, until the outer shell dissipates.

>>6098879
I laughed at this a lot more than I should've.

>>6100958
About how far, in relation to Earth from the Sun, would a planet need to be to sustain life in VY Canis Majoris' solar system.

>>6102094
The Earth orbit around the sun is 1 Astronomical Unit, 1 AU. The habitable zone of VY Canis Majoris is between 600 and 1200 AU from the center of the star.
Fun fact I just learned: VY Canis Majoris is on average 1000 times less dense than the Earth atmosphere.

>>6102136
VY Canis Majoris is just a faggot making itself look big. It only has like 20 times more mass than the sun.

>>6102549
if it's such a pussy why not go tell that to its face and see what happens

My favorite stars are Alpha Centauri and Ross 248, because they are going to be close to us in several thousand years. Thus, they are the best candidates for interstellar travel, if we can get our act together.

>>6103104
Jesus Christ I never realized the Oort cloud was so fucking far away. More than a light year. What the fuck. How can it even be tied to the sun ?

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>>6103022
>>6102549
BURN!

I finally have an excuse to post this.

>>6101486
>lrn2 International Astronomical Union
If you want to call it Sol, you best be speaking in Latin.

>>6103144
The Oort cloud is technically considered a part of interstellar space, but the Sun's gravity doesn't just stop at the end of the solar system. Many objects in the cloud have very long periods that bring them very far away, and very close back to the Sun.

>>6104012
SUN OP

>>6099045
>HURRRRRR EVERYBODY IS ENGLISH
>LATIN WORDS SHOULDN'T BE USED BECAUSE IT GIVES MUH AMERIFAT BRAIN A HEADACHE

>>6104665
If the rest of his post is in English why throw a random Latin word in?

If anon was, say, French, he can of course post in French and say le soleil. Likewise for any other language.

What makes the word "sun" special as a noun that we must translate it into a dead language every time we use it?

>>6104675
Because astronomers don't use a different name for stars in every fucking language, so there is no reason for the Sun to be any different.

>>6104677
But isn't "sun" the name of any star that is the star in system, from a planet's perspective. As in, that star is planet X's sun?

Proxima Centauri
good 'ol neighbour

>>6104711
>hey look at us we're a binary star and you're not
yeah, fuck them

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I am one of the biggest blue supergiants in this galaxy, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on black holes, and I have over 300 confirmed kills on planets. I am trained in gravitational warfare and I have the top luminosity in the entire local cluster. You are nothing to me but just another dwarf planet. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before in this universe, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of white main sequence stars across the milky way and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. You're fucking stardust, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my radiation.

the big one in the middle

SOL

>>6105068
toppest of keks

gr8 laff m8

Seriously, that was good.

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>>6105068
>not using galactic cordinates in case of IP
otherwise:

Bellatrix is my waifu.

>>6098797
fucking faget, it's sun. you pretentious buttlicker

>>6106548
>the sun
>not sol

>>6106548
sol sounds cooler and more spacey

are they gonna (or have they) restart the "sky at night" again or is it gone forever?

>>6107180
what is sky at night?

BBC

HD 140283

>>6104709
it's used both ways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification

Some comfy reading.

>>6103967
I can't believe I actually get this lame joke.

>>6104721
trinary you insensitive clod!

>>6108790
pic related

>>6105068
Class O post!

>>6108790
>implying that little cunt counts

>>6105079
I thought it was a huge cluster of tightly packed stars

Posting some stellar related pics

Due to the file size limit of ~3MB, I cannot post some of the larger, more spectacular images.

Trying to avoid the pics of just nebulas (nebulae?), but that's where most of the larger more interesting stars live.

Until I saw a stereoscope of one of these, I always imagined the brighter colors to be closer. The opposite is true - the darker areas are usually closer than the brighter areas. Quite trippy when you cross your eyes on one of those and a completely unexpected picture emerges. I'll have to dig up that image somewhere in my many archives of old pics.

To live among these stars must have relatively bright nights. Imagine being able to walk around in full moonlight brightness even without the presence of a moon, lit by dozens of gigantic short-lived stars only tens of light-years away.

>>6109295
Well, that is, until one of the fuckers up and does this.

"That's no moon"
-Edmond Halley

I love high-res pics of the surface of our sun. I wish I could see that swirling mass of raging inferno serenely undulating with magnetic storms.... then my eyes start to bleed.

>>6109299
Great troll, 10/10. You posted a picture of an orange.

I think this pic was meant for this >>6109295 commentary, but the thumbnail looked like a single star so I picked the wrong pic.

That's all I'll post for now. The rest are either too high-res, too nebulous to be related, and/or of galaxies (not the topic of this thread)

I do have a request though - any good pics (even well-done artist renderings) of red dwarves?

>>6109304
Bitches don't know 'bout my false color renderings

Here's some time-lapse star movement

>>6109294
A-ha! Found the pic I was thinking of!

Posting this because science.

I could stare at this shit forever.

>>6099045
In my language it's called "Sol" so fuck you.

>>6109315
Wow.

>>6109318
Just don't stare at it directly, Anon.

>>6101486
What about the HELIOsphere? The Jovian System. Root words mean shit, the anglosphere doesn't make it angland.

>>6109320
That's nice but if you write in English, it's the Sun.

The morning star. like the sun and the moon, it is the most recognizable celestial body in the sky. All cultures have legends and songs about it

And it is a star in the old sense, you pedantic twats

i guess i like the biggest one.

if you like a star just because of the name you missed the point.

What does /sci/ think of space engine?

>>6109484
>not liking the most massive one

>>6100794
You wrote an academic paper, but you are too embarrassed to share it? for shame

I would love people to read my introductory paper on black holes, but no one ever cares ;_;

>>6109800
what are you talking about man, post it, i would love to read it!

>tfw really want to study astrophysics
>tfw studying chemisty instead

i mean i like chemistry, but that's not my passion

>>6110426
Why are you studying it then?

>>6110489
parents are asian, they forced me to.

WOOOWWW

Gliese 581

>>6110495
lol

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