Is it my turn? #-o

What event in 1998 caused the immediate doubling, almost, of sunspots?

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

the telescope?
maybe not....


Sun spots!!

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What a wild guess! I want to say your'e wrong, but I can't. Helioseismology uses a telescope of sorts, I suppose. [the Michelson Doppler Imager to produce spots on the far side of the sun]

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

what's the answer :-?

am I wrong?

what?

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You are correct. It was suppose to be a tricky question but you got it right out of the chute even if by accident, or did you consider the MDI unit?

That was the year, I think, the SOHO MDI unit started observing sunspots on the far side of the sun, thereby essentially doubling the number of (observable) sunspots.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

I was answering this question!
I thought telescope then though 2000 years no way! then thought sunspots cause I heard about a monk seeing them once or something.

I thought you were talking about soho in your post then thought- wait I don't think SOHO was around 2000 years ago.... hence my confusion

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@!%$#+(@! Gag a maget. I already answered that one! That's amazing!!! Your answer, in this case, is wrong but right for my question!

I think I will wait for several questions in hopes my answer will be a hit for at least one.

In this special case, I will ask another, but simple, question.

What is the solar cycle (in years)?

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

11

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22?

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What is the bright red star in scorpies? (it's heart)

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Are you Irish? You're not suppose to answer a question with a question.

Why 22?

[Edit: I'll accept it. The 11 year cycle is more commonly known but it is not the complete cycle which is what I was after...

The sunspots have white areas on one side during the first 11 years. They shift to the other side on the next 11 years. So, a full cycle of activity is 22 years. IIRC, these white areas are called plyia or something close. It is the latin, I suppose, for "beach".]

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

double 11 I suppose...

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Hydrogen, mainly. [-(

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Antares 8) - isn't it Scorpius, insted of Scorpies?

And of course, hello everybody at this board!

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Welcome aboard! =D>

[I suspect your answer is better. :wink: ]

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Thanks for the welcome.

OK, my turn *heart thumping*:

Into which region on Mars does Ares Vallis "empty" (supposing it were actually filled with water :wink: )?

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Isn't it Chryse Planitia? It would seem so, unless you mean the Basin. Hmm, I looked, but it's Friday night, a quiet time...but welcome!



I like this. Who said it?

"The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on. Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere." I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination -- stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern -- of which I am a part -- perhaps my stuff was belched from some forgotten star, as one is belching there. Or see them with the greater eye of Palomar, rushing all apart from some common starting point when they were perhaps all together. What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the *why?* It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined! Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?

emphasis mine/edit typo

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Die Sonne scheidet hinter dem Gebirge. In alle Täler steigt der Abend nieder
mit seinen Schatten, die voll Kühlung sind.

Chryse Planitia is of course right. =D>

Your citation is by Richard P. Feynman (I did not learn everything I have to know from Googling, but it does come in handy once in a while).

Feynman is of course correct. A friend of mine edited a book containing poetry on the stars, and not very many of the poems dealt with the stars as seen by modern astronomy. Let's see if I can translate one of them. I want to post this first so I can put the

next question:

Which class of chemicals causes the orange tinge in Titan's atmosphere (they are mass-produced, you know, by the aliens living on Titan in order to hide their presence from us ). "Hydrocarbons" doesn't count.

Hint: The man who coined the name of these chemicals is claimed by one Richard Hoagland to have been a friend of his.

Edited for vocabulary error and the hint.

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