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What tools do astronomers use to study space? |
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| The earliest astronomical tool was the telescope - the simple optical telescope or refraction telescope with just lens combinations. Then came reflection telescopes with lenses and huge mirrors. Still later came the radio telescopes. Today there are also huge telescopes in space like the Hubble telescope, that is a satellite orbiting the earth. They also use powerful cameras to picture the optic and radio or infrared pictures of regions of space. These powerful cameras work from earth telescopes as well as from satellites. |
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Is there a star that zaps thing that come close to it? |
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Almost all stars would swallow any matter that can come within its gravitational field. Galaxies, including our 'milky way' are said to be cannibalistic. It has been proved that many of the stars in this galaxy were once in other galaxies. It is interesting here to note that a galaxy can pass through another galaxy without any staellar collisions because the distances between stars are so great. When such an encounter happens one galaxy steals or swallows stars from the other. |
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What is on the other side of infinity? |
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Having gone through the earlier answers, I feel that the question makes some sense in the mathematical field, on the number line. If you travel on the number line from *one* towards *zero* in the realm of fractions we come across smaller and smaller fractions. Do we ever reach zero? What is on the other other side of Zero? What is the number (or fraction) smaller than zero? There is no such thing - no number or fraction less than zero. There is nothing beyond zero. In a similar way we can say that there is nothing beyond infinity on the number line. The same thing is true about the concept of infinity. As a Christian and a believer I say God is infinite. The whole universe is like a tiny bubble in that ocean of infinity. This infinity is also a vacuum state - sunyatha - that permeates the whole universe. That is why we say God is in every tiny bit of matter as well. There is no contradiction here. |
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Was Jupiter once thought to be a dying star? |
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Neither the modern cosmologists nor the ancient astronomers consider Jupiter as a dying star. But it could be considered as a heavenly body that just missed being a star. What is meant by that statement is this: Jupiter has a very large mass. If the mass was a bit higher the gravity would have been enough to get nuclear reactions started. Then it would have been a star. When all the matter around the solar system accreted into planets if all that matter or most of it had gathered into one bulk, then that would have had enough mass to be a star and instead of the present solar system we would have had a binary star system - two star orbiting each other. No life would have been there in the solar system and I wouldn't have been here to answer nor you to ask this question. |
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What were the notable influences of Europeans on new world culture? |
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| Including north and south Americas as the new world the influence of the Europeans can be simply explained. They just destroyed the native culture and introduced the European materialistic culture. |
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How many satellites orbit the sun? |
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Satellites are bodies that orbit planets. The huge bodies that orbit the sun - not including the asteroids, comets and such as well as the satellites of the planets - are called planets. (Earth and Jupiter are planets while our moon is a satellite) Till recently we thought there are 9 planets for the sun. Now we have discovered one more beyond Pluto making it 10. There could be more. If you go beyond these distant planets it would be very difficult to distinguish a large asteroid from a small planet. Our knowledge of the cosmos around the solar system as well as beyond even our galaxy is changing - improving - by the day. We have a lot to learn. What we have learned is a drop. What is left to be learned is an ocean. |
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What is the "Babylon" of the Revelation in our present times? |
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Israel in exile in Babylon longed to go back to their land - to Jerusalem In our times Jerusalem is the 'Kingdom of Heaven' - a life rooted in spiritual values, a life in love, contentment and and trust in God - or spiritual life and Babylon is 'earthly life' - a life for wealth, power and pleasures. |
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Is there a God and what evidence is there that he exists? |
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Yes, God is who is. He is the absolute reality, the truth. All else is relative. He is the creator and the proof for his existence is the creation itself. Please read my article entitled "Is there scientific proof that God exists?' on the Internet. whose link is |
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I need to get a cross section of people I don't know to answer a relatively simple but personal question for a thesis paper I am working on. I would like to thank you in advance for your participation. My question is 2 part: A. Do you personally believe in life after death ( heaven, hell, purgatory, reincarnation etc)
B. Does your belief and hope for your own future hinge on any act that you need to do in your lifetime now?
I appreciate all views and all input. Bryton Hill |
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A. I do. I believe that human beings have an immortal soul (created in the image of likeness of God) that lives on after the body dies. Heaven - a state of bliss, of union with God can be attained to various degrees of bliss depending on the way you live here on earth. Selfless love, non-attachment to material possession and absolute trust in the providence of God can help to make heaven here on earth and hereafter. I consider body as a boat in which the passenger is the soul. Reaching the shore the boat is discarded. Hell is mostly the feeling of loss, the realization that you have lost irreparably the bliss that could have been yours. a real torment. I guess the answer to Qn. B is covered in these words. also please see |
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Explain how a compound containing atoms of two elements is different from a mixture of two elements? |
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When a compound is formed the new substance has entirely new properties that have nothing to do with the properties of elements. Two examples may help. 1. A mixture of oxygen and nitrogen (air) has the properties of oxygen as well as that of nitrogen. But compounds of oxygen and nitrogen, nitrogen dioxide or any other oxide of nitrogen has nothing in common with either nitrogen or oxygen. 2. Same way consider hydrogen and oxygen, two gases. their compound is water. |
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