Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > sci.physics.relativity > #390950

Re: Kepler

Show all headers | View raw

On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 9:03:25 PM UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:
> On 26/08/2016 11:56 AM, John Gogo wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 8:52:33 PM UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:
> >> On 26/08/2016 9:10 AM, Carl Susumu wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Astronomers are viewing a single point in space (.1 arcseconds), using the Kepler space telescope but to view a planet 4.2 light years from the earth, using the Kepler space telescopes, would require a planet with a diameter of more than ten times the diameter of our solar system.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Stars (all of them, except the sun) have an angular size that is too
> >> small to be resolved by the human eye. That doesn't prevent people from
> >> seeing them.
> >>
> >> Sylvia
> >
> > Yes it does. It means that we can only see the corona, not the actual body- and this is bound to have a major measurable effect.
> >
> 
> Comparatively little light comes from the corona. Most comes from the 
> body of the star. Light doesn't disappear just because the eye lens is 
> too small to resolve it as an image. It just gets concentrated into a 
> featureless dot, which is what the owner of the eye perceives.
> 
> Sylvia.

You'd think so, but what's weird is that ALL of our light on Earth is the result of the reflection of our "little light".

Back to sci.physics.relativity | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-25 16:10 -0700
  Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 16:23 -0700
    Re: Kepler Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-26 04:13 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-25 16:28 -0700
    Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 17:05 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-25 17:32 -0700
  Re: Kepler Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-08-26 11:52 +1000
    Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 18:56 -0700
      Re: Kepler Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-08-26 12:03 +1000
        Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 19:16 -0700
          Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 19:21 -0700
        Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 19:26 -0700
          Re: Kepler Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-08-26 12:30 +1000
            Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 19:34 -0700
              Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 19:36 -0700
                Re: Kepler Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-08-26 15:11 +1000
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-27 12:16 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-27 12:52 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-27 13:30 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-27 14:29 -0700
    Re: Kepler Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-27 15:42 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-28 13:34 -0700
    Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-29 20:08 -0700
      Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-29 20:10 -0700
    Re: Kepler Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 03:50 -0700
      Re: Kepler Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 06:18 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-29 20:01 -0700
  Re: Kepler jon.white.sm@gmail.com - 2016-08-29 21:19 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 11:11 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 12:34 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 14:14 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 14:28 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-31 09:19 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-09-01 10:20 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-09-02 14:44 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-09-02 18:46 -0700

csiph-web