3x more flaming gas bags out there than thought

TLAM Strike · 12-01-10, 03:20 PM

It appears the universe maybe more crowded than we thought...

Quote:

Red dwarf stars — about a fifth the size of our sun — burn slowly and last much longer than the bigger, brighter stars, such as the sun in the center of our solar system, said Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum. His study looks at how many red dwarfs are in elliptical-shaped galaxies.

Using the Keck telescope in Hawaii, van Dokkum and a colleague gazed into eight other distant, but elliptical, galaxies and looked at their hard-to-differentiate light signatures. The scientists calculated that elliptical galaxies have more of those dwarf stars. A lot more.

"We're seeing 10 or 20 times more stars than we expected," van Dokkum said. By his calculations, that triples the number of estimated stars from 100 sextillion to 300 sextillion.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101201/...i_starry_night

Platapus · 12-01-10, 06:43 PM

I thought this was about the last election.

12-01-10, 06:52 PM

Sextillion

You might be a RedNeck if you've ever uttered the phrase
"I'm not haven' Sextillion alls have a bath!"

krashkart · 12-01-10, 07:00 PM

Just wait for the next generation of technologies. And the next, and the next. † We'll be equally mind-blown by the discoveries.

I don't want to spend all night looking for an image of our galaxy being one tiny molecule in Ziggy's toenail, but if I had that image I would post it here.

† Cats, meanwhile, will remain totally unenthusiastic...

12-01-10, 07:19 PM

I have my doubts about Scientists.

Rockstar · 12-01-10, 10:56 PM

lol

<click>

ZZZZaaaapp

<clack>

Surely it couldn't happen a third time now could it?

Hmmm

more tests needed!

<click>...

ZZZZaaaapp

<clack>

Need government funding so I can find out how long this will continue.

SteamWake · 12-02-10, 09:23 AM

Is sextillion a nice round number?

12-01-10, 06:43 PM	#2
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I thought this was about the last election. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

12-02-10, 09:23 AM	#7
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Is sextillion a nice round number? __________________ Follow the progress of Mr. Mulligan : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147648

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12-01-10, 06:52 PM	#3
Madox58 Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Sextillion You might be a RedNeck if you've ever uttered the phrase "I'm not haven' Sextillion alls have a bath!"

12-01-10, 07:00 PM	#4
krashkart Navy Seal Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 5,292 Downloads: 100 Uploads: 0	Just wait for the next generation of technologies. And the next, and the next. † We'll be equally mind-blown by the discoveries. I don't want to spend all night looking for an image of our galaxy being one tiny molecule in Ziggy's toenail, but if I had that image I would post it here. † Cats, meanwhile, will remain totally unenthusiastic...

12-01-10, 07:19 PM	#5
Madox58 Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	I have my doubts about Scientists.

12-01-10, 10:56 PM	#6
Rockstar In the Brig Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Zendia Bar & Grill Posts: 12,614 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	lol <click> ZZZZaaaapp <clack> Surely it couldn't happen a third time now could it? Hmmm more tests needed! <click>... ZZZZaaaapp <clack> Need government funding so I can find out how long this will continue.