Do you like astronomy?

I am a big fan of astronomy and have many DVDs on it.
I don't really have much home time to watch it on Sky but when I get a bit more time off I'll try and catch up with the latest.

 

I'm writing a sci-fi novel in which astronomy is an important theme

 

I do love astronomy. Its an art form in itself. When I was younger I wanted to study the stars, fascinated by the vast night sky. I used to think the night sky was a HUGE blanket with holes in it covering the day blue sky the holes being the stars.

 

I own research grade equipment, so yes. I'm trying to justify an observatory, again. My buddy and I made an observatory at my last house that required trig to build. I'm trying not to be that crazy this time.

 

I love astronomy!:icon_bigg I took a 100 level course at my university, and in my free time I watch documentaries about deep space, watch ted talks, and read a bit about it too.

My favorite subject within astronomy is cosmology. I love studying about deep space, the multiverse theories, dark matter, dark energy, black holes, dimensions, other galaxies, string theory, and theories about life on other planets and theories about life on Europa- one of Jupiter's moons'.

An amazing book I read was "The Grand Design" by Stephen Hawking, at some point I hope I can read some other books by him, also I've heard that books by Brian Greene are also really interesting. And can't forget Neil de Grasse Tyson. :icon_wink

I try to keep up on astronomy news to a certain extent, but normally fail to do so. I love hearing the updates about the probes on Mars, like curiosity or Phoenix, and I can't wait to see images from the 1000 meter telescope when its finished being built.

I've always been fascinated by stars and what's beyond and between them. If you ever want to talk stars feel free to shoot me a message on my wall.

 

Mmmm... Technically, I'm an astronomer by profession.

 

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It's not really my favorite subject; I guess I'm more interested in what's here on earth rather than what's in the heavens. I can spend days looking at maps and globes, but when you go outside the earth, you kinda lose me Maybe there are too many things in astronomy that are just too hard to fathom: 27 million degrees F, 12 billion times the size of the sun...makes my head hurt -_-

 

Haha, yep the mission with the drill to search beneath the ice crust to see if there is extraterrestrial sea life there Astrobiology, that sounds like a fascinating field, I should look into that... And Enceladus, that's one of Saturn's moons, do you know what the general proposed mission there is going to be?

Everything about the universe is just so fascinating, there's so much to learn and discover.

 

Oh I love this stuff! Imagine if we had developed on a moon and not on a planet. It would be cool to see the host planet we revolve around. That's why I'm sort of fascinated by the view on Mars and on its two little pebble moons. Especially the faster one Phobos.

 

I've loved astronomy since I was a little kid, and that hasn't changed as I've gotten older. One of my favorite courses in college was my astronomy lab.

 

I think many hundreds of years ago I would have spent my life trying to be an astronomer. (What really fascinates me is astrology ... the actual science behind the stars, it's boring to me.)

 

i heard about a couple of extra solar planets both around stars in the constellation Pegasus.

The first is 51 Pegasi b, sometimes called Bellerophon.

The other is HD 209458 b, sometimes called Osiris.

These planets are similar types to Jupiter, yet they are so close to their parent stars they are literally broiling in the heat and light of these stars.