I'm sure many of you may have already seen or heard of this, but if you have "Google Earth", even just the free download version. You can go to the "View" menu & down at the bottom the is a option to "Switch To Sky".
This turns it around and allows you to explore the galaxy using help from Hubble & other powerful telescopes!!
It's freaking amazing!! You can zoom way the hell out across the universe!! Pick any star & start zooming & you eventually end up looking at it as if it were in our solar system...kind of...
Some of them end up being other stars, similar to our Sun, in the center of another solar system, with planets orbiting around them.
Some of them end up being other entire galaxy's, just so far away that they look like a single point of light, until you zoom out there to look at it closer & it begins to unfold into an entire spiral galaxy. Revealing true perfection!!
Unfortunately, the farther away it is, the more pixilated the image becomes, but it's not that bad, you still see some incredible detail!!
Also, I think the paid version focuses up the image for you much more. Although I don't know that for a fact, it's just something a friend told me.
There are options to show & identify the planets & constellations. You can even show the movement of our solar system, from the point of view of the earth, over the coarse of a set amount of days. Then, set it in motion, showing the change in the sky over the selected amount of days/time. It is quite amazing to see it happen upon request!!
There are also options (under the "Featured Observatories"..."Layer" ) to view it all through a number of interesting light filters!
Like infrared, microwave, X-Ray & ultra-violet.
These allow you see the spectrum's of light that our eyes don't just naturally see.
The infrared filter for instance, lets you instead see the energy given off by some of the objects out there.
(Check this out!!: Turn on the "IRAS Infrared Sky", locate the constellation "LEO" & check out the weird energy signature next to the farthest leg to the right. Now turn off the "IRAS Infrared Sky" filter. Where did it go? Zoom in & check this system out without the filter on. You'll probably need to use the filter to get way in there accurately though. Look at the size of it, compared to the huge amount of enegry coming off of it)
Supposedly, the big "Gas Giant" in the middle & the three "planets" orbiting it, make up "Planet X" (enter creepy therimin music:lol
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The planetary system that is Supposedly part of our solar system. But on an elliptical orbit (oval shaped), that only brings it back through our solar system every xxx-thousand years, causing the polar shifts & other general cataclysmic stuff.
This group of planets is supposedly moving closer & closer to our solar system & is supposedly scheduled to get here, around 2012.:shock: Bringing with it, the Neberu. The extra-terrestrials/gods that the ancient Sumerian texts say civilized man way back in the day.
Supposedly!!
(BTW, the "Ancient Sumerian's", would have been those human's/monkey's being civilized by the Neberu... First hand reports? Who knows, but they did have knowledge of this system of planets way back then!! Where as modern astrologers only learned of it a short time ago. Just since Hubble has been in use. Wild!!)
I really don't know how much of the fire & brimstone, beginning & end of the world stuff I completely buy.
But whatever that it is, out there beyond Leo's leg, it's unique & interesting none the less.
And farki'n powerful for it's size!!!
Ether way, Google Sky is a really cool tool for exploring the universe & at least attempting to get a grip on the gigantic size of it & how tiny of a part we truly are in this place.
I think anyone who believes that humans, on earth, are the only form of intelligent life in the universe, really does not understand the vast size of it.
And they should all spend at least a few hours monkeying around with Google Sky to start getting an idea of how unrealistic that is.
If you've never checked it out, here is a link to the free download:
Google Earth/Sky
You'll get lost for hours exploring the universe & scouring the globe, checking out places you've been & places you want to be!!
Amazing!!!
Can't wait to see Google-Hyperspace!!:lol:
WS
This turns it around and allows you to explore the galaxy using help from Hubble & other powerful telescopes!!
It's freaking amazing!! You can zoom way the hell out across the universe!! Pick any star & start zooming & you eventually end up looking at it as if it were in our solar system...kind of...
Some of them end up being other stars, similar to our Sun, in the center of another solar system, with planets orbiting around them.
Some of them end up being other entire galaxy's, just so far away that they look like a single point of light, until you zoom out there to look at it closer & it begins to unfold into an entire spiral galaxy. Revealing true perfection!!
Unfortunately, the farther away it is, the more pixilated the image becomes, but it's not that bad, you still see some incredible detail!!
Also, I think the paid version focuses up the image for you much more. Although I don't know that for a fact, it's just something a friend told me.
There are options to show & identify the planets & constellations. You can even show the movement of our solar system, from the point of view of the earth, over the coarse of a set amount of days. Then, set it in motion, showing the change in the sky over the selected amount of days/time. It is quite amazing to see it happen upon request!!
There are also options (under the "Featured Observatories"..."Layer" ) to view it all through a number of interesting light filters!
Like infrared, microwave, X-Ray & ultra-violet.
These allow you see the spectrum's of light that our eyes don't just naturally see.
The infrared filter for instance, lets you instead see the energy given off by some of the objects out there.
(Check this out!!: Turn on the "IRAS Infrared Sky", locate the constellation "LEO" & check out the weird energy signature next to the farthest leg to the right. Now turn off the "IRAS Infrared Sky" filter. Where did it go? Zoom in & check this system out without the filter on. You'll probably need to use the filter to get way in there accurately though. Look at the size of it, compared to the huge amount of enegry coming off of it)
Supposedly, the big "Gas Giant" in the middle & the three "planets" orbiting it, make up "Planet X" (enter creepy therimin music:lol
. The planetary system that is Supposedly part of our solar system. But on an elliptical orbit (oval shaped), that only brings it back through our solar system every xxx-thousand years, causing the polar shifts & other general cataclysmic stuff.
This group of planets is supposedly moving closer & closer to our solar system & is supposedly scheduled to get here, around 2012.:shock: Bringing with it, the Neberu. The extra-terrestrials/gods that the ancient Sumerian texts say civilized man way back in the day.
Supposedly!!
(BTW, the "Ancient Sumerian's", would have been those human's/monkey's being civilized by the Neberu... First hand reports? Who knows, but they did have knowledge of this system of planets way back then!! Where as modern astrologers only learned of it a short time ago. Just since Hubble has been in use. Wild!!)
I really don't know how much of the fire & brimstone, beginning & end of the world stuff I completely buy.
But whatever that it is, out there beyond Leo's leg, it's unique & interesting none the less.
And farki'n powerful for it's size!!!
Ether way, Google Sky is a really cool tool for exploring the universe & at least attempting to get a grip on the gigantic size of it & how tiny of a part we truly are in this place.
I think anyone who believes that humans, on earth, are the only form of intelligent life in the universe, really does not understand the vast size of it.
And they should all spend at least a few hours monkeying around with Google Sky to start getting an idea of how unrealistic that is.
If you've never checked it out, here is a link to the free download:
Google Earth/Sky
You'll get lost for hours exploring the universe & scouring the globe, checking out places you've been & places you want to be!!
Amazing!!!
Can't wait to see Google-Hyperspace!!:lol:
WS
