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I can see that now thanks. I therefore plot Pioneer 10's heading to be within the borders of Hercules (red symbol) and Pioneer 11's to...

Surely given the alpha and delta coordinates in Table 1 of the paper you cited you can plot those points on the star map. If not, what...

Why would anyone do that? Is there reason to doubt scientists from JPL and the Max Planck Institute? If you doubt them, you could try...

I think @Cerenkov in his initial post just wanted to know approximately where they are headed. In terms of the motivation for writing...

Of course. In the paper in the OP, they extrapolated ahead about 10 MYr, using the known positions and velocity vectors of the nearby...

If that's what you want, that's pretty easy. In Table 1 of the paper you quoted in the OP, alpha and delta are the Right Ascension and...

The fact that "if two quantities are equal and you do the same thing to both of them then they are still equal" seems pretty elementary...

Table 1 of the paper you linked gives you the velocities of the spacecraft in the ICRF coordinate system, which is centered on the sun...

Yes. Correction made.

I think you mean the mass of 61Ni = 60.931060 u

No. The binding energy per nucleon (BEN) is the total binding energy divided by the number of nucleons. However, as the number of...

If you look at the binding energy per nucleon of atomic nuclei, it peaks in the vicinity of iron. You can get energy by fusing nuclei...

Basically, no one knows. This is sometimes called "the hard problem of consciousness". It's fairly easy to understand how the neurons...

The only valid answer at this stage is that we don't know. There are already some threads on here about this.

Reading your link, it looks like by "hydrostatic burning", they mean the nuclear fusion that occurs while the star is still in...