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OHHH so each quadrant is taken with a separate camera? Why is it no longer like this?

Hubble "Staircase" effect? Hi, I was just wondering why some of the older Hubble pictures have a staircase effect on them? Any help would be appreciated! Example below edit: refer to examples in post #3

Homework Statement A dust cobweb is drawn from an initial vertical position toward a nearby wall by an electrostatic force. Assume the cobweb to be like a single dust ball of mass 2.0 x 10-7g suspended on a massless string of length 0.42 m connected a horizontal distance of 0.35 m from the...

keep fighting, don't settle for anything less than what they should be. What is there to lose? If you don't, i suspect you will regret it in the future.

Thanks for the responses. I know what you mean about having a Plan B, and i really don't know what that is yet. I love astronomy so I hope it will be in that field, but that is all i know right now. The reason i said NASA is because I realize that there are many more US astronauts than...

Hi, I'm looking to go into astronomy and do a little physics as well. My question is which are the top astronomy schools in Canada? I've looked at University of Victoria and it looks pretty solid, as well as Western. I was also wondering what are the chances of becoming an astronaut? The...

2 or 3 years ago we bought my father a telescope for his brithday, and ever since it has been a piece of 'art' in my house. I thought i'd put it to use, i have an interest in astronomy and now i really want to learn how to use this. the telescope is a Bushnell 675x5" Reflector Telescope...