View Single Post
Old 05-13-2009, 05:16 PM   #8 (permalink)
msicidron
vibing
 
msicidron's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: North America
Posts: 959
Thanks: 228
Thanked 153 Times in 120 Posts
Quote:
Originally Posted by shelbert008 View Post
it's not because the atmosphere clears, it's because our atmosphere is moving. It's just as the earth moves the light from the stars get refracted and it appears as if it's twinkling.



But did you know that some of the stars that we see at night are already dead? It's just because it takes so long for the light to reach us that we can view as if it's a star whereas it may actually be a supernova.
in fact recently the farthest thing ever seen was seen. it was a gamma ray burst or something that happened 9.2 billion light years from earth, but because of the expansion of the universe it ended up traveling 13.1 billion light years to get here.
__________________
||||||||||||||||||||||||
msicidron is offline   Reply With Quote