List of All 110 Messier Objects
1. Crab Nebula(M1) 2. NGC 7089 (M2) 3. NGC 5272 (M3) 4. NGC 6121 (M4) 5. NGC 5904 (M5) 6. Butterfly Cluster (M6) 7. Ptolemy Cluster (M7) 8. Lagoon Nebula (M8) 9. NGC 6333(M9) 10. NGC 6254 (M10) 11. Wild Duck Cluster (M11) 12. NGC 6218 (M12) 13. Great Globular Cluster in Hercules (M13) 14. NGC 6402 (M14) 15. NGC 7078 (M15) 16. Eagle Nebula (M16) 17. Omega, Swan, Horseshoe or Lobster Nebula (M17) 18. NGC 6613 (M18) 19. NGC 6273 (M19) 20. Trifid Nebula (M20) 21. NGC 6531 (M21) 22. Sagittarius Cluster (M22) 23. NGC 6494 (M23) 24. Sagittarius Star Cloud (M24) 25. IC 4725 (M25) 26. NGC 6694 (M26) 27. Dumbbell Nebula (M27) 28. NGC 6626 (M28) 29. Cooling Tower (M29) 30. NGC 7099 (M30) 31. Andromeda Galaxy (M31) 32. NGC 221 (M32) 33. Triangulum Galaxy (M33) 34. NGC 1039 (M34) 35. NGC 2168 (M35) 36. NGC 1960 (M36) 37. NGC 2099 (M37) 38. NGC 1912 (M38) 39. NGC 7092 (M39) 40. Winnecke 4 (M40) 41. NGC 2287 (M41) 42. Orion Nebula (M42) 43. De Mairan's Nebula (M43) 44. Beehive Cluster (M44) 45.Pleiades (M45) 46. NGC 2437 (M46) 47. NGC 2422 (M47) 48. NGC 2548 (M48) 49. NGC 4472 (M49) 50. NGC 2323 (M50) 51. Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) 52. NGC 7654 (M52) 53. NGC 5024 (M53) 54. NGC 6715 (M54) 55. NGC 6809 (M55) 56. NGC 6779 (M56) 57. Ring Nebula (M57) 58. NGC 4579 (M58) 59. NGC 4621 (M59) 60. NGC 4649 (M60) 61. NGC 4303 (M61) 62. NGC 6266 (M62) 63. Sunflower Galaxy (M63) 64. Black Eye Galaxy (M64) 65. Leo Triplet NGC 3623 (M65) 66. Leo Triplet NGC 3627 (M66) 67. NGC 2682 (M67) 68. NGC 4590 (M68) 69. NGC 6637 (M69) 70. NGC 6681 (M70) 71. NGC 6838 (M71) 72. NGC 6981 (M72) 73. NGC 6994 (M73) 74. Phantom Galaxy (M74) 75. NGC 6864 (M75) 76. Little Dumbbell Nebula (M76) 77. Cetus A (M77) 78. NGC 2068 (M78) 79. NGC 1904 (M79) 80. NGC 6093 (M80) 81. Bode's Galaxy (M81) 82. Cigar Galaxy (M82) 83. Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (M83) 84. NGC 4374 (M84) 85. NGC 4382 (M85) 86. NGC 4406 (M86) 87. Virgo A (M87) 88. NGC 4501 (M88) 89. NGC 4552 (M89) 90. NGC 4569 (M90) 91. NGC 4548 (M91) 92. NGC 6341 (M92) 93. NGC 2447 (M93) 94. Croc's Eye or Cat's Eye (M94) 95. NGC 3351 (M95) 96. NGC 3368 (M96) 97. Owl Nebula (M97) 98. NGC 4192 (M98) 99. NGC 4254 (M99) 100. NGC 4321 (M100) 101. Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) 102. Spindle Galaxy (M102) 103. NGC 581 (M103) 104. Sombrero Galaxy (M104) 105. NGC 3379 (M105) 106. NGC 4258 (M106) 107. NGC 6171 (M107) 108. NGC 3556 (M108) 109. NGC 3992 (M109) 110. NGC 205 (M110)
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The Atom
The Atom, the core of all things of substance in The World. All of us and all things that has some form of mass has Atoms. Atoms are the fundamental building blocks of all that exist, have existed and will exist. What makes an atom though? Well, it's pretty simple to say the least. An Atom is basically made up of three components, The Proton (P\p+), The Neutron (n0) and Electron (e-). - The Proton is the Positively charged particle of The Atom -The Neutron is the non charged particle of The Atom - The Electron is the negatively charged particle of The Atom These atoms are what will come together in order to form what we know as Elements. Elements are the element formation of all physical object of existence. Example of elements include Hydrogen(H), Helium(He), Carbon(C), Gold(Au), Silver(Ag),Nitrogen(N) Uranium(U), Plutonium(Po), Lithium,(Li) Iron(Fe), Oxygen(O), Nickel(Ni) and Potassium(K). Without these fundamental, elemental parts of The World, everything would cease to exist. Introduction
The World, since The Start of The World has been in Astronomy. As long as Man has been on Earth, they have look to the Stars and Worlds for curiosity and understanding of their own World. Traditional Astronomy Traditional Astronomy is Basically Done by simply looking up with thy Naked Eyes and Observing what is in Space, whether day or night. Traditional Astronomy or Astrology, as it was called in The Ancient World and Classical World, was indeed functional. It helped Ancient man determine Seasons and when Day and Night fell. Now the calendars of the past before The Julian Calendar and Gregorian Calendar were pretty inaccurate, they still gave a general idea of when the seasons began and ended. Our own eyes, unless they have a vision error, are pretty good at observing the night sky. Now, with Today's World's light pollution, our eyes may not be able to see as much as in days past, our eyes are still really good at observing star formation without the assistance of Telescopes and other technology. In this Ancient days, we were able to notice the difference between Stars and Planets, and we were able to see six out of eight of the planets in The Solar System. Conclusion Let us not forget, that Astronomy was done in the past without Telescope and such. It was done by our own abilities. One can still look to the sky and discover things on thy own. Do not be discourage to explore even if ye do not hath the advance Super Powerful Technology. One's own ability is sufficient enough to discover many things in The World! Introduction
Imagine, thou art one million light years away from a destination that thou desire to be. If ye were to travel at light speed towards it, ye would never live long enough to get there before thy passing. It seems as though it is impossible to get there in thine lifespan. Now, what if I said there was a sort of, Cheat Code to get there faster? A tunnel to travel to thy destination faster that would cut the distance down significantly. This is what is called, a Wormhole. Traveling in a Wormhole A Wormhole, also known as Einstein-Rosen Bridge or Einstein-Rosen Wormhole, is a theoretical tunnel in SpaceTime that connect two points in SpaceTime that are of further distance without the Wormhole. If one would enter into the Wormhole, one would exit the Wormhole in a totally alien part of space relative to that of the Entrance Point. Now though the wormhole is completely speculative at this point in The World, it does match up well with The General Theory of Relativity. Some of Scientist think that a wormhole is simply a projection of the 4th dimension, analogous to how a 2D being could experience only part of a 3D object. Theoretically, a wormhole is be the answer to traveling faster than The Speed of Light! Conclusion Imagine a tunnel that can take thee to a place in space billions of lightyears away from where thou art now. Would thee take the opportunity or would thou pass? It is up to the brave and curious to take the leap into the unknown. For the unknown is what keep man alive and thriving. The Curious nature has put of on the top in The World. It perhaps will do the same in The Universe. But it is up to us, to take the chance and advance more and more and conquer The Universe and Beyond! Introduction
In Ancient China, a Solar Eclipse was thought to be a Sun Eating Dragon, so what was a Lunar Eclipse? A Sun Reviving Phoenix? Not likely. At least there is no written record of that being the belief. A Lunar Eclipse like A Solar Eclipse, has to do with The Sun, The Earth, The Moon & The Position of The Trio Lunar Eclipse A Solar Eclipse is when The Moon cover The Sun's Position completely, The Opposite would be deadly, however, a semi opposite does happen. It's called a Lunar Eclipse. A Lunar Eclipse is when The Moon gets no shine from The Sun because it is completely on the opposite side of The Earth from our vision. Only the light from The Earth, shows it's even there. Conclusion The Lunar Eclipse, Like The Black Hole and Dark Matter, shows us that just because ye cannot see something, that does not mean it isn't there. We know of and feel wind. Can we see wind? How about our Skeletons, we know we have them, but can we see them? There are things that cannot be seen but are known to be, emotions for example. And sometimes, it's the invisible things that are the most important. Introduction
Thousands of years ago in Ancient China, there was a Tradition of stopping a Dragon from devouring The Sun. One random day, The Sun would just be sitting there, minding it own business in the morning sky, and then all of a sudden, it would go dark. A Dragon was eating it! The peoples of Ancient China, did not take this lightly. They made noise! They screamed at The Dragon and caused a ruckus to scare The Dragon away. This always worked, but why did this work every single time? Solar Eclipse Was there really a Sun-Eating Dragon in the sky, and did The People of Ancient China really have any effect on the course of this event? No to both questions. The people had absolutely no control on the event and there was no a Sun-Eating Dragon; because instead of a Dragon, was, The Moon. This particular event, they confused for a Dragon eating The Sun, is what is known in Today's World, as a Solar Eclipse. A Solar Eclipse is when The Moon, Luna, moves completely in front of The Sun from our direct sky view. This causing The Sun's Shine to be covered causes a brief night time. A Solar Eclipse can last up to 7 minutes and 31 seconds long. Definitely not a long enough night to get the recommended eight hours of sleep a man needs. Not to worry, the real night time will come later. Solar Eclipses occur on around The World about every 18 months though in some part of The World, it only occurs once every 360 to 420 years. Conclusion So it's not a Dragon eating The Sun, it's just the Moon covering it's shine. Old ideas are not dumb ideas, but with limited knowledge, one can only think of so much. As we grow as a species, we continue to improve our broad range our collective knowledge. We may 'know' a lot of things today, that in the future, may be wrong. We must not let certain knowledge be absolute. For once we were screaming at Dragons, and now, we view the same event with awe. What is fact today, can be fantasy tomorrow. Always remember to continue to improve, and we will continue to know more and more about The World. Introduction
Ever Since The Start of The World and mankind, man hath seeked to reach the far reaches of Space. The Mystery has intrigued like minds all over The World. Astronomy is as old as time, we even have used it to determine time, seasons, and more. It has been crucial for the survival and advancement of the human species. This desire to explore space has not only led to the advancement of human beings, but it has led us to space itself. The First Space Travel In The Mid-20th Century, a Race was happening, a Space Race. One against The World Super Powers of America and The USSR. The Space Race was a race to see who would have Ultimate Space Travel Supremacy. On April 12th, 1961, The man to ever enter Space, entered Space. Cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, a soviet cosmonaut was the first man in space. He remained in Space for 89 minutes. 8 years later, The USA landed a man on the moon Space Travel in Today's World or in The Future Today's World's Space Travel is limited to Professional Astronauts from NASA and companies like SpaceX. We have yet to put a man on a different planet but there are plans in the future to go to Mars and even colonize it. Commercial Space Travel at this point seems to be very possible in the near future. The World Aloha believes that not only will we leave the Universe one day, but humans will travel to different galaxies and beyond. Introduction
Today, Man rules The World. Mankind Dominates every other species by far in terms of Power, Prestige, control and intelligence. The homosapien is The Top in Today's World. This was not always the case however. For, millions of years ago, The World was ruled by a different set of species. The World was ruled by Dinosaurs. Dinosaurs Eons ago, Dinosaurs dominated the Earth. The eras of the dinosaurs were The Jurassic Era, The Triassic Era, and Cretaceous. A list of some of The Dinosaurs are: - Tyrannosaurus Rex (T Rex), The King of The Dinosaurs - Triceratops - Diplodocus - Velociraptor - Spinosaurus - Stegosaurus - Brachiosaurus - Ankylosaurus - Megalosaurus - Mamenchisaurus The Asteroid The Dinosaurs were The Kings of The World for millions of years. None could stop them, except, a Big Rock. 66 Million Years ago, an Asteroid hit Earth and the impact made the Dinosaurs go extinct in a mass extinction event. If ye was not killed by the impact, the smug in the atmosphere would have. No Dinosaur was sparred from it's awesome impact on Earth. Today, we are believed to have discovered the crater where the asteroid, known as The Chicxulub impactor, striked Earth. Off The Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico North of Belize. The Chicxulub Crater is the official name of the impact zone and measures at 150 kilometers or 93 miles in diameters and has a depth of 20 kilometers or 12 miles! That's colossal! It is believe that the The Chicxulub impactor was believe to be 11 to 81 kilometers or 6.8 to 50.3 Miles in diameter! No wonder there was a mass extinction! Conclusion What the Mass Extinction of The Dinosaurs teaches us, is that we are not invincible and it only takes one big attack to destroy of all. We must remain vigilant, not paranoid, and expect the unexpected, the black swan. We must keep innovating a find a way to deal with a Chicxulub Impactor-like Asteroid in The future, less we go extinct ourselves in one veil swoop. If ye are not growing, ye are dying, and if we continue to adapt and improve, we can live on as a species, longer than The Dinosaurs. Introduction
In The Stone Age there was really no need to know when season were, for if ye wanted food, then thou shalt go and get it, whether by hunter or gathering. But when The Neolithic Revolution began, a need to track seasons was crucial. Knowing when to plant seeds and when they would be ready to harvest was extremely important to the survival of mankind in the beginnings on dormant settlements and civilizations. The Lunar Calendar One of the original calendars in The World is the lunar calendar. The Lunar calendar is based off the moon. The month on a lunar calendar is similar to today's months (which are based off the moon cycle) which were 29-30 days per month. A year on The Lunar Calendar was 354 Days. The problem with this was that every year, the the start and final dates would drift 11 days. The Julian Calendar The Julian Calendar was a Solar Calendar. The Solar Calendar is based off the revolution of the Earth around The Sun. The Julian Calendar was invented by Julius Caesar as a reform to The Traditional Roman Calendar. It went into effect on January 1st, 45 B.C. (709 AUC). THe Julian Calendar consisted of 355 Days and 12 Months with some years having from 377 to 378 days a years to make up for decimal timing. This lead to a very disorganized system of mapping seasons and days. This mess of mapping would not last long however and in 1582, that would all change and we would see what we use in Today's World. The Gregorian Calendar In October of 1582, The Gregorian Calendar, named after Pope Gregory XIII, which invented. This is the calendar most nations in Today's World use. It has 365 days and 12 months, with every 4 years, having a leap day with that year being called a leap year. This is because on this day of February 29th, is the extra day added every 4 years to make up for decimal timing over the years. This gives a leap year 366 days as opposed to 365 days on a normal year. This is a large improvement over the previous calendars, for now we only need to add a single day every four years to make up for lost time. One day however, this leap day will no longer be needed, for one day the revolution around The Sun will equal an exact 365 days every time. But for now, this is the best that we use and it is here to stay for a good while. Conclusion Things change overtime. We as humans went through many different types of imperfect calendars in the past. Our calendars today are not even perfect. This is why every four years we add an extra day in February to make up for the inaccuracy. Hence the reason for the leap year. In every aspect of life, one must continue to adapt and improve; for if ye are not moving forward, than thou art moving backwards. Introduction
Energy, its what moves us, what keeps us going, what gives us Aloha. Energy is what gives things without Aloha The Power to work via physical or chemical means. Energy can be potential and kinetic. Energy is what makes The World go round. All these things have energy, but what energy Powers The Universe? Dark Energy The Power of Universe and its expansion in the largest scales is Dark Energy. We cannot see it nor can we feel it, but it is there. It was there in the beginning and will be there if there is an end. Dark Energy was discovered when Supernovae measurements were being made, however the expansion was not at a constant rate. The expansion was not constant, it was expanding. The recognition of this expansion being something new than the regular forms of energy or matter was needed since these Classical forms of energy could not explain the acceleration rate of the expansion. Hence this new form of energy would be known as Dark Energy. Dark Energy is very thorictical since we cannot straight up observe it like we can a star, a planet or now even a black hole. As of now, Dark Energy is believed to be not very dense and uniformed. The only force it is known to mess with is Gravity. The Four Forces from weakest to strongest is Gravity, Electromagnetism, Weak Force and Strong Force. Evidence Now of course, with any theoretically non-concrete claim, there needs to be strong evidence in order for it to even be considered real or believable. There are three main pieces of evidence for the existence of Dark Energy. The first is, what i explained earlier, The theoretical need for such an energy to be present and existent in order for the explanation of the accelerated rate of expansion. There needs to be something to explain why this manner occurs. Now we all know that in the past, this hasn't alway been an effective tool in predicted why something happens the way it does. Some examples of this are, one, in Ancient China, the peoples believe that a Solar Eclipse was a Dragon eating The Sun. They use to yell at it to go away, and it did. Except, The Whole Dragon covering The Sun wasn't true. We know now that this occurs via The Moon blocking The Sun's light from The Earth. Another example is that child sacrifices would bring good fortune to a people. This despicable event had nothing to do with whether the crops would grow well or that there wouldn't be a huge flood or not. We now know these things came about due to nature and its climate and weather and etc. This first piece of evidence isn't the strongest but good thing for us, there two more pieces of evidence for the existence of Dark Energy. The second composition of evidence is distance measurements and there red shift that implies that The Universe has expanded more it the second half of its life. Red Shift, occuring to the Oxford dictionary definition is "The displacement of spectral lines toward longer wavelengths (the red end of the spectrum) in radiation from the distant galaxies and celestial objects." This Red Shift growing longer in wavelength form is evidence of an unseeable force causing it to do so. The third and final main piece of evidence for the existence of dark energy are measures of large-scale wave-patterns of mass density in The Universe. The evidence for dark energy may not be as strong the evidence of black holes are, but the evidence is still strong nonetheless. Conclusion Just because we cannot see something does not mean it isn't there. Atoms for example for the longest time not observable, they still exist though. Can we see the wind? Can we see needle in a haystack at first glance, can we see our consciousness? My point being that, we do not always need to directly observe something to know that it is there. If you have dog and you are looking at them and then look away for 3 seconds, does your dog not exist for those three seconds you not observing its presence? Now there is a theory that states that the answer is Yes and No at the same time, but will dive into that theory in a way far in the future article. However, to put it in simple terms, yes, your dog is still there for those three seconds and yes, the wind does exist. Remember, we can never be too sure about something, for even our own eyes and memories can deceive us. We must look at the evidence and use reason, logic and science to determine our beliefs in what exist, otherwise we could still be screaming at Sun-Eating Dragons. Introduction
All of The World since the dawn of man have look into Space and awed at its Awesome wonder. The Curiosity of what it emcompasses has intriqued man to want to travel and explore throughout its vastness. One thing though stops us from freely flying through it. Gravity Gravity is the force that attracts mass to other mass. Gravity is what keeps us from freely roaming The Universe, observing countless Astronomical wonders. We have left Earth before and currently, but at the cost of a lot of currency and power. Free Fall acceleration rate or in layman's terms, Gravitational Rate, is 9.81 Meters per second every second or 9.8 m/s^2. Gravity is something we cannot escape; unless we aren't around anything in pure space. But Why? All Worlds All Worlds, Rocks, People, Animals, or anything with Mass has its own force of gravity. That's right, if thou art in the middle of space and an apple, which has less mass than thee, will in theory revolve around thy gravity, or stick to thee. The reason? SpaceTime. Space Time SpaceTime is the combination of the three dimensional Space and one dimensional time, together to form the fabric of all of The Universe. Now when something with mass is within a particular part of SpaceTime, SpaceTime will bend to that mass. This is what causes gravity. Imagine thou hath a blanket spread out in the air held by a few folks evenly. Now put a bowling ball in the middle of said blanket. It will bend. Now put a tennis ball anywhere on the blanket away from the bowling ball. What happens? Well the tennis ball will fall towards the bowling ball since the bowling ball has more mass than the tennis ball. This is exactly how gravity works in relation to SpaceTime and mass. Conclusion SpaceTime reveals to use the more mass thou hast, the more attractive thou literally are. For us, this mass, can mean Status, Money, Muscles, Good looks, Nice things or even great social skills. Regardless these things attract others to us, just like gravity is an attractive force. The more of this thou hath, the more attractive thou shalt be. Now is this a good thing? I'll let you decide that one. |
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