Starstuff, Dancing

[browngirl]

I feel as if I should be writing about all of the sociopolitical things going on right now, but I also feel as if I did I might never ever stop. So instead two lovely items: grains of sand found in meteorites may go back to the supernova that sparked the Solar System’s formation (with thanks to Tigerlily) and below the cut, a Gif I found representing the Solar System’s dance through space. [ETA peteralway, an astronomer, points out the gif's inaccuracies, but it's still pretty.]

Comments

[danae_b]

That .gif is so very neat looking!

[spinrabbit.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvD4N70V5mE

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving,
and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour ...

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

First thing I thought of.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

That's a cool GIF, but it actually comes from a crackpot video. The innacuracies of the excerpt are subtle, but it turns out that they are part of some loon's pet theory. For instance it has the planets orbiting not in a plane, but on a conical surface, with the planets lagging behind. And it shows the plane of the solar system perpendicular to the direction of the sun's motion, but it ain't. The link goes to the Bad Astronomy site discussing it.

A shame, because it is cool animation.

The grain-o-sand story is pretty darned cool!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* Whups. Thank you for the actual science!

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

the planets orbiting not in a plane, but on a conical surface, with the planets lagging behind

That's why it looked slightly odd when I stared at it!

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

awesome!

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

It's certainly very pretty, but the most intense inaccuracy I see is that the planets and Sun are far, far too large relative to their distances apart. Space is so incredibly empty...

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

I figured it was a diagram, not a portrait.