Giveaway Win a Celestron - 114LCM Computerized Newtonian Telescope

[Xbalanque]

The moon is not made of green cheese.

 

[SkylarknTexas]

Would be coolest Grandmom Great ever if I could explore the heavens with my Grands!

 

[mattytheplanet]

The Great Attractor is a gravitational anomaly in intergalactic space at the center of the local Laniakea Supercluster, in which the Milky Way is located, in the so-called Zone of Avoidance that is very difficult to observe in visible wavelengths due to the obscuring effects of our own galactic plane. It's sucking everything to this point

 

[JayB1206]

Mars lost it's atmosphere.. How do we keep a generated atmosphere from going the same way?

 

[ManyMoons]

The FACT that Russia, China and others have been launching "secret" satellites with secrecy, is ridiculous and, crazy!
"Flat Earthers" are crazy, too! And ridiculous!

Oh and, speaking of... As a new daily visitor here at Space.com, I always get lost and wander out into the Universe every time I reach the edge of Space.com! Very similar to "space"! =)

 

[MJ Wilkinson]

Too cold for life?
Europa's average surface temperature at its equator is −260 °F.

 

[MJ Wilkinson]

Could someone easily view/study the moons of Jupiter with this telescope?

 

[HMC]

Jupiter has long held my interest.

Jupiter is a gas giant ... it doesn’t have a true surface. If you were to journey there you would have nowhere to land on! As you traveled through the gaseous layers your craft would be subject to the extreme pressures and temperatures deep inside the planet; they would conspire to crush, melt, and vaporize your spacecraft as it continued deep into Jupiter's gaseous core. Your craft would eventually come to a point where it could neither go forward nor escape backwards; you would be entombed forever inside the gaseous giant.

 

[sramussal]

Andromeda, the nearest large galaxy to ours, is on a crash course to merge with the Milky Way about 4.5 billion years from now.

 

[Meteoric Marmot]

So why UK and US only? While I'm used to encountering contest rules like this, I still find it insulting and it makes me less likely to visit a site,

 

[sward]

So why UK and US only? While I'm used to encountering contest rules like this, I still find it insulting and it makes me less likely to visit a site,

Hi there, we have a post here that covers why we are not permitted to do this. Friendly reminder to keep this thread for entries only!

 

[teapod]

I would very much like to enter the telescope giveaway. There's a giant comet which will be passing the Sun Dec. 8th and will be visible for those with an 8" wide telescope. Arriving just before Christmas for those who are able to see it.

 

[c0nsaw]

THE FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON WILL BE THERE FOR 100 MILLION YEARS.
The Moon has no atmosphere, which means there is no wind to erode the surface and no water to wash the footprints away. This means the footprints of the Apollo astronauts, along with spacecraft prints, rover-prints and discarded material, will be there for millions of years.

 

[Logit1162]

we only see a small portion, and we will never know for sure.

 

[Pearl]

Time doesn't move, neither does space. We move. Space expands. We live in time and in space.

 

[Mykec62]

If two pieces of the same type of metal touch is space they will permanently bond due to what’s
known as cold welding and it happens because the atoms of two pieces of metal have no way of knowing they are separate. This doesn’t happen on Earth because of the air and water found between the pieces.

 

[Pobanion]

Earth's liquid outer core, for example, acts as a giant, dynamic magnet, which creates the planet's magnetic field.

 

[Muhammad Awais]

when a human go in space and look around the whole word there they realize how small we are...

 

[nitinbidani]

The Space fact I would like to share here is: Irrespective of how mysterious Space is, humanity will always be mesmerized with all the mind bending observations. Thanks to space.com for bringing all the hot topics for us to stay updated with latest developments.

 

[Buck69]

According to the Big Rip theory, in a few billion years, a mysterious, permeating force known as "dark energy" will become so powerful that it could pull every ounce of Earth's matter apart on an atomic level.

 

[Davidspace]

Nine Apollo missions went to the moon. 24 astronauts have traveled on these missions and 12 (all men) have walked on the moon.

 

[rahma_boudhina]

Dark matter makes approximately 85% of the matter in the universe and about a quarter of its total energy density.

 

[bruhitswenddiek]

A kilonova is an event that occurs in a compact binary system when a neuron star and a black hole merge . it creates a magnetic field that is trillions of times stronger than that of earth in a matter of 1 millisecond . kilonova create gamma ray burst

 

[bruhitswenddiek]

The planet 55 Cancri e has a surface temperature of 4,900 degrees Fahrenheit.

the one with diamonds

 

[Wenddieking]

The Sun's rays carry radiant energy from the sun in all directions. If the ray hits matter, the matter absorbs part of the energy and heats up. Thus the earth heats up, Moon and other material bodies are heated. A transparent object would be heated less than a black solid object (kinda obvious though). A white object reflects much of the radiant energy and is not heated as much as a black object, which absorbs more energy. The space between the planets outside of the Sun is very nearly empty. It contains rarefied gas that absorbs none of the radiant energy from the Sun and is thus very transparent. Almost all radiant energy passes through this space without being changed or absorbed by the small amount of matter. Now you all know what happens to radiant energy from our Sun