How do people know what goes on inside stars
when they are BILLIONS of miles away? Always puzzled me.
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@RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Mon 1 Dec 2008, 11:33,
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Big Xray binoculars
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@RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Mon 1 Dec 2008, 11:37,
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Lots of VERY clever super nerds
have been working on this for yonks.
This is a good place to start:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_structure
Basically, it's a load of extrapolation about whats going inside the sun - it's occassionally probed with x-rays etc:
soho.esac.esa.int/
/serious nerd answer over
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DrPrunesquallor is determined to post more as of, Mon 1 Dec 2008, 11:59,
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Cheers,
I shall get the dictionary out for that one ;-)
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@RBFesquire Good luck b3ta, was nice knowing you. So long., Mon 1 Dec 2008, 12:06,
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You can tell (or deduce I guess)
a whole lot from the light spectrum of a star, it's relative brightness, how far away it is, and what else is nearby.
That withstanding, it's still completely mid boggling that they can do it anyway.
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LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Mon 1 Dec 2008, 11:59,
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Not all of them are billions of miles away
Thankfully there's one a lot nearer!
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