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Birthday Stars
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4-28-2009 4:30 PM
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fredondo
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This light is as older as I.
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4-28-2009
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1906be5e-e6c9-49ac-8f5e-c175b1ddcbc9/0EC02E7B-4435-4F13-8F15-A04237BCB7A1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/birthstars/" href="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/birthstars/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.eso.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/birthstars/"><H1 class="print">Birthday Stars</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/birthstars/"><H1>Birthday Stars at ESO</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/birthstars/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.eso.org/img/FE868DEB-FDB1-4A43-9984-066A40EA6BFE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/birthstars/"><P class="print">The stars are so far away from us that their light still takes a long time to reach Earth. One <EM>light year</EM> is the distance light travels in a year: about 9.5 trillion kilometres! The closest star apart from the Sun is 4.2 light years away, so its light takes 4.2 years to reach Earth.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/birthstars/"><P class="print">Tell the Birthday Stars computer when you were born, and it will look for a star that is <EM>your age in light years</EM> away from Earth. This means that the light we're seeing from that star today actually left the star around when you were born, and has taken your entire life to reach Earth.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/birthstars/"><P class="noprint">Please enter your date of birth using the menu below:</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/birthstars/index.html?locale=en_US&day=25&month=4&year=1960" href="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/birthstars/index.html?locale=en_US&day=25&month=4&year=1960" style="font-size: 11px;">www.eso.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/birthstars/index.html?locale=en_US&day=25&month=4&year=1960"><P class="noprint">Please enter your date of birth using the menu below:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/birthstars/index.html?locale=en_US&day=25&month=4&year=1960"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.eso.org/img/7C46D28A-DC7F-4851-A7F7-A6FC957CDD79" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/birthstars/index.html?locale=en_US&day=25&month=4&year=1960"><P>Your star has the code NN 3965 in the <I>Third Catalogue of Nearby Stars</I> by Gliese and Jahreiß. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/birthstars/index.html?locale=en_US&day=25&month=4&year=1960"><P>The distance to your star is: 49.1 light years.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/birthstars/index.html?locale=en_US&day=25&month=4&year=1960"><P>Your star is in the constellation Hercules, and is marked in the centre of the starchart on the right. Its celestial coordinates are:<BR /></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0EC02E7B-4435-4F13-8F15-A04237BCB7A1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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