What's Around The Pleiades?

Started by Rod Kaufman, 01/01/2018 04:56AM
Posted 01/01/2018 04:56AM Opening Post
That's what:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap171114.html
From the astronomy picture of the day.
Posted 01/01/2018 05:47AM #1
Cool! Here's a conjecture: With that much stuff (gas and dust) revealed by ~deep~ imagery. It would seem that Fast space travel (e.g. significant fractional light-speed) would be precluded for things as big as people, or even our robotic machines. This, because everything in the way, Everything, becomes Cosmic Rays (relative to the capsule) just by virtue of the capsule's velocity. The entire path has become HOT radiation! That would fry the capsule, and anyone within it. It's like a speed limit for anything as soft and vulnerable as us... or extrasolar aliens. Tom

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Posted 01/05/2018 04:27AM #2
Nice image that I haven't seen before !!! Thanks for posting Rod