Whats your favorite star?

Question

Or nebula, like the horse head nebula, or the black hole at the middle of the middle of the universe, or the southern cross... whats your favorite celestial thing?

Mines Arturus, by the way, because its so darn mind blowingly big. Ä° could contemplate that star for hours.

Answer 1

  Proxima centaui

Answer 2

Star... Wars?

Answer 3

Favourite star: Gliese 581.

Favourite nebula: Helix nebula.

Favourite galaxy: Milky Way -- it's where I keep all my stuff.

And yeah, people are usually idiots, lol.

Answer 4

I like Alberio.  It's an easy to split double with two colors, gold and blue.

The Sun is very much in the sky.  But i don't like it so much - you have to wait until morning to see it.  And besides, these days there are like no sunspots, and it's just a circle in my eyepiece.  I can't even tell if it's in focus or not.

Answer 5

Of course, I'm sure you mean OTHER than the sun.

My favorite star is Deneb. I guess I like it because it is the most energetic star we can see easily with the naked eye.  Of all the bad-a** stars in our slice of the galaxy, Deneb is the baddest.  Rigel comes in second. I'm not talking about those fat, bloated red giant stars.  These are hot, dense, AND huge.

It's in Cygnus, which is one of my favorite constellations, too. Deneb is nothing to look at in a telescope, but at the other end of the swan is Albeiro, one of the prettiest doubles in the sky.

I like the Great Nebula in Orion, and for galaxies, Andromeda. (Excluding our own galaxy, the Milky Way.)  Both of these are visible to the naked eye under good conditions, so they were among my favorites before I ever had a telescope.

Check out the Hubble site and download the hi-res photo of M-81. Magnificent!  Using the zoom function, you can explore  that galaxy and others in the field, all day.

Answer 6

how about the sun if we didn't have that . there would be any where on earth  

Answer 7

The Sun

Answer 8

Chuck Norris

Answer 9

I'd have to go with the sun!

My second favorite would be the horsehead nebula!

Answer 10

My favorite star would probably be VV Cephi.  It just amazes me that a star can be so huge.  It's diameter is about the size of Saturn's orbit.

My favorite nebula is the cat's eye nebula.  The central star of it will be a white dwarf eventually.

Favorite galaxy other than ours' is the pinwheel galaxy.

Favorite star cluster would be Plaides the seven sisters which is a very new star cluster.  All the stars in it are only a few hundred thousand years old.

Answer 11

Sol. Nothing compares to it.  

Answer 12

I'm fascinated by Vega in the constellation of Lyra; it's relatively close to us too - about 25 light years away. It's part of the summer triangle along with Altair and Deneb - and reminds me of many a summer I've spent gazing up at the night sky!

Answer 13

Polaris.

Not only is it symbolic to the most northern place in our world, but it did good. It helped the slaves escape to the north from freedom. It just feels so cool to stare at that and think that it made history.

Answer 14

Me

Answer 15

michael cera

Answer 16

Orion constellation and the Pleides star cluster.

Answer 17

Hmmm... There are a lot of celestial bodies I really like. For stars, I think my favorite would be Polaris because it's just so useful! As for nebulas, the Pillars of Creation are beautiful. Then there's the Andromeda galaxy... I can go on and on!

Answer 18

michle ROche, lindsay lohan, and britney spears

Answer 19

Well. Eta Carinae.. this star has about 100 solar mass. and it can go Hyper Nova anytime.. and when It goes hyper nova, it will send out Gamma Ray burst..

Answer 20

That's a tough one...

Probably the Egg Nebula:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap030409.html

But I'm also very fond of the Helix Nebula:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070223.html

Answer 21

I have a favorite KIND of star. They are main sequence stars (luminosity class V) with substantial metallicity (Z>0.015), having...

Masses between 0.85 and 1.25 solar masses

Luminosities between 0.50 and 2.50 sols.

Radii between 0.88 and 1.18 solar radii.

Effective temperatures between 5200K and 6800K.

B-V color indices between +0.43 and +0.87.

Spectral types between K1 and F4.

And a planet in a low-eccentricity orbit having semimajor axis approximately equal to

a = (sqrt L) / { 130.8 kg^(1/2) sec^(-3/2) }

where...

a = the semimajor axis of the orbit in meters

L = the star's luminosity in watts