Monday, 9 April 2018

Million, billion light years away, still moving away!


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Million, billion light years away, still moving away!
Yea stars, object in other galaxies moving away
The universe is expanding with the space in between
The stars, galaxies expanding causing that moving away

Within a galaxy nothing moves away from each other
As gravity takes control, overcomes the expansion super
Yet expansion takes control in far off galaxies
Like a rubber band elongated pushing the points apart, yes

For a million parsec away star,object the expansion 70 kms per second
Parsec around 3 light years multiplied by million multiplied by 360 seconds
Multipled by 34 hours for a day multiplied by 365 days for a year oops!
That’s a whopping distance to calculate that much the moving away alas!

The more moving further away of already farther away star
Will make the light reach still more later than before
That’s the beauty, reality of the expansion of the universe
Sure a headache, effort to track down the stars afresh

The point to keep in mind by the astronomers, star gazers
To prepare for the slipping away, stars, galaxies
Still make sense by tracking observing the cosmic bodies
That’s all about astronomy, star gazing grand stories!

-Mohan Sanjeevan

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