Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Stars Drink Gravity and Wobble Around

If a given star has a planet orbiting around it, the star will wobble due to the gravitational forces of the planet pulling on the star.  Having discovered this, astronomers now seek out the stars wobbling amid the firmament in their quest to locate distant planets.  Once they locate a star swaying about, astronomers look in the space surrounding to locate the planet promoting this motion.
A question.
What might we seek to find near a man wobbling similarly through our night?
--Mitchell Hegman

2 comments:

  1. The man woke up in the dark of the night hungry for mincies. :)

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  2. Another one who've had one too many?

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