Prediction 2012 – Life at the Milky Way’s Center

While waiting for clouds to clear during a night of sky observing during this year’s Winter Star Party in the Florida Keys, we got into a discussion about the Milky Way’s galactic center.

Here on earth, we live in a part of the Milky Way which is not very dense with stars. We’re near the end of one of our galaxy’s spiral arms in an area of few stars and a lot of stellar dust. Therefore, our skies look mainly dark with pin-pricks of stars.

However, if we lived on a planet in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, where it is crowded with stars, our night skies would be as brilliant as our day skies.

Here’s a link to a picture of the many stars in the Milky Way Center.

Prediction 2012 – Milky Way Center Black Hole Photo

Another amazing photo of the Center of the Milky Way.

This photo shows the location of the Black Hole at our galaxy’s center.

The previous post showed a close up of the Black Hole location.

This photo shows a longer view of the Black Hole location in the Milky Way’s Center.

A very dynamic picture!!!

Prediction 2012- BLACK HOLE at Milky Way Center

OK, in an earlier post I said that the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way galaxy is just a theory, according to some astronomers.

Well, it isn’t a theory to some other astronomers. They’ve taken a picture of it. OK, you can’t really take a picture of a Black Hole since even light is swallowed by its intense gravity. That’s why it’s called a “Black” Hole.

They can only take a picture of the area the Black Hole is in. Here’s a picture of the center of the Milky Way. The arrow shows the location of the Black Hole.

The photo was taken at the La Silla Paranal Observatory in the Atacama desert in Chile, which is in South America.

This is an amazing picture!!!

Prediction 2012 – ET’s Home Planet Could be in Milky Way Center

Scientists are looking at the star-crowded center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, for likely star candidates with circling planets.

Here’s an amazing Hubble space photo of our galactic center with stars that scientists believe may have planets.

Prediction 2012 – Milky Way Center in Sagittarius

Here’s another fantastic photograph of the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

These are nebulae that are located in the same area of the sky where the constellation Sagittarius resides.

2012 – Milky Way Center

Here’s a link to a dynamic photo of the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Some believe the earth will exactly align with the galactic center on December 21, 2012, an important date in the ancient Maya’s Long Count Calendar signifying the beginning of their next 5,000 year millennium.

2012 – Milky Way and More Astronomy Photos

You can find more fantastic astronomy photographs at the NASA web site called, Astronomy Picture of the Day at http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html or you can google “Astronomy Picture of the Day.”

When you get to the site, if you want to search for photos of specific sky images, scroll down to the bottom of the page. To search for a specific stellar object you can click on “Search.” To browse the archives, click on the “Archive” link.

Here’s the link to the web site:

Prediction 2012 – Milky Way Center

Here’s a link to a fantastic photograph of the Milky Way.

Sagittarius and the center of the Milky Way is about one third of the way up from the bottom of the photo.

Some people believe that the December 21, 2012 prediction has to do with the earth’s alignment with the center of the Milky Way.

This is a gorgeous photo. The Milky Way is very difficult to see except on dark moonless nights and only after your eyes have become accustomed to the darkness.

It is even more difficult to photograph because you need a very long exposure since the Milky Way is so faint. Because the earth keeps rotating during the exposure, the camera has to be on a sky tracking device that turns at a rate in sync with the apparent movement with the sky (it’s the earth that’s really moving). Here’s the photo:

Prediction 2012 – Maya Long Count Calendar

On December 21, 2012, the Maya new Millennium will begin. Or, anyway, some researchers have translated a very few ancient Maya texts as that date.

There is no Mayan Rosetta Stone. Therefore, the process of translating from Mayan to English has been long and laborious.

In the ancient Maya ruins of Coba, Yucatan, we did find and photograph a stele–a tall stone column with Mayan hierogrlyphics on it–that is supposed to have the date December 21, 2012 on it.
This is according to a booklet I bought at the bookshop near the ruins.

To me, the stele just looked like a weathered tall stone that used to have some kind of carvings on it. I got pictures of it, though.

Carol

2012 Prediction – Milky Way – Maya Tree

I just returned from Yucatan. In researching Mayan legends, I discovered that the Milky Way is often depicted as a tree growing out of the earth.

In an ancient Maya prediction for December 21, 2012, the tree relating to the Milky Way is mentioned.

Carol