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Kinda reminds me of Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors !!!

Does anyone know if there's a place to go to see updated sat pix of the fires in CA?
TIA, Krys

A stupid question perhaps - but the center star of "the Belt" has a blue dot in the center of the corona. None of the other stars has that. Is it because the star is so much brighter that it's burned in, or because there is a fortuitous eclipse happening, or am I missing the point? TIA, Krys

While looking at today's APOD (Spiral Galaxy M83), I wondered ... do all galaxies appear to rotate clockwise, or are there some that rotate counter-clockwise? If both ways, what are the percentages? If both ways, is that simply because of our vantage point, or is there a physics reason for the diffe...

AND, what is the definition of "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit"... It could be argued that if you have a moon, you haven't cleared the neighborhood. So how many planets are left now? Also, using the IAU's definition, how can we definitively say that we have discovered "plan...

Oooops! First two links were backwards... fixed now! It was seeing a picture of the surface of Europa that got me started looking at APOD everyday! I used it as my wallpaper for many years. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980102.html I agree with lizzyshoe… the eclipse from Cassini, shooting from...

Don't know what kind of camera he has, but way back in the time of analog video :D , your television picture was created using NTSC color standards. There are 525 lines displayed in a frame of analog video. Each frame of video has two fields and they are "interlaced". This means that all t...

Looking at this picture raised a question in my mind... Since the rings are not solid and if it was possible to stand in their shadow, would it be dark or would some light filter through?

TIA,
Krys

WOW! Phoebe's 20-100 times larger than SL9 unbroken!!! Thanks for the link, Orin!
K-

How does the size of Phoebe compare to the comet (or fragments) that crashed into Jupiter awhile back?
K-