Starship Asterisk*

I remember Mr. Arp and Maartin Schmidt were having a disagreement in the 1960's, and the conventional wisdom sided with Mr. Schmidt a few years later. I wondered what Mr. Arp has been doing all these years, I had kind of forgotten about him. Sounds like he's on to something. I too suspected that red...

My vote is for a very seriously disturbed galaxy. Something has altered its swirl big time. That something is not easily seen tho, and speculations are numerous. " It's a juvenille deliquent never learned how to behave, and it's going to take its chances out in; Burma Shave . . ." (tom wai...

Nice photo Orca !! I had no idea it will be so big !! As Palomar used to be the biggest for so many years, Webb's 7 mirrors are over 2-1/2 times Palomar in size, each ! Palomar 218.166 sq ft (200" mirror) Webb 572.55 sq ft X 7 = 4007.88 sq ft !!!!!!! minus a few for the hole in the focal middle...

Wow Orin, What a great link !! And the artwork is very much to my liking for being scientifically relatively correct. It is a bit of a long exposure picture; as the planet back would be really dark! and the sun really small and the dust cloud extremely dim. 3 minute exposure at f8 ! This website pag...

Hi Harry, When you google 'magnetohydrodynamics' be sure to go to Amara.com , for Dr. Amara Graps did a bunch of work on the subject and now she is into interstellar dust. Whatever it is that generates magnetic fields in stars, planets, and black holes is a subject for continued studies. The magneti...

Here's the link to APOD's Galactic Center Radio Arc;

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050403.html

Many of the blue words lead to many trails for exploration of the subject.

One of APOD's greatest day postings!

Surely you noticed the large group of stars in the middle of the hole. They provide ample solar wind to blow the very lite particles and gasses and dust away from them and the hole, and keep them at bay against gravity. The question was, what started the material up to the speeds it is presently goi...

The angular width of the supposed our sun is grossly over stated for being 7-8 billion miles out, and extremely misleading, and this is one of the worst 'science artworks' in recent memory for misrepresentation. What could this artist have been thinking? Has he no sense of proportion? The placement ...

Harry, Ratio of Space to Time; mainly is concerned with the speed of light. The distance light goes in one year is one light year. Thus a ratio of one to one is extant. Time to Space. This is why when we see an event, we see it when it happened; for us. Not for when it happened, for the event. Our i...

Harry, I wrote a post yesterday but was not signed in and it got lost somehow, I was too tired to rewrite. I got dropped by my ISP and after reconnecting I lost my signed in status. How frustrating by the details I failed to notice ! Anyway, the gist was that as gravity increases, the neutron pairs ...

<<... how do I put it ... the movement in the glowing areas. As an artist, I'm just wondering about the sort of paths of movement that the image shows. Is that sort of pattern of movement really there? Very interesting! >> Hi, Yes, the movement is really there, but it is ever so slow in our time spa...

Craterchains, 'Tis disappointing to read how you feel persecuted and maligned by your theory being not taken seriously. In looking at the pictures, it seems logical to me that a comet like the one the Japanese landed their probe upon, would easily disassociate and make a line of craters on impacting...

Thank you Harry, Amazing links; 396 space telescope videos !! Amazing Grace In thinking more about neutron stars; Bilderback's fascination with a 'hollow black hole theory' began to sink in As space becomes 'timelike' according to Hawking, the material trying to implode by gravity, has a resistance ...

40 years ago a photo of the Sombrero Galaxy reached out and grabbed my attention, and I knew not why at the time. Now I think I see why. As the Voyager and other images of Saturn and our understanding of the complex interaction with gravity and its moons formed the intricate structure of Saturn's ri...

A most curious item. A different thread questioner was thinking that it is two stars, so I looked and it looks like two galaxies. Definately two galaxies, not stars losing atmosphere. Although gas giants might look like that, hard to tell. If it is two galaxies they are so identical as to be suspect...

I think I forgot the question. LOL Two stars head on would be a lot of fireworks!! not to mention the attendant radiation. In the thought experiment I see; as they are about a diameter apart they oblate into egg shaped, long ends toward each other. As the gas atmospheres merge, high energy particle ...

The one o'clock rock ! looks to have a color change, but the 9 o'clock rock looks like light reflection of some kind, likewise the 8:30 rock. The rock halfway below the one o'clock rock and the bottom of the picture frame in your zoom in; looks to have the color change across the uniformly illuminat...

Mr Bilderbeck I must compliment you on having a writing style that incites an argument. In discussing this matter, it seems to me that you have some conceptions that you assume, by the way you express your statements. one is; that the universe is expanding. What if the universe in NOT EXPANDING. How...

Since when is the Big Bang Theory set in stone as true; and it is up to someone to disprove it before BBT is de-throned? It appears to me that Religion is the reason BBT is so entrenched in the faiths of so many institutions of higher teaching. Like the flat earth doctrine, BBT appeals to the Creati...

Hi, This is my first post, so pardon my disorientation please. Where does one begin; The initial thought that hit me was this rock was ejected from Olympus Mons and garnered its evaporative deposite during re-entry from above the then Mars atmosphere. Whatever was in the atmosphere condensed on the ...