Starship Asterisk*

I'm :?. The "featured picture" in the explanation brings up a coloured image in which the White Rock Fingers are seen, so it does not seem unreasonable to assume that the black & white image used for the APOD was produced from the coloured image. In the information with the coloured im...

I wonder why "this amazing sight made the fascinated videographer late for breakfast" as according to the image's Exif data (obtained through the image in Michael's http://www.michaelkunze.de website) it states of the image "Date/Time Original 2015:07:30 20:45:48+02:00". I guess...

I wonder why "this amazing sight made the fascinated videographer late for breakfast" as according to the image's Exif data (obtained through the image in Michael's http://www.michaelkunze.de website) it states of the image "Date/Time Original 2015:07:30 20:45:48+02:00". I guess ...

The interactive version is interesting. Clicking on the vertical line of 3 dots brings up a 'Projections and Nav Modes' feature in which there is a 'Little Planet View' and a 'Panini View'. I've not heard of a Panini View before but I did not readily see any obvious difference between the two so I w...

Thanks neufer and Chris for your help .

I was amused that the gravitational waves generated "cause the visible image to ripple and slosh". Slosh is not a word that I would have associated in astrophysics! :wink:. The 2 Black Holes in the image used as the APOD look like the eyes of an :owl: to me. As the gravitational waves are ...

David, I was confused about that as well, and as far as I can gather the detectors within each of the arms are currently 2km long while the arms themselves are each twice that length, thus capable of housing detectors twice as long. Thanks geckzilla for your response, which is appreciated :). That ...

Four-kilometer arms, not two! Yes, this error has been corrected on the main NASA APOD. The arms are four kilometers long. We apologize for the error. - RJN I would be grateful if someone could please clarify for me what is the length as I'm confused. In the explanation it states "Pictured her...

But Ceres is the first completely uninteresting object we've ever visited. I certainly wouldn't say that. A lack of unexpected physical features doesn't make it "uninteresting". If "Ceres is the first completely uninteresting object we've ever visited" then that makes it an inte...

Just in case anyone has not realised it, what I assume is the 'Man in the Moon' is brought up when moving a cursor over the image when online. There should be a Moon smilie .

The "eastern side" in the "Giant elliptical galaxy M60 and spiral galaxy NGC 4647...are found in a region of space where galaxies tend to gather, on the eastern side of the nearby Virgo Galaxy Cluster" made me :). The eastern side is presumably the more salubrious part for galaxi...

It's a gorgeous image. Where I am even on a clear night it can be hard to spot any more than the brightest of stars.

Thanks to Judy for the annotation . I must be getting good (award myself a smilie) as I managed to spot what I thought might be Andromeda before I saw the annotation!

Its a fascinating diagram and with lots of interesting things through the links. I notice in the information brought up through the "nuclear origin" link that it states "The first nuclei were formed about three minutes after the Big Bang". It took it long enough! :wink: The poor ...

It's a lovely image :). I've noticed that the caption with it in an English text section of Lorand's website is "Comet Catalina blasted through the Big Dipper, In Hungarian, it is called “Göncöl’s Wagon” after a taltos in the mythology". I've found in a Wikipedia entry that it states "...

Thanks for your reply Nitpicker . Your "dimmed" is a more appropriate word than my "blurred".

I can get my mind around the comet being only "about 6 light-minutes from our fair planet" but M101 being "some 270 thousand light-centuries away" is mind boggling (though according to Nitpicker that is still only "about 1/2000th of the way to the edge of the observable univ...

From the explanation I assumed that NGC 4217 is a member of the Canes II group but I have found that it is not. In information I found it states "Although it is located in the constellation of Canes Venatici, NGC 4217 is a member of the Ursa Major South Group, which contains 28 galaxies with a ...

Thanks all for your help with my query about why M8/NGC 6523 was named the Lagoon Nebula. The naming of nebulae is clearly a very fuzzy (or should I say very nebulous :wink: ) area. As to the it "is named "Lagoon" for the band of dust seen to the right of the open cluster's center&quo...

How any nebula came to be so named can be very confusing and the Lagoon Nebula is (to me) no exception. In the explanation it states the nebula "is named "Lagoon" for the band of dust seen to the right of the open cluster's center". I assume the open cluster is the group of stars...

The application for astronaut selection that was brought up through the "future astronauts" link was interesting. Sadly I fail to qualify on several grounds, though my likely also being stiff does not seem to be listed!

The photo is superb. :clap: In information in Gill's resume in the Network SW Consulting website that can be brought up through her Facebook section it states of Gill (Gillian) "Gillian Fry B.Ag.Sc(hons), Dip Bus Mgt" and she is "The Principal Consultant of Network SW Consulting"...

I'm confused as to the date when the sequence of the Sun's positions were taken. In the image's explanation in the Earth Science Picture of the Day website it states "Note that this sequence was captured on December 20, 2015 -- the date of the solstice was December 22 in Europe". However, ...

I am very happy that this image was selected and annotated by you. I wish you all a happy 2016. Cheers Raul Villaverde Fraile I don't seem able to get the annotated version so I would be grateful if someone could please let me know where it can be found. Thanks. I don't believe this image has been ...

I am very happy that this image was selected and annotated by you. I wish you all a happy 2016. Cheers Raul Villaverde Fraile I don't seem able to get the annotated version so I would be grateful if someone could please let me know where it can be found. Thanks. You mean this ?? http://apod.nasa.go...

alcarreño wrote:I am very happy that this image was selected and annotated by you.
I wish you all a happy 2016.
Cheers
Raul Villaverde Fraile

I don't seem able to get the annotated version so I would be grateful if someone could please let me know where it can be found. Thanks.