Starship Asterisk*

Yesterday there was something unexpected, or the day before, and a bunch of people addressed it. seems like odd things ought to get mention. in today's lunar picture there is also an oddity which it seems ought to have been mentioned - the rather dark area toward the upper left.

To get into the thread about whether it is a waste of money we would have to get into politics, which would probably mean we would not get to talk astronomy again until the moderator stopped it, so let's not. But my question/comment is - not only does it seem difficult at best, but am I reading it r...

today's APOD has a reference to a martian meteor, and when I click on it it takes me to a page which poses the question: how do you find martian meteors on planet earth? I don't really get the point of the answer. Reminds me of the old joke: where do you find elephants? A: You don't, they're so big ...

I so often wonder what colors are really like. Occasionally it says something is a false color image, but I have no idea what a non-false image looks like. today's posting of M57- is it really black and white, or is it really the colors it shows, since it does not say it is a false color image. All ...