Starship Asterisk*

Fascinating stuff. I never knew there was so much in it.
And here's me thinking that Pluto had gnawed his bone and buried it in an asteroid field...

Actually I think it will be more like this: http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/cc357/oakworthman/APOD/APOD.jpg As a family, we're trying to embrace technology. I bought an IPod for my daughter, an IPad for my son and an IPhone for myself. The trouble started when I bought an IRon for my wife. Do Ame...

OK, so Apple is in court over the use of the word 'Pod': Apple, Startup Go to Trial Over Pod Trademark Now I don't know about all of you out there, but I've always pronounced the acronym APOD as 'A-pod'... Should Robert and Jerry be a-quaking in their boots? Could it all end in tears? Just a fun que...

My computer's home page since I first found APOD in 2006. I've got no plans to change that as it's a constant source of wonder. Well done to Robert and Jerry for your consistent ability to open my eyes to something new (to me) and wonderous. Every now and then one of my children will come and sit on...

Last time I looked Einstein was dead, so there's no need to be annoyed on his behalf. That his name is associated with an amazing natural phenomenom is a tribute rather than an annoyance. I wish they'd name something after me.

If the average colour in the universe is beige, then why does it look mostly black?

rhetorical question...

I've found a few anomilies when mousing over the image. The circled areas have objects moving (line points to the object). They are clearly visible in both images so I don't believe that they're separate objects, but depending on the distance, they'd have to be traveling very fast (depending on the...

Thanks Chris, That's really helped my understanding. As always...

You can create this effect using a starlight filter but in this case I think it is caused by the camera's optics.

Crikey! Beaten to it!
Twice!

This new forum stinks, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Anyone else notice that these odd rainbow effects are VERY RECENT ? ? ? Like in the past decade ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yer FUNNY ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !~ The forum stinks? Funny, I can't smell anything. Say what you mean for goodness sake, that way pe...

These elements indicate that some exposed materials have not been covered by more recent lava floes , and so might originate from an epoch of Mercury's formation. In the accompanying text to this APOD, when they said lava floes , did they mean lava flows ? I've always associated 'floes' with ice sh...

harry .. could some kind of magnetic shock cause those spokes? They also vaguely resemble the spokes which form in a short length of drying tree trunk. The radial cracks are known as 'checks'. The cracks following around the growth rings are called 'shakes'. This one even looks a bit like a floor f...

Then there's Kenny McCormick from South Park:

Excellent picture today! I can just imagine being in the USS Enterprise watching the fury of the hot gas rolling towards me like some gigantic solar pyroclastic storm. What that must have looked like close up! I did a quick google search and found a much better parka picture though: http://www.alas...

A fantastic picture. Nice one APOD. I see two seahorses though... The second one is to the left of the main one, a little fainter and looking slightly to the right and away from us into the nebula. Almost as if they are parents watching their young hidden inside the nebula. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod...

I was hoping someone could point me to a picture of what that region looks like at the moment. Preferably from the same viewpoint.
It seems pointless to use a 15 year old picture and say that the ice has all gone, but not give a link to a picture of what it looks like right now.
Any takers please?

Chris Peterson wrote:Or, as I've long seen it, the Horse's Ass Nebula.

Oh. That's ruined it for me now! Thanks for that Chris.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081113.html I'll get this in before Neufer does... [Originally written in 1919 by Jaan Kenbrovin (James Kendis, James Brockman, and Nat Vincent) and John William Kellette] I'm forever blowing bubbles, Pretty bubbles in the air, They fly so high, nearly reach the sky, Then...

I took it too. I also answered about the "Red" looking warmer than the "Blue" but this is just the effect of seeing "Fire Red" and "Ice Blue" I said I thought the blue looked warmer because the centre of it was red. Just to be awkward. :) I tried to ignore th...

neufer wrote:http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081030.html

Waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Me too, nothing linked yet but it's a fair bet I was right though.
Hope to be proven wrong.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081030.html Guys, you're doing a grand job of keeping in with the theme of Halloween. Three 'ghost' pictures? :D The humour isn't lost on me at any rate. Nice one guys, this is what you do best. I wonder if we'll be seeing the Witches Nebula soon? Or do you have a...

Every time I see the image of earth at night, I'm struck by what it reveals about wealth. The brightness of an area is proportional to the population times the average affluence of the people. In other words, the total weath of the region. Obviously, the measurements are not perfect. I certainly is...

This link does not work: http://www.opentopia.com/sunlightmaprect.html.

Astronomy has nothing to do with the Earth. The earth is not a planet. It does not rotate, and even if it did, the rotation would have nothing to do with egg-balancing or even the movement of the stars over the course of the night. ---- OR ----- The rotation of the Earth plays a major role in our u...

I found a connection of the dancing video to planetary thinking: The guy with the clumsy movements in this video went to all corners of the world by plane, thus polluting our planets atmosphere for no result. In addition he probably considers himself a great artist. This video is proving a lack of ...