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Whatever it is, it is natural. There is no life on Mars or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or comet, or any other Solar System body or piece of debris that NASA has used as an excuse to launch billions of dollars into space. You need to focus your funds on greatly expanding the space station and o...

Looks to me like Galacticus is about to ingest a star.

Thanx, Chris. I should have read the blurb on Andromeda a little more closely. My bad....

Silly me . . . I thought Andromeda was our closest galaxy. What--it's not "active?"

Thanks for your explanation. I'd prefer they'd simply present the actual footage instead of tinkering with it.

The video shows one complete rotation of Jupiter. The camera is static. You would think that, since the spacecraft is flying by the planet, the camera would be moving, yet the planet's image remains stable. Was ist loss?

A picture of Saturn's newly discovered ring has been in the newspapers and on-line, everywhere but where one would think it would show up first--APOD. Instead, we get often years-old photos of novae, dust lines, and galaxy clusters. Yawn. Let's start a pool. The one who picks the decade when photos ...

A fallen meteor? And yet there is no crater and no surface material blown up around it. Perhaps it hit somewhere else and then rolled to its present location, the Martian wind having eradicated it's path.

The object above Alnilam, near the picture's edge, appears to be Klaatu's spaceship. Hope he looks like Michael Rennie and the Keanu Reeves zombie-robot, and that Gort is just 10 feet tall, not 100.

Not having majored (or even minored for that matter) in physics, or whatever science is required to explain this, I can but hazard a guess. The farther light travels from its source, the more dispersed it becomes. Could not the flair be explained by this dispersal?[quote][/quote]

There seems to be confused lighting on the photo of Astronaut Irwin strolling on the moon. He casts a long shadow off to his right rear. The Lunar Rover casts almost no shadow. There is a shadow apparently from the LEM, which is off-camera, which indicates back-lighting. This shadow does not corresp...

...for your helpful responses. After reviewing them, I believe I can safely reach three conclusions: 1. Global warming is a fact. 2. There is no consensus on its cause. 3. Even the most heroic effort to combat it will be about as effectual as removing a glass of seawater from a hurricane-roiled ocea...

Thanx to all for your responses.

Thanx to all for the info. Does anyone know of a source that lists temperatures over time for any of the other planets?

I have read in different publications that the surface temperatures of the Sun, Mars and Jupiter have increased over the years. If this is true, one would have to attribute global warming to cyclical solar fluctuations. Are temperatures of all the planets, but particulary Mercury and Venus, monitore...

If the picture is of the side of Io that always faces away from Jupiter, and we are looking straight at it, why then does not Jupiter fill the void behind Io?

Perhaps we should have sent along a phonograph with the discs attached to Voyager. Now a mere few light hours away from the planet, those discs were obsolete before they left the Solar System.