Starship Asterisk*

I'm happy to see that image, at least in part, because it reminds me of a question that has been bothering me for sometime. The question is this: what is the ambient light level at Ultima Thule? What sort of compensatory adjustments must be made by the various instruments to get useful data? Or, to ...

I wonder what the sky would look like from any planet…and given the incredible longevity I imagine spacefaring empires bridging short distances between stars…

The dancing doofus is off-topic, irrelevant, trite and unappreciated. There's a whole world of this claptrap out there - it's easy enough to find for those who are interested - and it's a shame to see it intruding into APOD space. Could we please be returned to our regularly scheduled program? Hey!...

This is just stunningly cool. Period.

Thanks for the light-hearted APOD. Really made my day.

And just ignore those 'ole whiners! jeez, guys! 365 pix a year, year in and year out, and they complain about an oddball?

Give 'em some slack, dudes.

It is terrific.