Starship Asterisk*

would like Tokyo instead

Presumably, the Earth was subjected to the same "heavy bombardment" as the moon. Is is generally believed that (with some notable exceptions) evidence of this bombardment has been mostly washed away by our oceans, or what? Yes, erosion and plate tectonics. Oceanic crust is constantly bein...

I wish they included the Moon's formation, and also Tycho's impact, which may be the biggest recent (108 My) impact.

American Science going down, American infrastructures going down. (too many wars?) A recent New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/science/space/life-on-mars-funds-for-nasa-to-find-the-answer-fade.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120313 "Two ambitious missions that N...

sagansmyhero wrote:WOA!!!
Compare this shot with the one Baldridge shot in 2008..
http://zuserver2.star.ucl.ac.uk/~idh/ap ... dridge.jpg
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Interesting you found such a similar shot!

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Some guy wrote Shakespeare's plays. I don't know who it is. It's someone I don't know, have never met, would not recognize. Whoever he is, and I don't really care, let's call him Shakespeare. Shakespeare is a great one, and still is by any other name. I'll never forget the King Lear performance I sa...

Am I right?
At first we see America's west coast going from north to south:
Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baja California, etc...

http://i43.tinypic.com/2a660w6.png

(why does this image appear so small?, the source is bigger.)

Thanks for the info. It was a bad curse for Galileo that it had to be launched by the Shuttle. It was not supposed to be so in the earliest design stage of the Galileo mission, but it was forced upon it at a time when the shuttle was seen as the ultimate solution to everything. I still wish for a ne...

I wish we had an orbiter in the Jupiter system, something like Cassini in Saturn's system.
Too bad the Galileo mission was such a failure years ago, because of an unfurled antenna who would not budge.

Is there any explanation for the "ring of pearls" effect, discrete hot centres within the ring at regular intervals? Probably unrelated, but it reminds me of the drop instability, caused by surface tension. Of course duckling instability is always a possibility. http://i39.tinypic.com/f39...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Stephans_Quintet_cutout.jpg/480px-Stephans_Quintet_cutout.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or-f0vSjbW4 __ 8-micrometre infrared light = red , H-alpha = green , visible red light = blue At first the galaxies at 2:08 in the movie looks differ...

Upon closer inspection of the full-size image, I'm pretty-much convinced that if you follow a path far enough from Earth through any aribitrary point in the celestial sphere, you'll eventually encounter a galaxy. Specially the further we go the more packed are the galaxies, since older universe was...

luigi wrote: ... It's a misterious place the LMC and it has a great view of our galaxy.

Yes, too bad we don't have a friend living there, would be nice to visit. (space is so big,,,)

I'm always waiting and hoping for a new supernova that would be closer.
It could be observed and studied much more precisely.
Yet years goes by and still nothing.

Interesting reference here: The Sliding Rocks of Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California: Physical and Spatial Influences on Surface Processes A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Earth and Environmental Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degre...

kind of a crop circle with no crop

Strangerbarry wrote:This would have been a great picture for Geography Picture of the Day

http://photography.nationalgeographic.c ... f-the-day/

physicsflyer wrote:Please note that the photographer stopped driving and pulled to the side of the road to take this shot!

Maybe he was driving off the road while being busy taking the picture!

Mercury 4 Liberty Bell 7 Lost at sea, 1961-july-21 Recovered, 1999-july-20 The Mercury capsule was flown by astronaut Gus Grissom for 15 minutes in space on July 21, 1961. Following a successful mission and splashdown, the Liberty Bell 7s hatch mysteriously blew off, causing it to take on water. Eve...

Wow! I'm impressed that the video can zoom in with such clarity something that isn't even a spec in the sky! 8-) I hate to think of Hubble ever being retired! :cry: I hate to think of Hubble ever being retired!, but I can't wait for The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), previously known as Next Ge...

Pyramid shaped object (rock?) at x:1100px / y:1700px from top-left corner. The Egyptians got there first! (And what is all that fuzz? Nobody's cleaned that thing in years !) rock.jpg Rob Those seems to be 3 small craters. <a href="http://tinypic.com?ref=3wuqg" target="_blank"><i...

Something growing in a Petri dish...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cornellfungi/1875227806/
http://www.hackcollege.com/2008/04/11/p ... versities/

That's just slick. I'm just dreaming of a couple VLT (Very Large Telescope) observatories permanently stationed on the moon. Wow, wouldn't we be able to see something with those! -Noel Any observatory would be better in space than on any planetary surface. Of course, earth's surface has a tremendou...

biddie67 wrote:Absolutely beautiful photograph - so full of mystery - just how could it be???

A turning precessing star shooting jets from it's 2 poles.