Starship Asterisk*

I bet if you took a straight line from left to right through the center of this image there would be at least 10,000 stars. So if the width of the image is 300ly, that would make the stars less than 0.03 ly apart from each other. Which is only like 2 hundred billion miles between stars. And I'm sure...

The amount of energy needed to achieve the changing camera perspectives!

"What's happening behind that camel?" Too funny

Is there a supernova remnant near the bright star in the upper center of the image?

Artistic Rendering, "The Snowman".

If you click on the link, "cosmic tadpole is", it directs you to this site: http://hubblesite.org/image/1181/news_release/2002-11 I am guessing the answer to my question is probably "both" or "neither". But the image on the hubblesite.org website is mirrored in relation...

You know what would be good is if we had an old picture of the Tarantula Nebula before the HST that actually looked like a tarantula. For comparison

There seems to be a lot of hydrogen and oxygen in this nebula. Is there anything that stops these elements from combining to form water?

They are starting to talk about it.

I think it looks like a marshmallow.

Wow! This picture almost makes me want to be an astronomer!

Beautiful!

So in this video, we are whizzing by stars which are most likely lightyears apart. This means we're traveling at super relativistic speeds. As such, wouldn't the field of view be a little different than the artist's interpretation?

When does summer begin on the Earth's moon?

Chris Peterson wrote: At about redshift z=0.5 the acceleration is zero. At larger redshifts it is negative, and at smaller ones positive. In other words, the rate of expansion of the Universe was decreasing until about 5 billion years ago, was then constant, and has been increasing ever since. Chri...

Pardon the crude drawing but does the calculation of the mass of the planet take into consideration the inclination of its orbit?

It appears to be hexagonal in shape. Is there any known reason for this and could it be linked to Saturn's hexagonal south polar vortex? It has nothing to do with Saturn's hexagonal south polar vortex. It is probably some sort of extension of the inner symmetries: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110424...

It appears to be hexagonal in shape. Is there any known reason for this and could it be linked to Saturn's hexagonal south polar vortex?

When you click on the "far enough" link a map of sky brightness comes up. Does anyone know what the region of sky brightness off the east coast of Argentina is? It thought the Falkland islands were sparsely populated.

The explanation states that they will merge to form an elliptical galaxy. Considering that the two galaxies have supermassive black holes at the center of each (correct me if I'm wrong) wouldn't we end up with a state where the gravity of the black holes dominate the geometry of the system possibly ...

I'm glad you can see Denab in this picture.

Chris Peterson wrote: If anything, this data adds support to the Big Bang cosmology, since it predicts a more active early Universe. In science, "skepticism" means being open to new theories when they present themselves; it does not mean "doubt" in the usual sense. Most cosmologi...

Does this put even a slight dent in Big Bang Theory? I always wonder how much we don't understand. Given that we are born and die and many scientists come from backgrounds involving creation theories isn't there any skepticism within the scientific community that maybe the interpretation of the empi...

Wow! Difficult to select only 2!

If you could travel near the speed of light, time would slow down. And as you approach the speed of light, the rate of time approaches zero. So if you could experience the world from the frame of reference of a photon wouldn't your motion across space be instantaneous?