Starship Asterisk*

Boy, Galileo really started something with that little telescope thingy.

WOW! What a neat picture. I found the tent and the center of our Milky Way that's about it :? I wish the playful potographer would come on here and explain how he did that. It was obviously done at night, but the trees are lit up from the bottoms of their trunks to the tops of their branches. A flas...

So @ guest what exactly is your point?

A nice shot, but hOughy's link from Australia takes the prize. That one is magnificent David.

I studied it for a long time and will have to agree with Neufer's first anology. It's a brick wall

Charles Messier Born June 26 1730 -- Died April 12 1817 at age 87 Yrs.
I guess that would make him about 280 now.
Happy Birthday Sir Charles and RIP. Thanks for your contribution to the astronomy world and beyond.

That is one beatuiful starry, starry night. About half way up the mountain it looks like steps going up to an open door. Looks like they left the light on for us.

Thanks geckzilla, looks like it worked.
Where is the ionosphere amongest all this? I always flew my Cessna-150 down in that orange part

I guess I don't get it. The sun rises over stonehenge in an astronomically significant way. What different way? It seems to me like nothing there is really lined up with the sun. What am I missing?

Lawdy, Lawdy, Miss Clawdy, It's hard to believe all this is happening out there. We just sit here spinning around on our little bitty planet earth thinkin we is the most important happening in the whole wide universe and really we ain't doodly squat in the whole scheme of things. Rats, I think I'll ...

What an amazing photograph. I hope the capsule will contain some of the sample from the rubble pile asteroid Itokawa. When will we know? Will it be published on this forum? Another question I have is this: We took our three grandaughters to see "Toy Story 3" today and it was in 3D. I coppe...

Wow, thanks guys. That's a lot of information for just one day on the forum. Does every single star that we see have a name or number somewhere?

Gee that was fast. Thanks, bystander.

Hi all, I'm a first time poster and a long time lurker. I've been admiring the APOD site for many years. It's a first do thing after checking my email. I used to check the Digg site some, but there wasn't much useful information coming from there. Mostly people calling each other Idiots and morons o...