Starship Asterisk*

Can anyone explain why the APOD website features so few actual astronomical images (as in, taken by a research telescope) these days? There's a lot of moon photography, scenic pictures of conjunctions, montages, space shuttle nostalgia... Would it be possible to get back to actual images taken by t...

Very nice work. Thank you, Bill Ingalls.

And thanks, Chris.

Thanks Art, it's not exactly point and shoot then. I'm glad that we have scientist and astronomers on earth smart enough to figure all this stuff out. I never could even find anything on purpose with a small telescope using alt and az settings.

Another amazing Hubble image. Does anyone know how they aim the Hubble in all different directions to zero in on an image? Is someone on earth looking at a monitor and say ahh there's something "click"? Or does it automatically know how to find things by the light the images are transmitti...

Wow!! What a trip.

Wow! That's cool. Around the word in two and a half minutes. Thanks, APOD guys and of course the Astronauts

Why do all Earth pictures that APOD posts must invariably be centered on the US? Is that a government requirement or something? http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap030426.html http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap020212.html http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap010204.html http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap960819.html http://apod...

I kinda rest my case

A beautiful picture. I often wonder what kind of imagination our ancestors had that could see all these constellations and give them names that I suppose are used all around the world. They sure couldn't communicate like we do today. I suppose the earliest ones only had a stone tablet

Thanks Owlice for posting the link with all the moon names. I had no idea. In fact I was....er...moonstruck

Thanks for the info and the link Ann. You da woMAN.

What are the small orange dots scattered all over the page? I suppose galaxies far, far away?

I'll bet that was spooky back in the olden days when they thought God was coming down on them.

Yep.

Wow! That's amazing. Just curious, if he threw a ball straight out would it go a few hundred yards and just stop or would it come back around in an hour and a half or so, and hit him in the back of the head? I know this is a silly question, but my curious mind would really like to know.

Well, I guess it's a picture of an illustration. It's mind boggling whatever it is.

Wow, thanks Guillaume for such a great picture and thanks Ann for the great lesson.

Very nice.

Very nice. Thanks, Oshin.

I just love this site. You don't just see thin slices of meteorite through a polarized microscope everyday.

The Lord worketh in strange ways

Very nice. Thanks, Boris.

don.s wrote:How about showing some if these pic's in absolute real color as they appear in real life?

How about just going outside in real life and looking up at it

Just simply WOW! Thanks Cassini Team.