Starship Asterisk*

It was 1995. APOD was on a list of ten or so recommended astronomy websites in a magazine. I don't remember the magazine or any of the other websites. But I haven't missed an APOD since

Beautiful!!! The sound track was my favorite part...

I like the Bigfoot playing shuffleboard hypothesis.

My first question was; What does this have to do with Astronomy? Then I remembered that Human Speculation is greater than the known universe.

Was this a planned picture or was it just a random photograph? Pictures such as this of the moons in alignment are often obtained to verify the exact position of the spacecraft. They frequently turn out to be really neat pictures. In this case it is exceptionally neat. In my opinion, the coolest pi...

Yay! Astronomy!

By far the worst APOD yet. Come - on - you - Guys!

Nice picture - Happy Birthday to my favorite website - APOD

One minute into this video I got bored and turned it off. And the "music" was awful. I prefer (I love) the daily APOD pictures accompanied by explanation. Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one who was disappointed. But I forced myself to watch the whole thing. The pictures were good if they...

I had always figured there were more impacts on the lunar farside because if anything "out there" was being drawn toward Earth (or even heading towards the Sun), it would have a chance of hitting the Moon first. Is that too simple?

The Adagio was first composed as the second movement of a string quartet; I suspect Barber did not intend for it to be associated with death. The following movement is marked Presto , not a tempo one usually uses for death. I doubt Barber wanted it to be associated with death. It is not "death...

I am a big follower of the Cassini mission and I can appreciate the tremendous amount of time and effort it took to put this together but I am unimpressed. The web video is jerky and jumpy and it all goes by very fast and by the time you make sense of what you are looking at - it's over. Maybe viewi...

An excellent presentation - more like this - please!

Amazing! How many galaxies in that picture?

Fantastic images! This shape/configuration reminds me of the Hyabusa Asteroid visited by the Jaxa spacecraft. There was a similar narrow area which "joined" the two larger ends, although the Hyabusa "waistline" was not as smooth on the surface as Hartley 2. I would suppose many o...

Sorry, I don't see the M104 hypothesis. I see spiral arms all the way into the center. But here is UGC 7388 which appears to be a Hoags in the making. In this case it appears the process has just begun. Could it not be that the Hoags collider culprit is behind the central mass of yellow stars since ...