Starship Asterisk*

I was at a park in the path of totality during the 2017 eclipse, and all the crickets started chirping like it was twilight. That was an incredible experience, and luckily I won't have to go far for 2024's!

Sweet, my planned destination of Western Kentucky is green!

Question: So I downloaded the 348 MB (!) TIFF file and zoomed in. In between the Milky Way foreground stars you can see hundreds of thousands of dots. Are these actually Andromeda's stars or digital noise?

It appears that nobody told the artist about it only reflecting one percent. It should be pitch black in the painting and the moon in front of it would be invisible. Actually what the caption failed to mention is that it is speculated that the planet is so hot it actually glows. That's where the re...

Last week included one of the few times in history that humanity launched something completely off the Earth, moving away so fast that it will never return.

What were the others?

This video is AMAZING. That was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. It makes Saturn, and the rest of the cosmos, somehow feel more... real . Now we can take those same artsy-fartsy editing techniques (which I think are pretty cool) that we use on Earth and apply them to other worlds. This real...