Starship Asterisk*

I love it. I asked about this being done a couple of years ago! http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=30190#p188220 What I would like to see are pictures of galaxies that have foreground stars removed to better show the vastness of space. With foreground stars mixed with galaxies, the sep...

Does the nearly edge-on galaxy that's just up and left of image center have a pair of jets coming from its core, or is that an artifact of the image? (It's the galaxy that's on the upper-left edge of label #4's ellipse.) I noticed this as well, but on other galaxies as well. Is it just lens flare, ...

This APOD picture is a perfect example of a question I have been wanting to ask for a long time. Are there any sites/people that take the time to "drop" stars out of our local galaxy when showing pictures of other galaxies, or even to exclude all stars but those in a specific area (like a ...

Ed Everett wrote:What is the name of the old man wearing glasses and with a bushy beard?
Just left of the center of the picture and looking toward the west.

Looks kinda like Galileo with his glasses on (if he had any)
http://www.crystalinks.com/galileo.html

Dont all readings (Xray, IR, etc) have the same look-back time as visual time (lightspeed)? It sounds like they are trying to say this supernova explosion is 6,000 years old, 500 years less than the current look-back time that we see M16.