Starship Asterisk*

I'm sure someone may have asked this before, but does anyone notice there are no stars at all? Not even the slightest glimmer of a trace. The moon atmosphere is virtually nonexistent. Stars should be like bright point lasers in the sky. Did they take this photo with digital or film equipment? Digit...

John111111 wrote:Looking at these spiral galaxies, I can't help but think of water in a sink, going down a drain, what do you think?

Auntie Am! Auntie Am! It's a twister. It's a twister!

seeing this video causes me to wonder. If everything in the visible universe originated from the big bang, than that means that there should be a center to the universe right? Would it be possible to maybe find hints or clues from this data that could point us in the direction of the center of the u...

Roll on little probe.
May your wheels never fail you.
Secrets yet to find.

It could be that he exposed the landscape longer to bring out the colors. A good 30 plus seconds could have been necessary to bring out the greens, and in that amount of time the stars would have made short trails making them appear brighter.

I was sure the shedding link was going lead me to cat picture. Sadly no cats today.
todays picture looks like it's kind of windy. Must be caused by duckling instability.

Does the density of the cluster make it impossible for Kepler to detect any planets orbiting the core stars? What would they look like, showered with radiation? I would think kepler is sensitive enough to detect planets orbiting the core stars. The problem is that current models predict that globul...

Very nice apod today. Is the orange sphere sitting lower left of center a supernova remnant?

Farewell Discovery. I tip my wings to you old girl and hope you enjoy a little quiet time.

Looking at this picture I imagine a young child in moscow looking up at the night sky. He would be wondering if there is life out there in the cosmos, and wondering what they are thinking.... Turns out that there was and it was thinking: oh!! That would make a pretty picture!

Poets we all are.
Todays APOD is at fault.
All is good today.

Lovely picture but it makes me think of two words: light pollution :shock: ouch :mrgreen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FovYv8vf5_E <<You’ve seen all the videos and images we’ve been featuring lately that astronauts on the International Space Station have taken of Earth from orbit. The one ubiquit...