Starship Asterisk*

Wonderful Wizard - wow - just wow!

Wonderful image - so many galaxies! (Hard to pinpoint the "intruder".)

Lovely image. Enjoy the Sunday repeats because they are usually ones we may have missed.

The "layering" looks more like the way heat radiating off a dark building melts "fins" into a frozen pile of dirty snow (see it in our back yard every winter.)

What a wonderful photo!! Go Rosetta and Philae!

Lovely photo! We watched a lecture from Professor Carolin Crawford at Gresham this evening about star dust and the Iris Nebula was used as a beautiful example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvuGK-Y_qzk

Very nice image.

From our back yard with a Canon 7D camera and Canon 400 mm lens f2.8 (right side up)

I know its winter "down under" but as I sit here in a puddle of sweat, the image looks 'HOT'!



Very nice composit, like it.

Wonderful image showing us more than our human eyes can see.

At first I thought this was a photo of a cloud bank on earth (before I read the title.)

Wow!

The remnant core is one of the interesting features in today's APOD. They would seem to be pretty unique objects but don't ever remember reading of them before. If our galaxy has had previous collisions where would the remnant core reside following the interaction? http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures...

Lots of lovely images in the links.

Clear sky tonight in Central Idaho - scope on!

Lovely, like it better than the first one.

Although 500 million years distant is relatively close in astronomical terms, when the light we are now seeing from the Hercules cluster left it, here on Earth the Cambrian period was at its height. That was when some of the most basal forms of our vertebrate ancestors were flourishing. Humbling an...

The Farmer's Almanac called the June full moon the "Strawberry Moon". I think I like Honey Moon better.

Other worldly! Wow that is a beautiful image.

Just discovered this class - glad this is still available to us. Thank you!

This image is the cat's meow!

"The cat's meow," an expression referring to something that is considered outstanding; coined by American cartoonist Thomas A. Dorgan (1877–1929)

mtbdudex wrote:Kudos Alex on what you've accomplished here, having the right skill with the right gear at the right time and place....

Agreed.
And the patience to shoot so many images to get one great one!

Beautiful image. Here in the states, the news "talking heads" are calling it the Honey Moon.

Very nice, looks like a painting to hang on the wall (if you are an astro-geek.)

Two great images in one APOD. Thank you!

Oh my, this image was well composed and presented. Thank you.

Thanks for the info that this image was taken from the northern hemisphere. Looks like we might finally get some clear nights in our area for telescoping.

The "candy dish" description tickled my fancy. Wonderful image!

Its like viewing a kindergarten graduation class photo.

Great image of a brief yet amazing occurrence.

Hominid tool makers from the pale blue dot.