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Hmm, we're looking at photons that left the theater 8,000 years ago. We'd never know when the doomsday event occurred, so "Don't Worry, Be Happy!" PS You'll recognize me as the guy in the lead suit. lead.suit.jpg porkypine.serious.jpg Interesting. Friday the 13th will be on Friday this mo...

...... Storm watchers are seen studying, imaging, and ultimately running from the .............. :D :D :D Sometimes its better to flee and fight another day Wow, a kilometer wide- that is pretty intense. Cant say Id have been standing around too terribly long. For us raised under the English system...

Awesome! In the original, and now nearly completely lost, sense of generating an overwhelming sense of awe in the viewer. At least it was awesome after I hit the mute button on the keyboard to silence the horribly distracting noise of the soundtrack. Neither of these mesocyclones would I want to fl...

Shouldn't the description say that it was discovered on the same night instead of day? The word "day" has meanings other that just when the Sun's up, such as 'In my grandfather's day', or 'back in the day ...'. In this case I'd think that 'in the same 24 hr period' is what was intended. O...

Reading the explanation was no problem. It took me some time to understand it so I re-worded it to fit my dense mind :) . Then I went back to the pretty view being transmitted. Night sky. I looked for city lights and other goodies. I thought I found some lights. They didn't move. I did discover how ...

Is this the first time there is no picture on APOD? Is blackness considered a "picture of the day?" What I determined: The Picture is a LIVE, streaming, current view of the Earth. It is being broadcast from the ISS. There will eventually be video in the video, right? No, this is not a rec...

geckzilla wrote:Holy photons, Batman. The Universe is practically made of shadows.

Shadows, what dark matter is all about.

Once the location of Jupiter being in the jog's front legs was pointed out, I could not see the dog/cat at all. My first and strongest impression is of the green frog looking at me. Peaked eyes, mouth and squat body. Must have more coffee so I can tell the difference between a dog and a frog. :ssmile:

Around 270 BC, the Greek astronomer Aristarchus also measured the duration of lunar eclipses - though probably without the benefit of digital clocks and cameras. information like that never ceases to amaze me. Recently I've been imagining a 24-hour analog clock that displays: sidereal time by rotat...

Thank you, Nitpicker. I shall consider the view closer to 1degree than to the APOD explanation of 2, and the explanation to be slightly erred but close enough. Given that many are lamenting the sky nature gave them last night, then the APOD must be taken as the whole event and what others viewed sec...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_140416.jpg Spica, Mars, and Eclipsed Moon Explanation: A beautiful, reddened Moon slid through dark skies on April 15, completely immersed in Earth's shadow for well over an hour. It was the year's first total lunar eclipse and was widely enjoyed over the planet...

Edit: yes, I want to introduce the radical concept of a year zero. You know it makes sense. The lack of year 0 is pretty annoying. It definitely makes sense, especially if you are a computer. Feel free to insert a zero year as times transition into the aforementioned D era, if the prevailing 'Power...

Was this link posted somewhere and I missed it. I am posting the YouTube link from The Kim Komando Show of Must See Videos. She appears to be posting from YouTube what the Stanford University News Service has posted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZlfIVEy_YOA We watched ...

Was this link posted somewhere and I missed it. I am posting the YouTube link from The Kim Komando Show of Must See Videos. She appears to be posting from YouTube what the Stanford University News Service has posted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... lfIVEy_YOA

Excellent suggestion, Nathan! I note it is shaped more like a football than just having a polar ring. There we go with 'That' shape, again. Round, triangle, square, oblong, circular, etc, but I don't believe 'football' is a shape. Most of planet Earth's residents think a football is shaped exactly ...

I agree with Currahee. My imagination was not working, so thank you, Ann. I would, also, like to thank Nitpicker for not going into detail in explaining his sighting of the Centaur poop. Very inspiring picture and captivating but I just dont see a running chicken when I look at the picture :( I real...

Most times I look at the APOD photo and just appreciate its beauty. Sometimes, as I read the description the need so save the picture to my APOD collection becomes apparent. Reading the discussions may have the same affect. Today's picture is so striking that my first reaction was to save it to my p...

Rob[/quote] This may seem a stupid question but it’s never stopped me before – How many of the rocks in the picture are moon rocks vs. debris left over from the meteor that hit the moon? Could we get a good sampling from the material brought back by our Apollo astronauts to know how much of the soil...

Nitpicker wrote:

BillBixby wrote:
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A worthy effort. Personally, I'd cheat be creative and "double-bar a 24", viz:

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I like it, very much. Is it acknowledged usage or inspired?

Wait, Rob. Where are you trying to go in 20 years at .999999999999 c? Remember, I'd get to M82 in 20 of my years in the ship, but back here on Earth, you stick-in-the-muds will experience about 12 million years. If M82 turns out to be boring, I'll come back in another 20 years (ignoring the humungo...

I'm imagining some NASA mechanical engineer spending a couple years imagining, designing, prototyping, and testing several Mars rover solar panel dust removal mechanisms..." I would like to see two or more competing groups work on developing independent ideas for cleaning, then merging to comp...

Those who are unhappy with this APOD because it shows Earth, please go look at this APOD instead. Thanks! Given the current weather across a good swath of the US, I find this APOD relevant, interesting, and informative. And it makes me quite glad for the current weather across a good swath of the U...

Hi Kansas, Based on the answers sent your way I must have misunderstood your question. While taking advantage of some telescopes set-up at a local college, a relatively fast moving object was going across the sky. The consensus was a satellite. However one person had an iPod with a sky program on it...

I don't know about the resolution of the picture however, going to the link gives more, still beautiful, pictures. I have a language problem with the site, but I think the pics are for sale.

http://www.nuitsacrees.fr/

Bill

So happy to see a picture posted from the historic past which I know I had not seen previously as it was prior to my discovery of APOD. Much information to be learned, still. Thank you to the 10 (9 live) 'posters' who have commented on this this historic pic. A search of the historic past shows this...