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To aid discussion, I'm trying to upload a copy of the wide pic from JPL with various features that I've circled. But it appears that I can only link to a picture on the 'Net - I can't paste one here. I'm sure I've done that before - have things changed? Is there a way to paste a picture into a post...

I don't understand why the interface here is being described as a "shoreline". The "mountainous" terrain is clearly a landslide of some sort, and has simply flowed out over the flat plain. Which may well have been liquid at some point. But this interface is not a shoreline. http...

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RJN wrote:FYI: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/49.cover-expansion

Interesting. "There go those black holes – making gravity waves again" Well not exactly.

And I thought gravity waves were hard to find. Just needed to go to APOD to see them.

Does this qualify as a Stump Art?

http://www.shakespearesworld.org/?utm_s ... ldLaunch#/

It's a BIG job but someone should do it.

Today's APOD would have made a good jacket cover for Seveneves . Venus could nicely double for the "agent" that leaves Earth in a pickle likely proving one man's Venusian hell is another's Cytherian heaven . Luckily Venus really missed (by around 60 million miles??) and we live to see anot...

Considering that both of these galaxies were in motion it's curious that the galaxy on the left seemed to have retained more material and remained uninfluenced than the right hand galaxy - NGC 3808A. Maybe it's just because we are viewing it from our perspective and not able to see it from other va...

Considering that both of these galaxies were in motion it's curious that the galaxy on the left seemed to have retained more material and remained uninfluenced than the right hand galaxy - NGC 3808A. Maybe it's just because we are viewing it from our perspective and not able to see it from other van...

Boomer12k wrote:You mean you cannot see aurora at all from that position?????

You mean like THIS aurora picture taken around the same area????

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Beautiful photograph Boomer! Is it real? How did the aurora know it was Christmas?

http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834518d3769e20133ee091504970b-250wi <<An antimacassar is a small cloth placed over the backs or arms of chairs, or the head or cushions of a sofa, to prevent soiling of the permanent fabric. The name also refers to the cloth flap 'collar' on a sailor's sh...

If you have: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/something-from-nothing-vacuum-can-yield-flashes-of-light/ Can the opposite be true? That there be "Nothing from Something"? I know speculation really has no place in this forum but it's fun to make an "educatedly "guess about...

It's always a great time to have a comet zoom into our view of the universe around the new year . I liked this link to Sky and Telescope better although the one provided was a bit more recent. These are nice to leave on the counter to know where to look each night if one is lucky enough to have a cl...

This picture is very interesting, but a bit too math-heavy for me. So in the hopes of getting some explanations, I'll try to explain what I see and ask for some clarifications. At left there is what looks to me like a sort of "table-top" which has been cut through so you see the material ...

Figuratively speaking how fantastically wonderful is it that the “ aether ” in the physics world and the “ ether ” in the world of medicine are both so full of mysterious and baffling enigmas. They each have intrigued scientists since they were conceptualized with many theories put forward about how...

Is that a filling station I see around that gas giant? Well – maybe one day. I suppose Enceladus could fill that role instead… Not giving too much away Sandford, et al really tried to keep the science in science fiction.

"Pseudo" (not genuine, sham) could be a whole variety of possibilities but I might bet Art is diffracting the definition to bend our minds and Chris is bending it back the other way to straighten him out.

2) Minimalist change from original post: Aurigae Nebulae I'd say Nebulae Aurigarum . But then my question would have been why is the title in Latin? If I'd written the title, I'd have gone with Nebulas in Auriga . Perfectly correct and maximal accessibility. If I'd written the title, I'd have gone ...

neufer wrote:

[b][color=#0000FF][size=150]Tsunami, Super duper Hurricane... neither?[/size][/color][/b]

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• A cow and bull story?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/nation ... 28/oceans/

http://www.eleuthera-map.com/cow-bull-eleuthera.htm

So the cow and bull is cock and bull?

Why does the title use the genitive form of Auriga? Also - should it be " Nebulārum ?" Genitive forms are "greek" to me and Latin to many others but it's an interesting question that made me look. In English - Nebulas in Auriga? I also think it's interesting AE Auriga is a runaw...

I thought this was a nice example of Mie scattering. One might mistake the cloud as being sooty and brown, but it is just the nature of light scattering, much like a sunset. https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5686/23016641890_ae76fe8a66.jpg Full Moon Crossing by John Entwistle , on Flickr Cool pic Geck...

We could smile at Mona Lisa's moon trip? It's all about encryption and decryption . Gravity facilitates the process from far away but if the NSA could find a happy medium perhaps we could see the true picture to discover gravity's real nature and track down the missing pieces of the big puzzle. the-...

Guess this proves that the Earth isn't a black hole. Or my head is.

http://www.popsci.com/falling-phobos-wi ... round-mars

Ooh - our descendants have something to look forward to.

I see Geck has labeled Cursa ( β Eridani )in today's giant mass of beautiful data. Appropriately named the Footstool of the Central One, fictionally, its planets may appear like this . Artistically inclined may wish to contribute their renditions to the site. It may help budding minds image places w...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsE4pGLytDw Apparently the world and astronomy with respect to telescopes can't seem to get along. The same goes for some astronomers and their next generation of telescopes. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/behind-tomorrow-s-telescopes-a-bitter-rivalry-from...