Starship Asterisk*

Just because some people play around with programs they don't know well. They were to note the boxes where the "line of stars" was in question earlier. Ron

Yes, just like a waist, an imagination is a terrible thing to mind. Thanks for your replies. I will learn to annoatate some day and my questions will be easier to show.
Actually I'll give it a try. Hope it works. Ron

http://a.nnotate.com/docs/2013-09-25/F4 ... index.html

Maybe it’s my imagination but frequently (in photographs like this that show many stars) I see what looks like a line of stars that seem to be associated with each other. I wish I knew how to annotate the groups I am seeing to clarify my question. Do you suspect it’s just a coincidence or could smal...

That’s what I thought but I have an over-active imagination and access to thousands of years of investigation. How in the world did the ancient Greeks and Romans conceive it?

You think the people of their era had better insight...

“Ether” you’re right or you are wrong. My question is, “Are starting to fill in some voids in our knowledge about “empty” space that Michelson–Morley and many others questioned a century ago?”

Or are the two even related?

Who knows what goes on inside a black hole but it is fun to imagine? Scientific American is co-sponsoring a flash fiction writing contest encouraging anyone to submit a fictional short story on their favorite topic involving the ideas of quantum mechanics. http://shorts.quantumlah.org/ It seems like...

Just think - the very first 4th of July fireworks. And probably the biggest ever and still going. :D Maybe we were destined to be free and independent on that date!!! Hope the rest of the countries get a really good celestial event to mark their day to celebrate too. (Soon and without any more innoc...

As interesting as today's APOD is, and if there are seven more years of pictures yet to be released, we've got many treats ahead. Yesterdays APOD had a variety of beautifully colored stars very prominent in the photo. I'm curious why their diffraction spikes were eight as opposed to today's stars fo...

I was quite looking forward to the discussion regarding this wonderful photo. I, too, would want APOD to re-show it off if I happened to be the photographer. My next inclination was to reply with a humorously-intended, sarcastic reply. “Wow, I’ve never seen a picture of the “Elk in the River While t...

Its not something we will need to do but what would they call the new collection of the two galaxies? So going with today's APOD task why don't we give the interaction process a name? And why not Beattle song names (slightly altered). There's plenty of those. Such as: Here Comes the Suns The Long an...

Frosted Mini-Wheat Nebula

Thanks Anthony- I'll learn about meteor spectroscopy as soon as I can get out of warp speed from staring a this picture too long.

The light from the metors all seem pretty uniform visually. I wonder how much difference a spectra of the light would differ from shower to shower?

The people would go on leadin' customary lives; but each day when they awakened it would be a hundred years later."

AKA - The "Anti-Groundhog Day" Effect. Where did the century go?

They are quite cute and we will miss them. A lot cuter than my attempt at "poet-try". I'd love to post pictures. It would get my point across much more effectively but that's not poetry either. How would one edit a previous post? Best I can do now is a re-post another version. Homes Are fo...

Only a few typos.
"We want to go too" to start

"Makes" me wonder in mankind... to end

Funny you should start this. My wife and I discovered a hummingbird nest in our back yard a few weeks ago. We've had great time watching the egg's hatch and the babies grow. Yesterday the first left the nest in the morning and, when I got home from work, I grabbed the camera to take some final parti...

I think you got the "P" part right but I think it should be the Potato Chip galaxy. But of course I would - being from Idaho.

Where are all the “waterspout” chasers in their boats? When it happens on land it’s a major tourist attraction. I’m surprised the researchers are not boating little remote “Dorothy-like” devices, as in “Twister”, into the spout to get data. It would be a lot easier than truckin’ across the corn fiel...

The other day NBC lost New Hampshire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1c_mzoZN0 I think it's been found! Probably a little bigger. Ron

Very Interesting!! Thanks. I was recently watching a program and they refered to the "Nuker Team" Of course I mis-heard them and thought I had a scoop about Art's past history. Too bad!! It wouldn't have surprised me.

http://www.noao.edu/noao/staff/lauer/nuker.html

Speaking about stable systems, I’ve never understood Lagrangian points. Do moons cause them or are they an interaction between then planet and the moon? Since we like to put satellites in orbit at them, it seems like a place where matter might accumulate. They seem like a very unusual place in the s...

Thanks for the comments. It seems so inviting to think that a black hole could be the generation of a new universe if both space and matter are being drawn into one. Also seems like it opens the door to consider that the new universe would continually fed and not a one-time event such as the big ban...

Black holes have got to be the most interesting of phenomena we are currently investigating in physics, astronomy and cosmology. I welcome both the last two days of depictions. How black holes interact with photons, one of the three force carries would seemingly tell us much the nature of our univer...

Sunday, the Science channel had a number of programs outlining the effects/behaviors of black holes. Quite the ultimate reference source for scientific information I know but it gives us amateurs a sense we need to learn more. One program compared a black hole to a large waterfall and the point wher...