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Obviously it's actually Dark Matter under "them there hills". Fits perfectly into a couple of prospects. It's a "Wimpy" moon that looks "Macho" How much more proof do you need??

Hey it worked this time Happy Days!!

The "Milky Road" guy http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090613.html certainly has a lot on his mind. Please pardon my unsophisticated ways. Who could direct me to a good course on using code? I seem to fail at this a lot.

For an image as nice as this, it's one of the better effects of light pollution. If I were Irish I might claim it to be a more imaginary glow. :lol2: Truly a Celestial rainbow of a different hue. I missed the picture from a year ago. It was equally dazzling and thought provoking. Thanks to all invol...

Any idea why the two areas of red on each horizon at the Milky Way band? I suspected the more prominent on the left to be sunset but why the other on the right?

Now there's a horse for the Derby. I hope it's not too late for "InfraPink" to get her chance at the Roses.

Interesting. Makes one wonder if that is related to the relative flatness of a spiral galaxy and the speroidal shape of a cluster? Of course aren't clusters mostly found in the halo of our galaxy? Wow too many questions to expect to be answered.
Thanks Chris!!

In that Vera Rubin and many others have measured that most stars in spiral galaxies orbit at roughly the same speed relative from the distance to their centers, have others quantified this effect relative to clusters? Art just mentioned that lighter stars tend to speed around the periphery of cluste...

With a little imagination that thing could be mistaken for a - flying sausage

Art - You picked two of my most favorite people to answer my question. As a better visual/audio learner, it is so fun to listen to the video clips of Richard Feynman to get a sense of the man he turned out to be. I often wish I could appreciate Isaac Asimov in a similar manner. Perhaps I could do tw...

Thanks for your replies. I always appreciate all of your time and knowledge. I lose track of the notion that a black hole is a point-like object. A collision of two oppositely spinning points seems to me a more natural event. (Don't ask me why) The matter in the accretion discs does still seem to be...

Say the two galaxies had rotating black holes at their center. I suspect the rotation for each would be in the same orientation as their respective galaxies. Should an interaction between the two black holes occur, I am curious if the black holes opposite spin would have peculiar properties:?: I hav...

After reading through these posts about "10 Reason..." I feel like the guy on the blanket in the "Powers of Ten" video and the rest of you are out in the local group of galaxies. But the best thing about this site is we all can post despite what little we know and present our vie...

Interesting that it hasn't been saddled with a common name ; the Orchid Nebula for discussion's sake. I know objects in the vicinity have names but I have never been aware of an attempt to name the Orion Nebula other than it's constelation's namesake. Any reason? Ron

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Very interesting APOD. Can't say that I have ever seen anything quite like it. Looks like a gravitationally lensed wookie

From my memory Cygnus looks more rotated at this latitude(43.7 N) so the head of the Swan is pointed upward. The Southern Cross, in this photo, appears upright as it did in this APOD http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080707.html taken from a position near the South Pole. I would expect a similarly rotated...

I think I see Benshaming Furankuran flying his rakkaku dako up on the mountain side. Probably my imagination.

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Better luck next time

I hope this works... if not give me a ___ for effort. Fill in the blank

Too bad ; she has some very nice graphics. Where does one learn such a skill? For one educated way before code was invented I would love to be able grasp it. Bystander - I think you are staying in the neighborhood with this one.

Tardigrades. Let me see spelling, reading and math errors of late. Time to go back to school.

Land there - I was hoping. To look for little green tradigrades.

You got it. Ann had the right idea but was my target was smaller and less ferile than hers. Europa would be a fine target too. I hope I get to see us heading there in my time. Speaking of which, time for a new one bystander.

Leave it to me to not read all the instructions properly. I didn't notice to "large" bodies part. Sometimes my brain is a dwarf..