Starship Asterisk*

We are able watch the death of a star even though this event occurred billions of years before our sun and planet existed.. Wow !

Thanks folks..
Message to self : Do not look at APOD immediately after an afternoon Siesta !

Help I'm confused !
APOD: 2010 March 30 - Unusual Starburst Galaxy NGC 1313 in Reticulum.
APOD 2014 March 06 - reflection nebula NGC 1313 towards Perseus ???

The most beautiful free calendar in the Universe. Kudos, congratulations, and my sincere thanks

A serious contender for my all-time favourite solar system image. Wow !!

Planets and planetary systems appear to be extremely diverse. Why does this surprise anyone ? I recently stated this fact in a post about the newly discovered KIC 11442793 system. Shall I post these words every time an announcement about a newly discovered planet is made. Tell your friends, your fam...

The growing field of exo-planetary research is still young in comparison to its older and wiser siblings in astronomy, but new findings like this show : firstly planetary systems are extremely diverse, and secondly : the human brain is a remarkably useful tool. Here's a smilie from one proud citizen...

Hmm.. I thought everyone knew that NGC 7841 is an irregular dwarf galaxy in the constellation of Fria http://www.photoblog.com/stormfish/2012/02/15/

It's risky to try and predict events well before they've had chance to happen, but I'm confident that ESA's Gaia Space Telescope will be able to find many more of these objects relatively nearby in our galaxy, in addition to a host of 'regular' exoplanets ... & no I'm not talking about Niburu !

My mind is awash with variations of jokes that all include the words "virgin", "screw", & "volcano"

I'd go for "The Sleeping Gonk Nebula" , but given that no one else is likely to vote for that I'll say Pillowcase

"Noble developed a computer simulation solving all of the equations governing the complex motion of inflowing gas and its associated magnetic fields near an accreting black hole." Wow, No mean feat ! I think Scott Noble deserves a prize. Perhaps a Nobel for Noble ?..

Why hasn't the detected x-ray background emission been redshifted to appear at a lower wavelength ? Or has it ? Has anyone got the time and patience to explain this to me ?