Starship Asterisk*

If you boil water at certain depths in a pan you get the same hexagonal patern

I hope whoever has to go isn't in a hurry !! And the seat probably needs "tending to" before use. A fur cover would probably by a welcome addition

Couple of thoughts 1) With that many stars in that volume, at the center stars must be light months apart, if not closer. That would make interstellar travel a possibility. 2) At over 12 billion years old, that puts it early in the life of the universe. I'm surprised it's held together through all t...

Ted Walton · Victoria, British Columbia I still find the in-joke here quite clever. For those not up on their Greco-Roman mythology, Jupiter is the Roman name for the Greek god Zeus. Most people know a few things about him. He was king of the gods, he was the guy with the thunderbolts, and he was al...

WOW. That took some doing. Locate the path, and it's not straight overhead. That's 22 exposures, so half a second for the complete image. And then to get and exact image of ISS and Saturn lined up.

All I can say is congratulations !!

2 questions

1) Why is the background image not a circle? It doesn't have to be a perfect circle because the mass is not spherical.

2) Are the images all in the same place at all light frequencies. I would think there is some prism effect and scatter the light like a prism.

I thought the anomaly is buried on the moon

Is precession and Earth's rotation affected by things like ice ages. I would think that as ice melts and mass moves to the equator the conservation of momentum would cause the rotation to slow down. During an ice age rotation would speed up. Makes predicting that far out difficult.

What this displays is axial precession, which on Earth occurs on a 26,000 year cycle. Does this mean that the 23.4 degree tilt of earth axis changes as the planet wobbles? I believe this is in relation to the ecliptic, but the wobble would apply in relation to any fixed point. Would this also not h...

A diameter of 27 light years yields a volume of just over 10,000 cubic light years, With 10,000 members that's about a cubic lightyear per star. A sphere of a cubic light year has a diameter of 1.25 light years. I assume from that that stars would be about 1.25 light years apart, much less at a dens...

Thank you much appreciated

Couple of questions: 1) Why do they always show these using narrow band filters for hydrogen and oxyen? Is it that it's the basis for water. 2) Why the narrow band for sulfur? 3) I take it any element higher than hydrogen is formed in a star. Clouds of higher elements are remnants for a star. 4) If ...

1500 light minutes is 25 hours diameter or 12.5 light hours radius. Voyager 2 is at approximately 14.75 light hours from the sun. Voyager 1 is at 18 light hours from the sun

I assume that at 60 light year diameter it has enveloped several stars. I also assume that as it went supernova it fried any possible life on nearby star systems.

Kepler identifies planets by looking for planets transiting their star. I assume any planets that do not transit their star cannot be identified. That being the case I would think that Kepler can only find a small fraction of planets. Also it would have great difficulty identifying planets with long...

I still contend that c = function ( t )

@ PhilT Bingo. Kepler can't find any planet that doesn't cross the stars face. Identifying a wobble with multiple planets is near impossible. Imagine even our own system how would the Sun wobble. I'm not even sure they could identify our outer planets because of the long "years". As an exa...

Have the stars in the neighbourhood associated with the WOW signal been scanned?

I take it the camera is facing west, southwest? Aurora not likely. It looks like there is a light over the horizon, I take that' St John.