Starship Asterisk*

Hi, Chris,

Thanks for your timely reply. To be honest I have never heard of scattering as a factor of bloating . Gonna do more research on this .

FYI: Parabolic light curve in photoshop/gimp = dark parts brighten more than normal, while bright parts get darker instead of getting brighter/burnt out. Black stays black, grey gets white and white gets black. All this just to show Venus is not round. Hi, varadinagypal, Do you mean that the disks ...

These stars are essentially point sources. Their actual sizes at these image scales are much less than a single pixel. They only appear to have a finite diameter because of diffraction and optical aberrations. Hi Chris, As you said, stars are point sources and are blurred by diffraction effects. Bu...

It is interesting to compare the near side of the disk of NGC 4526 with the near side of the disk of M104 , which isn't bluish at all. I'd say that more of the disk is young in NGC 4526 than in M104. Ann I can understand that blue stars are young since they are massive and approach the end of their...