Starship Asterisk*

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Okay, so two neutrons fall in love, merge, and create little baby neutrinos. Why does that make them superfluidic?

The explanation is really incomplete. I'm tempted to go find out in Wikipedia, but I know I'd be trapped there for hours with dozens of browser tabs open.

Ann wrote: star formation is likely to cause some local changes in the central dust lane

Mmm, I don't know about that, Ann. Sure, you're more likely to see a new one in a dust lane, but a million years is just an eyeblink. A star's life is ten thousand times longer than that.

ENORTON II wrote:It would have been nice to have the stars in the familiar constellations highlighted .

No it wouldn't. I hate looking at star-field pix through the visual noise of make-believe animals and star name text. None of that is real. But hey, that's just me.

I usually think APOD pix are real cool! But this one was scary, kind of. Everything about the galaxy is, because it's so big. A galactic year is a quarter-billion years. That means it rotates one milliarcsec every 70 days. In my whole life it will only rotate 400 milliarcsecs. That's less angle than...

2. Add more contrast. The brightness range of stars vary tremendously, way more than we even can accurately depict, but this sim doesn't show bright stars at all.[/list] Yeah. I downloaded it and watched in my media player with the contrast up. You MUST try that! ALSO ON THE WISH LIST: run the simu...