Starship Asterisk*

starsurfer wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 1:01 pm This picture makes me think of the WR 16 nebula for some reason?

Interesting, is that formation an actual sphere? Or does it just appear like that from our angle.

I wonder if a couple of the images could be used to make a 3-D image! :D Not a 3D image, but I made this from images 2 and 3: https://media.giphy.com/media/jtEyFmyb4E6mcdPEEX/giphy.gif You could use those to convince some that it stays in orbit by flapping its solar panel wings. :eyebrows: Yeah, th...

dl martin wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2019 4:51 pm Given the expansion of man's intellectual penetration of the Universe, night it be reasonable to stop referring to ISS as a space station.

Would you prefer "Habitable Artificial Satellite"? The HAS.

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2019 10:54 am I wonder if a couple of the images could be used to make a 3-D image!

Not a 3D image, but I made this from images 2 and 3:

SOFIA observatory has been successful in detailing distant magnetic fields by observing infrared light polarized by reflection from dust grains.

Why is it that magnetic fields need illumination to be detectable? How are light and dust grains affected by these magnetic fields.

I've never seen the northern lights in person, but considering how much I was blown away by the 2017 American solar eclipse, something like this would probably terrify me.

There are many reasons that it is impossible to instruct them to make and transmit such an image now. (And all of the planets of our Solar system would never fit in a single frame.) Year End of specific capabilities as a result of the available electrical power limitations -------------------------...

I've never seen the Pale Blue Dot in context before, so this is awesome in every sense of the word.

What in the image makes you think it's rolling towards us? I can only explain what I thought was happening with a cruddy GIF. So please excuse this cruddy GIF: https://media.giphy.com/media/1xOeK5zkOBc9bd5cd1/giphy.gif https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEMA6jhi5Qo I love me some Parker Squares Circles!

Why does that seem like the wrong axis for the spin it's describing? Shouldn't the arrow be pointing left (or right) if UT is rolling "towards" us in the image? What in the image makes you think it's rolling towards us? I can only explain what I thought was happening with a cruddy GIF. So...

Why does that seem like the wrong axis for the spin it's describing? Shouldn't the arrow be pointing left (or right) if UT is rolling "towards" us in the image?

I'm glad "donkeys" hot-linked to a Wikipedia article. I was wondering what those things were.

This photo is amazing, it hardly looks real!

Kind of an odd question, but do we know the exposure settings and what camera was used for the original photo?

Why does the supralateral arc not appear circular? I assumed that, like rainbows, these halos continue (In a way) beneath the horizon and were always symmetrical.

It's beautiful to see how the "radiant grit" makes it look like a space-feather.

Antony Rawlinson wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 12:36 pm The link purporting to show the start of the ionisation trail, under the text "can be seen" is a bit of a disappointment. Is it April 1?

I was a little disappointed as well, but it also made me smile.