Starship Asterisk*

... have the potential to cancel each other out when they overlap, which is something that EM waves don't do (or do they?). Is the GWB simply what's left over after such cancellation effects? Depends on what you mean by "cancel". EM waves, like all waves, form interference patterns where ...

Very interesting discussions of wavelengths in this image and how they're mapped "to the primary display channels ..." (Chris). But does anyone else see a winged creature hovering over that central area?

(Sorry, it's the first thing I noticed .)

Mark B.

To me, the main part of the picture nebula looks like a person, a bit ghostly, with a round head and two dark eyes, head above a narrow torso, right arm outstretched, left arm tucked close in, possibly right leg bent up. And in the upper right corner I see the head of a bearded man in profile with p...

Thanks, Art, for the references! Interesting stuff. I read The Illustrated Man as a teenager in the mid '60s, but sad to say I don't remember any of it. Ok, so now I have a (re)reading assignment.
MB

https://www.thegoldenstar.net/news/meteor-gives-golden-woman-late-night-shock/ Link to an article of a piece of the meteor going through a roof and landing on a pillow in Golden BC Did anyone notice that Ms. Hamilton was apparently asked if she had "plans to take up astrology ... "? Sigh....

https://www.thegoldenstar.net/news/meteor-gives-golden-woman-late-night-shock/ Link to an article of a piece of the meteor going through a roof and landing on a pillow in Golden BC Did anyone notice that Ms. Hamilton was apparently asked if she had "plans to take up astrology ... "? Sigh....

Just ... wow.
Thanks, Chris.

In most of the deep field images I've seen, any Milky Way stars in the field of view are "spiky" due to their relative brightness and optical effects of the telescope. I see two in this image. So are the rest of the points of light in this image extremely distant galaxies, or just really f...

In most of the deep field images I've seen, any Milky Way stars in the field of view are "spiky" due to their relative brightness and optical effects of the telescope. I see two in this image. So are the rest of the points of light in this image extremely distant galaxies, or just really f...