Starship Asterisk*

I did not get to Córdova's talk, I did get to Press's. Other great talks I missed include Alan Stern's and Saul Perlmutter's, alas. The software session I organized on Tuesday was very well-attended (people standing in the back) and went well. Posters Tuesday and Wednesday generated comments and dis...

Thank you, Mark! A wonderful new year to you, too!!

The 227th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) will have its opening reception the evening of Monday, January 4, with some related activities getting underway on Sunday, January 3 and during the day on Monday, including a workshop called "Teaching Introductory Astronomy Using Qua...

a good example of Mars art

Aren't they all!!

I will be at that beach in a few days. Can't wait. You Tube seems to suggest it is Bondi Beach, but it is, in fact Noosa. Moral Question: are we (me and the missus) bad parents for telling our pre-schoolers that Santa isn't real? (Nor the Tooth Fairy, nor the Easter Bunny, nor God?) I wouldn't say ...

I will be at that beach in a few days. Can't wait. You Tube seems to suggest it is Bondi Beach, but it is, in fact Noosa. Moral Question: are we (me and the missus) bad parents for telling our pre-schoolers that Santa isn't real? (Nor the Tooth Fairy, nor the Easter Bunny, nor God?) I wouldn't say ...

The 2016 APOD fan-assembled wall calendars are now available for download and printing in PDF format from Friends of APOD; please see here: http://friendsofapod.org/?page_id=209 The covers of the two different calendars are shown below. Screen Shot 2015-11-16 at 1.27.27 AM.png Screen Shot 2015-11-16...

ChristianGP, welcome to Asterisk!

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I love this mission!!!

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Thank you for your cooperation! Also for sharing your spectacular images!!

alter-ego, the "Discuss" link on the APOD page points to the wrong discussion, is all; for today's APOD, it points to yesterday's discussion.

PeteBataleck wrote:Why are there no stars visible ?

How often do you see stars in a daytime sky?

Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:I have a possible theory about why the Apollo moon missions were thought to have been faked.

I do, too, but I'd have to moderate my own post if I were to post it!

What amazing images these are! The first looks almost of organic origin, as though it is an image of two leaves of a primordial oak imprinted or fossilized. Stunning! In the third, the light "island" seems to float above the dark lake it is in. Overall, the image looks like travertine marb...

hville wrote:But is it worth $750M?

YES

hville wrote:Is NASA even relevant to the needs of the USA anymore?

YES

Welcome to Asterisk, Pianosorplanets! Piano, hmmm? What are you currently playing or working on?

Bother not pedants: Brontosaurus made it back, and so will Pluto the planet. The decisions which originally banned them show the tone-deafness of scientists when dealing with the public at large - well addressed, in the former instance, by Stephen J Gould in "Bully for Brontosaurus" Tone-...

Milky Way Panorama Copyright: Jon Lui J.Lui_Milky Way Panorama - Joshua Treesmall.jpg ​I was spending a weekend this past Spring at Joshua Tree National park and really looking forward to my first opportunity to capture a Milky Way panorama without light pollution. A fellow photographer told me it ...

If the imager sends more that might shed light on this, I surely will post them. I may ask Les Cowley to weigh in, too. I didn't find anything quite like this on his site; I did look.

It's an interesting, and beautiful, shot!

This is just speculation, but I think the reason the horizon line appears so sharply defined is because we may not be seeing water to the horizon. It looks to me like we may be seeing a reflection off of air just above the water surface, so the more distant water may actually be showing sky. Most e...

Chris, thanks very much! I'm happy to have an answer for this imager; thank you! Yes, that it stands out so much is what made me ask; I could not find another image of water that was like this one, with such a sharp blue line. It is quite striking. She sent a sunrise image that is really nice, too, ...

A friend of mine suggested you may be able to explain the blue haze on the horizon of the attached, the photo was taken one morning while on a sailing holiday in Greece and accurately reflects what I saw – I thought it was an illusion and never expected it to show on the image. Upon questioning, th...

https://www.astrosociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Nemiroff.jpg https://www.astrosociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Bonnell.jpg The Klumpke-Roberts Award for outstanding contributions to public understanding and appreciation of astronomy is awarded to Dr. Robert Nemiroff (right) and Dr. Je...

The first one of this intriguing set looks multi-layered, as though there is a translucent glass on top of the planet.