Starship Asterisk*

I love these.

That voice... where do I know it from?

Second line will hit in a few minutes; much bigger, much more lightning, and new tornado warning, but southwest of here.

Torrential rain, thunder, lightning, tornado and flash flood warnings. Boom! Crash! Crash! Boom!

The web server was down.

Thanks to volunteer Han-Tzong Su, today's APOD can be seen on the Taiwan mirror: http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/m ... /apod.html

The Taiwan mirror is up: http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/m ... /apod.html

Chris Peterson wrote: You need to get over your color prejudices.

This, a thousand times.

Yay, a HiRISE image!! I find these really beautiful and often think of how wonderful they would be rendered as an oil or acrylic painting.

Not astro, but also fun to play with: http://agar.io/

These are so beautiful!

starsurfer wrote:The only thing this image is missing

Is nothing. It's a fabulous image.

Lunar eclipse, just leaving totality as the Moon sets from Colorado, with the sky already getting quite light 40 minutes before official sunrise.

Copyright: Chris L Peterson, Cloudbait Observatory

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2005 April 22 Albert Einstein's Miraculous Year http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0504/einsteinNAS_piepol_c90.jpg In 1905 Albert Einstein had a miraculous year . One hundred years ago, he wrote four papers which revolutionized our understanding of the Universe. The papers outlined; the idea that ligh...

I love this APOD, every bit of it!!!!

(I'm sure that astonishes no one...)

Sometimes, it's about the things that go wrong.

http://astroanecdotes.com/

Partial solar eclipse from Italy
Copyright: Valter Luna

To answer the question: the moon and Venus as we left the restaurant.

Partial solar eclipse in H-Alpha
The partial solar eclipse as observed from southern Italy yesterday
Time: 9:33 UT (March 20th 2015)
Location: Bari - Italy
Lunt 60HaPT+webcam Point Grey Chamaleon

Author: Luigi Fiorentino

Regards

Partial solar eclipse
https://twitter.com/LivUniFluffy/status ... 24/photo/1
Copyright: S. Hanson

Eclipse sequence from Heidelberg, Germany
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasrob ... otostream/
Copyright: Thomas Robitaille

Snow here in DC, too, but not enough, not enough!

Arctic eclipse 2015, Longyearbyen Copyright: Tunç Tezel LongybyEclipseFisheye.jpg SE2015Diamond.jpg LongybyEclipse.jpg Eclipse from 35,000 feet http://www.launchphotography.com/Total_Solar_Eclipse_2015.html Copyright: Ben Cooper Total_Solar_Eclipse_2015.jpg Total solar eclipse from the Faroe Island...