Starship Asterisk*

These are all gorgeous; thank you for posting them, bystander!!

Lovely poster. I don't have Twitter, but I thought I would check this out, since I supposedly don't need an account. But I was told that I should log in or sign up if I wanted to read more. :( Ann It is a lovely poster indeed. For Twitter, try going here: https://twitter.com/search-home And then se...

Oh!!! One of the speakers presented remotely as she couldn't travel to Vienna, because, as she put it, “like some galaxies, I have a large bulge to total mass ratio”! Later that day, it was reported that the bulge was now a newborn. :-) See here: https://twitter.com/MatthewColless/status/10321970350...

Okay, so the above is a general announcement about this event, which has just over 3,000 people from 88 (!) countries in attendance and, like the Olympics, has a formal passing of the baton, with national flags involvement, in a closing ceremony. Or so I've been told; this is the first time I've att...

https://astronomy2018.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/k_galaxy3d/images/Logo_1608_200x280.jpg The 30th General Assembly (GA) of the nearly-100-year-old International Astronomical Union (IAU) started this past Monday, August 20 in Vienna, Austria. This event is held every three years; the previou...

I love owls (which I suspect is no surprise to folks here :ssmile:). I've seen numerous owls both in rehab facilities and in the wild. Years ago, my best friend and I both had meetings in San Francisco the same week. We flew west early so we could spend the weekend before our meetings birding in the...

"Barchan Pac-Man"

hahahaha! Cute!

That top dune pic is a knock-out; wow!!

neufer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 18, 2018 12:40 pm
Do you salute The Donald's picture every time you go in to work?

Art, I trust that you will apologize ASAP for even thinking something so incredibly asinine.

Alexander Waugh's primary claim has the advantage that it can be scientifically tested: Waugh claims that Edward de Vere's remains lie buried under Shakespeare's 1740 statue in Poet's Corner. Alexander Waugh's secondary claim supports what Baconians have been saying for 160 years : That the Stratfo...

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<<Alexander Waugh (born 1963) is an English eccentric ... Waugh is an advocate of the Oxfordian theory, the belief that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford wrote the works of William Shakespeare. He claims to have found surreptitious allusions embedded in 16th- and 17th-century works revealing that...

Stunning image!!!! What a planet!!!

Day 1 at AAS: Day 2 at AAS:

The abstracts for the AAS sessions are indexed by ADS; word clouds for each day's sessions are here: http://ads.harvard.edu/events/AAS231/

ABOVE FREEZING!!!! Hallelujah, yahoo, and woo-hoo!!!!!!

Day Zero at AAS:

James Davenport is vlogging his AAS 231 experience; you can follow along here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg6zx6 ... 39TIjwJSZA

The AAS 231st meeting starts Monday evening outside Washington, DC; pre-meeting sessions start on Sunday. Astronomy Picture of the Day editors Jerry Bonnell and Robert Nemiroff will appear in public together (a rare thing!) at the AAS meeting to give a free public lecture about APOD on Tuesday eveni...

Vocal expressions of amusement sufficient to awaken feline life form.

It's 12°F (-12°C) here at 1 AM. Nome Alaska is warmer (27°F/-3°C at 21:00). Our high for the day was 18°F, so yeah, still colder than Nome. Colder than Tromso (-6°C) and Bergen is having a heat wave... it's 0°C there right now. At least I'm not on Boston. My kitchen pipes tend to freeze when the tem...

I love this APOD and was glad to see it today.

Appreciation for emoticon mentioned last in previous post!!!!!

YAY!!!!

Goosebumps!!!!