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XLIV wrote:Actually, Easter falls on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon. Nice picture though.

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sometimes. in 2008 The full moon was on the equinox. Pesach waited a month but Easter was the next Sunday. It was the first time in my life that Jesus rose before the last supper

Not at all, there were no optics in 1490 (maybe hand lenses for reading). In fact after the moon there are only 8 listed things: Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and two I cannot understand. Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto had not been discovered yet. I came here to ask what the last two were.

orin stepanek wrote:I couldn't resist; I made this my Desktop item. What an awesome view. It looks like the bubble has actual substance. It even looks like a reflection on the right of the bubble.
Orin

wow, it is an amazing picture. even though it is enhanced I still love it.

it's common that people mistake planets for stars.


Just part of many misconceptions that people have about astronomy. We should be diligent and keep our own errors to a minimum - to avoid furthering those false ideas.

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sylvester wrote:Very near the top right hand corner, almost on the diagonal, is a comet-like streak.

What could this be?

http://www1.nasa.gov/images/content/137 ... s_full.jpg

This might explain what it is.

there is too much blue in that picture.

wow. this is amazing. Go HUBBLE

There is one thing known to escape a Black Hole - Gravity. Ideas to ponder: If gravity is a attractive force pulling one gravity field to another, why doesn't gravity pull it's field back on itself? What is the speed of gravity, is it instantaineous or the same as the speed of light? it's not actua...

great link. I had to save that one. thanks

I have no trouble searching. But Mozilla seems to dislike loading the pages. at least the archive.

Ok I got another one for you guys about geodes. Do yu think there could be giant "planet sized" geodes in space? If so what could you imagian living in one? crystals. :lol: and then the occasional lithivore. It would seem giant "planet sized" geodes would collapse during formati...

craterchains wrote: Did you know that the same face of Venus always faces the Earth? Just like our moon.

Norval

That seems to be an exaggeration to me.

Sorry Makc, I can't see any reference points that match up to be able to check for changes. Over the past three years I have done allot of crater comparisons and searching images for changes on Mars. There are many, but you have to first get a reference point that matches up in both images, like se...

I was busy away on a vacation and missed the day.


But I'd still like to congratulate Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell on a beautiful site and job well done.


I still go to APOD every day after 7 years of knowing its existence. Way to go


:clap; :clap; :clap;

that's the computer's imaging system.
look at the smaller photo and you'll see they are even.
or zoom the original photo up to REALLY big and they are smooth again.
mine did the same thing

thanks for your replies.


I find all of this interesting.

Today we were shown Quite possibly, however, the red object is the first direct image of a planet beyond our Solar System the description goes on to describe the "white dwarf" that this planet orbits. BUT at look at the full res photo http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0505/brownplanet...

thanks for the links

that's the great part of APOD, it shows all of those.



I admit I find the deep space photos and the solar systems photos most interesting, but every day I learn something.


unless that is of course the photo is a rerun.


but that's good for new APOD watchers.

I tried other days and got the pictures.

I tried with several browsers. got pictures

So I suppose it's not my computer.


is it just me or is the picture missing for others too

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0206/jupring1_gal.jpg I can try to answer your question. the light in a circle around the planet is actually refracted through the atmosphere of Jupiter. So we are not looking at the edge of the planet but rather a few degrees inward. On the right side, only t...

that could likely be a meteor with the picture taken near the very beginning of the streak.

But I suggest it may be a plane at the perfect angle to reflect that much light.

thank you!

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that is truely incredible.

Near the upper left hand corner of APOD 2005 Jan 25 is what appears to be a circular star cluster with an arm of NGC6946 wrapped around it. Are this part of NGC 6946? I haven't seen anything like this in looking at pictures of a couple of hundred different galaxies. it looks to me like a dwarf gala...