Starship Asterisk*

Are there any schemes depicting this black hole, its spinning axis, the disk accretion and our relative position to them? Is the black hole spinnig causing the disk accretion configuration instead of a spherical one. Thanks in advance.

moontrail wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 8:04 am

http://boards.4chan.org/sci/thread/9670 ... hread-tess

With Explorer 11 the image just posted in the quoted one can not be seen!

http://boards.4chan.org/sci/thread/9670 ... hread-tess

aljo wrote: ↑Tue Apr 24, 2018 6:57 am I can get the spacecraft to move, but I don't hear any sound! No problem on other videos, so not my computer at fault.

In my computer it doesn't work whith the explorer 11 versión, not even the saturn rings are shown just a starred sky. It works OK with Crome.

Neufer calculates that this star is (was?) 14.523 Gigalight years away. It is 14.5 Gly distant. It was 5.8 Gly distant from our point in space when the currently observed light was produced. It took that light 9.5 Gyr to travel between the two points, because the Universe was expanding between them...

moontrail wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 10:58 am In the explanation given I miss the info about how far it`s supossed to be.

Supposed, I suppose

In the explanation given I miss the info about how far it`s supossed to be.

The interesting thing I noticed is that the Command Module is at a lower altitude than the Lander. I had always assumed the landing approach would be a descent only. Did the descent profile include an altitude gain, or alternatively, did the Command Module move to a lower altitude for some reason? ...

Maybe the explanation would be more readable in a two columns format. It's difficult for me sometimes to read it in the one column format.... There have been previous suggestions to update the APOD page code, in part for exactly this reason, to make it more readable on a greater variety of screens ...

Maybe the explanation would be more readable in a two columns format. It's difficult for me sometimes to read it in the one column format.

Happy New Year to all earthlings and best wishes for all, aliens included!

We should call it the "Pelican Storm", or "The Boot" storm...as it looks like a Pelican, or Boot, to the right side of it...as your Pareidolia wills. The WHOLE THING is complex!!!! Sheesh.... Can't wait for Orion Nebula next, as I recently took some photos.... :---[===] * I see ...

I miss in the lovely animation both earth and moon orbiting the center of masses of its binary system instead of moon just circling earth. We wouldn't be able to see it at this scale. The distance from the Earth to the Moon is about 380 000 km. The Earth-Moon barycenter is less than 5 000 km from t...

I miss in the lovely animation both earth and moon orbiting the center of masses of its binary system instead of moon just circling earth.
Ignacio

In my opinion, the vertical axis appear exaggerated, or the horizontal axis appear reduced, or the equivalent mix of both, in the same proportion as the distance between the places where the two photographs were taken to the distance between our eyes. Thanks so much Chris! Two questions: is the ver...

In my opinion, the vertical axis appear exaggerated, or the horizontal axis appear reduced, or the equivalent mix of both, in the same proportion as the distance between the places where the two photographs were taken to the distance between our eyes. Crossed-eye stereo pair for those who prefer a m...

I agree. Regarding Europe's local times is even worse. No new APOD today till evening.

Zooming the original image http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1605/Me ... r_1200.jpg a big white spot is clearly visible on Mercury.

Zooming the included http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160508.html the white spot is not there.

Zooming the image a big white spot is clearly visible on Mercury.

I miss it were also mentioned as Ursa Major, the Great Bear.

ASTRONOMIE (Astronomy), 1968 Ballet by Milko Sparembeck With a narrative by Carole Sosnowsky And featuring Nanon Thibon and Cyril Atanassof, principal dancers of the Paris Opera Music by Pierre Henry Sculptures by Nicholas Sch6ffer Somewhere in the cosmos, a marvellous enigmatic star rotates, rotate...

Hope it will work now:

http://www.olats.org/schoffer/archives/astronomie.html

http://www.olats.org/schoffer/archives/astronomie.html

I apologize not being able to find in the web the complete and better resolution image version of this short-tv-film enjoyed at a public exhibition (Arstronomy at La Casa Encendida in Madrid). I found it astounding.
Ignacio
http://asterisk.apod.com/posting.php?mode=post&f=8

Thank you geckzilla for the explanation, if I understood it right there is an unintended sensor saturation effect that causes the difference with what would be expected.

Water reflected stars seem more bright than directly seen in the sky. Is it just an optical illusion based in the contrast with the foreground or image post process?

Can somebody help put a scale to this photo? The description just states it can resolve details as small as 40 light minutes. But 40 light minutes is ~720 million KM, or just shy of where Jupiter orbits. Does that mean the innermost dark band is approximately where Jupiter would orbit? Here is a pi...