Starship Asterisk*

Really great image. Not the first time on APOD...

The left side looks like a person riding the top of a giant space dog's head...to me anyway... what an interesting place.

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I think it looks like a BUG, with its mouth open....

Great image...
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Not "ghost".... Dragon.... a dragon rearing up its head.... maybe it is Shenron... MAKE A WISH!!!!!

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Nice image of it...

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I think it is fanciful...not actual... that is Art...

A..."stirring" painting...

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A friend and I were discussing this the other day...I did not know there had been an earlier one... very interesting...

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Awesome image... great timing...

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It usually takes SOME processing to get a good, or better image... My M27. The dingy one is the original...the other was photoshop with auto contrast, auto color, auto level...taken with my 10" Meade LX 200 in 2012... 40 frames or so...maybe around 30 seconds each. Even Astrophotoger, Tony Hall...

Nice comparison... I find it amazing you can see the Moon from Mercury...


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:?: Jupiter's radius is 38.4 times that of Io, so this shadow seems far too large to me, which would mean this image cannot be correct. We are not seeing the whole of the face of Jupiter...but only a small fraction of it... we see it from a very close range. So we see a smaller horizon... as this i...

The large photo looks like a red sunset, over a Ridge that has cloud cover, with CITY LIGHTS shining up through them... awesome...

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Oooooo.... pretty....and NEW STARS!!!!

Great image.

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The "Reindeer Rat-thingy" nebula...

I think a better term is "Dispersed" rather than evaporating...I don't thing dust becomes a vapor, doesn't it just "move off"?

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Awesome... from IC1284 to M21 is a WRIST... up to M23 is the clinched thumb, and at M23 is a "pointing finger"...in the center, between the two sides is a central area in which I see faces, and bodies...and a guy leaning over playing POOL!!!

What can you "See"?

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Nice image...

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Reminds me of a Sunset... really nice.

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If the water ice sublimes into the atmosphere as a gas, without turning liquid first...then the dark areas are dark, DRY, sand... and not wet at all...and may not be indicative of the thawing process. We would then not SEE any water vapor, steam, or standing water, or damp sand at all in that case.....

Good image and representation...


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I see all of them...

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Really nice image...

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Nice image! I'm always happy to see a beautiful RGB image of a nebula. :D Where is Cygnus X-1 , though? Cygnus X-1 was the first source in the Milky Way to be widely accepted as a stellar mass black hole. I think Cygnus X-1 is located close to the Tulip Nebula, at least as seen from our point of vi...

8 times the mass of Earth? We are going to have to be SUPER SAYANS to do anything there.... got anything smaller????

I am thinking if any life...Aquatic, as it could use the buoyancy... but 8 times... I don't know... if anything could still float, let alone swim...

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Weird storm... came around... bit itself... then quit... how can we get a hurricane to do that? Oh, yeah, this one went around the whole planet....yyyeeaaahhhh.... not a good idea here....

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Nice image... we had a very pretty sunset the other evening...

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Floating ghost clouds playing "Starball"....

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