Starship Asterisk*

A speaker's voice, telling us what we are seeing, would have been nice. Morgan Freeman was not available at the time. :ssmile: Let me try to unravel it. The first seven seconds of the video shows us the black hole accreting matter from the hot (yellow!! :facepalm:) star. It looks to me like the hot...

Hell Dog Nebula?

[edit]Okay, since a "Wolf"-Rayet star is involved, (thanks neufer) it could be a Hell Wolf Nebula.

Thank you, Chris!
As Sg is low in my Southern sky, it has to compete with terrestrial light pollution (sigh!)

I saw these giants the other night. I didn't know they are "in" Sagittarius.
I've never really made out Sagittarius, does their brightness (naked, nearsighted eyes) make it hard to be able to make out the "teapot"?

A slightly technical article about the probes communications...

https://hackaday.com/2020/07/28/what-is ... obe-saying

Neufer, I suspect that Ground Penetrating Radar is not all that "ground breaking". Mainly because it shows no evidence of the Moon being a hollow metal sphere! Maybe they need to re-calibrate the instrument or something. Or it is possible the Earth-observing aliens that live inside the Moo...

天 Tian: "sky/heaven" the ideogram for "big" with a top. 問 Wen: "ask" shows a mouth at a gate/door -a mouth at the gate or door is usually asking for something/someone. Furthermore, 天安門 Tian'anmen: is made up of the Chinese characters for "heaven", "peace&...

Well, last night I drove about a mile into the country, set up the camera, telephoto lens, and tripod, and began looking for the comet. As I am a bit nearsighted, I needed to put on my glasses, before I found it. (faint little booger, isn't it). I wasn't able to image it in my camera. Maybe, just ma...

Every body in the Solar System has a tail, because every body is losing atoms to the surrounding space, and there are directional fields and forces present everywhere. But in most cases, these tails are extremely rarefied. I'm pretty sure my "body" doesn't have a tail (visible, anyway), a...

It looks like it's going to impact somewhere in Syria.
B^)

Phillip Mitchell wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 4:39 pm Re: Explanation for Saturn's Hexagon - Hint - Study Sacred Geometry, snowflakes & crystals...

Yes, its presence is easily explained if a huge snowflake is floating just below those clouds!

Sa Ji Tario wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 2:27 pm I find a doctor with glasses and a nurse

Glasses of what?

Back to the subject of the nebula NGC 7027, I wouldn't want to mess with helonium acid. If a molecule of it hit our spaceship, it would give away its proton, and it would damage the ship. But it depends on how much of it is around, or how much of it we needed to fly through, I guess. Yeah, I hadn't...

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 11:41 am
Sort of looks like a man's head!

He looks very Klingon to me.

I haven't seen the 49 pages of names that Ann mentioned,
but another possibility that occurred to me is "Flying Squirrel Nebula".

We live in a topsy-turvy world!

Thanks Chris for the explanation!

It seems perfect for the name, "Road Kill Nebula".

Fine. But not really relevant to my comment. Prosecutor [grilling person in Witness Stand]: "You think you're so smart, huh? Well, answer this, What animal is large, gray, has 4 legs, a tail, a trunk, and lives in Africa?" Defence lawyer [jumping up]: "Your Honor, that is irrelevant!...

Grizzly wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 3:28 am And while on the subject of pareidolia, does anyone see the head / face in the cloud top left of the picture? It is gazing slightly to the right.

Do you mean this one? or this one?

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 1:10 pm FYI, the town is Nykøbing Mors (there are lots of Nykøbings, this one being on the island of Mors). Not Nykobing.

I'm curious, does Mors have the same meaning as moors, (type of terrain, not Muslims) as in English?

Fischerizator wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:49 am So the Sun and even the Moon rise westward in Australia ?

Westward?
As in the westward sky or rising in a westwardly direction?

What is the bright white streak in the NW quadrant? Everyone knows the Lagoon Nebula is in the Alpha Quadrant! (Star Trekkie joke). :wink: (Which makes me wonder how Star Fleet was able to convince residents in other quadrants that this is the "alpha" quadrant and therefore their quadrant...

So the Sun and even the Moon rise westward in Australia ? It reminds me of the only time I've been in the So. Hemisphere. My wife and I were staying in Brazil, and before the trip I wondered what it would be like for me to see the Sun in the northern sky. I was surprised to find out that my brain w...

Congratulations on a quarter century of service to those curious about what lies beyond!

Mike Smith Reynolds wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 5:29 pm Could our poster have been trying to show a correlation between happy humas dancing around the earth and happy galaxys dancing around the universe?

I believe you misspelled "hummus".