Starship Asterisk*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncpCTFI-d9E Two things strike me about this landscape panorama. One....it appears utterly lifeless and its starkness stands in contrast to the lush and biologically rich planet we live on. Two....what an incredible engineering feat it is to launch, land and sustain th...

Two things strike me about this landscape panorama. One....it appears utterly lifeless and its starkness stands in contrast to the lush and biologically rich planet we live on. Two....what an incredible engineering feat it is to launch, land and sustain these probes. I'm in awe. Regarding its lifele...

An absolutely incredible image of one of my favourite deep sky treasures of Orion! I'm also a big fan of Herbig Haro objects and nebulous YSO's, so the detail provided by the Subaru narrowband data is crazy epic! The only aspect of the image I don't like are the fake diffraction spikes, they look w...

BTW...thank you for all the nice comments above!

Nice one. The HH object looks like a bipolar flamethrower with these colors. Maybe that's not such a bad analogy for them, anyway. If Rob pokes his head in here, question for him: Was this already in the pipeline or did you feel the need to revisit it after we put your older image of NGC 1999 in th...

People who are familiar with M57 will understand that the attempt here was "not" to produce a "soft" version but rather an extraordinarily deep and detailed version which requires aggressive and careful processing. There are many "softer" versions available on the web. ...