Starship Asterisk*

I don't know but they sure are cute little fellers

Then have them stand still for the 4 minute exposure finally lighting the lamp for the last 1/2 second of light gathering

Gee, they were right, Jupiter is the size of the full moon

Nice pics

Yes but it still doesn't fail to inspire and emote

Any advanced civilization that encounters this craft would think ... man how backwards are these people, all their commercials indicated they were wireless

they are sending the money now...it'll take 48000 years to get here and of course they use Camel Dung for currency

The eye of Sol

Perhaps a situation similar to atmospheric pressure gradients could exist on intergalactic levels. Where you have areas of left oriented spin meeting areas of right oriented spin you get strings of galaxies, similar to atmospheric streams, moving in the same direction

Would be fantastic to see these all these APOD 360deg panoramas have a display option for a Google 360 view where you could just grab and pan the images

After viewing the clip, the first thing I was reminded of was the scene in "The Chronicles of Riddick" with the Sunrise on Crematoria
Smores anyone??

Geck,
Out of curiosity and considering polo0258's comment
How many of the Fabulous APOD's have been Single Exposure Images and how many have been Multiple Mosaic or Stacked?
My guess would be that there are relatively few APOD's that are Single Images

After looking up current pricing to produce 6KW daily for my house 60 - 100w panels and associated equipment $10,000 going with 250W panels I could knock this part down to $5,000 Structure for mounting solar panels (can't put it on my roof) $35,000 (supports, foundations) Labor to install ??? (guess...

Well, I shall simply have to rerun my figures again. Thanks Neufer.

Had some glorious Mamatus Clouds over Sonoma County yesterday along with Cirrus, Nimbus, areas of Virga, and white sheets of Hail falling against dark anvil cloud backgrounds. The only thing missing was lightning.

Unfortunately, neither of which are currently very efficient and both extremely expensive without government subsidies. Ivanpah Molten Salt reactors (BrightSource Energy) have yet to produce their touted 1,000,000 MWh per year and still need to use NG turbines to maintain the core temperature at nig...

What may throw the appearance of Orion off to an observer of this image is the fact that Orion is setting in the west in this image rather than rising in the east. If Orion were rising then the Horsehead and Orion nebulae would be incorrectly oriented given which direction would be north. If Orion w...

You are correct, these are Radar Images and not dependent on visible light so no visible light shadowing effect would be possible.
Although radar shadowing can occur, this is usually manifested as missing data rather than Flat data

But Methane doesn't change from a Solid to a Liquid until it reaches 90.7K, much warmer than it ever gets on Pluto. Will Solid Methane have a chemical reaction with either a Solid or a Slushy Liquid Fluorine? Also, I was under the impression that Methane Combustion required O2 and either a Heat Sour...

Summer temperatures on Pluto reach 55K.
Oxygen changes phase from solid to liquid at 54.8K
Fluorine changes phase from solid to liquid at 53.55K
It is possible that this area could be something exotic like a Fluorine or Oxygen ocean and is resurfaced as Pluto warms.

This image of haze layers above Pluto's limb was taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. About 20 haze layers are seen; the layers have been found to typically extend horizontally over hundreds of kilometers, but are not strictly parallel to...

Why are Goats the richest animals?

And thus began the custom of carving animal totems in poles

Hopefully we'll all be 'round for the next one too

Was it just luck that DSCOVR was just in the right place to capture a 'full earth' during the eclipse? No. It's always very near the Earth-Sun L 1 point- that is, on a line between the Sun and Earth. All it ever sees is a full Earth. And had the eclipse followed a slightly different path, it might ...

Incredible musical machine uses marbles (just watch your step after the recital)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q#t=85