Starship Asterisk*

In the information brought up through the "featured unusual image" link https://www.flickr.com/photos/fhhemmerich/32923225095/in/pool-3084377@N22/ it states the image was acquired on 2017-02-14. However, on the image brought up through the http://www.damianpeach.com/deepsky/2p_encke_2017_0...

Wow that's a fascinating image. It's looks too nice to be called the Rotten Egg Nebula .

PS. I wonder if the Universe has a smell?

The "nucleus" link in the explanation http://www.cometcampaign.org/files/images/comets_spacecraft.jpg brings up a montage of images of comets. That for 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken in 2014 from Rosetta is very spooky having a face-like feature on its right. Pareidolia working well for a...

The information brought up through the 'Voyager Project' link in the credit includes the distance of Voyager 1 and 2 from the Sun and Earth. As I would have expected both are getting further from the Sun, but to my surprise while Voyager 2 is getting further from the Earth that is not the case for ...

The information brought up through the 'Voyager Project' link in the credit includes the distance of Voyager 1 and 2 from the Sun and Earth. As I would have expected both are getting further from the Sun, but to my surprise while Voyager 2 is getting further from the Earth that is not the case for V...

In regard to the halos, in the information brought up through the 'featured here' link it states "Note that the circular features in the image around bright stars are not real, they are due to reflections within the optics of the telescope and camera". I notice that many of them look spook...

The explanation states the image was taken "last year" but the image does look very much like a reprocessing of the image used as the APOD of June 24 2013 https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130624.html (the image seemed very familiar, so I searched the APOD archive). Links in the explanation als...

Thanks again Chris for your regular help with the queries that I keep posting .

I am uncertain as to where the 4 planets are in the video. In information from one of the links in the explanation it states "The forth HR 8799 planet was found after further observations in 2009–2010. That planet orbits inside the first three planets”. I wonder therefore if the very faint obje...

I have just tried the 'well-planned drive' link in the APOD explanation and this message came up:- Error 1011 Ray ID: 32a62403d9ca3671 • 2017-02-01 14:37:19 UTC Access denied What happened? The owner of this website (http://www.ncscooper.com) does not allow hotlinking to that resource (/wp-content/...

I have just tried the 'well-planned drive' link in the APOD explanation and this message came up:- Error 1011 Ray ID: 32a62403d9ca3671 • 2017-02-01 14:37:19 UTC Access denied What happened? The owner of this website (http://www.ncscooper.com) does not allow hotlinking to that resource (/wp-content/u...

Wow, that is a fascinating image.

It took me a while though to find that GOES stands for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites. I also found that GOES-16 was originally called GOES-R but once a GOES satellite is in geostationary orbit it is then given a number.

It's an excellent image.

Hoping to obtain information about it I clicked the "featured image" link but that brought up the APOD of June 5 2007. That has the same themed image but it is not the "featured image".

It was confusing (well it was to me ) that the image was released in 2006 yet the 'Magellan' link in the explanation brought up information about the Giant Magellan Telescope whose commissioning is scheduled to begin in 2022!

Thank for your help Ann, which is appreciated .

It was that the explanation made a lot about the use of narrowband filters but surprisingly did not state what colors the ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms are in the image that got me wondering.

As various color palettes are used to produce astronomy images I will be grateful if someone could please state what colors are likely represented by each of the ionized sulfur, hydrogen and oxygen in the false color image. The explanation states the clouds are "dominated by emission from hydro...

Clicking the 'galactic rift' link in the explanation brings up the APOD of 2010 June 25 https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100625.html in the explanation of which there is a link relating to the 'Great Rift'. In the information brought up through that link it mentions of the dark areas in the Milky Way '....

In the image information brought up through the "this JunoCam image" link it states 'Taken 2016-12-11-173502'. I assume that the 173502 is the time and thus 17:35:02 (UT?) but I would appreciate it if someone can please verify that or state what 173502 is if it is not the time (perhaps it...

In the image information brought up through the "this JunoCam image" link it states 'Taken 2016-12-11-173502'. I assume that the 173502 is the time and thus 17:35:02 (UT?) but I would appreciate it if someone can please verify that or state what 173502 is if it is not the time (perhaps it ...

In the explanation it states "Cassini's new science adventure is scheduled to end on 2017 September 17". I wonder if the 17 in "September 17" is a typing error as in information brought up from links in the explanation and elsewhere it states the mission will end on September 15...

Thanks Rob and Chris for your help :). Hoping that I am not considered to be getting (have already got :wink:) irritating by asking some questions recently I wonder if anyone has had thoughts on my query about the correct date of the end of the Cassini Mission in my post on Tue Dec 13, 2016 8:33 pm ...

I have tried two browsers and both cannot open the 'Alvin Wu' link in the credit. I wonder if anyone else has the same problem

In the explanation it states "Cassini's new science adventure is scheduled to end on 2017 September 17". I wonder if the 17 in "September 17" is a typing error as in information brought up from links in the explanation and elsewhere it states the mission will end on September 15 ...

Thanks all for your help with my query about the extremely bright star .

Is the extremely bright object with the colourful diffraction spikes there by chance alignment and has nothing to do with the spiral?