Starship Asterisk*

counting on what? I'm locking the thread because 1. this thread (nor any thread) is the place for the current argument and 2. it's ...actually pretty disrespectful all around to blithely turn it into that.

y'all think I don't still read the forum don't you

Any ideas how accurate the artist's impression might be? That thing's too non-round IMHO to be a star, unless one just on the verge of popping its cork. I know the Wiki page mentions the possibility of massive convection cells on the outer photosphere, but this seems a bit much. Also intriguing abo...

Using templating or a CMS system doesn't necessarily mean you can't still do that, though. A widely distributed CMS requires constant updating, though, and that's what would get you in the end. That, or you'd get hacked eventually if you failed to update. I'm just at a loss as to why even the most s...

@geckzilla @PawelPleskaczynski Did you take a look at my previous post ? it covers all the points regarding the use of semantic elements, ids, and classes where applicable. I also created a revised home page which you can see here https://gist.github.com/videotizer/049383bd94eaa46d860557e257678724....

just my two cents, but it's more important to actually have some classes and ids defined within the html than it is to have the css file itself. Thank you. But why? Is it so that codes that ingest the HTML will better be able to figure out details of what information they are ingesting, like copyri...

The comet is pretty faint. I've got a raw (with cosmic rays removed) image of the original comet next to the galaxy. You can see the galaxy overall is brighter than it. To get the comet to a comparable brightness with the galaxy, they had to take a stack of three longer exposures without the galaxy,...

just my two cents, but it's more important to actually have some classes and ids defined within the html than it is to have the css file itself.

The astronomy community was largely caught by surprise when the first set of satellites was launched. Shows how little overlap there really is between SpaceX and astronomers.

JWST's resolution will actually be only a bit better than HST's, despite the larger mirror. Longer wavelengths, lower resolution... I was going to give you this link, but it doesn't seem to be working (which is irritatingly common lately) http://stsci.edu/jwst/observing-programs/approved-gto-program...

The ones you linked to are almost all supernova remnants, with the exception of the top middle one which is a hot superbubble where stars were forming. I don't have any personal experience with the Dumbbell. It looks like a good rendition of it, though I suspect that a lot of sharpening/deconvolutio...

- not break most programs that ingest APOD's current HTML3 No one knows how most "programs" ingest APOD's current HTML. Each individual knows how they did their own, but there are multiple ways to parse it, and it's impossible to know how each did it without asking them individually, or a...

It happens often enough that I see a weird, seemingly unique galaxy, and then find an oddly similarly unique galaxy just behind it in Hubble imagery that I am nearly willing to accept that light has looped around, and at least in some places the galaxies remained parallel to the light path.

Maybe there's another ring inside the background ring. Maybe it's rings all the way down.

What do you mean "to settle an argument on the Internet" isn't necessary? Hmph.

Go on and get some Keck time and look at it with their fancy adaptive optics to get a morphology study on it, and throw some spectroscopy in while you're there.

Another thing about the little ring galaxy behind Hoag's is that it has just enough details for you to know there is some sort of ring there, and your brain is automatically like wow, another one just the same, almost facing us, incredible! But if you could see it in even further detail, closer up, ...

the funny thing is that if you didn't look at it with high resolution and notice the ring shape, none of you would have any doubt about whether or not they're related: http://legacysurvey.org/viewer?ra=229.3099&dec=21.5856&layer=dr8&zoom=15 so obviously an unrelated background galaxy you...

Something that I noticed when I had a chance to look at this APOD image on a larger display cinched the case that this is an artifact. If you also look at the very bright foreground star on the left edge of the galaxy you can see another (although dimmer) double ring effect. And if you draw lines t...

I will say though, after your input, I can't help but be really really really tempted to scrape the entire site. I strongly advise against it. I made a fully php/mysql version years ago, but they didn't like it because they didn't want to learn php, didn't want to have to deal with updating, and we...

This has been previously noted and discussed here: https://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=12939&start=275 Also, the editors are aware, and I believe reworking it is either planned or in progress. Uh, I wouldn't guess at when that might be done, though. Ok, good to hear they're aware...

This has been previously noted and discussed here:
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=12939&start=275

Also, the editors are aware, and I believe reworking it is either planned or in progress. Uh, I wouldn't guess at when that might be done, though.

Seems like a cozy den would be preferable to snuffling around in the snow.

IC 4710 https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1809a/ Copyright: ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt potw1809a.jpg The larger versions of the picture of this galaxy are strikingly beautiful, with individual stars being resolved everywhere. Geck, did you help process it? I have to...

The editors have some assistants (or assistant, not sure if there is more than one at a time) who help post images to Asterisk, and that's how they end up over here even if they're only submitted via email. ...however, there are some folks who do not want to be seen submitting APODs, and those are t...