Starship Asterisk*

Anybody know: when will Cassini try again to image the north pole of Saturn?

It will be interesting to watch the trajectory of debris in the next few months. Will our relative orbits allow Hubble to get a few more shots?

The picture is even better rotated 180 degrees, imho

Looks like Starship Prometheus de-cloaking

This is a very cool photo. I wonder why the "particles have so far escaped direct imaging" ? This would be high on my list of views to see. I remember that Cassini flew through the rings during a breaking maneuver on the way in http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5333700/ , but this is probably to...

I had the same thought ... wow look at those stars with spikes, that's cool! no that's because of the camera, we wouldn't see it that way.

It is a very nice APOD anyway.

I cannot wait for the extra large telescope in 2011. This will give us images that will open and close many theories. Thanks Harry! I didn't know about the Hubble replacement. I found out about it, I hope it proves you right! ... the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's successor, which would be la...

This from a couple of days ago. ~~~ The Hubble Space Telescope's main camera, the Advanced Camera for Surveys, began taking observations again late on Sunday after it had been offline for nearly two weeks. The ACS shut itself down on 19 June when it suffered a problem with its low-voltage power supp...

... and remember the flyby. It doesn't show the geysers but it starts with the Tiger Stripes.

http://starsoverkansas.org/archives/128

from today's APOD it sounds like today is the most likely day to see meteor showers if there are any. Very nice time lapse movie! I'll be out there.

Wouldn't meteor strikes be visible in the southern hemisphere?

yup I could see it in both the APOD and big versions. Very straight line. I'm with you on the satellite theory.

oops ... sorry for the spam in my post about slooh. I should have spent more time learning about it before bringing it to the forum :oops: SW3 will make an appearance on the slooh.com site, but after checking it out I find it is a pretty commercial site. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060418/nytu067.ht...

No May meteor showers, and APOD was correct to call them unlikely. per NASA "The comet has broken into more than 40 fragments. Any pieces resulting from the breakup of its main body will come no closer than 5.5 million miles to Earth". http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=19706 The...

I know the PLANET microlensing group use this crazy thing called the telephone :) ... Hi I3p3r, I really enjoyed learning about PLANET. It looks like you get alerts by email and then the phone starts ringing :) I found the Daily Planet electronic hotline for on-going PLANET observations, which I'll...

The APOD 4/26 about the disintegration of Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 mentions possible meteor showers. I envision the Very Large Telescope at ESO in Chile will be keeping a close eye on this, and astronomers around the world wanting the latest information and studying it around the clock. How do a...

Harry I enjoyed that link very much. And the animation really helped. I did not realize that the Milky Way was in a relatively sparse region between superclusters, and that the Centaurus-Hydra supercluster is winning the "tug-of-war" on the Milky Way! According to wikipedia, the Great Attr...

They keep on telling me that the universe is expanding. I cannot work it out. What part is expanding. I too have been puzzled about the universe expanding yet things falling into local black holes. I found an article "The Universe Might Last Forever, Astronomers Say, but Life Might Not" w...

Hi Harry, thank you for the great images of collisions. I found a nice animation of Milky Way colliding with Andromeda here: http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~dubinski/tflops/spiralmetamorphosis.html Many thanks to mr. orin stepanek for that great link. I did not realize that we are still testing the Att...

Thank you for the beautiful shot of Andromeda on APOD 12/22/05. I have recently learned that the Milky Way will collide with Andromeda in 4 billion years or so. And that our whole "local group" is speeding toward the Great Attractor black hole. Does anyone know how long until we fall into ...

Cool. I guess that makes sense for an Astronomer and an astro-Geographer! Thank you.

What planets or moons does Vermeer's Astronomer have represented as his globes?

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