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I also agree with Richard! I made a similar complaint once when the APOD was a picture of an airplane belching smoke out of its end (to trick radar? I don't remember) but I got flamed down because of it was supposedly connected with aeronautics..... but yes, I would indeed like to hear what this big...

I agree that APOD usually offers high-quality material, so maybe I should have bitten my tongue over this one. I have no complaint about APOD doing pictures on aeronautic subjects, but as far as I can remember these have featured rockets, the space shuttle, satellites or other technologies that actu...

This APOD is just a plug for "cool" military technology and has nothing to do with astronomy at all. I know APOD sometimes does clouds but at least those are natural atmospheric phenomena. This is just air pollution intentionally belched out the end of a warplane. If it has anything whatso...

I have to agree with l3p3r. It looks like a child took some crayons to a satellite image.

I use Netscape and it doesn't work, and it's not working with today's APOD either, so I'm stuck with the artist's conception and I can't get the real photo.

I can't stand the APOD's where it says "slide your mouse across the picture and something will happen" because it never works for me, nothing ever happens!

I agree with Stardance..... I haven't seen it or heard it, all I get is a black box with the windows media logo in the middle, maybe because I don't have broadband. I can't stand TV .... you'd think you'd be safe going to a site dedicated to " picture of the day" but I guess not...... I'm ...

Thank you Pete, I understood that the arrows pointed at fragments of the comet, but the giant colored dots were really bizarre... I just visited the ESO website and confirmed your explanation. Now I am even more surprised at the fact that the big dots didn't come in for any kind of explanation in th...

What in the world do those big dots and arrows indicate? Seems like they should have been explained......

I can see the ring, certainly; I don't see its shadow. Maybe I'll try on the computer at work......

Am I the only one who can't see the planet Saturn in the background, neither the ring shadow nor terminator?

It does look like a witch head, but it's the wrong way around. Rotate image 90 degrees counterclockwise and you will see the witch!

Am I the only one who doesn't see any nebula????