Starship Asterisk*

This 3D image/effect is interesting on a number of levels. Tool curiosity aside and the amazing reflections visor wise, I noticed that while wearing my red/blue glasses if I move horizontally back and forth 6" or so, about 18" from my monitor, the foreground objects move correspondingly. T...

Image artifacts they might be... but might some of them also not possibly be meteor(s) passing thru the ring plane?

I set up my 4" telescope in the driveway out front last night. Lyra cleared the trees around 11PM. I found Fragments G and C easily, and Fragment B with averted vision. Fragment G was the brightest of the 3, due north of Pi Hercules, while Frag. C showed more motion as there were 4 stars in the...

Looks like the S. Hemisphere's best shot is late May... 11PM EST tonight, May 7th, the comet passes within a couple arc minutes of M57 in Lyra... Is that visable from your location 13p3r?

Twilight's are over here 9ish... BIG MOON washes out lots... setting up one's scope in a shadow can help a bit.

Concerning the possibility of a meteor shower OR meteor storm during C 73P's closest approach. I regularly take my 4" Schmidt Cassegrain scope 'up the mountain' to a nearby observation point at approx. 1,500'. I live on the coast, about 75 miles North of San Francisco. I have been making regula...

One Larry Spring has came up with a unique explanation for electro magnetism... which you might find entertaining?

http://www.larryspring.com/electromagnetism.html

Mr. Spring is 91 years old and lives on the No. Cal coast.

Scandia Labs http://www.sandia.gov/media/z290 wrote: "The most recent advance resulted in an output X-ray power of about 290 trillion watts -- for billionths of a second, about 80 times the entire world's output of electricity. Strangely, the power used in each trial is only enough to provide e...

The image 'Enceladus and the Search for Water' is my favorite Cassini image thus far. The one of Hyperion's 'spongy surface' a close second? The images are a VAST improvement over anything previous. Those two images alone are worth the trip? Is the oxygen found at Saturn really being generated by su...

Just when yah think Mars Rocks couldn't get any stranger..... there's today's (01.30.05 - Sol 736) Spirit microscopic image(s) of one of the 'bubbly' looking dark coloured stones near the rover. http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/m/736/2M191701827EFFANHEP2956M2M1.JPG This stone, like the o...

Lets hope the MER team takes a closer look at that rock!~

And THIS feature, seen just over the next ridge in this image...

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ ... 05L0M1.JPG

Do not confuse 'mirror matter' with antimatter.. they are completely different concepts. http://www.geocities.com/mirrorplanets/ "Mirror matter" may eventually be proven to be, what is now called, 'dark matter'. A paper discribing the Tunguska event as a possible 'mirror matter'/matter int...

The Tunguska explosion may have been an air blast caused by a cometary fragment? OR, it may have been an incoming chunk of 'mirror matter'?

Something similar may have hit Jordan in 2001
http://www.jas.org.jo/mett.html

An interesting sidenote: @: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0601/09milkyway/ This article contends that the 'waves' found in the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy may be caused by 'dark matter' in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Hmmm... 'Dark Matter'? Or, could that be, intergallactic mag...

Right you are Empeda2! I remember reading that power levels unexpectedly increased with the passage of a nearby dust devil, which 'blew off' the accumulated layer of dust on the solar panels. A couple thoughts about that and similar incidents, if I may.... Both rovers registered increased ground pla...

Galaxies sometimes acrete or gather dwarf galaxies... The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are apparently in the process of colliding with the Milky Way Galaxy. That being the case, it may eventually be found that the Tarantula Nebula is actually the captured core of a once separate dwarf galaxy, n...

Concerning rover milage... The rover instruments include gamma ray spectrometers. The integration times for those instruments mean that for any given reading, the instrumentation must remain in place long enough to gather a sampling of backscattered gamma rays. I note that _days_ were often spent ga...

The point I was trying to make.. is that EVERYWHERE the rovers have been, there are signs of current and on-going erosion. And IF those features ARE current, as they appear to be, then they were NOT caused by water. Again, many of the MAJOR erosional features may eventually be proven to have been ca...

Like that lil pink bunny.. the MER rover's just keep on keeping on! HO! Today's image demonstrates just how much the transport of dust, sand(s), rock and pebbles modify's the Martian surface. LIQUIFACTION is the 'name of the game' on Mars! i.e. Solids act like fluids when held in suspension... This ...

What's up 'CraterChains'? Just curious....

It just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser...

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1635_1.asp

UC Berkley MGS team members have published a magnetic field map of the surface of Mars

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0512/12marsauroras/

Turns out that there are indeed places on Mars where one might find protection from high energy particles. Or even enhance existing ground fields?

Hannes Alfvén First published in 1948 in the book The New Astronomy , Chapter 2, Section III, page 74 -79 Hannes Alfvén is an original contributor to the potent new discipline of magnetohydrodynamic, to which he brings a background of work in such varied and related fields as cosmic rays, fundamenta...

I like this *.gif animation of HH 47. It shows plasma being ejected from a newly evolved star. http://www.rice.edu/media/hartigan1.gif Q: Are the plasma jets shown CREATING matter? as it slows into local space/time? Or.. are the jets PUSHING existing matter ahead of it, and condensing it? Perhaps 'd...

In an electro-dynamic universe, methane and the other elemental gases are constantly being created within the core of the Earth. Those gases are the byproduct of plasma degeneration. To test this theory, back in the late 70's, a consortium of oil companies and interests decided to drill into a meteo...

harry...

Try this: http://web.umr.edu/~om/report_to_fcr/report_to_fcr1.htm