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geckzilla wrote:Oh gosh, here we go with the plural-of-whatever again. I made sure to include one of each for you two. Too bad I can't change the APOD itself.

Ok. Whatever.
"Auroras". From a self-styled scientist, forsooth.
I'm too old for this playground, obviously.

Bye.

Aurora Shimmer, Meteor Flash (2009 Dec 19) by APOD Robot » Sat Dec 19, 2009 4:55 am Aurora Shimmer, Meteor Flash ... but aurora are caused by energetic... No. "* Aurorae * are" or "the aurora *is* "... That one bugs me almost as much as authors insisting "nexus" is plu...

What is a "scan search"? Surely APOD is no where to be found on wikio, but I have submitted it several times. - RJN I suspect "search scan" is stuffing "APOD" into the keyword search box and pressing the "go" button. I did that with the slightly longer "...

Here is a close up from the Apod image. Object.jpg Oh. Sorry. That looks very like a flaw. An image artifact. Dust on the lens. It doesn't look real. 'Course I could be mistaken. SDM. This is what I thought Martin was talking about. Sorry for the poor quality, I only have MSPaint to work with. crop...

Martin wrote:Here is a close up from the Apod image.

Object.jpg

Oh. Sorry.
That looks very like a flaw. An image artifact. Dust on the lens.
It doesn't look real.
'Course I could be mistaken.
SDM.

Re: Galactic centre (APOD 2009/11/11) by kjardine on Fri Nov 13, 2009 6:33 am Hi Martin, This is a false colour image using X-ray and infrared data that our eyes can not see. The green stars are X-ray sources emitting in the 3-5 keV energy range. I don't see a "little bubble type object to the...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0909/neptune_despina_transit_combo_despinabrightened.jpg Why there are four planets and four shadows in the image? Vivian "His composite view of Despina and its shadow is composed of four archival frames taken on August 24, 1989, separated by nine minutes...

I want to *go* there! http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html or http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090111.html if you're reading this after 11/1/9. Someone should print this off as a poster, with a large, red arrow pointing to the Pale Blue Dot and the message "You are here." Chanc...

I have always wondered when they will release some 3D glasses based on the ones you use at IMAX theaters. [...] Unless their glasses have something within them that decodes the garbled pixels on the moviescreen and makes it appear all nice and 3D to your eyes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozTH2zI...

The whole point of using the balloon analogy was to explain to a layman how to visualize the universe with respect to the big bang and the expansion of space. The layman has difficulties visualizing a 4-D expanding universe that does not have a center. So, we tell the layman to imagine himself as a...

is there any verifiable data on what happens at the poles ? If you mean the poles of Sol, we have Ulysses. (Latin for Odysseus, and I can never remember where all the s's go.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_%28spacecraft%29 Yes, I point to Wikipedia a lot. It's a good starting point, it has g...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070619.html Thank you for that one. The picture on the day after that one http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070620.html is also a lovely image. A view of three worlds, and a star off to the right. Human beings have actually walked on two of the worlds in that image. :) SDM

I am guessing we wouldn't notice it but we might be in a molecular cloud ourselves . I often wondered where the sun gets all its hydrogen to maintain fusion for so many years.......... :D pass the beer :D All the hydrogen the Sun burns is contained in a relatively small volume near the middle. The ...

Found on the 'net, musings on a temporary, local, dying but still annoying little cult: "Y'know, it's a good thing Vlad the Impaler wasn't a Latin Emperor. Can you imagine all those nuns running around waving little dolls with pained expressions and a stick up their bums? I wonder what the litt...

Hello All I came across this image of M31 I thought this may interest some. The Double Nucleus of M31 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap961011.html Try http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?m31 . Some of those are lovely. The rest are just awesome. Though http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov...

Also very good ... but I still want a photo every 10 days, so that we can see the fast movement around the equinox and the very slow movement (and turn around) at the solstice. This isn't what you are looking for, but it's cool, and some of the linkies are interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Is the bright object I see at dusk (approximately 8:30 PM CDT) in the south-southwest sky the International Space Station? I am located at latitude 35.66 north and longitude -89.2 west. The ISS is my best guess especially since the last shuttle mission added the additional large array of solar pane...

If, indeed, this asteroid may someday impact the Earth (as postulated in the APOD commentary) then we definitely have our work cut out for us in deflecting its orbit. These Earth-crossing "rubble piles" present an insuperable problem at our current level of technology to deflect them whil...

Greetings and Salutations, all! I need your help in finding an image. I had saved it to my computer and made it my background, and I loved looking at this APOD image every day -- it was simply one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. However, last night, my hard-disk went to the big super-co...