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Any possibility that we're seeing noctilucent clouds reflecting the green band?

That said, my number one choice is an auroral fragment trying to break free...

The moon has no shins, therefore it can't be shinning! I think you mean "shining."

Hi guys. Don't want to be the English police, but does the last sentence look better this way? Landing in a dried sea and surviving for 90 minutes, Huygen's (probe) returnED unique images of a strange plain of dark sandy soil strewn with smooth, bright, fist-sized rocks of ice. Other than that - abs...

Love APoD - number one site on the web.

There's one more grammatical error:

... as large galaxy's go. [ galaxies ]
... been interpreted has evidence [ as ]

I also wasn't impressed at first, but letting my eyes cross a bit got me to thinking. Did the stripes really line up? I took a shot at some simple image overlay, and this is what I have to show. Granted, the two photos don't coincide in terms of dates or rotation. I also had to enlarge the visible i...

Why do most people assume that all meteors are spheres? It seems to me that the more reasonable question about meteors should be "What is the distribution of shapes meteors have upon entering the atmosphere, given that there are NO perfect spheres?" The follow up question is this. How ecce...

Maybe it's shaped like a maple leaf seedling?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maple-seed.jpg

Pure coincidence, or are you prescient? A Mars news item, the same day that Phoenix is declared dead.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_ ... 151001.stm

These are links to the only two articles I could find on cloud droplet size distribution. http://ramanlidar.gsfc.nasa.gov/activities/publications/data/cloudliqwateretc.pdf http://langley.atmos.colostate.edu/publications/Documents_1978/Stephens_JAS_I_1978.pdf Is it possible that the fogbow and glory ...

Whether or not it's a fogbow or glory, there's still a typo. The hall is actually an the mountain from which this picture was taken. So maybe it should be "on" the mountain? And what IS the deal with the color sequence? Does this mean that each rainbow reflected back towards the viewer has...

It's quite a bit late, but I saw one of the more recent releases from SDO and the 'goober' we noticed at the 2 o'clock position is still there. Looks like it may be a permanent feature of that particular CCD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWrm-dADE8w

As crazy as it sounds, biddie may be on to something. The fact that it's not *perfectly* symmetrical should hold a clue as well. It looks too much like a cauliflower on the one end. Swallowed some gas giants?

Incredible. I'd subscribe to cable if they could start streaming this in real time - "Sun TV"

Doesn't this constitute an unprocessed image? The boys in quality control still have to sort through all the various filters and do some cleanup.

Grammar police alert:

while white corresponds to gas as warm at 40 Kelvins.

Did you mean - as warm AS ?

Neufer wrote: by neufer » Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:44 pm Disproven as what? The function of a fraudulent product is exactly that - resistance to proof. And just enough 'truth' to make people believe.* Look at today's homeopathic remedies - St. John's wort comes to mind. It's sufficient for the public to...

After reading the intriguing interpretation here, and also reading (mostly) the wikipedia entry, I'm most in favor of Rugg's conclusion based on simple examination of the text. It's a hoax. That it could be a hoax is certainly a possibility, and that people (or persons) are capable of perpetrating s...

Currently reads: "Moreover, millions are individual stars are also visible,"

Suggest: "Moreover, millions OF individual stars are also visible,"

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap091125.html

As an APoD devotee, astronomy buff, and closet scientist, I admit to being out of my league discussing the optical components of these pictures. But as a pilot, and respectful watcher of the weather, we may all agree that there are still meteorological phenomena out there that are not completely und...