Starship Asterisk*

The Scone Nebula!

My favorite is fairly recent: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081212.html I grew up in the Santa Clara Valley, many years ago, and Lick Observatory (on Mt. Hamilton) was always on my horizon, so I've actually seen moonrise behind it more than once (never had the camera to photograph it, though). ...

An interesting footnote to the 10/22/09 APOD: Noerdlingen (actually it's Nördlingen) is located in a gigantic meteorite impact crater called the Nördlinger Ries. There's a pretty good Wikipedia article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B6rdlinger_Ries My favorite part: "Stone building...