Starship Asterisk*

guessed right, thats all im saying? tomorrows clue is "Light Weekend"

Indeed very interesting. I barely knew of M60, and now I'm being told about the existence of M60-UCD1. Where will it all end? And thank goodness for the caption, as otherwise I might have assumed it was a lousy, overblown exposure of the Moon with a few washed-out stars and the odd aberration. (In ...

what makes a galaxy spiral then? i always thought it was the blackhole.

i look like a huge sink hole in the middle!

again its a recent one!!! was racking my brains to get this. well done bystander.

If the big bang is the chosen method of inception, and we all originated from a single spot in the universe, then how can we possibly look back in time (so to speak) and say things like "we are looking at our universe as it was 10billion years ago..." when we originated from the same spot ...

This image shows how powerful supermassie blackholes are. Just by looking at the core of M106 you can see that it looks like a giant celestial sink hole. Lovely image.

"The Densest Galaxy"

M60-UCD1
Source: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com ... ears-away/

this ones really hard!!!

it reminded me of the 8 Ball.

what makes it more special is it was taken on my birthday, apart from the 2007 bit of course.

im not going to post it as my favourite now, even though it is haha. so thaks geckzilla. but surely NASA knew nothing of this?

I take it back. I like the sombrero galaxy, but this is my favourite!!!! stunning.

very good nitpicker, hence the name.

this is a hard one, like the ISS or something, but ive literally trawled the search bar to death, might be beat but ill give myself another day before I ask for a clue!

damn and blast. so close but yet so far (650 million light years to be exact) so not really so close then haha.

very good, your turn now Art! i made it an easy one to get it started...

Enjoy Guys

It is really good fun.

Im really confued by this and don't know how to do it.

Welcome to "What is it? Space mystery object? Version 2.0" For those long enough in the tooth another version of this game can be found in this same part of the forum. it is now locked. However, it was a fun game and I am bringing it back, or at least attempting to. Rules: 1) All posts nee...

Any of you guys remember this post? it was awesome! I didnt realise the furore that my attempt caused in What is it? Space mystery object #39 . haha. I posted a small version of the APOD from the 22/11/2008 (or 11/22/2008 if your American) the picture in question is a panorama found here: http://apo...

http://news.sky.com/story/1147778/skin- ... re-disease


Exciting .

"Tomorrow's picture: the green unknown"


can only ever be Hannys Vorwerp!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Arecibo_message.svg/200px-Arecibo_message.svg.png was hoping for a more personal approach haha. individuals. ive already googled space/astronomy tattoos. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Pioneer_plaque.svg/763px-Pionee...

haha like this one here? http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?sa=X&tbm=isch&tbnid=aIOlVU0Oh_AGKM:&imgrefurl=http://420tribune.com/2011/04/carl-sagan-quotes-on-marijuana/&docid=7XO--Lrw80MbOM&imgurl=http://420tribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/marijuana-quote-carl-sagan.jpg&w=12...