Starship Asterisk*

Of course, in the north the days continue to grow shorter, the Sun marching lower in the sky as winter approaches. Summer is now a memory. :| Chanson D'Adventure I heard in Addison's Walk a bird sing clear ‘This year the summer will come true. This year. This year. ‘Winds will not strip the blossom...

In the 19 Sept. 2010 APOD picture of the Carina Nebula there is a round or spherical object that is different from all the other dots or blobs in the picture. It is located in the lower right hand portion of the picture, just a bit above a mountain like structure protruding up from the bottom right...

Yes but I want to see what this looks like from OUR angle - i.e., stars popping out at me

How possible would it be to "three-dimensionalize" this image? Or even better, the one linked-to below. Perhaps either viewable with red/blue glasses, or as a stereo image (to avoid color issues)? I know there's some uncertainty in the stellar distances, and there's more than a heck of a l...

Brythonic fluff

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King Lear 2.2

KENT
Sir, in good sooth, in sincere verity,
Under the allowance of your great aspect,
Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire
On flickering Phoebus' front,--

CORNWALL
What mean'st by this?

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I have trouble comprehending how the ISM can have such low density yet still have such a high temperature. The same thing is true of the Earth's thermosphere: very hot, but would be "felt" as very cold because it's so rarefied. Wouldn't the heat of an isolated hydrogen atom radiate away ve...