Starship Asterisk*

APOD Robot wrote: its fiery trail becomes an eerie, noctilucent exhaust plume glinting in sunlight.

This plume created quite a stir among early risers on the west side of the peninsula.

emc wrote:...past the range of all sensors...

NOT an accurate description of flatulence.

bon voyage

I don't understand the path the camera is following in the video.

What is the elevation of the cloud deck? I notice a trajectory change after exiting the cloud deck. Wind speed above and below? The cloud deck was about 10 seconds into the flight. I happened to be standing under that particular deck of clouds ....with a video camera ....with about 10 seconds of us...

Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:
I'm sure an eclipse by Earth or Venus would be "annularly".

Would not it be described as a transit?

So Arthur C. Clarke was wrong, it's not on the moon.

This and other interesting global relationships are covered in an episode on Nova (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/eart ... space.html) underscoring the fact that causing shifts in global weather patterns may come with unforeseen repercussions.

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Ann wrote:If this holds up, it's HUGE!!!

Ann

Cosmologically Complicating Dust

Why do many of your starfield shots look like they've been shot thru a starburst filter? Because they have??? .... No Diffraction spikes are lines radiating from bright light sources in reflecting telescope images. They are artifacts caused by light diffracting around the support vanes of the secon...

starsurfer wrote:...the Herbig Haro outflow near the top of the image...

...remind me of the Stalk Eyed Fly

Chris Peterson wrote: ...a complex interaction between star formation and density gradients caused by gravitational resonances...

AKA , Bartenders..

This has been some fascinating reading but invokes the image of priest tittering over tea leaves. HA!

I think the solution is to have categories of "Partial", "Total" and "Too close to call".

The exchange between Tomatoherd and Chris has been quite educational , thanks guys!

... once-invisible filaments ... AKA Dark? These metals seem out of place. Since these structures have never been seen before , they have never figured into galactic mass estimates. I am guessing it would be rather difficult quantify and deduct the mass of these filaments from Dark Matter estimates...

geckzilla wrote:Throw out your cosmology text and liberate yourself from rightness.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00108

These Authors have written a number of cheeky articles. I love this line from one ...

Cosmic Conspiracies wrote:Even string theorists would typically agree that there is empirical evidence for matter in the Universe.

Goats are much more appropriate for space, since they are smaller, give more milk per pound, and are very robust, needing no oxygen and able to forage on nothing but moon rocks. NASA wasted a lot of money on this new boondoggle. That's ridiculous! If we send goats we'll have to put chicken wire aro...

Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:The NASA fiction link was a nice touch....

Thanks for mentioning it, would have missed it otherwise.

Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:

FloridaMike wrote:So, ... How ... dark .... is it!

It's sooo dark, it doesn't matter!

OH, It matters... It's just not something you can reflect on......

So, ... How ... dark .... is it!

http://www.orlandocommerciallandscape.com/library/Robellini.jpg Warm winter here in Mid Florida. We have sewn bed sheets together to create a cover for the Robellini palm in our yard. A typical winter requires covering it half a dozen times, covered it twice this year just out of precaution and was...

Markus Schwarz wrote: ... The time dependent gravitational field of a accelerating mass ...

What exactly are you referring to here?

In the upper portion of the image, starting on the left, dipping down then up and continuing right, there appears to be an artifact on the image that reminds me of a smoke trail. It is not smoke, of course, but is that an out of focus antenna or some sort of window reflection from inside? What do y...

Chris Peterson wrote:
The dark side? What's that?

It can only be seen from the dark continent....