Starship Asterisk*

Let's see, over four hours the earth rotates by sixty degrees; therefore, each of the 68 frames that were combined was rotated as needed to compensate for earth's rotation, so that the patterns of stars from different frames overlapped correctly. That leaves a puzzle: Why is the silhouette of a tre...

I don't know why, but I find this insectoid to be very creepy.
http://phys.org/news/2013-08-3d-printer ... video.html

mjimih wrote: Don't most rocky planets around our size or larger, produce "a" magnetic field bc of their hot liquid cores? How important is it that a magnetic field be present for surface life?

Well, Mars is a good example.

Given that the periodic table is universal, it doesn't seem to be accidental that life forms on earth are comprised primarily of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. Here is a link to an interesting book: http://www.thelivingcosmos.com/ Part of the thrust of astrobiology is to examine the nature o...

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wonderboy wrote:Since this is a Gene. Is there any possibility of this Gene being more prominent in some folk than others. For example, those with monobrows or enhanced brows or both. Those that are freakishly large.

Those SHORT with NO CHIN

Can't sleep. Weird observation I made a while back that I just thought of: When Pat holds my iPad while it is plugged in and charging, if I run my fingers lightly on the skin of his leg, I feel a very delicate tingling, vibration. Pat was dubious about my claim and he tried to do the same except wi...

Can the Spaghetti people form a church and file to be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3)of the Internal Revenue Code if they really, really, well, sort of believe in the Spaghetti god?

totalcarpenter wrote:What would happen if a planetoid plowed though the center of the star like a bullet though a water ballon?

Nothing.

Wouldn't the best test of resolution and limiting magnitude be a comparison of deep field images?

http://www.astro.spbu.ru/staff/resh/Lectures/lec6.pdf

And yet, and yet... the hot dogs must have been there from the beginning, in the Big Bang, as an incredibly, unfathomably remote future possibility. Even in the Big Bang, the first ingredients of hot dogs were cooked up. The first ingredients of free dance performances were cooked up too, and mild ...

This telescope deserves the Tim Allen grunt. thirty meter.jpg "With the signing last week of a "master agreement" for the Thirty Meter Telescope—destined to be the most advanced and powerful optical telescope in the world—the University of California and UCLA moved a step closer to pe...

geckzilla wrote: I am going to sob quietly into my pillow if the JWST somehow gets canceled or crashes. More space telescopes!

Yay!

I did a screen capture of the Hubble images footprint for WFC3 and ACS cameras.

Planet murica

If you take a close look, you'll see what appear to be H II regions throughout the galaxy that are colored green. I went to the Hubble Legacy Archive and the combined color image has the same green regions. It can't be ionized hydrogen, but what would cause the green structures? I cropped one of the...

A Mini Mona!

http://phys.org/news/2013-08-mini-mona-lisa.html

The Lobster Claw and the Bubble http://fth.bounceme.net/ Copyright: Fred Herrmann, All rights reserved 2013 https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-rGaPb01KFoo/UgGA3J49BHI/AAAAAAAAGtE/U5XElzbJylM/w1194-h834-no/Lobster_Bubble+2013.jpg Fred, you may want to scan your website. I use Trend Micro Titanium 20...

Beyond wrote:How about global-murica? But i was hoping for something a little more..... 'catchy'.

Neworldisorder?

This sensor has the greatest Full Well Capacity in the FLI line of cameras. 650,000 e- is a LOT! PL4301 Sensor Specs Sensor: Truesense KAF-4301E Pixels: 2084 x 2084 Pixel Size: 24 μm Full Well Capacity: 650,000 e- Sensor Diagonal: 70.7 mm Video Size (inch): 4.3 Anti Blooming: None Color Options: Mon...

Link to a website that has some really nice charts for spotting ISON. Just click on the month you want for the charts. The link is set to October.
http://waitingforison.wordpress.com/october-2013/

Chris Peterson wrote: It may stimulate speculative reasoning, but that is a very different kind of "speculative" than things like alternate universes and other versions of you or me.

I agree. That's why I said the idea was ludicrous.

SSTGBSJ110824.1-774407 http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen63/9381928932/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Proposal http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?id=12514&mission=hst This is a protoplanetary nebula in the constellation Chamaeleon. Hubble Legacy Archive Data set: SSTGBSJ110824.1-774407 ACS...

The equation was written in 1961 by Frank Drake not for purposes of quantifying the number of civilizations, but intended as a way to stimulate scientific dialogue at the world's first SETI meeting, in Green Bank, West Virginia.-Wiki Besides illuminating the factors involved in such a search, the Dr...

Link to some images of well known astronomical objects with the moon to scale.
http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/p162076373

No. We're here because if we weren't, we wouldn't be. Nothing to do with odds. So, I take it that you're not a fan of the Drake Equation. Why do you say that? The equation seems to me perfectly valid, although perhaps not complete. But it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that the Universe ...