Starship Asterisk*

How could you misspell "galaxy" (galaxx) in the title?? There are frequently misspellings and errors in APOD; don't you have spellcheck?

CO is a molecule, so there are no such things as CO atoms.

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This reminds me of a limerick:

Imagine a tetherball game.
Centrifugal force is the name
Of the notional thing
That pulls on the string
In a rotating reference frame.

The space shuttle's name is Atlantis, not Altantis. Whoever writes these blurbs often doesn't do the greatest job spell-checking his or her work. If APOD ever wants help with that, I'm available!

The picture doesn't allow us to "cruise along the icy rings of Saturn," it allows us to move across the rings.

"Craggily" is not a word. You mean craggy or cragged.

It's clearly the starship Enterprise, specifically the saucer section. The ship crashes to Earth in the latest movie, Into Darkness. At least, that is what the previews suggest, as I haven't watched it yet .