Starship Asterisk*

I think that the crew at APOD has lost the plot!! So many images and they pick the noise.

There are many sites on which to see amateur images, including Asterisk, so why denigrate APOD for being, well, APODish? It is because with name like Astronomy Picture of the Day I expect to see a photo directly related to astronomy every day. The website name is very specific. I don't expect to se...

There are many professional images that could be shown instead of amateur images, and there are at this point likely millions of images just from NASA missions that could be shown rather than images from other telescopes/missions. Part of APOD's charm (and, given what the editors have said, design)...

I think it's the word "Astronomical" that 'throws' some people. Somehow it's forgotten (or never realized in the first place) that the Earth is actually part of the whole Astronomical picture. Just ask any alien passing by. :mrgreen: As far as I am aware astronomy is the study of matter o...

I have been viewing APOD's for many years and I don't get photos like this one. Sure it is a nice photo but it should be on Meteorological Picture of the Day! As far as I am aware Astronomy is the study of everything outside of the Earth's atmosphere.