Starship Asterisk*

Ann wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2019 4:38 am ...
As a color commentator,
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In my book, you are THE color commentator on APOD!

B^)

So, what does the aqua (blue-green) circle that covers the left half of the APOD represent?
If the entire nebula is 450 LY wide, and the scale in the upper right of the image shows 10 LY, the aqua circle is too small to be the nebula.

Also known as, The Big Ahuna?
Grinning, ducking, and running.

It looks like a hairy, scary face!
B^)

I'll defer to Chris's explanation over what I was going to say... and that is if a Doppler image of the galaxy exists, we could surmise which side of the galaxy is spinning toward us, and which side is spinning away, but now that I think of it, that still wouldn't tell us if we're looking at the &qu...

When I worked with a seismograph crew, we buried our geophones to prevent wind from adding noise to our readings.

It looks like Sol ruptured an artery!

wolfie138 wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2019 6:10 am why is that cloud so black?

I think someone spilled some black paint on the slide and didn't want to admit it to their boss.

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2019 12:49 pm

mjsakers wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2019 12:38 pm I counted 103,041 stars.

Check again. You're off by two.

I think you've both included stars behind, and not part of M5, in your counts, or are you including the brown dwarfs?

neufer wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2019 8:17 pm

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TheZuke! wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2019 3:57 pm
So...
Is today's APOD showing just part of the homonulculos(sp?) nebula?

Or is it embedded within the photo?

Thanks Art!
That answered my question!

mfavret wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 5:24 am I'm french and I hope you will excuse my poor English.
[...] Second, the flyby takes about one minute and the galaxy is thousand light-years large, so our virtual speed is millions time the light speed ! [...]

Godspeed!

So...
Is today's APOD showing just part of the homonulculos(sp?) nebula?
Or is it embedded within the photo?

Neufer, I wouldn't say those Galaxies are "meatier".
B^)

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JohnD wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 8:22 am Yes, and thank you for literally putting the BH 'picture' into perspective,

As I mentioned earlier, it looks like the Black Hole is "mooning" us.
Calling it "BH", further makes me think of it as "butt hole".

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 11:44 am the constellations will probably all have to be renamed!

The Constellation Formerly Known As Ursa Major!

B^)

P.S. thanks Ann for your "colourful" commentary!

blu_and_zimba wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2019 11:17 am This is Jupiter? Looks like the cream in my coffee this morning.

"I had a dream, there were clouds in my coffee".
-Carly Simon

Space faring cows briefly stopped on Mars back in 2013.

FYI, I had no idea where the Alborz mountains are, so I did a web search.
They are northeast of Tehran, Iran.

I think it is mooning us.

Okay, Freddy, Zendae, Ctrl-Z. I don't have exactly what you are asking for, but consider Square Law. Alpha Centauri at 4 ly is a bright start in the sky. The same star at 1 ly would be 16 times brighter. what would that look like? I'm not sure... Venus? Moon? (although not the apparent size of the M...

Ctrl-Z A couple weeks ago, Art Neufer pretty much answered your question in another daily discuss. https://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=39293#p290811 Now considering that Alpha Proxima is ~4 light years away I'm guessing that would put it and it's two companions within 16 cubic light ye...

Thank you Art N. for writing the interstellar distances of a Global Cluster. I just joined Starship* mostly to find that out. Which then leads me to the questions. If an Earthlike planet orbited one of those stars, what would the night sky look like? With stars approximately 1 LY apart they would be...