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I've read enough of the objections to this image and am sick of the incivility so have locked this topic.

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Just got this from everyone's favorite spacegeck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggr_JzivfRA

Gooooooo, Judy!!!

The 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) starts this Sunday evening in Seattle, Washington; there are, however, pre-conference sessions over this coming weekend, including a two-day Software Carpentry workshop, a two-hour workshop to Help NASA Observe Distant Worlds with Exoplane...

Rauf wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 5:21 am "The stars, though, will continue to circle the poll for as long as the Earth spins"
I am sorry, but is that supposed to be poll?? Shouldn't it be pole instead??

Yes, I think so, and I've corrected it here and on FB and dropped a note to the APOD editor.

Rauf wrote: ↑Tue Aug 23, 2022 3:29 pm Hello
Are you not updating this index?? It seems very useful..

This index was created and maintained in the past by volunteers who've moved on to other tasks/projects, so no, unfortunately, it's no longer being updated.

I'm glad you've recovered!

As someone else once put it, knees are the argument against the notion of "intelligent design."

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced three new prizes in February of this year, one each for Outreach, Development, and Education, which were created with generous funding from IAU Past President Ewine van Dishoeck. These prizes will be awarded every three years, to correspond with t...

Did anyone else see meteors last night? It was a good night for them!

carrying 53 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit

Robbing us all of the night sky.

Shocking and very sad news. Neufer sometimes drove me nuts (to his delight, I suspect!), but he also provided and inspired a lot of fun, doggerel, and discussion. I will remember him as a brilliant polymath: a physicist with deep knowledge of literature, especially Shakespeare, and music, an incredi...

Woo-hoo!!!

Yeah, I've taken to just straight-out deleting the spam rather than moving it to the bin of hidden shame.

Admin here, with admin hat on. As a reminder to all, APOD is an outreach site. It uses images to engage and educate people about astronomy and the universe. One pic a day, explained by professional astrophysicists. varadinagypal, I don't know where you think you might have reported him for his comme...

Outside of very limited exceptions, which are not met here, discussion of creationism/intelligent design is not permitted on Asterisk. Bruce was wrong to bring it up, but correct to try to move subsequent discussion to PMs. So if anyone wants to discuss it, take it to PMs, please.

Thanks.

Judy does it again! Although astronomers have been studying the galaxy for decades, it took a non-scientist to make the surprising discovery. Judy Schmidt, an artist and amateur astronomer based in Modesto, California, uncovered the dark shadows when she reprocessed Hubble exposures of the galaxy in...

November 19, 2020 Following a review of engineering assessments that found damage to the Arecibo Observatory cannot be stabilized without risk to construction workers and staff at the facility, the U.S. National Science Foundation will begin plans to decommission the 305-meter telescope, which for ...

Great! Seemingly random photos, but they turn out wonderful. Thank you; it's totally the camera! Sometimes some cropping of the image helps, too. (All the bad shots are my fault, though! :lol2: ) Why I asked - there are people who "hunt" for interesting shots. Well, such a "hunt"...

Hey Art,

The kid is fine, thanks; he's fortunate to be able to work from his home.

Hope you and your family have all been staying safe.

Orca, this one's for you.

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Art, if you're going to posting stats about the community here, make them accurate. If you're not going to do that, don't post them. Thanks.

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Thank you.

Owlice for the team

Also, Ann and Kay, thank you for your kind words. I'd love to take credit, but it's all the camera, truly!