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Why does it always seem to skip and hop across the sun? Is it just lost images?

Looking forward to the day when this will just be 'meh'. It wont be a great leap forward for women, it will be a leap forward for the men who currently dont like it,

I've never seen that big arrow?

I guess there is some relationship with the G at the surface of an object to the minimum size of pebble/dust it can hold, along with perihelion too!

NGC 3628 just needs putting on its side to stop all the stars leaking out.

Just a typo "l300 light years"

The WAC has no attitude control (Without Attitude Control) so presumably the V-2 would need to spin somewhat before releasing the 2nd Stage as there would be nothing to keep it pointing in the right direction.
Anyone know anything about this?

Is it a hurricane or is it an anti-cyclone driven by the cold gas falling down the central hole towards the centre of the planet?

Having spent many happy hours playing with sand and dust in various forms I would put money on this being dry dust/sand. It would be nice to see the origin of the flow more clearly but the tendency to follow new paths suggests the flow settles on the surface like lava so forcing the later flows to f...

"Mermaids Purse' - for dogfish or skates egg sacks.

So what is (or what causes) the central blob about a 1/3rd the way down the main plume?

I walked the high moors in the UK in very cold weather. You often come across blades of ice like those mentioned. Close examination shows they have not been formed by sublimation but by condensation - at the heart of each one was a blade of grass. As it was something I was familiar with since childh...

Just wondering if there would be anything in the geological record for this - would we have received enough gamma rays from the nova to leave a trace?

I hope they have some taken close enough together to allow a 3D view into the clouds.

This may sound like a joke but it really isnt:
Soon these pictures will be kept from the public domain because they show weather and will be 'audited' by Trump.

I normally get all OCD about astonomical pictures with 'oomans in them but that is a cracker of a shot.

Is the dotted streak (bottom left by the cloud top) a satellite or a spinning perseid?

I notice the solar panels are not all pointing in the same direction. Is this to help control generation to match demand or are the being used like solar sails to guide the craft?

I doubt any alien will be able to understand the message written on the wires.

A quick blast on a ray tracer will show Mr Russel to be largely correct.

rstevenson wrote:

phlloydl wrote:So what is "11:00 am Eastern Tome" in UT, please?

Glad you asked... 11:00 am Eastern Time is 9:00 am in Utah.
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I've seen a few of these jets and one thing strikes me - one jet is often more linear and better defined than the other. Is this because they are electrically polarised and one consists of electrons and negatively charged ions and is more easily disrupted and the other is positive ions and so less e...

A study of a few years ago of Jupiter showed that gravitational effects travel at c. Near a black hole c is approaching 0 to an outside observer so any gravitational radiation caused by the coalescing will be observed at the same time as the event horizon - ie never.

At that low angle, those mountains strongly resembles busted and stacked Arctic pack ice, oh...wait a minute...it is ice I think it is - the more I see this the more I am convinced that the flat bit is in fact a frozen crater lake and the three lobes around it are stuff splashed out from some impac...

CGI was so much better in those days.