Starship Asterisk*

alter-ego wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 4:17 am IFN → Integrated Flux Nebula

Yes, thank you. This has now been fixed on the main NASA APOD. Apologies for the oversight.
- RJN

jks wrote: ↑Sun Apr 25, 2021 7:00 am ... the date above the image should be 2021 April 25.

Thanks! This has now been fixed. We apologize for the oversight.

Seems to be the wrong image here, not clear where the "superposed" magnetic streamlines are. An image connected to the title's (USRA) link may be the intended image. https://newsroom.usra.edu/galactic-merger-warps-magnetic-fields/ Lots of extra lines on that one. Yes, my bad. The correct ...

Thanks, neufer, for pointing out that nice YouTube video. I have now linked it into the main NASA APOD.
- RJN

Is that the right date for the touchdown, April 5, 2012? I was teaching an astronomy class that summer, and recall nervously waiting for news of the landing to come in while I was teaching that class. Wikipedia says August 6, 2012 was its landing date, so maybe someone confused A-months? Correct! I...

The APOD image for March 17, 2021 is identified as being a cleaned up version of one of the images from Venera 13. I think it may actually be from Venera 14 Yes, that is correct, the image was from Venera 14, and I have now changed the text on the main NASA APOD page to indicate this. I emailed Don...

I transposed the numbers in the nebula's name. It is actually called WR23, not WR32. This has now been corrected on the main NASA APOD. We apologize for the transposition.
- RJN

Ann wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:49 am A few more moons of Saturn are visible. Which ones? Tethys, Rhea, Dione, Iapetus?

Good question! Sky & Telescope gives one way to identify Saturn's moons:
https://skyandtelescope.org/wp-content ... turn.html

The words "Last week" were changed to "Two days ago" on the main NASA APOD. We apologize for the oversight.

jks wrote: ↑Wed Dec 16, 2020 5:32 am Hi,

I think that there are two threads for today's entry (2020 Dec 16). Also, in today's very nice APOD, the "Discuss" link points to yesterday's thread.

jks

Yes, thank you, this linking problem has now been fixed. We apologize for the oversight.

The videographers have now been identified and their names added to the Credits on the main NASA APOD. Thanks for those who pointed this out! - RJN

In response to an email making the point that the Arecibo Telescope was quite productive and useful even earlier this year, I have removed the words "Past its prime" from the main NASA APOD. We apologize for the characterization. - RJN

Today's (Sunday, 2020 December 6) APOD image has appeared on APOD before and was indeed quite widely circulated in the 1990s. We are curious, however, how many newer viewers of APOD are unfamiliar with some of astronomy's classic older images. APOD reruns images on Sundays partly to bring back to li...

Who's watching whom? Yes, thanks, that is correct English and it has been fixed on the main NASA APOD. Also a good link was pointed out that is now included. Last, to clear up some confusion elsewhere, the image shown on today's APOD was claimed in an email by the photographer to be a single exposu...

Dumb question: can the earth ever cast a shadow on mars? Or, does the earth ever eclipse the sun on mars? Or does the earth ever transit the sun on mars? I guess it would be a lot to ask for the geometry to line up well enough to allow that. Not a dumb question! Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org...

Based on a Facebook comment by Daniel Hiron, I re-calculated the relative angular size more exactly as 1779.8"/22" = about 80.9. I found the angular size of Mars on Oct 6, 2020 from this site: https://in-the-sky.org/graphs.php?gtype=5&startday=29&startmonth=8&startyear=2020&...

Ann wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 5:08 am
NGC 5643 and M106 are two different galaxies! They are not the same at all!

Yes, my bad. I did not mean to reference M106 like that. Thanks for catching that and alerting us! It has now been fixed on the main NASA APOD. I apologize for the oversight.
- RJN

aljo wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:59 am Titled? As in Duke, Earl, Viscount etc.?

Yes, thank you. That typo has now been fixed (Titled --> Tilted). I apologize for the oversight.
- RJN

Elzbeth_Amethyst wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:11 am There's a misspelling in the title. It should be SWIMMING not swmimming.

Yes. The title has now been fixed. Thanks!

- RJN

On the main NASA APOD, a Credit link has now been changed to point to the correct Raúl Rubio. I apologize for the oversight.
- RJN

The discoverer of SS 433, Dr. Larry Krumenaker has emailed in! Although he is too modest to post about it here, an article discussing some of the history behind SS 433 can be found here: https://carinaemajoris.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/a-ghost-in-the-shell-the-mystery-of-ss433/ . Dr. Krumenaker now r...

Responding to some email, the NASA APOD text has now been slightly edited to refer to Ceres, at least once, as a dwarf planet. - RJN

Because of a request by the astrophotographer, the hyperlink under the astrophotographer's name has been changed from his email address to his web page. - RJN

jks wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 4:27 am Hi,

Please be advised that currently the date given above the image(s) is 2020 August 13.

jks

Thank you for pointing that out. The date on the main NASA APOD has now been corrected to be 2020 August 12. We apologize for the oversight.
- RJN

An oversight has been corrected. On the main NASA APOD, the phrase "last August's" has now been changed to "2018 August's". We apologize for the error. - RJN