Starship Asterisk*

orin stepanek wrote:Would make a pretty but unusual marble!

Or holiday ornament!

In case anyone is interested... Tora Greve, who I mentioned in a previous post , will be in Salem, Oregon, for the eclipse, in the company of, among others, Jay Pasachoff, professor of astronomy at Western University. At least that's what I a Swedish ladies' magazine told me! Ann Ann, small correct...

Just curious where Asteriskians might be, if traveling, for this event. I'm leaving for Oregon tomorrow; my son is flying from Massachusetts to meet me there to join me in gridlock. Surely others are also heading into totality, and some of you probably don't have to because you live in the zone (luc...

POW!!! Just knocked me out!!!

They are currently matched in apparent size, but have not always been and will not continue to be.

We got lucky!

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Thank you, Chris.

The five white spots at the top/top right here (screenshot from the video) appear to be pretty evenly spaced. Are these impact scars?

What a lovely shot!

Oooooooooo!!!!!!!

The top image is particularly beautiful and intriguing.

It also looks like a very toothy monster snake that's going to bite something -- eeeeek!!!!

I love this mission!!

Thanks, Julian; I've alerted the editors.

Links to potentially unfamiliar astronomical terms are surely appropriate and useful, but it's a little insulting to assume that a reader needs help finding out about the most mundane and commonly known facts, and links to completely inane material are worse than unhelpful, they are distracting and...

All of these... I want all of these rendered in oils or acrylics, framed and on my walls.

This mission just knocks me out!!

Wowsers, what a gorgeous image!

You want me to send you the raw file?

The image below was submitted by the photographer, who asks for help in identifying the cause of the blue streak near the Pleiades. He writes: From bottom to top the image shows Orion, Taurus, and the Pleiades. I'm not sure what the blue streak below and to the left of the Pleiades is. It couldn't b...

I asked Phil Plait (aka Bad Astronomer) to have a look; his response was Yeah, it’s likely a fuel dump from a missile." He has a good explanation and images here on a similar event, and also wrote about the event seen from Mauna Kea that I linked to in the first post. My thanks to those who wei...

The images below were sent to APOD by the photographer, who asked for help with identifying what she saw. Here is information from her first email: Image location: Canada / Arctic Circle / lat: 66 33’ N Time of image: AM 3.17 date: September 09 / 2016 This images was edited in Photoshop to delete so...

You might want to use the Calendar link instead, if you're just catching up on recent APODs: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html

For decades, I've bought chestnuts to put in turkey stuffing (so so so good), and for over 20 years, I've had a source of these incredibly delicious goodies right in front of my house and dropping nuts all over the front yard! We are frequently so removed from nature that we overlook food that lite...

So it's 2.5 years later, and until yesterday, I did not examine the tree further. While outside in the gorgeous weather yesterday, I decided to pick up burrs that had fallen (so many! so spiny! I used pliers), and then, since some of them still had nuts in them, to harvest the nuts. I ended up with ...

I.M. Huge wrote:Well now, yet another astounding pic, that is not astronomical at all. Simple a sunset, that is at a point where a city has built buildings, and then someone imagines some interstellar connection to it all..

Of course this is astronomical.

This planet, this mission...! ~~ swoon ~~