Starship Asterisk*

by **owlice** » Sat May 07, 2011 2:13 pm

lol!! Of course not!!

by **neufer** » Sat May 07, 2011 1:45 pm

owlice wrote:
neufer wrote:
http://shakespearebyanothername.blogspo ... world.html
Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford was "Shakespeare."
No bias there, is there?

Oh...I hadn't noticed.

by **owlice** » Sat May 07, 2011 12:24 pm

neufer wrote:http://shakespearebyanothername.blogspo ... world.html

Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford was "Shakespeare."

No bias there, is there?

by **neufer** » Thu May 05, 2011 3:22 am

http://shakespearebyanothername.blogspo ... world.html

by **Ailean4321** » Tue May 03, 2011 8:59 pm

Tilt wrote:Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."

— EAP

"like"

by **Tilt** » Mon May 02, 2011 2:00 am

Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."

— EAP

by **DavidLeodis** » Sun May 01, 2011 1:26 pm

The image has a line across much of it that gives to me the impression like that of a cell about to undergo cell division. Fascinating image.

by **Beyond** » Sun May 01, 2011 3:40 am

This APOD seems to have turned into A-PODE for the One who discovered the subject of this APOD. Neat! You Ode to do this more often.

by **NoelC** » Sun May 01, 2011 1:30 am

Based on the number of views of this thread, I'd say you (and NASA / CXC / F.J. Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) et al.) have gone viral, Owlice!

-Noel

by **owlice** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 11:40 pm

In English, "Brahe" is typically pronounced "brah." I may wish otherwise, as I love the Canadian "eh"-ddition; totally cracked me up!!!

by **islader2** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:29 pm

Creativist: I have read every APOD since Day One. When "Discuss" came along, I was delighted. Golly, I had Neufer comment on one om my posts! Hang in there--and follow the links (many of them in Discuss).
comments are welcome, even negativity! Thanx,

by **Ann** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:11 pm

JohnD wrote:

A 'raphe', pronounced "raff-eh" is a seam, ridge or edge - hence 'seen at the edge of science'.
Well, half a rhyme is better than none.

That's not half a rhyme, because Tycho Brahe's last name was pronounced brah-eh.

Ann

by **JohnD** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:33 pm

Well done!
But
"Seen by mortals and their ma
Named for one called Tycho Brahe" ??
Or even
"...ma, eh"?
Eheu!

Try,
"Only seen by science raphe,
Named for one called Tycho Brahe"

A 'raphe', pronounced "raff-eh" is a seam, ridge or edge - hence 'seen at the edge of science'.
Well, half a rhyme is better than none.

LA Stars,
You'll find that APOD cations contain multiple links to the source of the picture and to many other pages that add to the information therein. Not many here, but the second one takes you to lots of info about this extraordinary sight
John

by **Jenanne** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 6:36 pm

owlice wrote:Thank you! I was amused (and of course very pleased!) when using this was proposed, and thank neufer for the prompt.

A slightly more fitting version of the full poem, to go with the original Asterisk post on today's image, is below; bet some can suggest improvements, and I welcome seeing them, so please post your own!

Tycho! Tycho! burning bright
In the darkness of the night,
What exploding white dwarf star
Did frame thy remnant from afar,

In the distant deep dark skies
Under gaze of human eyes?
Seen by mortals and their ma
Named for one called Tycho Brahe.

And what forces and what art
Could form the gases of thy heart?
When thy wave began to spread,
Thrown off from a star now dead,

Chandra has thy stripes revealed!
X-rays show what was concealed:
Magnetic walls, electrons trapped
Spiral 'round field lines now mapped?

Oh, the blast threw off thy shell
And the heavens blazed like hell
When thy remnant first was born
In fifteen seventy-two one morn.

Tycho, Tycho, burning bright
In the darkness of the night,
What exploding white dwarf star
Did frame thy remnant from afar?
(A thousand apologies to Blake)

Love it! Thank you for the extended poem! It does justice to Blake's original classic.

I, too, would have liked an explanation after the poem so I didn't have to go hunting for the info; it would have made a nice change -- the poem and then the hard data.

Jenanne, a longtime APOD fan

by **NoelC** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 6:15 pm

Cute! I did think it was a stretch trying to rhyme Brahe with ma.

And what a cool image. Those expecting only pure science without cultural enrichment need only take the link in the poem and be inundated with geek speak.

-Noel

by **Creativist** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:53 pm

The poem, although lovely and possibly good enough to be entered in a poetry contest, was not as informative as I have come to expect when visiting this site (which I do on nearly a daily basis). I look forward to reading the explanation from a professional astronomer as is promised in the introduction, and was very disappointed that I had to dig for it in the postings.

I would have loved to read this poem on a poetry site and would have enjoyed it had it been in addition to - rather than instead of - a scientific explanation of this incredible image. But I was frustrated when it was used in place of the scientific explanation and hope that this does not become a regular practice. Sign me as ... A disappointed fan of APOD!

by **Mulsar11** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:48 pm

For some reason to me, after visiting the site: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/tycho2/ and seeing their explanation for the arc (material pushed off a companion star) via their diagram, that this explanation doesn't seem to be physically possible at least in the way it was diagramed. Instead of producing an arc of material, it would seem that a donut-like structure (like a smoke ring) would be produced. If you look at the "high energy X-rays showing iron debris" link images under set 3 "high X-ray", you can see a circle-like feature that the "arc" at least seems to be a part of. Yes there would be a "shadow" feature to see, but it would be the interior of the ring structure. Why is one side of the ring brighter than the other? Could be that the "arc" is closer to our view with the further portions of the ring being further away and obscured by other debris from the explosion.

Just some thoughts for you consideration...

by **C0ppert0p** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:18 pm

But Tycho Brahe is prounounced "TEE-ko BRA-hay"
To a Canadian the fix is obvious:

Tycho! Tycho! burning bright
In the darkness of the night,
What exploding white dwarf star
Did frame thy remnant from afar,

In the distant deep dark skies
Under gaze of human eyes?
Seen by mortals and their ma, eh
Named for one called Tycho Brahe.

by **Beyond** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:15 pm

How did i ever miss owlice and neufer Ode-ing at each other? If you two do enough, you could make a book and call it -->The Ode's of the 'Cool' owl and the 'MAD' man. OR, you could also call it -->The book of Dueling Ode-ders. And blame, er, dedicate it to the Inspirer--Tycho Brahe, for his explosive observation.

by **Dustin** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 4:24 pm

Ahh
Celestial Poetry. Love it`
Thanks,
Dustin

by **alphachapmtl** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 1:59 pm

Something growing in a Petri dish...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cornellfungi/1875227806/
http://www.hackcollege.com/2008/04/11/p ... versities/

by **CML** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:51 pm

I'm a huge fan of Tycho, have been ever since I took up amateur astronomy in high school. This APOD was a pleasant surprise.

by **biddie67** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:28 pm

What a wonderful and fun posting today's APOD is!!!

As the image was downloading, I had a very un-astronomical flashback to the bags of fur that I would get every Spring when I shaved my samoyed's very shaggy coat.

But then the magic ying-yang of friendly interactive poetry, history of the human kind and fascinating cosmic events were all linked together for today's APOD - what a special "colony in our mind's universe" the Starship Asterisk has become ...

by **mexhunter** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 11:36 am

Congratulations Alice!!!
Excelent poem and APOD.
Greetings
César

by **owlice** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:12 am

Thank you!

I was amused (and of course very pleased!) when using this was proposed, and thank neufer for the prompt.

A slightly more fitting version of the full poem, to go with the original Asterisk post on today's image, is below; bet some can suggest improvements, and I welcome seeing them, so please post your own!

Tycho! Tycho! burning bright
In the darkness of the night,
What exploding white dwarf star
Did frame thy remnant from afar,

In the distant deep dark skies
Under gaze of human eyes?
Seen by mortals and their ma
Named for one called Tycho Brahe.

And what forces and what art
Could form the gases of thy heart?
Then thy wave began to spread,
Thrown off from a star now dead.

Chandra has thy stripes revealed!
X-rays show what was concealed:
Magnetic walls, electrons trapped
Spiral 'round field lines now mapped?

Oh, the blast threw off thy shell
And the heavens blazed like hell
When thy remnant first was born
In fifteen seventy-two one morn.

Tycho, Tycho, burning bright
In the darkness of the night,
What exploding white dwarf star
Did frame thy remnant from afar?

(A thousand apologies to Blake)

Starship Asterisk*

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