Starship Asterisk*

[size=120][b]Southern Milky Way[/b][/size]
[url]http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/widefield/Southern%20Winter%20Milky%20Way/info.htm[/url]
Copyright: José Joaquín Pérez
[img2]http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/widefield/Southern%20Winter%20Milky%20Way/med.jpg[/img2]

Has Rogelio Bernal Andreo's incredible portrait of constellation Leo been posted here? It's a totally amazing image, but it's huge, so I'm only providing [url=http://blog.deepskycolors.com/archive/2012/05/06/Leo-Constellation.html]a link[/url].

Seriously, this image ought to be made Astronomy Picture of the Day!

Ann

[size=120][b]North America Nebula closeup[/b][/size]
[url]http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/ngc7000_Maknewt_QSI.htm[/url]
Copyright: Steve Crouch
[img2]http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/ngc7000_maknewt_HaRGB_small2.jpg[/img2]

[size=120][b]Antares region[/b][/size]
[url]http://www.astrostudio.at/1_Deep%20Sky%20Objects.php?img=images/1_Deep%20Sky%20Objects/171_scorpius_detail.jpg&PHPSESSID=b23ed032acec2471457c230165e6a509[/url]
Copyright: Gerald Rhemann
[attachment=0]171_scorpius_detail.jpg[/attachment]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW688sGmJnA[/youtube]
[url]http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1090[/url]

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=15094&p=178205#p178205

[size=120][b]B35[/b][/size]
[url]http://www.pbase.com/tango33/image/143299952[/url]
Copyright: Kfir Simon
[attachment=0]143299952.pesIiJVH.jpg[/attachment]

[img2]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Heliospheric-current-sheet_edit.jpg[/img2]
Heliospheric Current Sheet
Illustration Credit: NASA, Werner Heil
Found: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere[/url]
Home: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Heliospheric-current-sheet_edit.jpg[/url]

[img3=""]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/661921main_PIA14434_946-710.jpg[/img3]
[url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2289.html][b][i]Mars Rocks[/i][/b][/url] | NASA IOTD | 2012 Jun 22
[b][i]Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona[/i][/b]

[img3=""]http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/deep_blue_sea_detail.jpg[/img3]
[img3=""]http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/deep_blue_sea-580x569.jpg[/img3]

[b][i]Credit: Alan Friedman ([url=http://www.avertedimagination.com/]Averted Imagination[/url])[/i][/b]

[url]http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/deepbluesea.html[/url]
[url]http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/deepbluesea2.html[/url]

[url=http://www.universetoday.com/95921/the-deep-blue-sea-of-the-sun/][b][i]The “Deep Blue Sea” of the Sun[/i][/b][/url]
Universe Today | Jason Major | 2012 June 21

[url=http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/06/21/no-words/][b][i]No words[/i][/b][/url]
Discover Blogs | Bad Astronomy | 2012 June 21

[img2]http://www.planetary.org/assets/images/6-saturn/cassini/tethys_natural.jpg[/img2]
Meet Tethys
Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Gordan Ugarkovic
Found: [url]http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2012/06201210-gordan-tethys.html[/url]

[size=120][b]NGC 6188 widefield[/b][/size]
[url]http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/ngc6188_STL11K_FSQ106.htm[/url]
Copyright: Steve Crouch
[img2]http://members.pcug.org.au/~stevec/ngc6188_STL11K_FSQ106_HaRGB_small2.jpg[/img2]

[quote="PDB11"]Today's cartoon on XKCD really blew me away! I think the cartoonist would readily agree to its being hosted here.

[url]http://xkcd.com/1071/[/url]

(Sorry, no thumbnail - I'm not sure what the copyright issues would be)[/quote]
http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8479&p=178034#p178034

Today's cartoon on XKCD really blew me away! I think the cartoonist would readily agree to its being hosted here.

[url]http://xkcd.com/1071/[/url]

[img2]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exoplanets.png[/img2]

If you go to the XKCD website and click on the image there, you get an even bigger one.

I find it mind-blowing that we can now detect Mars-sized exoplanets.

Philip.

[img3=""]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/661214main_image_2287_946-710.jpg[/img3]

[url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2287.html][b][i]UGC 5497: 'Like Salt Sprinkled on Black Velvet'[/i][/b][/url]
NASA IOTD | 2012 June 20

[b][i]Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble[/i][/b]

[b][i] http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=28861 [/i][/b]

[img2]http://www.esa.int/images/Saturn-5-6-121_H.jpg[/img2]
[b]In the Shadows of Saturn’s Rings[/b]
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/J. Major
Source: http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMYIPAXH3H_index_0.html
Cross-post: http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=28922

Local earth, America-centric, but still rad set of images.

Pizza delivery routes in Manhattan:
[url=http://i.imgur.com/LTRC8.jpg][img]http://i.imgur.com/LTRC8.jpg[/img][/url]

Oodles of gorgeous graphics here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161488/Secret-corpse-flights-pizza-boy-delivery-routes-daily-commute-Stunning-aerial-images-reveal-seen-America.html

All seem to be part of a PBS special.
http://www.pbs.org/america-revealed/

[img3="[url]http://www.esa.int/images/Carina_B70_G160_R250_10052012_BIS_Comp_H.jpg[/url]"]http://asterisk.apod.com/download/file.php?id=7046&mode=view[/img3]

[url=http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM0DE2XN2H_index_0.html][size=110][b][i]Blowing bubbles in the Carina Nebula[/i][/b][/size][/url]
ESA Space Science IOTW | Herschel | 2012 June 04

[b][i]Credits: ESA/PACS/SPIRE/Thomas Preibisch, Universitäts-Sternwarte München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.[/i][/b]

[b][i] http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=28809 [/i][/b]

[img2]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/660718main_blue_marble_arctic_cropped_946-710.jpg[/img2]

[url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2286b.html][b][i]Blue Marble 2012 - Arctic View[/i][/b][/url]
NASA IOTD | 2012 June 19

[b][i]Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Suomi NPP[/i][/b]

[img2]http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/jupiter/jupiter.jpg[/img2]
Chandra Examines Jupiter During New Horizons Approach
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SwRI/R.Gladstone et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage (AURA/STScI)
Home: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/jupiter/
Found: Facebook Professional Astronomers Group (Mark Burke)

[size=120][b]NGC 3532[/b][/size]
[url]http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/deepsky/13667287_7Mtr58#!i=1844260645&k=FJjVKwq&lb=1&s=X3[/url]
Copyright: Marco Lorenzi
[img2]http://www.glitteringlights.com/Images/deepsky/i-FJjVKwq/3/XL/NGC3532HaRGB-XL.jpg[/img2]

[img3=""]http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/screen/potw1225a.jpg[/img3]

[url=http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1225a/][b][i]Yepun’s Laser and the Magellanic Clouds[/i][/b][/url]
ESO Picture of the Week | 2012 June 18

[b][i]Image Credit: ESO, [url=http://www.twanight.org/tafreshi]Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)[/url][/i][/b]
[b][i] http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=28911 [/i][/b]

[img3="[i]Milky Way from Concordia Base
Image Credit: ESA/IPEV/PNRA – Alexander Kumar[/i]"]http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/7394080828_4405e27c5a_b.jpg[/img3]

[url=http://www.universetoday.com/95867/milky-way-to-concordia-base-come-in-concordia-base/][b][i]Milky Way to Concordia Base… Come In, Concordia Base…[/i][/b][/url]
Universe Today | Jason Major | 2012 June 18

[img3="[i]Flying photographer Brian Whittaker photographed these NLCs over Canada on June 13, 2012. [b](Image Courtesy of Brian Whittaker)[/b][/i]"]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/659831main_ncls-061312.jpg[/img3]
[url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/aim/news/noctilucent-season2012.html][size=120][b][i]2012 Noctilucent Cloud Season Begins[/i][/b][/size][/url]
NASA | Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) | 2012 June 18

[size=120][b]Dark Horse Nebula[/b][/size]
[url]http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/widefield/Pipe%20Bowl/info.htm[/url]
Copyright: José Joaquín Pérez
[img2]http://www.astro-austral.cl/imagenes/widefield/Pipe%20Bowl/med.jpg[/img2]

[img3="[size=120][b][i]Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute[/i][/b][/size]"]http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/casJPGFullS73/W00074443.jpg[/img3]

[url=http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/06/17/saturn-raw/][b]Saturn, raw[/b][/url] | Discover Blogs | Bad Astronomy | 2012 June 17
[url=http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/raw/rawimagedetails/index.cfm?imageID=263962][b]W00074443.jpg[/b][/url] | NASA JPL-Caltech | Cassini Solstice Mission | 2012 June 15