Starship Asterisk*

MargaritaMc wrote:Does Pluto's orbit really go inside, not only the orbit of Neptune, but also of Uranus? That is what this image seems to show. I knew about Neptune, of course, but skimming the orbit of Uranus is new to me.

Boomer12k wrote:Interesting, but kind of confusing.

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Yorgos_Kap wrote:It's a shame Pluto didn't make it to this family portrait.
He's kind of the awkward cousin nowadays...

Beyond wrote: Here's a more fuller version.

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orin stepanek wrote:Wonderful Voyagers! And the one in Star Trek!

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MargaritaMc wrote:Do you know, I'd not remembered the red slippers...
I was more thinking of,

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home;

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home;

MargaritaMc wrote:

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Ann wrote:

Night eyes wrote:Wow, a humbling experience that reminds us all, despite the numbers of newly found exo-planets, we are very small and very, very far from anything remotely like our awesome and fragile home.

Indeed, and that is something we should all bear in mind. It's not as if we can use up the Earth by next week and move to Mars in April - or in the foreseeable future.

Ann

Yes. Something that has been borne upon me, since working the the lectures about the planets of our solar system on the Astronomy course that Robert Nemiroff has put on YouTube, is how extra-ordinarily beautiful and rich our own planet is.
That is very obvious and possibly sounds trite - but The Earth is a very precious place. The more I see of Elsewhere the more I realise that there really is No Place Like Home...

Margarita

Ann wrote:

Night eyes wrote:Wow, a humbling experience that reminds us all, despite the numbers of newly found exo-planets, we are very small and very, very far from anything remotely like our awesome and fragile home.

Indeed, and that is something we should all bear in mind. It's not as if we can use up the Earth by next week and move to Mars in April - or in the foreseeable future.

Ann

Night eyes wrote:Wow, a humbling experience that reminds us all, despite the numbers of newly found exo-planets, we are very small and very, very far from anything remotely like our awesome and fragile home.

stephen63 wrote:Reminded me of a favorite:

ritwik wrote:

APOD Robot wrote: In it, Voyager's wide angle camera frames sweep through the inner Solar System at the left, linking up with gas giant Neptune, at the time the Solar System's outermost planet, at the far right.

ritwik wrote:

APOD Robot wrote: In it, Voyager's wide angle camera frames sweep through the inner Solar System at the left, linking up with gas giant Neptune, at the time the Solar System's outermost planet, at the far right.

APOD Robot wrote: In it, Voyager's wide angle camera frames sweep through the inner Solar System at the left, linking up with gas giant Neptune, at the time the Solar System's outermost planet, at the far right.