Starship Asterisk*

aristarchusinexile wrote:With all the green in that puffball I think God might have blown that star up specially for St. Paddy's day (which is today just for the information o'all the Scotchpeople hereabouts who don't know what an Irish calendar looks like even though ye Scotts were Irish in the Beginning.)

neufer wrote:

aristarchusinexile wrote:Absolutely fascinating how bubble-like the 'cloud' is, if it can be called a cloud. As a poet with a (waning) fascination for the use and meaning of words, I simply cannot apply the word cloud to that bubble .. seeing it far more similar to a bubble in a body of water than a cloud.

I thought that "puff ball" was a good description.

http://prankletter.blogspot.com/2006/02 ... 32096.html

aristarchusinexile wrote:Absolutely fascinating how bubble-like the 'cloud' is, if it can be called a cloud. As a poet with a (waning) fascination for the use and meaning of words, I simply cannot apply the word cloud to that bubble .. seeing it far more similar to a bubble in a body of water than a cloud.

djgordon wrote:I am not sure you meant to say Tycho G was the progenitor. The progenitor is currently being distributed by the SNR.

APOD wrote:Although the star that created SN 1572, is likely completely gone, a star dubbed Tycho G, too dim to be easily discerned here, is being studied as the possible companion.