Starship Asterisk*

When I first saw flocculent, an oddly rarely seen word, I thought instead of flatulent. That's just my brain making associations, but, lo! and behold! the description says that in this and similar galxies, dark matter must be holding a lot of orbiting stars and gas together to keep them from being t...

There may be clues to how Mars changed to a dry, barren, rusted landscape in the Bisti/De Na Zin Wilderness of New Mexico. Despite life all around it, that area continues to surprise me in how lifeless it is, how the rocks just erode and decay, and mineral shards spill out, but nothing will grow the...

'Tis really sad that we've mostly lost the nightly experience of seeing a sky covered in suns and constellations and galaxies and ancient light from astronomical events.

Looks like Rover lost a hubcap.

This is an amazing photo. It has a depth to it that draws me in. I feel like I'm having an x-ray view inside a solid object, but in 3-D. I want to go inside and look around.

Reflection of light on crushed crystalline rock mixed with soil, possibly the result of the impact of a crystalline meteor, or of a meteor on a crystalline deposit. I suspect the brightness may disappear on closer examination, and that only on-site examination of the soil in those areas will reveal ...

or it could be frost?

I would agree with the poster who says it is probably a medicinal, plant and root manual. The illustrations seem more artistic than necessarily factual, possibly combining views of the sky at different times of the year. Early peoples used celestral objects as guides for planting. Of course, an arti...