Don't forget, this image is a Sunday repeat from 2005 and doesn't represent the current configurationquigley wrote:Is Mars not visible in this shot due to the morning light?
And please, what DOES back to front mean?
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- Mon Nov 09, 2015 12:38 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: A Quadruple Sky Over Great Salt Lake (2015 Nov 08)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2336
Re: APOD: A Quadruple Sky Over Great Salt Lake (2015 Nov 08)
- Sun Nov 08, 2015 8:28 am
- Forum: Open Space: Discuss Anything
- Topic: Astronomically Bad Jokes (Or good)
- Replies: 453
- Views: 119121
Re: Astronomically Bad Jokes (Or good)
Who does the world's largest shark see when they need braces?
- Fri Nov 06, 2015 7:24 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Unraveling NGC 3169 (2015 Nov 06)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3086
Re: APOD: Unraveling NGC 3169 (2015 Nov 06)
Any idea how long it would take for a star at the edge of an unravelling galaxy to find itself in intergalactic space? And what consequences for the star? Well, a star can't move faster than the speed of light, so if it was originally located, say, twenty thousand light-years from the "edge&qu...
- Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:02 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Comet ISON Being Destroyed by the Sun (2015 Nov 02)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3311
Re: APOD: Comet ISON Being Destroyed by the Sun (2015 Nov 02)
Maybe it just ran out of ice, and dust, and is just a "dead" body now? or did it totally disintegrate??? I ask as the videos show something coming out the other side, and fading...but not separating... :---[===] * There once was a Comet named ISON Twas promised "The best you'll lay E...
- Mon Nov 02, 2015 6:52 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Comet ISON Being Destroyed by the Sun (2015 Nov 02)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3311
Re: APOD: Comet ISON Being Destroyed by the Sun (2015 Nov 02)
That is the occulter pylon that supports the solar occulter diskShaileshS wrote:What't the black gap we see from center to 2'o clock position on the masked sundial ?
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- Sun Nov 01, 2015 4:40 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Where New Horizons is
- Replies: 606
- Views: 538695
Re: A Full View of Pluto’s Stunning Crescent
A Full View of Pluto’s Stunning Crescent NASA | JHU APL | SwRI | New Horizons | 2015 Oct 30 [img3=" Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI "]http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/pics/Full-Pluto-10-29-15.jpg[/img3][hr][/hr] In September, the New Horizons team released a stunning but incompl...
- Fri Oct 30, 2015 12:16 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: IC 1871: Inside the Soul Nebula (2015 Oct 29)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4607
Re: APOD: IC 1871: Inside the Soul Nebula (2015 Oct 29)
I was just thinking about that particular resemblanceDianaA wrote:The center area of this image has always reminded me of a whirling dervish dancing.
Diana
- Thu Oct 29, 2015 9:40 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: IC 1871: Inside the Soul Nebula (2015 Oct 29)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4607
Re: APOD: IC 1871: Inside the Soul Nebula (2015 Oct 29)
And, over at 3:00 the black ape dancing on the elephants backRon-Astro Pharmacist wrote:I love the contemplative face in the Soul Nebula.
It's as if its mind blends into the soul of the nebula.
- Wed Oct 28, 2015 9:19 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Life on Mars
- Replies: 72
- Views: 9669
Re: Life on Mars
Another possibility would be to place a series of 24 radio telescopes (one in each time zone) in Geosynchronous orbit and create a radio telescope with an effective diameter of 52,400 mi or 84,328 km
- Wed Oct 28, 2015 9:11 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Life on Mars
- Replies: 72
- Views: 9669
Re: Life on Mars
I had two ideas (already thought of by other people of course) about these space telescopes. One would think we could attach something like SOFIA to the ISS. There is apparently no benefit over the airplane method, though. The other is to put an infrared telescope on the coldest part of the moon, a...
- Wed Oct 28, 2015 7:33 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: When Black Holes Collide (2015 Oct 20)
- Replies: 74
- Views: 8381
Re: APOD: When Black Holes Collide (2015 Oct 20)
What I found rather interesting were the stages that the smaller black hole went through in it's death spiral. At a couple points it seemed to temporarily split into two separate black holes. Trying to mind experiment this but I am falling short of the manifestation of a third gravity well. :shock:...
- Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:50 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Starburst Galaxy Messier 94 (2015 Oct 23)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10685
Re: APOD: Starburst Galaxy Messier 94 (2015 Oct 23)
I'm confused- if Messier 94 is 15 million light years away, how can we be seeing the very large blue stars that are 'only' 10 million years old? Wouldn't that mean that their light wouldn't have made it here yet? Because we ignore light travel time. No matter how far away something is, we generally...
- Fri Oct 23, 2015 1:49 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Star Factory Messier 17 (2015 Oct 22)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3292
Re: APOD: Star Factory Messier 17 (2015 Oct 22)
A lot of military hardware too
- Thu Oct 15, 2015 5:19 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Charon: Moon of Pluto (2015 Oct 02)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 13637
Re: Animals on Charon
Beyond wrote:I like #4.neufer wrote:
- 1) an elephant
2) a resting cat
3) Mickey Mouse
4) ...
There is also a "#4" on Pluto, preceding the Whale
Of course it could be a Number 6 too
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 3:14 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Flying Past Pluto (2015 Oct 06)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3845
Re: APOD: Flying Past Pluto (2015 Oct 06)
Is there a very faint ring system around Pluto? It could be an aberration in the optics. I noticed the rings as well. I believe I noticed small objects in the second and fourth rings as well. The faint rings are only there to draw attention to the orbital path of Pluto's moons. Without them, the fa...
- Fri Oct 09, 2015 3:09 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Antarctic Analemma (2015 Sep 23)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5905
Re: APOD: Antarctic Analemma (2015 Sep 23)
What causes the Red Fire patches to the left of the Analemma? It looks like LMC and SMC or Red Aurorae but ??? I thought they looked like sprites! 8-) Sorry to disappoint you both, they are neither the aurora nor Mangellan's Clouds (both of which become invisible even in faint sunlight)! What you s...
- Thu Oct 08, 2015 1:32 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: La Palma Eclipse Sequence (2015 Oct 07)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2777
Re: APOD: La Palma Eclipse Sequence (2015 Oct 07)
Given the size and configuration of the hips, I would say...FemalePianosorplanets wrote:Does anybody have a clue whether the nude descending the staircase was a male or a female? Perhaps I would do better to ask if it is a terrestrial being?
- Wed Oct 07, 2015 5:12 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Flying Past Pluto (2015 Oct 06)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3845
Re: APOD: Flying Past Pluto (2015 Oct 06)
I get the impression from both the video and the text that New Horizons didn't really "fly past" Pluto but rather looped around it, using Pluto's gravity, or even went into orbit. Most news reports seem to indicate that the spacecraft just flew by and got a quick glance in passing, then h...
- Wed Oct 07, 2015 1:19 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Flying Past Pluto (2015 Oct 06)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3845
Re: APOD: Flying Past Pluto (2015 Oct 06)
I get the impression from both the video and the text that New Horizons didn't really "fly past" Pluto but rather looped around it, using Pluto's gravity, or even went into orbit. Most news reports seem to indicate that the spacecraft just flew by and got a quick glance in passing, then h...
- Tue Oct 06, 2015 9:31 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Flying Past Pluto (2015 Oct 06)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3845
Re: APOD: Flying Past Pluto (2015 Oct 06)
Damn, this means I shall never see the Dark Side of Pluto before I die. I shall simply have to petition NASA to send another probe that can image the Dark Side ![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
- Mon Oct 05, 2015 5:00 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: What did you see in the sky tonight?
- Replies: 1303
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Re: What did you see in the sky tonight?
Took out the trash at shortly after 9pm, looked up and saw the ISS traversing the NW sky. Just saw the last 20 seconds or so as the Light reflected by the ISS vanished shortly before it reached Alkaid (The tail star of Ursa Major)
- Sat Oct 03, 2015 3:45 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Charon: Moon of Pluto (2015 Oct 02)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 13637
Re: APOD: Charon: Moon of Pluto (2015 Oct 02)
Tis most unfortunate that we will have to wait another 124 years to be able to send another probe and image the other side of these worlds when the south polar region is in full sun Sunlight is not a requirement for our studying that region. To study...no. But to image in full sun as specified...yes
- Sat Oct 03, 2015 5:44 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Charon: Moon of Pluto (2015 Oct 02)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 13637
Re: APOD: Charon: Moon of Pluto (2015 Oct 02)
Tis most unfortunate that we will have to wait another 124 years to be able to send another probe and image the other side of these worlds when the south polar region is in full sun
- Fri Oct 02, 2015 5:15 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Charon: Moon of Pluto (2015 Oct 02)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 13637
Re: APOD: Charon: Moon of Pluto (2015 Oct 02)
Donnageddon wrote: Though the relief in that image is highly exaggerated. That's true. tmiller@d211.org wrote: We need more cats We certainly do!!! :kitty: But maybe Charon is Pluto's cat. Bellerophon wrote: Charon is another of those bodies that doesn't have enough gravity to do a good job of smoo...
- Fri Oct 02, 2015 1:34 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Charon: Moon of Pluto (2015 Oct 02)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 13637
Re: APOD: Charon: Moon of Pluto (2015 Oct 02)
Nice picture, but kind of boring. Why is there no Milky Way and a thunderstorm in the background? Okay, I get the 'no thunderstorm part', but why no Milky way? :shock: Look at yourself in the bathroom mirror...the galactic center is the reflection of you in the mirror. Now imagine a great disk of m...