Starship Asterisk*

quigley wrote:Is Mars not visible in this shot due to the morning light?

And please, what DOES back to front mean?

Don't forget, this image is a Sunday repeat from 2005 and doesn't represent the current configuration

Who does the world's largest shark see when they need braces?

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...

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...

ShaileshS wrote:What't the black gap we see from center to 2'o clock position on the masked sundial ?

That is the occulter pylon that supports the solar occulter disk

http://lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil/index.php?p=content/intro

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...

DianaA wrote:The center area of this image has always reminded me of a whirling dervish dancing.

Diana

I was just thinking about that particular resemblance

Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:I love the contemplative face in the Soul Nebula.

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It's as if its mind blends into the soul of the nebula.

And, over at 3:00 the black ape dancing on the elephants back

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

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...

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:...

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...

A lot of military hardware too

Beyond wrote:

neufer wrote:

• 1) an elephant
  2) a resting cat
  3) Mickey Mouse
  4) ...

I like #4.

There is also a "#4" on Pluto, preceding the Whale
Of course it could be a Number 6 too

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...

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...

Pianosorplanets 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?

Given the size and configuration of the hips, I would say...Female

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...

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...

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

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)

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

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

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...

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...