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Today's APoD - IC 2948: The Running Chicken Nebula - found here: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html mentions 'Thackeray's Globules'. Are these similar to 'Bok's Globules'? Or are any of these 'globules' so named for whomever discovers them? I haven't researched these 'globules', but will...

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Hi stargazer_7000! Excellent image! Makes me wish I could climb aboard my own rocket ship and head out there to see it 'up close and personal'!

Your site's nice, too.

P.S. I'm not a fellow, but wanted to reply anyway.

HEY! - This poster and 'neufer' should be able to communicate with each other perfectly!!!!

trying to be more obscure than Art

Obscure is not the word I'd use to describe those posts. Bizarre would be more appropriate.

But then, to each their own.....


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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

So apropos!

Sir Arthur C. Clark was a very interesting person, a visionary (I've read several of his books and really enjoyed them), and he will definitely be missed....

Welcome, Erilon! Jump on in! And don't worry - most of us are pretty patient.
I did see what you were talking about - how the dust clouds look similar to a face in a sort of profile. It looked that way to me, too. Pretty neat!

Again, welcome aboard!

Thanks, Henk. And apologies for not being more clear. While I understand that Venus and Mercury will align more frequently, as their orbits are considerably shorter, I was meaning an alignment of the naked eye planets, (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter), as were shown in the second and third li...

Today's APoD - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080310.html - got me wondering: when will we have another alignment like the one linked to in the description, with the words planetary - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020510.html , and conjunctions - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020429.ht...

Anyone subscribe to the "National Geographic" Magazine? This same image is featured in their March issue, in the story on the particle accelerator in France. I haven't finished reading it yet, but so far it's interesting. (A bit over my head sometimes, but I try to grasp the idea(s).) Exce...

While I can understand some of the "ramblings of a meandering mind", when it involves someone's own personal made-up vocabulary*, I'm not sure it's just as simple as someone's "meandering mind". I'm lost trying to read this. *And by that I mean that sometimes words fail me, too, ...

Thank you, orin, for the tutorial on link-inserting! As you can tell, I had just copied/pasted the address from the webpage! :oops: And as for looking at it under magnification, I only looked at the hi-res image by clicking on the image itself, but it's definitely worth further investigation - so I ...

Really not trying to be thick, but - translation, please?????

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Now, reading the description, I am wondering what the "fascinating background galax[y]" is at about the nine o'clock position, on the far left....? What a beautiful galaxy! *Of course, the entire image is gorgeous, but that galaxy really leap...

npsguy said: My 2 cents is that you are right in your criticism but this is just one web site out of many with astronomy images. My suggestiong to anyone who needs to get their daily 'astronomy fix' and APOD didn't quite 'deliver the goods' is to go to some of the Mission websites that NASA runs an...

While today's image is a beautiful one, I'm wondering if it seems odd to anyone else that there is so much light coming from those windows? There is an awful lot of light pollution evident in the image already, and I'm curious why the measures aren't taken to limit any further light pollution. :? Or...

I too find the images of stars, galaxies, dust clouds, etc., to be some of the best APoD's, but I do think that the more 'terrestial' images spark a lot of discussion as well. Case in point are: The APoD that depicted a strange light in a harbor in Australia, which many individuals were called upon ...

For anyone interested: I kept forgetting to come back here and post, but I received my calendar and it's pretty cool! Although, it took some getting used to since it's much smaller in size than the images I see on the computer screen! And it won't replace the APoD site for me either, as I especially...

Excellent! Keep those 'updates' coming!!!

I am looking forward to MESSENGER's images. [Almost as much as I look forward to the ones that come from Cassini.]
It's exciting to think that we're on the threshold of some fascinating discoveries and answers about Mercury.

Yay!

Well, I'm sold. I've ordered the one from the Amazon link, and shall let y'all know what I think - in my ever so humble opinion - when it arrives.

(I thought 'why not?' I should have it by this weekend, so I won't have to 'bypass' too many pages)

So now I'm wondering about the images included in this calendar that NoelC and bystander referred to: are they all the images from 2007? Or even years prior to that? Or are they going to be what we see here on APoD proper this year? And if so, should we go ahead and buy it anyway? :lol: :lol: :lol: ...

A bit late with my response, but then look at the dates from the time the OP saw the object and when the inquiry was made.... It might have been an iridium flare, since the OP said he hadn't seen it since that one morning. See here: http://www.satobs.org/iridium.html (*I just googled "Iridium F...

From here: http://astro.umsystem.edu/apml/ARCHIVES/JUL03/msg00221.html Hi all, One of the richest star clouds in the Milkyway is not really an isolated star cloud, but a window to the Milkyway beyond: http://www.psiaz.com/schur/astro/filmimagepages/baade1.html comments? Chris Schur Astrophotograpy ...

It would be nice, but as the recent "Astronomy Pictures of the Year" showed, it'd be tough to narrow it down to just twelve images. *Of course, that would just mean that there would be plenty of images for each year! :lol: bystander, your link is great! I usually get the "Celestial Wo...

I was wondering if the 'window' was actually one of those darker dust areas...? (They sort of remind me of Bok's globules.)
Hopefully someone will be along to clarify.