Starship Asterisk*

2003 UB313's peculiar orbit and other KBO's with similarly odd orbits may prove them to be 'captured' interstellar objects? Close encounter(s) with another star, or brown dwarf, where the lesser body's gravity looses influence over its orbitals. Cassini is showing us frozen water worlds and evidence...

Today's IPOD image of Venus shows that the surface bears few impact craters. At Venus, something appears to be resurfacing the entire planet? like Jupiter's moon, Io? Volcanism? Corrosive atmosphere? Where IS all that sulphuric acid coming from if naught volcanoes? How much of Venus' atmosphere subl...

Its easy enough to make an active link to an image... or a URL with the above boxes.

In your 'profiles' selection, choose preferences and scroll down to click on 'Always allow HTML'. Maybe that'll do the deed? I noted that in the Options Selections, below left, the 'HTML is OFF' is not active and does not change when you enable 'Always allow HTML'.... I have a few shots of the moon ...

Its becoming clearer that the larger spiral galaxies are an accumulation of smaller galaxies. As the larger gravity well captures a lesser one, it absorbs some of the kinetic energy of the captured object. That is one mechanism to explain why galaxies spin. BUT there appears to be something much mor...

APOD rocks... Pretty easy to see that in this galaxy (NGC4725), the spinning core has two opposing jets. Together, they look like the product of a 'horizontally' rotating torus. (DEEP images of our galactic core posted in an earlier APOD, clearly show a perpendicular torus! ) The high speed jets eve...