Starship Asterisk*

I'm not 100% but on a closer look, there is a feature on the far right-hand side of the image which is similar in shape to the Persian Gulf with the Mediterranean Sea towards the upper left. The only flaw to this idea is that I can't make out the Red Sea, unless I'm mis-interpreting the scale.

Anyone able to identify the part of the earth over which the ISS is in Wednesday's APOD?

Unfortunately there is no coastline, only a couple of mountain ranges. The African or Asian deserts perhaps?

If you look at the lowest cloud in the picture (26th Feb), the left-hand side seems to taper outwards from a point. Is it possible that the cloud's origins are volanic? Could the products of an eruption reacted with material in the atmosphere to produce the acid cloud? The spreading outwards of the ...

Whilst observing the eclipse last week, I noticed a bright star very close to the moon especially during the first half of the event. Having seen the APOD today, I notice a bright star in a similar location (with respect to the moon) in the picture. Does anyone know which star this is? My first thou...

Has anyone noticed this? On the picture of Hyperion for the 28th of January (or any picture for that matter!), there seems to be the shape of a much larger crater covering nearly the whole face of the body. The crater edge (or rim) is comprised of the very light egg-shaped band running from the top ...

I imagine this has already gone through a lot of people's minds but is it possible that it coule be a piece of a spacecraft burnt up in the atmosphere? For example, Mars Observer or Mars Climate Orbiter or even something older?

Does anybody know what technique is used to take the photography?
The glare from the sun must have been massive and the two subjects barely dots on the sun.