Starship Asterisk*

I'm sorry to say I think this is the worst ever APOD photo. There was either too much, or not enough, post production work done on it. Washed out color, bland sky and no real point of focus.

At first I considered this an inappropriate APOD . Now, after some thought, it seems there's more to it than meets the eye. One pic is worth a thousand words.

My question is are there galexies that are composed of millions or billions of galexies? A galaxy is composed of stars, a universe is composed of galaxies. Whether it's millions or billions of galazies, I don't know. They are both very large numbers. One theory is we can only see about 20% of the u...

There is another artist view on the web page of Michael Brown , one of the discoverers. Also listed in the APOD description. The text on that page gives an excellent description of the planet's history. I found the discussion of possible names for the planet, and the controversy over what constitute...