Starship Asterisk*

I have seen many pictures of the Moon, and can merely look up in the sky typically 15 days a month and see the Moon with my own eyes. That doesn't mean that APODs of the Moon aren't worth looking at. 😊 I do not understand the relevance of that to what I said except I was commenting on the question ...

I missed seeing this one before now but in answer to the question, can another blizzard do this, I have seen other pictures like this of snow that high. And I have seen pictures of water that high, and snow contains less water than liquid water. Therefore even as a science story the picture is not v...

both the left and right sides of the image are showing grass of the same color Actually, no. In the image there are darker colors on the left and lighter colors on the right. This can be verified using tools. What we see in the image is a true difference in colors. Very often the difference between...

Avalon wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 4:07 am Hey, we need Ann, the color expert, to weigh in on this one.

I think no one has explained what the requirements are that causes our brains to be confused. What are the features of this image that causes the misconception?

This particular cat is being partly illuminated by red light, so that one of his ears looks red. I think most people's brains understand that. imagine a stuffed toy, as black as a typical black kittie. Send it into space and make it orbit the Sun. When the light from the Sun reflects off the orbiti...

Also, when I copy the image and paste it into Irfanview then copy a portion of each square (a portion of the background) and paste each into a new image then they look the same color.

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Mon Dec 18, 2023 4:43 pm Hey, there are actually 6 squares with tops all matching the colors of A and B! I used Windows PowerToys' Color Picker to verify that. The color is rgb(120, 120, 120), or hex 0x787878

I used Color Picker online. (I saved the image locally then uploaded it to the site.)

Is occurred to me that the distance from the camera to the people on the volcano is 16 km, but there's also a few more km of atmosphere that the light from the moon would have to go through before reaching those people! Except whatever it is that I see, it is only near the land and only rising from...

Is there a fire on the peak? There appears to be smoke rising from it. I do not however see the smoke when the Moon is not behind the peak, therefore it is probably an illusion.

At first I thought the light was from a volcano.

1: How the heck did that man manage to climb to the top of that crazy summit?? :shock: I was wondering too. I was going to say we do not know what the peak looks like on the other side. For example, the Matterhorn is more accessible from a direction not visible in most images of it. Then I noticed ...

Yes it is interesting that Cairo is very lit up and that there are many lights down the Nile from Cairo.

It is also interesting that Taiwan and Hong Kong have many lights. North Korea is very dark.

I also could not find the Tiangong Space Station until I realized it might be in the top panel and then I saw in the description that it is and then I saw it.

I see a small bump in front of Titan to the right of its left side and in the ring. Is that something?

What is the context of the question? Is it asking the color from the surface of Earth? If so then day or night? If not the surface of Earth then where? If daytime on the surface of Earth then why is it not Blue? If nighttime on the surface of Earth then why is it not nearly Black? I think the questi...

Over 4000 planets are now known to exist outside our Solar System.

Why has that dropped so drastically? I thought there are (believed to be) billions of stars, most with planets. Or that statement is wrong.

I think this is the most confusing explanation I have read. It starts out by saying something about the Milky Way and I got the impression it was going to say the teeny tiny amount of light here on Earth illuminated the entire Milky Way.

Well let me put it another way. Is there any chance that this is fake news? I assume that among scientists it is understood that this is a theory that could be flawed in some way, but the TV news people are reporting is fact. Confused, is it your assertion that everything in the observable universe...

The public is afraid of things like microwaves and even sometimes radio waves, because someone, somewhere decided to make the distinction that it's not light, and that's a mistake. I don't think so but that is off-topic for here so I won't comment further. Everything from the way cell towers work t...

In astronomical and physical terms, "light" is usually synonymous with "electromagnetic radiation". That includes radio waves. You are obviously a very knowledgeable astronomer but I was talking about people watching the TV news. You seem relatively inexperienced at communicatin...

Bear in mind that this image was taken with radio telescopes, so 'light' doesn't come into it, its radio signals that were being analysed. One also wonders about the assumptions that were made about how radio waves operate around black holes and/or are generated, that should provide further/future ...

The thing I don't hear anyone talking about is why they had to get a black hole from more than 50 million light-years. Why can't they get an image of the (or a) black hole in our galaxy? If astronomers are unable to get an image of a black hole in our galaxy then how can they be sure that the image...

The thing I don't hear anyone talking about is why they had to get a black hole from more than 50 million light-years. Why can't they get an image of the (or a) black hole in our galaxy? If astronomers are unable to get an image of a black hole in our galaxy then how can they be sure that the image ...

APOD Robot wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 5:09 am Bennu's diamond-like appearance

I think it looks more like a Grey tater tot except after looking at Google Images it looks more like a Sweet Potato tater tot. There are many images to choose from but I can't find one that is not commercial in some way.

I can recall being surprised that instrumental music was included on a JPL or a NASA video once or twice, but I think it is pretty common to do so now, particularly when one is just "looking at landscape", so I no longer think about it. Yes it is becoming so common to always have music pl...