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Re the APOD of June 9 2008 'Saturn's Rings from the Other Side' http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080609.html It's a very nice image but the full image that is brought up when clicking a cursor over the APOD (or through the above picture link in the explanation to the APOD) is even better. Even tho...

Regarding the Phoenix DVD. In the information that is brought up when using the Phoenix Lander link in the explanation it states:- "The Phoenix DVD is made of a special silica glass designed to withstand the Martian environment, lasting for hundreds (if not thousands) of years on the surface wh...

If it had not been for the Pipe Nebula link in the explanation I don't think I would have guessed that the Pipe Nebula is the brownish area with black strips that runs along and just in from the left edge. Thanks Case for noting that the very bright object is Jupiter. I wondered what it was (I first...

Thanks for your reply Case, which is much appreciated.

When was it taken and from what spacecraft? http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080412.html Image Credit: ISS Expedition 7 Crew. Yuri I. Malenchenko (commander) and Edward T. Lu (flight engineer). Launch: April 25, 2003, 10:54 p.m. CDT (Houston time, not Baikonur time) Docking: April 28, 2003, 12:56...

I have been looking at the APOD for many years now and have no problem with images being shown again. There will also be viewers that have never seen them. I think good images are worth repeating.

I was intrigued by the following text in the explanation to the APOD:- "...the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator yet created by humans".

I'm curious about who else might have created it apart from humans!

Nothing here in Yorkshire, England. It was well overcast last night and raining this morning. :cry: It's a great shame as we've just had a string of cold clear nights. It will have to be 2015 then! :) Yes it was just typical that it was cloudy for the eclipse night here in West Yorkshire! It also a...

Shouldn't the diameter be twelve light years? The light will have traveled six light years in each direction from the star since six years ago. Unless the picture is three years old - it doesn't say - but it usually says the picture is old when that's the case. Cool picture. Looks like fur! The ima...

I assume that the image that is brought up through the '35 years ago' link in the explanation to the APOD of January 16 2008 is meant to illustrate Solar Flares. . The 1970's were so 8).

I wonder if the 'dark spot' in the lower right could be a small part of an eye of an hurricane? One thing that is confusing me (easily done I admit!) is that when the "this gorgeous view" is clicked on when online that brings up the image in the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth we...

I am also confused with the mention in the explanation that the star at the end of the jet is being stripped of its gas by radiation from a tremendously bright star off screen to the upper right. In the information that is brought up when clicking on both of the 'above picture' links in the explanat...

I am also very confused as to what is Baade's Window in the image. Is it the small dark area just below a bright object in the centre about a quarter of the way in from the right edge? The description with the image in Stephane Guisard's website however only adds to my confusion. This APOD is a good...

The 3D effect showing a floating teapot is amazing.

The "above-pictured Ghost Head Nebula" link in the explanation brings up image PIA04226 in the JPL Photojournal website. In the information to PIA04226 it states that image was produced from 3 images taken on March 28 2000. However, elsewhere in the Photojournal website it states that PIA0...

In the explanation to the APOD of October 28 2007 it states the picture was taken "last month", but the date with it in P-M Heden's website is 2006-07-11. Though most of the explanation was clearly taken from that to the APOD of July 18 2006 it is unfortunate that the date taken was not am...

I could not make out Janus nor Pandora in the APOD image and was only able to see them in the 572.6kB version of PIA08388 in the JPL Photojournal website that was brought up through a link in the explanation(I did not even attempt to try the 44.11MB version). To say Pandora is faint is an understate...

The two images are too far apart to be seen as one clearly (using 3-D glasses), at least for me. The 3D effect did work for me using red/blue glasses but it was not one of the best 3D images that I've seen on an APOD as there seemed to be too much red to the left. However, on clicking Patrick Vantu...

I'm still unsure which is R136. However, a little to the left of center there is a bright star with image spikes (presumably a foreground star) and immediately to its left is what looks like a small cluster of bright stars. On using the zoom facility that group then looks much more impressive and so...

It's a great image, but I'm unsure which is R136. This is a good example of where an annotated version would be helpful.

Inches, feet, yards, metres (meters in the US), light years, parsecs.... It seems that nobody uses such as perches/poles, furlongs, chains anymore. :lol: Ah well, a flagon of ale will do me nicely right now. Cheers all. :D Incidentally, what happens to all the light when it meets the edge of the Uni...

Thanks for the responses to my query. Though I did think the object at the top of the image was M2-9 I wasn't certain, particularly as the APOD made no mention of it.

I am curious as to what the dominantly red object is at the top of the APOD. It would seem likely that it is a view of M2-9 through some other imaging filters, but there is no mention.

Using red and blue glasses the 3D effect of this APOD is superb. It is probably the best such 3D effect I've ever seen. Thanks to Laurent Laveder for an excellent APOD.

I tried the cross eyed method but I find that very hard to do and achieve a result.

Thanks Qev and BMAONE23. I tried the suggestion of opening Internet Explorer (when I was already signed onto AOL) and, after doing a search to find the APOD, I was then able to see the movie through both the AVI and Quick Time version links (both were exactly the same in all respects, so perhaps Rea...