Starship Asterisk*

Since we've been blessed with an opportunity to observe the expanding effect of a burst of photons being reflected back to us and and to be able to observe it's progression over time, is there a project underway to build a three dimensional computer model of the nebulosity around the star? There see...

Well the mystery is sovled. The mysterius bubble like objects were reflections in the Hubble Optics. The following quote is a response from Dr. Deidre Hunter, the individual responsible for the imaging. "It looks like a reflection from the very bright star to the lower left of it. Deidre Hunter...

I had the recent opportunity to enjoy the following page from Astronomy Picture of the Day. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021229.html My eye was drawn toward a small feature when I looked at the larger image: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0103/ngc1818_hst_big.jpg . In the upper quarter...