Starship Asterisk*

Hi Bill,

I'm not an APOD authority, but I believe that the visual 30km resolution Hubble imagery that was captured in 2003-04 pretty much nails it down:

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archiv ... s/2005/27/

Sincerely,

Richard Fredrick

I had to follow the link also; what a stunning backdrop! Back in the "good old days," the NASA channel would re-run clips from previous shuttle flights for hours and hours. Some people were bored to tears; I couldn't get enough of it. Lightning from space is really cool, as are meteors and...

I'm sorry that my first post to this discussion group is going to sound negative, but I feel that I must comment. APOD has at its disposal a vast number of images of strange, inspiring, beautiful objects, both on Earth and in the rest of the universe. I never imagined that I would see something as, ...