Starship Asterisk*

This is a bit of purged jet fuel being burned off behind the jet engines...

Oops - sorry, someone else also posted this idea. I believe it most likely. There a quite a few streaks - some very dim. These may have been birds not in the brightest part of the beam.

There is a light (spotlight?) on the crest of the hill... this is a time exposure... could these not be birds in flight?

harry wrote:Hello All


Spiral Galaxy M83

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970419.html

Why has this galaxy got more supernova than any other?

Well... somebody has got to.

If our own star has a LOT OF stuff (say like a lot of asteroids, "THE" Main Asteroid belt, the Kuyper Belt, and the Oort Cloud) around it, like rings around Saturn, and if we had several large planets and minor planets and sub planets and (whatever they are called anymore) orbiting our sun...

Beepboop, that is viewed perfectly side on. Or maybe like a variation of the Hourglass Nebula (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020615.html). If a star has a thick dust ring (maybe even ones like the "Asteroid Belt", Kuyper Belt, and Oort cloud) and several large planets (perhaps even a...

I think I was able to simulate the same results via PaintShop Pro... I took the original picture, replaced all bright foreground objects with black, and then did a Histogram Equalize... the results mirrored this. But, how do we know this isn't faintly glowing warm hydrogen gas in our own galaxy vs f...