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by Nancy D
Tue Aug 18, 2009 1:50 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: The Milky Way Over The Badlands (2009 Aug 18)
Replies: 34
Views: 5597

Re: The Milky Way Over The Badlands (2009 Aug 18)

I grew up in a small town in the Texas panhandle. I used to sit on my front porch and look at the Milky Way. Boy do I miss that!

I thought the horse didn't exist in North America until the Spanish brought them over. Why would there be fossils of ancestors of the horse in the badlands?
by Nancy D
Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:56 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Methane Discovered in Mars Atmosphere (2009 Jan 19)
Replies: 44
Views: 7276

Microbes on Mars

If there are microbes on Mars, I think we should stay away. The thought of bringing home some new microbes is really scary.
by Nancy D
Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:36 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: How bright are Venus and Jupiter?
Replies: 8
Views: 1698

Re: How bright are Venus and Jupiter?

Watch Jupiter and Venus get closer together and meet up with the crescent moon on December 1. Here's a link that was on Spaceweather.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008 ... 1dec08.gif
by Nancy D
Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:47 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: How bright are Venus and Jupiter?
Replies: 8
Views: 1698

Re: How bright are Venus and Jupiter?

Oops, I'm sorry if this post is inappropriate. I wasn't thinking. This forum is to discuss the APOD's! Apologies.
by Nancy D
Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:44 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: How bright are Venus and Jupiter?
Replies: 8
Views: 1698

How bright are Venus and Jupiter?

Can you guys tell me the magnitude of Venus and Jupiter at this time? I'm attending a star party for a homeschool group, and I want to be able to tell them how bright those planets are as an example.
by Nancy D
Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:15 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Not a Comet (APOD 26 Jun 2008)
Replies: 22
Views: 7178

If there's so much hydrogen and oxygen in this "puff" or whatever it is, does that mean it may someday make a planet or planets with water???
by Nancy D
Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:09 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Asteroid TU24 smoothed image. 1500 megaton (APOD 30 Jan2008)
Replies: 29
Views: 11713

Here are some articles from Science@NASA about them observing objects hitting the moon. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/13jun_lunarsporadic.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast30nov_1.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/22dec_lunartaurid.htm If you go to their main page ht...
by Nancy D
Sun Dec 02, 2007 2:02 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Gibbous Europa (APOD 02 Dec 2007)
Replies: 22
Views: 6086

That picture reminds me of a ball, the almost tennis-ball size that you might buy at the grocery store, you know, the pink ones. It looks like when the ball gets old, maybe it has been out in the yard for a couple of years, and the surface gets brittle and dry and cracks everywhere. That's what Euro...
by Nancy D
Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:52 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules (APOD 15 Nov 2007)
Replies: 15
Views: 5319

I wonder if a planet could exist, in that "crowded space", with those just-right conditions that we have here: temperature range, protective magnetic field, an atmosphere that stays put and having the right proportions of gasses, abundant water, and whatever else I'm not listing. And I als...
by Nancy D
Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:23 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD for 30 Oct 2007 not astronomy related
Replies: 19
Views: 7189

In the explanation, the word "curiosity" contains a link to the cat picture.
by Nancy D
Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:38 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: 50th Anniversary of Sputnik (APOD 04 Oct 2007)
Replies: 7
Views: 2623

I remember from when I started first grade in 1960, many times my mother would wake us kids up to watch rocket launches. That was in a little West Texas town. Everyone everywhere was enamored. I still love to watch the launches and follow what's going on in space.
by Nancy D
Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:58 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Tungurahua eruption.
Replies: 11
Views: 4529

I agree; I love the volcano picture, but would expect to see it somewhere else besides APOD.
by Nancy D
Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:11 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: A Spectacular Sky Over the Grand Tetons (APOD 14 Aug 2007)
Replies: 4
Views: 2025

I don't think so. If you follow and extend the curve of the handle of the big dipper, the first big star you get to is Arcturus.

I think the constellation Scorpio, containing Antares, is probably behind the mountains. Hasn't Jupiter been hanging just above Scorpio this summer?
by Nancy D
Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:50 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Our Sun from somewhere else... M67 (APOD 09 Aug 2007)
Replies: 11
Views: 3388

The paragraph says the cluster is 12 light years across and contains 500 stars. I looked for some info, and if I interpret it correctly, there are about 25 stars within 12 light years from us. So, if we were on a planet in that cluster, what a sight the night sky would be!
by Nancy D
Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:25 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: False Color Illusion (APOD 17 July 2007)
Replies: 17
Views: 6296

Try this: print the image twice. Cut out one of the parallelograms. On the other page, place the parallelogram over the A space, then slide it down to the B space. Yikes!! Watch it change color in your perception!
by Nancy D
Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:39 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: False Color Illusion (APOD 17 July 2007)
Replies: 17
Views: 6296

I printed the image, cut out the two parallelograms with scissors, and when they were separated from the image, yes, they were the same color. Until then, I couldn't perceive that they were the same color.
by Nancy D
Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:05 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Shuttle Ferry (APOD 08 July 2007)
Replies: 19
Views: 7485

When we lived in Abilene, Texas in the 80's and 90's, at least once they stopped there at Dyess Air Force Base. We drove out to where we could see the runway and saw it. It looks pretty cool just sitting on the airliner.
by Nancy D
Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:37 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Shuttle Ferry (APOD 08 July 2007)
Replies: 19
Views: 7485

Does anyone know what mountains are in this photo of the shuttle being "shuttled?"