Starship Asterisk*

Chris, in the original post I said: "Rather quite the opposite" :) Something that actually emphasized the scale by the very lack of change. Imagine a HD Video with four panels... Starting with 2 panels. Left: 100 years of Andromeda. Right: 100 years of some earthbound town. After a while, ...

I realize the answer is probably "No", but I wondered if anyone had put together sequences of visual images of any one particular galaxy over time? (Specifically images designed for comparison rather than mosaics of random snaps of the same target). No, I'm not expecting to see starry pinw...

Question: Why do artists always seem to depict a black hole as being below the plane of the incoming material? Is it a misunderstanding of the gravity well?

Funny how the eye plays tricks. I was looking at the image for ages and suddenly George Washington's face popped out: The virgo cluster arrow pointing at top of his forehead, hercules supercluster pointing at the back of his hair, his neck stops at the milkyway; he's facing to the right side of the ...

Do you mean this on the right?

http://www.kfs.org/~oliver/blackspots.jpg

I marked the item on the left wondering if perhaps it was some foreground molecular cloud or something.

Remember jpeg is lossy - there are a lot of artefacts in the APOD picture as a result, and these both seem candidates.