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by Ezlington
Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:35 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Flowing Barchan Sand Dunes on Mars (2012 Apr 22)
Replies: 19
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Re: APOD: Flowing Barchan Sand Dunes on Mars (2012 Apr 22)

You fools!

It's their invasion fleet about to launch a mercyless assault on the planet Earth!

Run for the hills!
by Ezlington
Thu Jun 03, 2010 10:23 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: A Twisted Meteor Trail Over Tenerife (2010 Jun 02)
Replies: 157
Views: 15161

Re: APOD: A Twisted Meteor Trail Over Tenerife (2010 Jun 02)

Camera shake etc has been mentioned and the symetry of star shake in adjacent stars, the one thing that no one has mentioned is that Mount Teide is a volcano. While it is 101 years since the last erruption, dormancy does not mean seismic quiescence. Since there appears less "shake" on the ...
by Ezlington
Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:40 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: The Fairy of Eagle Nebula (APOD 09 Dec 2007)
Replies: 6
Views: 3201

The Fairy of Eagle Nebula

The Fairy of Eagle Nebula http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071209.html "The above image in scientifically re-assigned colors"... That description seems strange. If it was not "we changed the colours to make it pretty", what was the scientific basis? "Red- shift subtracted&...