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JohnD you beat me to the question. At first glance I thought the pic was a fake. Then I thought the reason might be what bystander said, that the glow is from the areas that are not eclipsed. It is possible that a longer exposure was used and that picked up the sunlight shining off the mountains in ...

The weather here was supposed to cloudy with some snow. Instead it was perfectly clear. I could not believe it... it was great.

And anything named "digg it" is prima facie cheesy and an offense to the eye. It looks like the first step down the slippery slope into purposeless promotion and a cluttered web site. Wow... BBCNews.com uses digg it. Other sites either use it or are at least linked to it from the Digg It ...

For what it's worth I would simply like to state my opinion: I like both APOD and the forum very much but the forum contains some of the biggest complainers I have ever seen. From ranting about APOD pics being too terrestrial to now complaining about 'digg' buttons. Don't you think that some of you ...

Nice image. The tiles on the shuttle are looking a little 'aged'.

Quite a while ago I read where a scientist answered your question in this fashion. I am not sure the exact words but the jist was this: "the odds of stars crashing together in two colliding Galaxies are the odds of two mosquitoes placed at opposite ends of the Grand Canyon eventually crashing i...

hoser4 wrote:Are the constellations out of place or is it just me? I've noticed this over the past few months.

Um... did you move from the Norther hemisphere to the Southern hemisphere? If so... the constellations will seem to be a 'little' different.

Non moving pages http://asterisk.apod.com/templates/subSilver/images/folder.gif means the topic is not yet declared a popular whereas the moving http://asterisk.apod.com/templates/subSilver/images/folder_hot.gif means it is a popular topic. The orange versions http://asterisk.apod.com/templates/subS...

GammaJet wrote:Thank you for the reference. So with a bigger device like the Hubble do you think is possible to see a "flag sized object in the moon"?

Depends on the size of the flag

If the universe were large enough and we could see far enough :?: we would see the original event at that point :?: I am no scientist but as I understand it you would not be able to see the light but you may be able to see the 'heat'. This heat left over from the big bang shows up in the form of mi...

The population is only 1500... I wonder if there's anyone else going. They have a local government website with a list of attractions and photos http://www.cambridgebay.ca/visitingus/attractions.htm I have to admit their attractions page is not very exciting and it is kind of funny. I think the rea...

BMAONE23 wrote:Are you certain about the time? It seems to me that the sun is still asleep at 3:24 AM

I saw that too and did a double take.

good ol' asteroids.. I'm just waiting for something to hit the moon... wake up the entire world about how little we can do concerning these objects that are everywhere in the solar system. Anyone know the last time something actually struck the moon and was recorded Yep November 2005 http://www.ast...

neufer wrote:The internet, for instance, was an unintended spin-off of high energy particle physics

Um... that isn't close to being a correct statement. You are thnking of the World Wide Web.

The Internet was from ARPA/DARPA projects many years earlier

NASA website for advice on viewing: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEhelp/safety.html One place to get eclipse viewers is here: http://www.thousandoaksoptical.com/www/Products/eclipse.html http://www.thousandoaksoptical.com/www/style/ecpliseviewers.gif For picture taking there is a chapter fr...

That asteroid looks just like an old video games from the 1980's I used to play. Who knew that computer graphics were so ahead of their time?

adrianxw wrote:You should be delighted by todays offering.

As soon as I saw it I said "oh oh"

sinpix wrote:Aim preyer for Zilog(joke)

Zilog? Wow I still have a bag of old Z80's around somewhere.

My imagination likes to tell me that, at night, you could look up at the sky and see a gorgeous multicolored haze. When I look at images online of the Orion Nebula I see deep reds and some oranges. However when I look at it through a scope, I see a white cotton ball. No matter that I stand in New J...

Can someone explain a little bit how exactly this small telescope helped the Apollo mission to land in the Moon?. In one of the posts above 'orin stepanek' posted a link to this place's Wikipedia article. From that article is the following: A 106-centimetre (42-inch) telescope was installed in 1963...

That is the point I was making. It is still my "start" page and will remain so, but I don't feel it unreasonable to post an occasional criticism. Adrianxw, I suspect that most people here were responding to Craterchain's spastic outbreak , not your initial post. His post was overly emotio...

I enjoyed the link to the Shapley Curtis debate. It is interesting that both were wrong and right at the same time.

I don't understand why some one would cry and complain about the content on a free site. The APOD is posted on nasa.gov... paid for with tax money. It isn't 'free'. I am certainly not upset over earth pics being on APOD but I do agree that it would be better to keep the two separate. Especially sin...

Santa, First your pic is great and everyone here (except one person) did not believe the work was a copy of the Vista background at all. On the contrary it is VERY obvious they are not the same image. The person who made the accusation was proven wrong by a number of posters and yet she/he felt the ...

No way are they the same. You can see the silhouette of two 'hills' in the Vista image with a valley in the middle but there is only one hill (left) in the APOD. This isn't even the same lake or at least it isn't taken from the same place. Second the APOD image is a wider angle shot than the Vista o...