Starship Asterisk*

I find the name of those bicycle brakes amusing. Are they named after a certain famous pharmaceutical?

My own slightly warped imagination leads me to ask if there is a nebula somewhere that is named for the other end of the horse?

I have another question: why is this comet green? I thought they were always white.

In theory, once an object achieves orbit, it should stay there forever. In practice, molecules of Earth's atmosphere slow down satellites just enough for them to lose orbital velocity and fall to Earth. These molecules extend hundreds of miles into space, but at some point (I don't know how high) sp...

Tilt wrote:
How's about a pic of the two shuttles at pads 39A & B?

My thoughts eggs-actly!

This is what I love about Internet forums: the sudden shifts in topics from complaints about complaints to cats to John Prine lyrics. Way cool!

I have come to believe that well-established websites do not need to be defended. So I will tiptoe around the horse carcass I see before me.

I expected to see Venus in roughly the same line as the Moon, Mercury, and Mars. I thought Venus was roughly in their orbital plane.

I know very little about the magnitude of stars in our vicinity, so please forgive my ignorance when I ask: is it possible that we are in an open cluster and haven't realized it yet?

The pictures of the Red Spot and "Baby'--which must easily be the size of the Moon if the Red Spot is two Earths across--made me wonder how fast the clouds in the storms are moving. At that scale, the Jovian storms must make our worst hurricanes look like water swirling down the drain. Kudos to...

Didn't Douglas Adams also write about the Long Bar at the center of the Galaxy? I hear the service is terrible.

Somewhere in an alternate universe the Dancing Picture of the Day site is being besieged by complaints about the inclusion of a picture of the Horsehead Nebula.