Starship Asterisk*

I just wish a photograph was a photograph instead of an artist's conception, which this one obviously is. It's easy to veer off from discussing things to discussing names of things. What does it matter if the thing in question is called a photograph or a simulacrumgraph or something else? Well, I s...

I love these images of spiral galaxies. They indeed are almost works of art. It is mind-boggling to imagine the vast dimensions of space pictured. The first thing that strikes me when I see one of these images is that the sky does not look like that when I look at it. Of course I don't have telescop...

I believe there is an error in the description of the Oct. 20 picture. The phrase "the Jovian world's atmosphere" should read "the Saturnian world's atmosphere."