Starship Asterisk*

1) The streak is not visible because the meteor slowed down. It was the fastest in the green zone, where it could ionize the surrounding air. In the yellow zone, maximum burn happened (hence the bright spot, that slowly fades closer to the horizon). It would have broken to many pieces (all going in ...

Is there an alert service for knowing such impacts / discoveries in future ?


On a related note, it would be awesome to collate the images from different locations (and get a 3D perspective).

Good way to counter the opacity of the earth. Perhaps there should be a frugal tripod mounted camera at each pole to give us a real time scan of the cosmos.

Is it really a surprise that the surfaces have relatively few craters ? Its a system whose center of gravity is outside Pluto's surface. Therefore, an incoming one will just fly through, as meteors are incredibly fast. There is a good chance that the meteor will never return back to the Pluto system...

Even as HST is completing 25 years in April, there is no plan for a visible spectrum space telescope of next generation. Is it because ground based telescopes can do an equally good job now, or have we reached the physical limit to magnification? If one looks at APOD, almost all the deep space photo...

I have a question on pale blue dot.. if the camera was on the night side of the Saturn, pointed towards the Sun and the Earth visible in the camera frame.. then practically, the Sun, the Earth and the camera would be on a single line. Which means that the camera could see only the night side of the ...