Starship Asterisk*

Finally, I want to remind everyone that I am a complete amateur. I love galaxies, and I love to try to understand why they are the way they are, and I love to compare them with other galaxies. I really do my best to try to understand what is going on, as long as I can understand it in a non-mathema...

Oh my goodness.
The incredible detail - the subtlies that have been revealed (again) - and the galaxies.
Oh, the galaxies!
Not much of a discussion for me on this.
And the juxtaposition of the two images is at least as inspiring as either one individually.
The old mind has been blown.

Ok, this is indeed a very impressive engineering feat! But why are they "catching" the booster instead of having it land under its own power like the Falcon boosters? Is the Starship booster too heavy to be supported by landing legs? If I remember correctly, the reason is that it removes ...

Thank you Ann! Steve

One of the best pictures of dust I've seen in a long time.

Came to say the same.

Happy New Year all!

3 jan, indeed. The year goes by fast enough as it is.

Is the meteor trail blue gold or yellow green? After 4 decades, I still don't see my clothes the same way as my wife. Just dreaming here - wouldn't it be great if we purposely orbited a bunch of retrograde particles into earth orbit and used them to measure upper atmosphere properties? Might save a ...

Well. I didn't read on after that. And I decided never to read a book by Larry Niven again.
Ann

Thank you for this summary Ann!
Now I have no regrets for ever reading this, or Niven.
I once thought Heinlein brilliant, but his mysogyny creates quite the bitter aftertaste.

Steve

Great job NASA...

Let's DO IT AGAIN!

Lobster_Blanco_960_some_stars_circled.jpg The star cluster in NGC 6357 is "upside down" compared to a previous APOD. Or maybe it is the previous APOD that is upside down. :wink: Ann I prefer to think that we are the ones who are upside down. The universe knows what it's doing. Steve PS - ...

The star cluster in NGC 6357 is "upside down" compared to a previous APOD. Or maybe it is the previous APOD that is upside down. :wink: Ann I prefer to think that we are the ones who are upside down. The universe knows what it's doing. Steve PS - Oh yes! I logged in to find out why the st...

When I look at this image upside down, it looks more like a puppy's face than anything else.

When I look at this image upside down, it looks like a puppy dog face.

This picture reveals the wheel and fender of their dust covered rover along with the ingenious application of spare maps, clamps, and a grey strip of "duct tape". Why is "duct tape" in scare quotes? I mean, that's the actual name of the stuff. And while I appreciate the adaptabi...

Wonderful shot.
Typo: ... senses and capture ... should be "captured"

I do remember this observatory fondly because of a little known program that appeared when the series 10 OS was introduced on the mac. For the life of me, I can't remember its name or author, but he was rather famous for creating the simulated waves in large-scale hollywood productions. He did it as...

I'll upvote SteveH on the lava tube skylight hypothesis.
It might be that we don't see any other skylights because they:
1) Happen infrequently, especially so the more time passes from their formation, and
2) Once open, they are filled in from above. (instantaneously in geologic time frames)

Absolutely stunning. Maybe it's just me, but when rotated 180 degrees the image is more attractive.

Really? "Contrasty" ? Seems pretty descriptive to me. You have another adjective you prefer? High contrast would be better. I try to respect the fact that all the other languages APoD gets translated into may not have the same range as modern English. Keeping things simpler is not only be...

I'd like to know more about Yang Sutie. Great shot, great timing!

Really? "Contrasty" ?

This is what Insight looked like LAST MONTH. ... If taken today, SEIS would be seen on the image surface. PLEASE consider getting the English / writing department involved. The way this paragraph is written can be interpreted as having SEIS already on the surface, confusing anyone without a better u...

Perhaps it's a promotion for the latest blockbuster movie....

https://www.aquamanmovie.com/trailer2

puts skywriting to shame.

Also agree with Chris and Ann about these colors relative to 2014-08-25. As a writer, I also like the text from 2014 as well. In today's caption, we have an incomplete phrase: "The intruder galaxy itself, estimated to lie about 300 thousand light-years behind the, can..." Steve PS - I stil...

Stunning and wonderful as always. However, sentence three reads: The eye-catching shapes looming in this portrait of NGC 281 are sculpted dusty columns and dense Bok globules seen in silhouette, eroded by intense, energetic winds and radiation from the hot cluster stars. It might read easier if you ...