Starship Asterisk*

Alex - thanks for taking the time to write up your family's story behind the photos - I loved the companion photo as well - they make a great pair! Iceinspace was fun to explore - I put it on my list of favorites to explore again in the future. Owlice - love the biking tour link - I've followed her ...

The link for the "local group of galaxies" in the description above takes you to a mind-blowing list of galaxies that are considered the "local group" - I thought that I was starting to get a wee sense of ly distances in space until I read this - my little set of synapses is back...

Owlice - what an adventure!! I'd loved to plan for a month's walkabout - I've wanted to visit Australia/New Zealand ever since the last ice age .... ((grin)) I'll be 72 in 3 years but hopefully, I'll still have enough git-up in my git-along .....

Go for it, Chris!!!

What a wonderful photo - if I lived there, I'd could turn into a totally noctural creature just to be able to glance up for this view!

I don't see any other stars in the picture - is this star located within the Milky Way Galaxy or out by itself?

Just by looking at the picture, it seems that NGC 5216 (top) has already absorbed much of NGC 5218's material. The use of the word "tides" in galactic interactions is so different from "tides" here on Earth where the effects of tides are so much more fluid, immediate and with the...

WOW!!! This picture portrays the violent forces at work out there more than most pictures do ....

I am glad that I wasn't able to get the chance to come to the BB until this late in the evening - I have had a marvelous time reading all the comments! Like most of these folks, APOD is the first thing that I look at every morning when I connect to the internet. Your dedicated work has given us a wo...

It seems to me that the interference pattern will still be recorded on the video frames. The big difference would seem to be the frame speed of the video recorder relative to the emission rate of the photons. It the video recorder frame speed is faster than the emission rate of the photons, then it ...

Kudos to rwarner!! I'd love a poster also!!!

And -- CONGRATULATIONS TO THE APOD FOLKS -- this is a wonderful website .....

Ann - wonderful reading your post! After looking over the several pictures, marveling at what science and technology have brought us, I had to vote for what the Ancients must have seen and considered in our skies - this search will surely continue for eons yet to come.

What a fascinating picture. If it hadn't been mentioned that this was a Hubble photo I would have thought that it was a photo taken on some rainy night driving along a dark highway with some unique distortions of a bright light on the highway. The straight lines, right angles and almost precise symm...

Amazing picture - what an effort went into capturing the complete sequence!

While I understand the cause and effect of the retrograde motion, what I don't understand is why the "loop" isn't in the same plane as the rest of Mars' path .....

Good Grief - those Greek Gods had such a difficult social life .......


P.S. The nebula reminds me of those fabulous back-lit "dancing waters" displays that you can see around in tourist areas.

Babak Tafreshi seems to have a magic ticket that allows him to travel to just the right spot at the right time - he does such a marvelous job capturing an image. I really like the supplied overlay that helps identify the stars in the base image.

RE: The Little King ---- I remember this cartoon in the Sunday Funny papers from when I was a kid!! What a pleasant surprise to be reminded of him -- it was one of my favorites!

I just love this picture - I have to keep coming back to look at it!

Previously I had posted a question about the use of false-color in astrophotographs - sort of with a personal feeling as to why not just use colors that our human eyes are more acustomed to from the world around us. One of the board members kindly answered, saying that false-color frequently emphasi...

Great job of putting these pictures together with your explanation! Makes one feel like they were there for the ride...

(( grin )) oh my!! The little jpg above is an example of a declaration from a single slot situation - it doesn't help me. And for "evil ghosts" - who knows what unknown forces still lurk in the quantum world? .... step away from "point particle" abstraction. everything that has a...

Wow!! Incredible ...

What a wonderful peaceful night-long scene - enjoyed watching it several times. What fascinated me was that there were people climbing the glacier at night!!!!

I just watched the little video several times and have some questions: Why don't you get some kind of dispersal pattern with a single slot if an electron has some wave properties? So what happens if the two slits are moved further apart? Or if a 3rd slit is introduced in parallel to the first two? O...

(( grin )) ... maybe by losing a lot of weight and receiving a high-energy boot in the rear, one is free to merrily move on outwards in a grand freeform manner ??

I thought photons traveled in wave patterns but electrons weren't subject to wave pattern propagations.