Starship Asterisk*

Gives a sense of flying through the flat photographs one has so often seen. Nice.

Was wondering what the equivalent lightspeed would be, but Ann explains why it cannot even be estimated and thus that it is best to simply enjoy this imaginative production.

This set of images almost makes one think there might be something to Copernicus's idea after all. As the Flagship class robotic space-probe Cassini–Huygens reaches the end of its mission, one cannot help but think of the final words of the infinitely more advanced Nexus-6 robot Roy Batty: All those...

Wonderful! Imaginative!!

Remarkably more engaging than a video > perhaps because of the control the viewer has, or the simultaneity of the views.

Sehr wunderbar. Danke

A product of society at its best.

Wonderful.

Thanks to those who did the scientific and technical work necessary to obtain the images, to those who created this clip and thanks to to all of us US tax-payers who funded such horizon expanding exploration.

This striking configuration was one of the first marvels of the deep night sky I was shown as a child > as expect may well be true for many here. Oh, and the usage "In 1716," - eschewing specific calendric reference - is refreshing. Further, it is perhaps even less divisive than the use of...

1054 AD Really? Such usage In this Common Era year of 2017 seems divisive, awkward and not well suited to a diverse audience of those who share an interest in science. If the desire is to be specifically exclusionary and deliberately sectarian, why use the more politically correct truncated version ...

Breathtaking and timeless image!

Beyond words to describe.

Thank you!

Good on yah mates! For, even knowing the date, one sucked in. However, whether real or virtual the button-press interaction does in actuallity change/split the universe. There are three future-verses from the point where someone has come upon this APOD: 1) No press of the button; 2) Button press &am...

Nature, in the journal's Futures http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v5 ... 7128a.html feature did see an unanticipated future for these slow-stepping water-bears...

Timing!

One hopes.

Wonderful visualization and demonstration of the origin of the seasons.

Wonderful if this clip would be shown in schools on the Quarter Days of the Wheel of the Year.

Somehow I missed seeing it in 2014 when it was posted: Showing value of APOD Sunday greats!

Thanks

One cannot help but wonder if Dark Matter, seemingly now a necessary and ready explanation of so many phenomena, will go the way of the Luminiferous Aether which was essential to pre-relativistic physics.

Gobsmacked am I > amazing images! Am sure that Galileo Galilei - whose defence and advocation of heliocentrism and was found by the Inquisitors of the Catholic Church to be "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy...

This warm magnificence of setting sun gives pause at the edge of darkness of the coming night.

The sun set on the British Empire long ago, let one hope that today does not mark its setting on the American Republic.

BjoernH
"...but I want to raise concerns about how people blatantly copy others processing routines to the detail, without mentioning the original work."

Precisely correct.

Sadly, such considerations are likely to disappear in the puerile post-factual world we seem to be entering.

Well, I captured an extremely simlar animation end of November and published it a month ago, two weeks before the APOD winner captured his image series. Seems he got "inspired" by me, and blatantly copied my work. Nearly the same viewfield, same processing, same "feeling", simil...

Mesmerising and Memorable. Köszönöm! Though, as 2016 draws to a close, one cannot keep from recalling the words of Viscount Grey about a century ago: "The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time" In this century, unlike the last, the light of d...

Thank you for this wonderful, peaceful and timely reminder of the very small place political ambitions and turmoil actually have in the world.

Let's not overlook the contrail - or, as some incubi would have it, chemtrail - tracing its graceful arch below moon and stars. Always makes one a bit mournful to see domes shuttered in the night. It is good that the photographer, likely a frustrated observer, was still able to be out looking at the...

This is a very good project to have taken the time to do.

Thanks!

One hopes, this time round, the telescope's optics are correct ...

Rather, could this not actually be the intricate, delicate and amazing Nativity of FSM?

Arrgh, even if 'tis not the case, this is a complex, beautiful and captivating image.

Thanks for another Amazing APOD!

Splendid start to the day.

Difficult for this non-astronomer to tell which part of the reference image is being magnified in the inset.

Why is it that Americans assume all the world understands their time zones? This is an astronomy-related web page and astronomers work in UT. So what is "11:00 am Eastern Tome" in UT, please? February, 11 2016 16:00:00 (Thursday) at UTC 0 As EST is UTC-5 One's main concern is that, based ...

But, that is how ALL spaceships landed when I was a lad.

Remarkable! Even if it does not have the iconic fins of a real spaceship.