Starship Asterisk*

click on "easily found" in the description of the painting, and there's a diagram showing the relationship between the two dipper stars and Polaris. The distances are known, so even if Polaris is not in the painting, the other two stars do work as pointers. Van Gogh is my all-time favorite...

hstarbuck wrote:The little robotic rover that could.

yes, I can't help thinking of little WALL-E in the movie, toiling away after all the others have broken down!

it is beautiful, it makes me think of waves crashing on the beach, except there isn't a beach, just more wave-crashing below!

thanks!

wow, interesting. Do we know over how much time?

so, do stars in an open cluster move in relation to each other? Such that the sky would look different to a planetary observer at different times?

I have a sort of related question, found this thread by searching on "open star cluster". I have often wondered what the sky would look like to a person in a star cluster... Are the stars close enough together that it would never really get dark at night? (supposing a planet, which rotates...