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Certainly interactions is the most important reason for distorted galaxy shapes. Personally I really like this picture of the Hercules Cluster, which shows how interaction has distorted the shapes of several elliptical or lenticular galaxies. http://unigalactic.com/images/Space/The-Hercules-Cluster-...

I'm not absolutely sure I got the point of this discussion, but I was inspired to search for a Sputnik-related video. I'm sure this one must have been posted here at Starship Asterisk before, John Glenn and all, but even so, I'll post it now all over again. Say what you will, Sputnik was an amazing ...

I am probably not allowed to post this, because it is in Swedish, but I'll do it anyway. This is a Swedish song, called "Den makalösa manicken" (The Amazing Contraption), and this contraption is a perpetual motion machine (evighetsmaskin). I think the song is funny, and I like the sound of...

beyond wrote:Neufer, if you had served Ann's pizza on a nice blue dish, perhaps it would have given Lo just enought of a blueish glow to attract the colorful Ann moth quicker

You bet it would!

Ann

P.S. Thanks for the pizza! I don't usually like pizza, but this one was irresistible!

I find Wally Pacholka's image extremely beautiful. The composition, the colors, the reflections in the water, the fantastic stillness and serenity broken by a single Perseid. I love the star reflections in the water, but there is no reflection of the Perseid. No wonder: the Perseid was a momentary t...

Thanks, Ann. I do know that no galaxy is perfectly symmetrical. And I do know that NGC 1365 is part of the Fornax Cluster (I think I read that somewhere recently. Oh, yeah, APOD) . My comment was that this galaxy looks perturbed, more asymmetrical than the norm (whatever that is) . There also seems...

Seeing pictures like this makes me wonder which is the more common situation out there in the universe - galaxies with myriads of stars -or- the apparent enormous numbers of single stars out there by themselves. There are definitely stars "out there in the wilderness", which have been thr...

This galaxy looks perturbed. The spiral arms are far from symmetrical and the are shadow arms off to the right. Is there another galaxy close by with which this one is interacting? Few spiral galaxies are perfectly symmetrical, if you ask me. Anyway, since NGC 1365 belongs to the Fornax cluster, ev...

The Vela Supernova remnant image is impressive. It looks a tiny bit false color, but it is probably enhanced color rather than false. I don't think I have ever seen so many intricate details brought out in this region of the sky. The very bright star in the lower right part of the image, is that Gam...

Well, Godot never arrived. Neptune at least arrives every 164th year at the spot where it was discovered. (Oh, wait, it doesn't arrive at the spot where it was discovered every 164th year, since the Sun has dragged Neptune and its entire family of planets, moons, minor planets, asteroids, comets and...

Okay, Saturn as baby equipment, perhaps?

Ann

Yes, that's beautiful!

Ann

For me as a color freak, it is extremely interesting that the lone red supergiant isn't the visually brightest of the stars. The situation is identical in another mostly blue cluster, NGC 3293: http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/NGC3293SS.jpg The red supergiant here is very bright, but not obviously...

Today it's raining. It isn't as bad as as it was yesterday, but the ground can't take that much more water now.

They said on the TV news that most of the wheat and barley harvest will be destroyed because of the rain.

Ann

I like the dusty serpents in Cepheus. There is actually a lot of star formation going on in Cepheus and there are several hot young stars there, but they hardly look blue at all because of all the dust between them and us reddening them. I'm glad to get to see a portrait of some of these reddening d...

Indeed, the whole thing looks like a pacifier. I thought that was funny. You know, when Saturn was a baby it didn't look like "the ringed planet", it looked like a pacifier!

My type of humour, I guess.

Ann

I don't think this is going to work, but I'll try any way. Perhaps, if you are lucky, this link will show you Saturn as a baby.


http://wulffmorgenthaler.dk/?utm_source ... L_BAGSIDEN

Ann

Ann, is The Big Bang Theory shown in Sweden? Let me put it like this. I was once at an informal lecture by a Swedish astronomer. He had been invited by a group of New Age/ UFO enthusiasts, and he accepted to talk about astronomy at their club. I heard about this, and since everyone was welcome to l...

"I actually think the chances that we'll find ET are pretty good," said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute in Mountain View, Calif., here at the SETI con convention. "Young people in the audience, I think there's a really good ch...

Well, we were lucky that it had rained a bit before we got the torrential rain, so the ground was sufficiently moistened to absorb the rain. Also, the rain started slowly, and as the top layer of the ground was moist and the deeper layers were bone dry, the rain managed to seep slowly into the groun...

I like the Moon and sunflowers image. What a bouquet to hand over to the hostess, eh? And both the Moon and the sunflowers testify to the power of the Sun, but in separate ways. The "upside down" Sagittarius image is also nice, and it is a reminder that up and down don't exist in space. As...

Fascinating stuff about your mom, Owlice. Speaking about weather, yesterday we got 66 millimeters of rain over Malmö, Sweden, where I live, and that was wet, I can tell you. We got a lot of thunder and lightning, too. Good thing the summer has been so dry almost up till now, because today Malmö look...

FrogSplash wrote:I wonder what these would look like in color. Come on NASA color photography isn't that expensive. Not false color either I want the real thing.

Hmmm, I'm glad that someone sees it my way!

Color or no color, some of those layered hills look just eerily perfect.

Ann

That's a fascinating image of NGC 663. I don't think I have seen this cluster photographed many times before, if at all, at least not in color. The colors here are very subtle and interesting. Clearly the cluster is strongly reddened. The brightest stars, the ones bright enough to have "spikes&...

:rotflol:

Ann