Starship Asterisk*

If the spin axis is as shown, could this be not two objects coming together but one that is spinning apart? John they should have two objects spinning *already in sinc* in such a way (opposite each other?) that when they did collide (at the almost same rotational speed?), they haven't destroyed eac...

It's incredible what's out there... I wonder if in a computer simulation, this result can be obtained in any way... Talking of things that happen in the universe, have complete different meaning... At first I thought: the passage of New Horizon was SO IN SINC with Ultimathule so we've seen the faces...

Hi Ann, you quoted from Wiki: "the lack of evidence for plate tectonics on Venus, possibly because its crust is too strong to subduct without water to make it less viscous." can we *really* suppose that the oceans can "softer" the Earth's crust so it can subduct ? Oceans on Earth...

Hi,
do Venus has surface activity? I think to Vulcan, lava flows and maybe even tectonic movements?
I think, because it's similar in size to earth, that it should have some activity of this kind...

If no...WHY do Earth has such activity? What's the difference from our planet and Venus & Mars?

To me it looks like a jet, being violently ejected by energetic processes in the galaxy's core. Apparently that is not the case. The explanation in the caption is good enough. APOD Robot wrote: The red path connects to the center of D100 because the outer gas, gravitationally held less strongly, ha...

I think for arm position alignement calibration purposes

...anyone noticed that the SKY colours are OPPOSITE than on Earth? During day, the sky is (usually) blue on Earth, white-Orange on Mars... at DAWN COLORS we have pink-orange on Earth, white-blue on Mars??? On Earth: https://scienzenotizie.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/alba.jpg On Mars: https://www.l...

...already covered with DUST ??
(not too much, of course, but it's already there!)

I wonder, how would be the sky color on a hypothetical hearth-like planet, orbiting around such a star...

Hi JohnD, My point was on the thing to use the temperature shown as "height", non to the shortness of the video; which I agree with you. For me, "colder" won't mean necessarily "higher" using the common sense. That's why I think altimeter data would have had more meanin...

Sincerely I cannot quite understand the purpose of this little video. Sure, the presentation is really dramatic, only thinking at the size of the features can be seen. But I disagree to see the temperature differences as height and show them as "mountains". Maybe altimeter data (dunno if i...

what if it was from the high priests cassock or apron., does the double rings on the left signify sirius.? Yes, Claude, I agree with you. I think this not an astronomical instrument: I think, as a fixed object (stars can't move), it's usefulness would be only for certain year periods. Seeing the pl...

Trying to "read" what this image shows to my eyes, I can see the "lightsaber" that can be explained by the in falling matter into the protostar. Also the funnel-shaped "cloud" of dust that "rains" into the obscured dust, seems reasonable. I cannot explain, ins...

The sky portion of the image is beautiful, but I had the same issue with the star reflections in the water. There is nothing in the water that appears to correspond to the star patterns in the sky, star brightness notwithstanding. What am I missing about the principle of reflection? Maybe the "...

Do someone noticed that the reflected lights, of the sky, which appear in the water (even thou a bit blurred), did not correspond to any part of the sky ?
Why?
Maybe photo-editing?

Ciao Chris, Also to OriEri, nope, it's not the operating system, it's the browser. I tested this solution, with chrome and firefox browser's: it's the same native plugin. it works this way: 1) open a new tab in browser (any: I tested with chrome and firefox it's the same) 2) type in the URL bar http...

It's striking & surprising how in 1969, in the movie: 2001 a Space Odissey
in the well known final slitscan scene, Kubrick reproduced this scene in *real time* at the end of he's wonderful movie!!!
have a look at the two attached images... astonishing!!!

Hi Chris, Maybe that's the problem: My browser shows the video as two screens one over the other with distorted prospective. Nothing more. I cannot move/see the image in any direction Chris, if you say that you can pan left-right and up-down, I think I don't have the right browser plugin. But, when ...

...yes... crazy...

Oh well. The link http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/ ... 277581.jpg posted by Ann, clarified me a bit whats' happening there. Thanks Ann

Probably I'm really the dumbest here, So I *CANNOT* realize in my mind what I'm seeing (also happening) in this video. Or probably i's clear only the movie author's mind... A 360°view... for me it's like to pretend to have a clear idea of the surroundings, staring through the windscreen AND the back...

When I see images of these so-called planetary nebulas, I have many questions on what we are seeing trough the images, the interpretation we can give and what's happening in reality. I think, since nobody ever witnessed an exploding star, having enough documentation, i.e. time lapse imaging... how c...

I ever wondered why, this kind of scientific investigations (Tethered satellites), NEVER have had a "sequel" of any kind.... Also, even if I'm not prone to the so called cospiration theories, I wonder why this experiment has been readily spread as "unsuccessful" and stopped. I.e....

Each time i see this image, I wonder the visual-meaning of the ripples and the stone-in-the-pond effect we see into the movie. I refer to the "waves" we see in the gas around the pulsar... I sometimes explained it to myself (as a rookie) like "waves of density" of the expanding g...

Hi sallyseaver
Even thou I don't like direct word fighting, I found your arguments strikingly interesting...
Way too complex to manage to an uneducated mind like mine, but I'll try to dig down the few references you gave, hopefully not getting lost
ciao
Mario