Starship Asterisk*

For Rob: a toroidally-frosted picnic table (which was empty earlier that morning) P1030892.JPG For Owlice: I did indeed try to bike around in the foot of fresh snow - it's such a beautiful feeling to float through snow on a bike (once you've gotten going) and everything is so clean and pure. P103089...

rstevenson wrote:I'm very interested in this topic myself and would welcome a link to this Japanese effort you refer to.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23827045/

owlice wrote:Ooooooooh!!!

Haha, Owlice, you always have that reaction when you see the surface a certain planet, thereby confirming my guess...

On the thread http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=22712 , neufer pointed out that the red bow shock is cooler than the green interstellar dust: Zeta Ophiuchi: A runaway star plowing through space dust ... The colors used in this image represent specific wavelengths of infrared light. B...

The small boot-shaped lake just to the right of Kounotori2 seems to be at Sam

Did anyone notice what looks like a path on the ground which also leads to what looks like a side impact on the far side of the crater? The path starts at the sundial on Opportunity, runs straight up the image and ends at the dark splotch on the crater side. Easily seen in the full size image. I su...

neufer wrote:[quotes Joyce, Homer, Dante...]

Neufer, I am in awe. Well done.

My new favorite:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110126.html

Wowee

Wunderground report for Minneapolis tomorrow night: "Lows 14 below to 20 below zero"
I have to come home to that!

But Sam, there aren't really any objects to mark our local 'landmarks' - that pic has dots Photoshopped on it. When you think about it, on this scale an earring would reach halfway to Sirius, nearly nine light years away! A small yellow crystal earring shows the position of our Earth and Sun, thoug...

owlice wrote:The sun and neighborhood:

Click to view full size image

That image is on this page: http://www.galaxygarden.net/tour.html

I love how the stars in this image are actually little jewel earings attached to the leaves. Quite a feat keeping track of where they are.

...The black hole in M87 is displaced from the galaxy center by a distance of about 25 pc. The displacement is in the opposite direction from the one-sided jet, which may indicate that the black hole has been accelerated away from the center by the jet. [/color] Another possibility is that the disp...

Orin, is it just me, or is your Avatar starlight Brighter?? http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=10199&p=139093#p139093 http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=21577&p=137168#p137168 Perhaps the diminishing distance is finally beginning to overcome Pluto's planetarily-...

Well done, owlice! Excellent choice of music. I had never heard of that piece [Henning Viola Sonata]. I will definitely look it up. Yay for new music!

Sam

Brutal weather stops AdAmAn club short of summit, cancels fireworks on Pikes Peak December 31, 2010 8:10 PM ANDREW WINEKE THE GAZETTE For the first time in living memory, the AdAmAn Club was turned back from its annual New Year’s Eve summit of Pikes Peak. Gale-force winds and temperatures 25 degree...

[quote]Long Sam[/quote]
laaa-aaang syyyyne !!

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(thanks, neufer)

Orin, I wish you would please just keep that stuff up there in Nebraska. We don't want it down here in Oklahoma. :mrgreen: Glad I don't live in the Twin Cities! They had 17 inches of snow in 18 hours! I'm [mostly] glad I live in the Twin Cities! We had 17 inches of snow in 18 hours! Lots of fun to ...

Here's what's always confused me about galaxy photographs. Since we're not viewing M81 flat-on, the light from the back of the galaxy is from an entirely different time as the light from the front. So why does it still look so symmetrical in its spiral? Shouldn't it be all bunched up and weird, ref...

There are definitely real lights visible in the ocean areas of this image. And real stars, too! The Lyre and the Dolphin on the right [edit: sorry, other right], and Fomalhaut and perhaps even Alnair on the right, though that one's too far south for me to be familiar with. If I had the formatting s...

Another plane! Undoubtedly a prop, left along the far shore.
http://asterisk.apod.com/vie ... 15#p133059

Too much like Photoshop to work. This comment has been bugging me. Ignoring the possibility that Susanvb was unjustly accusing the photographer of faking, there remains the horrific possibility that the poster's intent was closer to 'Since this kind of thing can be faked so easily using Photoshop, ...