Starship Asterisk*

Redbone wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 12:15 pm Infinity anyone?

Who's to say, through curved space, we aren't looking at ourselves at our distant past.

And this is only 2.4 arcminutes of sky.. mind boggling.

Did anyone notice the pink ring at the top of the image and if there is a designation for it? Good question! WeBo 1 is a planetary nebula in the Heart Nebula and thus in the constellation of Cassiopeia, named after its discoverers Ronald F. Webbink and Howard E. Bond. The planetary nebula is formed...

Did anyone notice the pink ring at the top of the image and if there is a designation for it?

Shift your gaze and you will also see another holographic effect - a smaller teapot in front of two larger teapots joined together.

A brilliant classic.

This is excellent also:
http://htwins.net/scale2/

The cloud is either a Ferengi vessel or Gomtuu.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/D'Kora_ ... eechta.jpg
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Gomtuu?file=Gomtuu.jpg

Plane, Clouds Moon, Spots, sun. Why that's a smorgasbord of astrologicalisity! There is however a lack of a planetary nebula. :D :lol2: This post is also dedicated to Judy Schmidt. Not planetary nebula, but there almost could have been a planet. I was hoping the fuzzy dot to the left could have bee...

If anyone here is working on or knows of anyone working on feasible FTL or wormhole travel, we might have a discussion. Otherwise, it's just some kind of weird science faith that sci-fi will somehow eventually come true. Believe that if you want but don't try to tell the rest of us we are wrong for...

Yes, yes, of course.. Perhaps I best flee lest I be burned at the stake. This forum does not employ such primitive means. Stray too far, and a moderator will send energy beams out of your monitor, reducing you to a pile of ash in your chair. Yes, quite. Total fiction back in the day (computer?? ene...

You are thinking in the present. Gravity is not sufficiently understood to manipulate it. Teleportation, at present, is only limited to particles. I envisage a future machine that can intensify gravity to bend space and continuously teleport itself to the deepest end of what it can bend. Sure, scie...

This is also linear thinking. Gravity is still poorly understood. The concept of teleportation is proven, but only in its infancy. Once the breakthroughs occur, and they will in time, it opens up a new branch of possibilities. Gravity is well understood. And teleportation is a quantum effect, not a...

i'm not arguing for the possibilities of faster than light travel, wormhole shortcuts, or counter-entropic housecleaning. But I do think we need to recognize that even an entirely correct natural law can turn out to be incomplete . The textbook example is exactly Einsteinian relativity explaining f...

sadly, yes. A way to think about it from a mathematical point of view: convergent series start lively too :) Not only do they never reach infinity, but they can't even get close to almost any preset threshold. No, you are both thinking in linear terms. Light speed is not the way to travel. Its impr...

The fact that NASA has sent people to the Moon does not prove that it will ever be possible to send people to other planets in our own Solar system, light-minutes or light-hours away, let alone to planets in other solar systems many light-years away. Ann sadly, yes. A way to think about it from a m...

It makes me wonder - what if humans made the great trip to this very distant planet, only to find that there were a very small amount of very primitive native inhabitants. Extremely incredible discovery aside, do we say, Oh, its taken, and leave? Human behavior from the past suggest that such an en...

Love the concept art. Very nice and detailed. Makes for a great desktop wallpaper too! It makes me wonder - what if humans made the great trip to this very distant planet, only to find that there were a very small amount of very primitive native inhabitants. Extremely incredible discovery aside, do ...

Fantastic!
The best example of "Powers of Ten" to date. Interactive too.
Love it.
Thank you very much.

Beyond wrote:Ah, the cone nebula. I'll have a two scoop strawberry cone, please. And a bone for the "a mystery" link.

Here's a bone:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1989MNRAS.237..995S

Put some tracks on it and you have the sandcrawler from Star Wars. Looks like the same planet too

There is something I don't undestand....why are the stars in the background of the moon not blocked by the earth's shadow? A better question would be, why isnt the moon blocked out by the earth's shadow. Stars are point sources of light and do not get blocked out. The moon? Still visible because of...

WHAT!? I was expecting more QR codes! Thats it, I'm not coming here anymore and taking my 2 cents with me! :wink: Excellent photo! And to think, M82 is around the same distance to M81 as the Magellanic Clouds are to the Milky Way, except, M82 is far brighter. What a spectacular sight M82 must be to ...

Dear APOD, Firstly, thank you for such an excellent web site. Secondly, may I request that you consider only allowing posts from registered users. This should have the effect of minimising the number of comments by viewers who only wish to post nonsense and insults. Whilst today's APOD has generated...

At 13:00, the equilibrium between outward radiation and inward gravity/mass give way to stellar collapse into a supernova.

I think Chris L Peterson is probably on the money here. My initial thought was an impact, probably low impact which did not totally destroy the body, and the low density body, rather than venting out, created sinkholes which sank into the low density, cavernous body - the rubble pile analogy.