Starship Asterisk*

I would agree with you, Chris, if APOD were a repository of full-size data images for research purposes like one of the digital sky survey databases. Rather, I believe APOD is an esthetic / educational media designed to reach the most people around the world, where ease of access is key. Following y...

I notice a lot of disparity in image sizes posted to APOD. Mostly this in't a problem, but posting the fuzzy (at full size) NGC7252 atoms for peace colliding galaxies at over 10 megabytes is going to slow down a great many of your users, versus a few moments it would have taken you to resize it more...