Starship Asterisk*

All I have to say is "what eye?". Is this supposed to be it? If so, I see instead a hand cupping an eight-ball. It even has fingers (or fingernails) on the left side! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1xsOtCpZPQ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/news/2016/10/15/mars-maps/04-ma...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_201001.jpg Solis Lacus: The Eye of Mars Explanation: As telescopes around planet Earth watch, Mars is growing brighter in night skies, approaching its 2020 opposition on October 13. Mars looks like its watching too in this view of the Red Planet from September ...

Is there anything standardized about this or is it just whatever they decide they want it to be? I realize that it's mostly for fun and listening to it is interesting. I followed the link about sonification and they used different sounds for the Milky Way. Is this like when NASA converted the data ...

Is there anything standardized about this or is it just whatever they decide they want it to be? I realize that it's mostly for fun and listening to it is interesting. I followed the link about sonification and they used different sounds for the Milky Way. Is this like when NASA converted the data ...

… So, does anyone have a guess as to where in the full Veil Nebula this close-up filament is? Not that it matters much, but I'm just curious. I suppose knowing the identities of some of the stars might help. The FoV is ~2.5' x 1.2', the location is marked by the white cursor. The narrow filament ju...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200928.jpg Filaments of the Cygnus Loop Explanation: What lies at the edge of an expanding supernova? Subtle and delicate in appearance, these ribbons of shocked interstellar gas are part of a blast wave at the expanding edge of a violent stellar explosion that...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200927.jpg Lightning over Colorado Explanation: Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? Join the crowd. Oddly, details about how lightning is produced remains a topic of research. What is known is that updrafts carry light ice crystals into collisions w...

Sa Ji Tario wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:02 am johnnydepp, SABER = know, be sure of the moment

Ah, you snuck in a Spanish word. No fair! But I supposed I should have guessed based on your name

Many will say how lucky this fan is!, But according to the explanation it is a meticulous work of calculation and optimal use of the opportunity. There will be other places on Earth that have the same possibility, if in that place there was a person with the same spirit and hunter desire as Tomás, ...

It is unclear whether any of these galaxies except for NGC 770 are actual companion galaxies to NGC 772, or have any gravitational influence on it. I suppose you’re right, but the coincident trails sure are suggestive. But of course, “coincidence is not necessarily causation”. Actually, I think the...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200918.jpg Arp 78: Peculiar Galaxy in Aries Explanation: (xxxedit and linkxxx) Peculiar spiral galaxy Arp 78 is found within the boundaries of the head strong constellation Aries , some 100 million light-years beyond the stars and nebulae of our Milky Way galax...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200918.jpg Arp 78: Peculiar Galaxy in Aries Explanation: (xxxedit and linkxxx) Peculiar spiral galaxy Arp 78 is found within the boundaries of the head strong constellation Aries , some 100 million light-years beyond the stars and nebulae of our Milky Way galax...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200918.jpg Arp 78: Peculiar Galaxy in Aries Explanation: (xxxedit and linkxxx) Peculiar spiral galaxy Arp 78 is found within the boundaries of the head strong constellation Aries , some 100 million light-years beyond the stars and nebulae of our Milky Way galax...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200918.jpg Arp 78: Peculiar Galaxy in Aries Explanation: (xxxedit and linkxxx) Peculiar spiral galaxy Arp 78 is found within the boundaries of the head strong constellation Aries , some 100 million light-years beyond the stars and nebulae of our Milky Way galax...

Hmmm. I once read a sci-fi novel about a man finding himself in a universe that was coming apart at the seams, literally. Well, huge cracks were appearing everywhere. Scary. Eventually this guy finds out that he has tremendous mental powers, so that he can think the universe whole again. While he i...

Today's APOD reminds me of the most embarrassing, stupid mistake I ever made. ... Ann Capture.png If only such a thing would qualify for my top 10 worst mistakes, I'd be in pretty good shape! Just to be lost in thought for a moment about the possibility of a weakened Sun. Hey, after all, it was the...

... Also at 0:52 in the video, what are these two things - I want to say the little one is the SMC, but then the bigger one should be the LMC, but it looks too diffuse: What Are These.JPG The arrow points to the Pleiades, and you've circle contains Orions belt and sword w/ M42. Remember, constellat...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200912.jpg A Thousand Meteors Explanation: Over a thousand meteors flash through the night in this intriguing timelapse video . Starting in April 2019 the individual video frames were selected from 372 relatively clear nights of imaging from an automated wide-f...

I bet it’s that dolphin from a while back coming up for a breath of fresh air, (or would it be fresh hydrogen?). I don't even think it was a dolphin, more likely an old astronomer’s joke created for no good porpoise. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1904/JupiterDolphin_JunoEichstadt_1080.jpg You me...

Has anyone calculated the "ground speed" at which the storm is traversing the planet? Appears that it would be quite fast, relative to the typical ground speed of hurricanes on earth, for example. Fascinating! There may in fact be no "ground" on Jupiter, which may not have a cor...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Stable_puffer_animation.gif https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Plq-D1gEk <<In a cellular automaton a puffer train, or simply puffer, is a finite pattern that moves itself across the "universe", leaving debris behind. Thus a pattern consis...

There is one caveat to that though: One of the few properties a BH can have is charge. So if two BH where both positively or both negatively charged, there would be an electrostatic force of repulsion working against their gravitational attraction. (Conversely, if the charges where opposite the att...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200908.jpg GW190521: Unexpected Black Holes Collide Explanation: How do black holes like this form? The two black holes that spiraled together to produce the gravitational wave event GW190521 were not only the most massive black holes ever seen by LIGO and VIRG...

Just wonder how strong the repelling force would have to be between the two black holes in order to repel a black hole? Black holes, being the chunkiest bodies in the universe, would never be repellent. There is one caveat to that though: One of the few properties a BH can have is charge. So if two...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200907.jpg The Milky Way over St Michael's Mount Explanation: Where do land and sky converge? On every horizon -- but in this case the path on the ground leads to St Michael's Mount (Cornish: Karrek Loos yn Koos), a small historic island in Cornwall , England ....