Starship Asterisk*

Great. Yet another 3D celestial orbital arrangement I don't really understand the consequences of. I.e. the circumstances that result in a "lunar standstill" event. Something about 18.6 years and the axial tilts and orbital inclinations involved. In theory, these diagrams - from Wikipedia ...

Yeah, I'm not clearly seeing any obvious aligned "jests" in this image. Fortunately, there is a nice image at the "detailed explanation" link that provides some help, though the alignments aren't as close as I was expecting. The original image is too big to post, but here's a sid...

Is the music really by Claude Debussy? This is Jeff Dai's Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/p/C8bIkxTyiUL/ Here, it uses Clair de lune. But in APOD, the music is different. Can anyone tell me which piece it is exactly? No, but the "License" link points to https://plus.ibaotu.com/d...

Is the music really by Claude Debussy? This is Jeff Dai's Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/p/C8bIkxTyiUL/ Here, it uses Clair de lune. But in APOD, the music is different. Can anyone tell me which piece it is exactly? No, but the "License" link points to https://plus.ibaotu.com/d...

0.jpg Perusing around today's APOD is something. Does anyone know what this is? I assumed a star rather than a galaxy, but are the blue areas anything other than light tricks from Webb's camera? I'd guess a star, but in extremely narrow field images such as this, there usually aren't any stars from...

Telescopes as time machines is a familiar idea but we should never lose sight of how extraordinary this is! Imagine if palaeontologists could study actual pictures of dinosaurs! Or if historians could see pictures of Cleopatra, or geologists seeing pictures of the Late Heavy Bombardment! What’s mor...

Telescopes as time machines is a familiar idea but we should never lose sight of how extraordinary this is! Imagine if palaeontologists could study actual pictures of dinosaurs! Or if historians could see pictures of Cleopatra, or geologists seeing pictures of the Late Heavy Bombardment! What’s mor...

[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240623.html] https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2406/SaturnColors_CassiniSchmidt_960.jpg The Colors of Saturn from Cassini, Judy Schmidt Actually, we're talking about art here. A worthy evergreen. Congratulations to Judy once again! Meaning what? Is this a complement...

How is it that when looking north, east is to your left? Not on any compass I've ever seen. Is this photo a mirror-reversed image? If you lay on the ground, with your head to the north, east is to your left. Stellar coordinates mirror terrestrial coordinates because instead of being drawn on the ou...

So once again the brilliant engineers at NASA have managed to make the most of the situation by compensating for failing hardware. I didn't quite understand from the links how using only one gyroscope instead of the full complement of four compromises accuracy or other capability. Does it affect thi...

Also, I thought I could delete a past message of mine, but that option seems not to be available. Was it ever? If it is the last message in a thread, you can delete it. If someone else has posted since you posted the message, you can no longer delete the message. Ok, thanks. I could see being unabl...

I assume the stars were digitally removed in this image? When we look at the image at full resolution, there are lots of small faint little disks. Alex Yes - A direct comparison with the almost equivalent image from wikpedia Todays image https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2406/AraDragons_Taylor_4728....

On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Lightning? What lightning? I see no lightning on the far right nor anywhere else in this image! You probably didn't scan to the right. The image is wider than the screen. Either page right, or just click through to the hires i...

On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance.

Lightning? What lightning? I see no lightning on the far right nor anywhere else in this image!

It's quite rare, but it would be fun to see a simulation of a star falling straight into a black hole, a direct hit as it were. It probably makes more sense to visualize that scenario the other way around... a black hole falling straight into the star. And why is that? When I think of this event I ...

I suppose this is pointing out the obvious, but although all the prominences we see in this image are on or very near the planar edge of the Sun we happen to be seeing here, the entire surface of the Sun must in fact be studded with prominences, much like looped carpet piling on a shag rug. Perhaps...

I suppose this is pointing out the obvious, but although all the prominences we see in this image are on or very near the planar edge of the Sun we happen to be seeing here, the entire surface of the Sun must in fact be studded with prominences, much like looped carpet piling on a shag rug.

zeecatman wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 8:32 pm

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 5:32 pm So far, I am able to see exactly zero lions in this nebula.

Somehow I knew this would be the main topic of discussion

This is what I decided on:

LionNeb_Badr_3720.jpg

Yeah, that's about what my last reply approximated, though your outline is more refined.

So far, I am able to see exactly zero lions in this nebula. EDIT - ok, perhaps this is it: lion nebula lion.jpg Maybe this? (Probably have to click on it.) _ qu9m8y5l.gif Yeah, that's certainly better. Big lion head, no body. Still tough to see it though! Maybe big head little bod version: lion neb...

So far, I am able to see exactly zero lions in this nebula.

EDIT - ok, perhaps this is it:

The red dot is located at number 3 in my annotated image. You have put it at number 10. :ssmile: The red dot is quite faint and only looks bright in the enlarged image. Ann But that's not the red dot from the video. That red dot is near your "10" label as shown in Christian G.'s post abov...

I'm on very shaky ground here, but I think Johnny is right. I think rotation may indeed have something to do with how fast a star exhausts in core hydrogen and turns into a red giant. I think that a sufficiently fast rotation may mix the interior gases of a hot star in such a way that more hydrogen...

If we're talking about the red dot at 1:00, I see it left of the galaxy circled in white: Thanks - that's it alright! But I don't see it in Ann's reply images. Here's the side-by-side with the movie still and Ann's labeled image, with a dotted green line relating them: pandora cluster mystery dod.j...

Does anyone else see it? No - you might be hallucinating, or having a brain aneurysm.

Ann, is the mysterious "red dot" seen in the video seen in either of the labeled images you posted? Also, I can't seem to orient and locate your images, OR the "red dot" on today's APOD. <sigh> If we're talking about the red dot at 1:00, I see it left of the galaxy circled in wh...