Starship Asterisk*

APOD is my home page. Quite often, after studying the picture for a bit, then reading the text, I want to restudy the picture. In my case, in other words, the text makes me want to study the picture as much as the other way around.

Orin Stepanek, Resident Geezer, voiced my initial thought quite well. If one really applies the "cleared out its orbital path" criterion, how many planets does Sol have?

A blog being an online journal, this is a blog. A local TV station has a "weather blog" on its website, and frequently refers to it by that name. It is informational, updated regularly, and available to anyone to read. If blogs have to be "rude, crude, and socially unacceptable",...

Were someone within the antarctic circle to put a pinhole camera out, aimed at the "south celestial pole", expose the film for 24 hours, then cover the pinhole and retrieve the camera, they could get a view of the southern celestial 360 degree star trails. To get an arctic version, one wou...

"Greek Ikaria islands" - So, the sun is also in this picture (through headstrong, headlong Icarus). That's an unusual concept for a lunar eclipse photo.

On May 22, 2011, I clicked on the YouTube link to "Powers of Ten (Cosmic View 1968)" and saw the following message:

"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Lucia Games Office LLC.
Sorry about that."


At least there is still the newer version.