Starship Asterisk*

This particular image? Or one astonishingly like it? Yes, the CGI footage of Mars in Babylon5,
to which JPL were consultants.

Boomer, thanks for the dog-barking-up-the-pillar image! my Labs
thank you, with stars in their eyes. (Tho' with the 14yr old it's probably
cataracts.)

Wasn't this one of several on US Postage stamps commemorating E. Hubble?
Still a gorgeous image. Seems to me the write-ups are getting better:
this one includes awareness of time and distance, what we see now
may well not be there "now."

Probably "elusive" -- difficult to grasp.

Wonderful images.

All definitional contention aside, I hope everyone has a joyful Solstice, whether you call it Midsummer as was the common usage in Shakespeare's time (thus "A Midsummer Night's Dream" happens on the shortest night of the year, i.e. Solstice), or the first day of Summer as is more common t...

Thank you so much for both replies! They really help orient my brain in 3D.
It took a bit but I did find Saggitarius in the APOD image. After which finding Scorpio was a cinch. Thanks a million!!

Stunning photography! Re: our vantage point from Earth, I'm still confused on one thing: do we really see only what's around us in the Orion Spur (if that's the one) of the Milky Way? (I thought I read somewhere that the center of the MW lies in the direction of Saggitarius, which to me doesn't seem...