Starship Asterisk*

This is a very interesting and awesome APOD. I had to update my flash player to be able to see it, but it was worth it! I thought it was funny that they included Minecraft World in there. I have never heard of the Great Attractor, the Eridanus Supervoid, or the Sloan Great Wall before. Does anyone k...

Geez, all this warm weather...and to think that I'm going skiing in the rockies this weekend! Twenty slopes at the mountain's summit are closed, and several chairlifts are shut down. Oh, well. At least there are still over a hundred other ski slopes to go on. Which means that I'll be gone starting t...

I wonder where comet Garradd is currently located in its trip through the solar system.

I'll bet the weather up there is a lot better than down here, Orin. We have rain, lightning, and wind like no winter has ever had before! In fact, there was a tornado warning not too far west of here, although it expired about 15 minutes ago.

Could it be a double lensing from a bright star beyond? No. You can see the lensing effect when it is happening and what is being lensed is behind it. You wouldn't be able to see a lensing effect when a star is behind an object, because there would be no gravational effect on the light that causes ...

Chris, what's ET? Is it some sort of star cluster?

Great job, Jack! And congratulations for your second APOD!

How could you geckzilla?! Poor lobsters that were never meant to be...

But I can't blame you. Blame the cooks who were cruel enough to cook those lobster eggs. They were the ones who, like you said, destroyed an entire generation of lobsters!

It's amazing how strong winds must blow to move a big rock like that, even if the ground is muddy!

I've never heard of that. "The Sun drawing water"-makes no sense to me at all.

I went camping over the weekend at Monkey Mountain National Reserve, and I was far away enough from the city that I had dark skies. I saw quite a bunch there. Friday night was too cloudy, but Saturday night gave me a chance to see a lot. I saw the winter coonstellations, Venus and Jupiter, and a met...

This is a fantastic image. One if the best pictures of galaxies I've ever seen. It just appeals to me in some way. Simply amazing.

We had an inch of snow a few days earlier, but it’s raining so it won’t last. I’m still expecting a repeat of last year’s blizzard. When will it come

BMAONE23, that's an interesting story. Does anyone have power?

Looks good to me!

What if a black hole becomes a white hole? Then the black hole obviously ate too much. Compare that with a horse and sugar cubes. Not pretty at all.

It looks like the Moon, just without those gulleys. I like it.

The Great Nebula in Orion is truly an amazing sight. It's even prominent with the naked eye, so I always wonder why it's only the 42nd Messier object. M1 the Crab Nebula is much duller and harder to find. I wonder why he missed it. Probably because he started out looking for comets and recorded the...

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyrwh9bZD41qb25dg.jpg I'm pretty sure "Sees shadow of a spatula" means this is a southern groundhog, and the interpretation is "about to go on the grill with assorted roadkill". HAHA! :lol: :lol: I heard yesterday that the reason we aren't getting ...

Venus and Jupiter are going to be in conjunction next month. That should be quite a sight.

Now here's a change...an aurora australis instead of a borealis. Interesting.

Again with the smilies, huh? This one is the eighth new one in two months. But it looks cool in the asterisk 1 background.

Here is the link to an interesting 60 Minutes article from two weeks back. http://m.cbsnews.com/postwatch.rbml?videoid=50118380&feed_id=32 It's about a young kid who was born with autism and is a supergenious at physics, math, and space science. He is also adding on to Einstein's theory of relat...

Forecasts predict record highs with temperatures in the middle sixties.

Ann wrote:Global warming could be what's going on.

You said it, Ann!

Also a 22 degree halo outside.

Why is the Norther Hemisphere is (so much) light, while the South Pole seems turned away from the light, and why is Cuba, accurately shown to me a distance from Florida, butting up against South America? Why aren't cities visible in at least some degree when the image is enlarged??????????? So . . ...

I like the photography technique used for making the landscape look like a small planet that the photographer is standing on.