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Hmmm...I can access the sites just fine. Maybe there is some special software needed?

I kinda wish the supernova could have been pointed out in the original image. Nice, though.

When you make your posts, you see the smilies on the right. Just below them is-->view more smilies<---, click on that. What pops up may cover where your smilies will be going, so you have to remember how many times you clicked. Each click on a smilie will give you one smilie. Up to the the limit, o...

Where do you get these smilies
This one gives me the creeps...kinda looks like it's trying to bribe someone in a bad way.

After reading all this, I am seriously thinking of switching to Google Chrome.

I was finally able to get rid of those text-enhance links, but not the ways you all provided, although I thank you for helping. I went to the text-enhance website and it had an option to opt out of seeing the links. I clicked it, typed in a captcha, and a message said "you have been opted out o...

boca bubbe wrote:I see Kermit the frog singing in the shower.

Hahaha, I like that idea. The eagle is very prominent in the image, but I think of the Aurora as a large snowdrift that is green.

Whoever came up with this 2012 idea is completely nuts. But then, when we're still here, they'll be so embarrassed it didn't happen that they'll have to leave Earth!

The clouds on the right side seem to be mammatus clouds . I think they are something in the cirrus family, distorted by the stacking of multiple exposures. You're probably right, although the anvil of a cumulonimbus cloud is as high as the cirrus clouds. It may be composed slightly if cirrus, just ...

Good thing I don't use Facebook.

The clouds on the right side seem to be mammatus clouds.

It's pretty rare, though, for cumulonimbus (thunder) clouds to develop in cold weather, especially if it's snowing. I don't think I have been in a thundersnow, though. It was 54 degrees outside, barely warm enough for a cumulonimbus cloud to form.

Thanks for the clarification, bystander. I didn't understand that sentence.

I'll have to remember to thank global warming for bringing us a thunderstorm in the middle of winter.

Fortunately, it still is.

Is the black area a circular frame or space?
There should be an apostrophe between the 'n' and 's' in Saturns

This is a really nice image. When I first saw the moon, I thought it was a harvest moon. All this talk about wolves though reminds me of this APOD.

And Wget.

That's spam for you, Beyond.

An airplane flying below the Pleiades. Also the Praesepe at two in the morn.

I'll pass on the brakes, owlice-but how about toast? Or even better, a muffin?

I think this is a very interesting image. I need to start looking for these objects myself, if it isn't so cold.

Whenever I get on the internet, random words are highlighted in blue and underlined, as if they were links. If I put my cursor over the word, a small window appears that has a random ad, usually a $1000 Walmart gift card. For example, on the APOD site, the word "Sun" is one of those words....

I like the part at :30 with the full star trails.

Spambots? You mean like Xrumer and Wget? I never knew they created spam!

It's a lot smaller than you may think, Beyond.