Starship Asterisk*

It is a magnificent picture of a true island universe, I could loose myself just watching it's sea of stars!

Pictures like this one really makes me feel small and insignificant!

APOD Robot wrote:...and has a density so low that it might house a vast system of caverns inside.

Boomer12k wrote:OK....I'm GAME....I'll go....I got nothing else to do....I do get the internet on the way there, right????

Imagine caving on Hyperion!

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2012-37-c-web.jpg This image compares the angular size of the XDF field to the angular size of the full Moon. The XDF is a very small fraction of sky area, but it provides a "core sample" of the heavens by penetrating deep into space over a sig...

Amazing, the jewel box that is Cosmos never ceases to amaze me!

Thanks Ann, I was just going to ask about the object at 8 o'clock, but your post was informative as usual.

Such great photos of the comet! I'm really jealous of the southerners these days!

Such a wonderful vista of the southern sky! Thank you Ann for the description, I really should learn more about the sky 'down-under'. I'm really jealous, because by the time the comet becomes visible for my latitude the spectacle will be over.