Starship Asterisk*

Microscopic images of a chondrules in chondrite meteorite Copyright: Mila Zinkova http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8376/8502399982_344146f4f9.jpg Here you can find a higher resolution: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8376/8502399982_4964c59e18_h.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8225/8500941244_0015ec8b...

Copyright: Mila Zinkova Endeavour over the Golden Gate Bridge http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8169/8010812439_0b67aa5cff.jpg (full resolution) http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8169/8010812439_e955d8b5fb_k.jpg http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8460/8010812733_bccf501bdd.jpg (full resolution) http://farm9.stat...

A very rare 360 degrees fogbow, solar glory and the Spectre of the Brocken with some shadows of Golden Gate Bridge's cables

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Iridescent clouds Copyright:Mila Zinkova http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8283/7723108970_200325cff0_k.jpg Iridescent clouds Copyright:Mila Zinkova http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8423/7723108250_d6eccd438e_b.jpg Sunspots Copyright:Mila Zinkova http://spaceweather.com/submissions/pics/m/Mila-Zinkova-zz_...

Memorial to Francis Scott Key and the Sun Copyright:Mila Zinkova http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8284/7695454148_6a419389c8_n.jpg Here's a full resolution http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8284/7695454148_1ed4702fa3_h.jpg Foggy sunset Copyright:Mila Zinkova http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8146/7666288280_d...

The antenna of the South Tower of Golden Gate Bridge points directly to sunspot 1520

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Sunspot 1520 and cormorants

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Sunset sun with sunspots and with Kelvin-Helmholtz instability clouds URL of website, if any Copyright:Mila Zinkova http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7256/7512514042_2317be3ca5_b.jpg Mulch-colored sun with sunspots URL of website, if any Copyright:Mila Zinkova http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8155/7512513...

Copyright Mila Zinkova Title of image A water strider http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7139/7455089040_297d5475a3_h.jpg A water strider in a pond created an impression of the night sky: there are a few supernovas, star cluster and constellations :-) Water strider's technique of walking over water is us...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnv5ipdOX2Y This is a video of the entire sunrise! I was unaware of the video when I wrote this APOD. Jens himself mentions the video in the Facebook comments about the image, found here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=396571407044993&set=a.39047426765470...

Transit of Venus photographed in San Francisco
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[attachment=1]Mila1.jpg[/attachment] http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7229/7343990346_ef734e8f62_h.jpg The upper frame shows mirage of Venus, in the lower frame Venus is back to normal self. The images were taken in San Francisco. Please click here http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7229/7343990346_ef734e8...

Images of the eclipsed sun with corresponding shadows http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7231/7242192218_45a42ed47d_k.jpg Below is the link to the full resolution http://www.flickr.com/photos/35300356@N03/7242192218/sizes/k/in/pool-1922403@N20/ http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8005/7241857714_bf613faa04_h.j...

Temple of Poseidon, Sounio, Greece. The shot was taken with an 8 inch Dobsonian telescope. Well... Yes, it's true! You can actually take a photo with a dob! :mrgreen: More details: http://www.greeksky.gr/files/photos/moon/20120505SounioPano.htm Very nice images, the best I've seen so far. I like th...

I'm wondering what kind of mirage this is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28183637@N08/6711763403/in/set-72157628546697103 It's a picture I took of Lake Michigan on a cold December day. It is an inferior mirage like this one http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Desertmirage.jpg for exam...

http://i.imgur.com/1s0Gn.jpg Saving ships from Titanic's fate We've painted them, tagged them, bombed them, monitored them with radar and watched them from space - but icebergs like the one that sank the Titanic are still a threat to ships today. Formed in 1913, the year after the Titanic's demise,...

A fata morgana would not hide an iceberg, it would make it visibly larger vertically. NatGeo did a show (I think it was “Titanic: case closed”), about how a mirage could bring up the distant horizon, which could hide an iceberg for a long time, as that wouldn't show a silhouette against the clear s...

I live in the California high desert and have seen many mirages. As the text says, it allows an object to be seen from many different angles. That makes an object bigger, not smaller. I've seen city lights about 6 to 8 miles distant expanded to appear as 3, 4 and even 5 lights vertically. I've seen...

The Titanic should be a banned subject; the media have been full of it for weeks, and now it causes not only the APOD to feature a wholly Earthly subject, but the Earth Science Picture of the Day has the SAME SUBJECT! Different pic, but also quoting the Tiatanic as the stimulus. How boring can you ...

Would such a phenomena be visible at 11:40 at night, when the Titanic struck the iceberg? :---[===] * Mirages could happen at any time, nighttime or daytime. They do not depend on the sun. Also this EPOD http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2012/01/flying-dutchmen.html could explain how mirages could obscure ...