Starship Asterisk*

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:03 pm Don't wear a bathing suit! You need a hazmat suit to do this experiment!

OMG!

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Wed Jul 17, 2024 1:38 pm I might have misunderstood this, but what are the several flashes of light on the ground? Lightning strikes?

The landscape is lit from car headlights on the road on the left. Set playback speed to 0.25 to see them.

Ann wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2024 9:01 am
It's a bit sad that the cause of these lovely clouds is the exhausts from the launch of a space ship, but still - it's a gorgeous image!

Ann

It's sad you would point that out.

(but - oh the heresy! - the video cuts out the last chord of that Bach piece!) (which can also be heard on Voyager's Golden Record) Not heresy, but MAJOR cringe! I think that would produce the same effect for ANY song on fans of that song's genre. I assume that was accidental and a result of the Yo...

Great shot! It reminds me of this.

Artemis, Fantasia, end of Beethoven pastoral symphony (flipped l-r)

GREAT image!

Why not use the original caption as a springboard?

"A missionary of the Middle Ages tells that he had found the point where the sky and the Earth touch" ("Un missionnaire du Moyen Âge raconte qu'il avait trouvé le point où le ciel et la Terre se touchent")

This is a magnificent movie! I was just as impressed when Mr. Hartman released the 10-year version in 2017. (A humble suggestion: perhaps the next time APOD posts a short video like this, maybe make a single video that contains multiple copies of the source video, which would then be a rough simulat...

Beautiful shot!

'Sirius ("the scorcher" in Latin)' Greek, actually. From wikipedia : "Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. Its name is derived from the Greek word Σείριος, or Seirios, meaning lit. 'glowing' or 'scorching'." This is the only mistake I've caught in APOD since following i...

One small mistake: the field isn't "near" Chicago. It's in Chicago, on the lakefront. For more info on the surroundings as they exist today, search for "Soldier Field" on Google Maps. The approximate starting point has a place marker. I remember seeing the film at the time. Today...

I was focused on the aurora for a couple of seconds before I realized it was mirrored. I immediately thought of this clip from "Fantasia".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP7kE_cncEs&t=47s

I was reminded of the sun god Ra traveling across the sky in his solar barque.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_barque

Why does the edge of earth's shadow appear to move across the moon's face from 7 o'clock to 1 o'clock beginning the eclipse, but from 5 o'clock to 11 o'clock ending the eclipse? Another factor to consider is that unless the Moon passes directly through the center of the Earth's shadow, the leading ...

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:32 am Same image, converted to crossed-eye stereo pair.

Thank you, sir! I wasn't having any luck trying to find the originals.

Dan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:17 am Right out of Forbidden Planet...

Exactly what I was thinking.

Absolutely stunning, gorgeous pictures and video! Bravississimo, Paolo!

Congratulations! And THANK YOU to all involved for 25 years of GREAT IMAGES EVERY DAY!

Thank you for posting links to the left and right images for us folks who choose other methods of viewing in 3D.

Underlining added: Intense and otherwise invisible ultraviolet radiation from the nebula's central white dwarf star powers its illusive glow in visible light. "Illusive" is the wrong word here because the glow is real and can be photographed. You may have meant "elusive". https:/...

I can't really agree that the aborigines were the "earliest astronomers". Telling stories about the sky certainly doesn't make one an astronomer. If anything, it trivializes the word. Noting the number of days from one full Moon to the next could be called early astronomy. But if the abori...

The 4th sentence begins with those exact words, and they link to a 30-second YouTube video for a company that installs windows.

Does my PC have some rogue adware that added this, or does everybody see it?

Just curious where this chart was originally created. It's not just aline, one of the descriptions is entirely in Spanish. (I think.) Although Google says that align in Spanish is alinee, not aline, so that's puzzling, too. Yeah, the note for Feb. 10 is odd. That's the closest approach of Moon and ...

Wonderful!

Great video! But I have a question. The time lapse starts in 2004, but in reverse it ends in 2002. Why was the time lapse made that way?