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by Gemma Caelestis
Tue Sep 10, 2013 1:29 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Extrasolar Super Earth Gliese 1214b... (2013 Sep 10)
Replies: 28
Views: 4487

Re: APOD: Extrasolar Super Earth Gliese 1214b... (2013 Sep 1

A lot of 'artist's conception' images are absurdly fanciful but I like this one for its believable portrayal of a sun a little smaller and less active than our own.....but I can't judge the planet's relative size. How about cluing us in to the POV distance from Gliese, and from 1214b, in say AU. Or ...
by Gemma Caelestis
Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:34 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Fire on Earth (2013 Sep 01)
Replies: 43
Views: 6615

Re: APOD: Fire on Earth (2013 Sep 01)

And just to be clear, I'm also annoyed by the unscientific assumption that the elk in this picture were stunned by the fire.

All the elk I've ever seen look stunned anywhere, all the time. 8-)

Tony
by Gemma Caelestis
Sun Sep 01, 2013 12:41 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Fire on Earth (2013 Sep 01)
Replies: 43
Views: 6615

Re: APOD: Fire on Earth (2013 Sep 01)

Ann's post to me is completely non sequitur - by this logic, any photo at all could be posted on APOD (without shovels we couldn't dig, if we couldn't dig, we couldn't mine metals, without metals, we couldn't make cameras to photograph the sky, so....a picture of a shovel belongs on APOD!!). My day ...