Starship Asterisk*

Lost Highway

There are 1440 minutes in a day. And 720 moon disks or sun disks in a full circle. So on average in takes about 2 minutes for the moon or the sun to set or to rise. Which is more or less how long the movie is.

Daily APOD image is more necessary than my cup of coffee.

What about Fat Cross Nebula?

I'm really impressed by the perfectly geometrical round shape.

Before Juno I was not aware that even our visual knowledge of Jupiter was quite approximate and superficial.

The 7th and 8th pictures seem to reveal earth-like water vapor clouds, but maybe it's just a matter of resemblance.
Anyway these a really gorgeous and mind blowing pictures.

Chris Peterson wrote:

ygmarchi wrote:I think the white ovals band is about 45° of latitude not near the equator.

Or even higher. But the caption says nearer the equator, not near, which seems like an accurate way of putting it.

Yes you're right, I didn't read carefully

I think the white ovals band is about 45° of latitude not near the equator.

't Hooft wrote the software to compute QCD. I hold this is just a delusion caused by confusing physics and information technology.

The shape reminds closely of comet 67/P.

For the rest, the resolution of attained of an object 1.8 million kms far, is just stunning.

Juno let us appreciate a different, unexpected Jupiter.

I don't think it has do with HTTPS, it never worked even before the switch

bystander wrote:

ygmarchi wrote:Why doesn't the image appear in tweets?

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=36753

Why doesn't the image appear in tweets?

These images are a true landmark in astronomy.

Living in Verona (Italy) I'm led to wonder why this feature is named after my home town.

My guess world be Shakespeare and my town's ancient walls?

I can't exactly figure out the perspective of the image.

It seams as though there's a sort of fence of structures perpendicular to rings plane,
which I myself find pretty weird to consider.

apod always amazing. I wish we went back to Venus soon.

I see you pretty much enjoy some lateral fun

Once buildings were usually built from materials from the surrounding areas, so they merged better with the environment. The buildings surviving from the past are often the most valuable and beatiful of their times. In the past architectural style had the time to settle though a process of refinemen...

What's most striking is the uglyness of human urbanization

Venus has been extremely neglected by human-made probes. Considering how close it is to us, and how similar it is to the Earth in size and mass, our lack of interest in our sister planet is even more remarkable. Rather than thinking of Venus as our sister planet, however, we seem to treat it as hum...

In fact Venus has been strangely little explored so far.

It was copied from a sci-fi movie, I just can't recall which.

Amazing wallpaper