Starship Asterisk*

Missed the core by “that much”

AVAO wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 5:34 am
Is there an explanation for the formation of this mesh-like structure, which becomes visible in the IR?

Maybe since you now get to see to the inner cores of dense material, your looking at the condensed bars that are driving the formation of all visible material in the galaxy?

Have stereo viewing images been made before of a comet in two adjacent positions in time? I wonder what could look like.

MarkBour wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 5:10 pm I'm not sure I understood

daddyo wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 6:35 am “You can tell your children of the day everyone looked up, and realized that we are only tenants of this world”

but I think that was part of what he was also expressing (?)

Something that popped into my head from the end of Clarke’s 2010

“You can tell your children of the day everyone looked up, and realized that we are only tenants of this world”

It sure is hard not to imagine a coral fossil:

https://www.cedarville.edu/~/media/File ... -guide.pdf

Very nice. The yellow tint on the maria I guess is Earthshine.

These Antarctic Film Festival videos are entertaining: https://www.wiffa.aq/en/station?tid=116

The cones seem to have maybe 4 periodic events/episodes to them

Looks like it picked up a bit of grit on the way down. Awesome shot!

The engineers that put this together are awesome.

I noticed what I think is a video aliasing effect of the two rotors seemingly synchronized to the shutter, makes it look like each blade is stationary on either the left or right.

Here's phase #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zJsXJBs_ks

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 3:43 pm Cross-eyed non-anaglyph for those without glasses or who prefer this format.
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PIA02471_800_crossed.jpg

Has anyone ever caught you in the office with your eyes crossed?

BTW thanks again for this version.

Interesting, I like the chandelier effect. Seems to show the increased likelihood of higher masses merging than lower, but also that similar masses seem to be more likely to merge. Maybe it's because it's easier to detect similar or higher mass mergers. The last think I noticed is that most mergers ...

Wow, great way to put scale into tangible perspective, about 100 years to get there driving 100 mi/hr.

Thanks Chris (again)

The interesting difference between the lab experiments of the hexagon effect and Saturn's is the lab seems to show eddies that seem to hold in the sides of the hexagon, forming it. I don't notice them on the planet images so far https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_hexagon#/media/File:PIA21611_-...

Endor?

Incredible video. That was a really fun mission to watch.

The coordination with Parker might make for some really interesting 3-D images/movies of flares, or views into those "magnetic windows" previously mentioned here: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200203.html

A $10 billion project employing 7000 people, and "No one thought of this"?

https://spacenews.com/spacex-working-on ... astronomy/

BDanielMayfield wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 12:21 pm

kennedy70 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2019 6:33 am It looks like Curiosity was designed by a team of engineers, and not a team of architects.

It was. Function is way more important than form at this point in our exploration of Mars.

Here's how an architect would get to Mars

Wondering if the speckled coma appearance is an artifact of the imager itself, or actually comes from particles.

Thanks Chris for always posting these

That’s worthy of being called Art

It’s claimed the telescope array has enough resolution to resolve writing on a coin at the distance between New York and Los Angeles. That’s crazy. I wonder how they collimated such a device. Awesome work. They will have a career in resolving other objects out there.