Starship Asterisk*

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 1:42 pm

jeanfoxall@live.com wrote: ↑Sun Jun 04, 2023 10:27 pm Help, someone, I'm stuck!

Or, "I've fallen and I can't get up!"

That is truly a beautiful color scheme Johnny. I think I want to save it!

Aleph

Can you find a designation for the lovely three-armed spiral galaxy behind M101?

Ann
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No designation, but at least this little ditty exists. Someone else likes it too.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla ... lepictures

Are there two Pinwheel Galaxies, M101 and M33?

From Astronomy.com

"The Local Group’s third-largest member, the Pinwheel Galaxy (M33), resides in the constellation Triangulum. It is only about one-tenth the size of the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way."

This photo reminds me of when I snuck up to the very tippy top of a cruise liner one very late clear night. No land, but the sky and the sea were similar. I was transfixed for hours; finally climbed down when the first hint of dawn appeared. If ever you take a cruise, do this...

Jupiter has nothing on Earth when it comes to clouds... https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KjH31jxYIx8/T_m_jusWLxI/AAAAAAAACd4/muicUMsPxMA/s1600/Asperatus+Cloud2.jpg https://strangesounds.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/undulatus-asperatus-1.jpg https://external-preview.redd.it/sa-DK666FkDsCZgfCEqIvw7WZq5w4w...

Yes they always reminded me of vacuum cleaner bags. And why not? It's basically what they are, and man seemingly modeled vacuum cleaner bags after them unwittingly. I find it endlessly fascinating that even creatures as odd as these still share most of our features. I don't know if they get digested...

Their Achilles heel though are sustained high temperatures. Even desiccated tardigrades of the toughest species will succumb to sustained temps above 100C. So it is still the seeds of certain plants that will win the ultimate heat race, as tardigrades cannot withstand fire, while seeds can. Neverthe...

I didn't know so many arms could be seen: "The structures of our galaxy are as follows- -The centre of our galaxy resides in sagittarius, not far from M6, but is obscured from view due to the dust clouds of the sagittarius-Carina spiral arm which is the next spiral arm in from our own. -We can ...

Far more than in my night sky, this photo lets us know how close it is us to us. I wonder tho: is it the central body we are looking at or the body of the Orion/Cygnus Arm we live in? Or perhaps one of the major arms?

So impressive it looks like a Midjourney fantasy painting.

A beautiful cosmic Tea Rose.

I don't know what you mean by "single". We would be unlikely to be able to detect if any of these stars have planetary systems. Ann seems to mean stars that are not "multiple"s, as in binaries, trinaries, etc. But holding on to planets seems like it would be a lot easier than ho...

So let's say S5-HVS1 had a couple planets. Are they still in capture by the star hurtling thru space, or has all the upheaval overcome the gravity that held them? Have they become runaway planets, now alone in the dark?

Thank you Ann. It almost sounds like a giant centrifuge of sorts - not working exactly the same way, but having similar results. Well, we have a limited number of wavelength colors, though many shades. Does each element correspond to a color shade? Can we have 98 shades of color providing the elemen...

I was wondering if the dimmer red gas shrouding the brighter red gas of the ring was the very first stuff that was flung outwards. And if so, would it have different elements in it than the rest of the nebula. Or is the nebula more homogeneous.

We can salute the artistic quality of the film, but I continue to think that we should develop more energy to save our planet rather than investing in this kind of stupidity. Alex https://now.northropgrumman.com/how-technology-from-the-space-race-changed-the-world/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/esnt...

The central pulsar....I have no words.....

"Oh please, nondescript one, would you inform us how you define and identify yourself?"

"Of course we are female! We only fall into male when we've lost most of our mettle!"

Ann said:
"Yes! Bellatrix qualifies as a low mass star. It's a little guy or gal."
That was an inspiration! Are there male stars and female stars? :^) Only asking because I might be the only person who ever asked such a preposterous question here.

Like a whirlpool in space. This one is a keeper for me.

If there are underground caverns, perhaps controlled conditions are possible for habitation and bases.

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 4:12 pm De-anaglyphed version for those without glasses or who simply prefer this viewing method. Configured for cross-eyed viewing.
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Thanks! It worked perfectly. I always miss these because I don't have the glasses.

Ann said: "Anyway. It looks to me as if the western part of the United States still isn't fully settled." Ann, here is an interesting map of the U.S., with each state resized by ratio to its population. https://www.iflscience.com/heres-what-a-map-of-the-us-looks-like-if-you-resize-each-sta...

I do wonder if some of the red and orange colors are a bit skewed to the bright side. I am ~ 30 miles northwest of Philly, and on this map well-ensconced in the red/orange. There are a lot of Mayberry RFD type locales here - I have cornfields of hundreds of acres right across the street - and we mos...