Starship Asterisk*

Ironwood wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 1:15 pm I wonder how today's grid would handle a direct hit from a Carrington Event or stronger CME. How long would the power stay off?

I'm not sure but it would be good to have one of these to help our infrastructure.

It was determined only this century that zodiacal dust was mostly expelled by comets that have passed near Jupiter. What about the Mars origin theory supported by Juno data? Indeed, the evidence now heavily favors that explanation for the creation of the majority of the interplanetary dust responsi...

Using the telescope to project the image onto a spherical screen you'd need a complex complex.

Webb in 3D to shine light in 3D but it's like waiting for astronomical Christmas.

6 years old today and still ready to play. (As soon as the picture's done)

If a large star could become a neutron star, then a neutron star could become a black hole, what could a black hole become? Say something 3D is changed into a 2D object, what would be its 1D counterpart? I guess I might as well ask what a 4D cat ball looks like. Quasars are like that; let alone a mi...

Our 7 month old started with a bubble. Never too young to start to wonder!

A Tour of Eta Carinae https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAWaziYYB90 Streaks explained in both bystander's and Orin's posts :?: Hubblesite. org "These streaks are created when the star's light rays poke through the dust clumps scattered along the bubble's surface. Wherever the ultraviolet light s...

Begs the question why some APOD's aren't presented in a fully resolved format. :? "Fully resolved format"? They're scaled for the main page, which links to whatever maximum size the imager provided. I often forget to "click" on the image to see it in full resolution. Okay… who l...

I'd have to vote for "Aurion" But the entire image is much better on high-res!

Begs the question why some APOD's aren't presented in a fully resolved format.

The entire sky. Been playing around with the new allsky camera I've been developing. Here's a single capture- you can see Orion, the Pleiades, Cassiopeia, the Big Dipper, and more. And a stack of 2100 images covering about 12 hours, twilight to twilight. Fun. _ M20220204_211619.jpg 2022.02.04 Stack...

Perhaps Webb will provide evidence about how common water is in other solar systems.

neufer wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 7:58 pm

Fred the Cat wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 4:18 pm
Geck - There must be a space cowboy nearby.

You don't see the cowboy under the hat

I think it's in Boötes.

My curiosity is peaked.

Peserverance would pay off with some " golden" hour ingenuity.

Geck - There must be a space cowboy nearby.

Apparent size from Earth embraces the perspective.

It's another one of those today. February is full of them.

But they should have called it a "palinilap"!

Meerkat thinking, “You should see what the universe looks like through my eyes! We have great eyesight and it’s way cooler than humans can see.”

As the grand structure of the universe goes, what would be the order of things? Cosmic background radiation>filaments and voids>super clusters>clusters>local group>Milky Way>solar system. It’s hard to organize these in my mind at the scale they are represented. And what’s a cluster wall ? :bang: Yo...

As the grand structure of the universe goes, what would be the order of things? Cosmic background radiation>filaments and voids>super clusters>clusters>local group>Milky Way>solar system. It’s hard to organize these in my mind at the scale they are represented. And what’s a cluster wall ? :bang:

Snowshoeing this weekend someone had a ball. Which is what he turned into at the end of his day!

Beautiful birds with complex history.

I don't know but Webb may check it out even more closeup.

Doesn’t redshift have some inherent flaws ? It may be the best tool in the box but all devices usually have some practical limitations. Using just wave lengths can be tricky . :wink: Interesting things to contemplate. (Also: http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=42158) However, I was si...

Super spiral galaxies put a new spin how fast is too much to spin out.

Life in a super spiral could be like playing - spin the potato.