Starship Asterisk*

Ann, I *do* enjoy your in depth reviews.

I just cannot help but see one the the Star Wars Imperial guards.

You missed 2012 MAR 26 :D https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120326.html APOD Gallery 2023 August 2: M82: Galaxy with a Supergalactic Wind https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2308/M82_HubblePathak_1080.jpg NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & Copyright: Harshwardhan Pathak Filters: Infrared I (814 nm), Optica...

someone should tell the guy standing on top of the arc and looking down that he's missing a view of a really beautiful moon...

I'm intrigued by a few, randomly placed, very flat, table-top like rocks. It looks like they were shaved. Reminded me of newly cut tree stumps. If there were large areas or patches of them it would be less interesting to me. Of all the rocks there's a half dozen or so that a oddly stand out. Mind p...

If I have to narrow it down as much as possible, it will be two. For me, the choice is really not based on the image or the subject matter. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap031007.html was the day my daughter was born, and https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060321.html , the day my son was born. Of course, I ...

I'm sure someone else saw this and has a reasonable explanation:



Chip in the camera lens?
Spacebug splattered on the "windshield"?
Or just a (boring!) processing glitch?

Ann wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 3:11 pm

Martian sand dunes.png

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Ann

It *is* possible... Bugs has interacted with Martians!
Perhaps they sculpted his likeness on a grand scale?

To me, it looks very reminiscent of a dark, granular material being blown against the dunes from the upper right towards the lower left. Many of the ridges and valleys of the dune structures are more bare of the streaks on the right, in particular the end of the limb in the upper right of the photo....

If you zoom in the photo, is that a comet in the upper left corner? https://media.sciencephoto.com/image/r5500548/800wm/R5500548-Aquila_Constellation.jpg Summer Triangle Lodriguss.png The Summer Triangle with Altair, Alpha star of constellation Aquila, at center right. Photo: Jerry Lodriguss. I can...

Can't resist comparing the magnetic streamlines of the Milky Way with the post-impressionist swirly painting style of Van Gogh. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/757px-Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Yup. When...

Regarding Mimas, NASA says it's (continuing the Monty Python skits) "not dead yet!": The moon Mimas, whose Herschel Crater makes it look like the Death Star from "Star Wars," was thought to be an old, dead world, according to Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker. But Cassini s...