Starship Asterisk*

So, does this "cometeor" cross the Earth's orbital path at the (relatively) same location every time (well, considering that the "cometeor" and the Earth are moving with The Sun on its journey around the Milky Way)? Or are these pebbles the remains of just one crossing? If a larg...

Thanks Ann!
I've saved your ANNotated image to my Pictures folder!

(Edit: I hope it wasn't too much work for you)

As opposed to Pacman, today's APOD to me looks more like a creature from the depths of an ocean!
(or a Parana!)

Thanks for the ANNotation, ANN!
I was unable to find Castor and Pollux in such a busy, topsy-turvy composite!

EDIT: I would like a file of your ANNotations, that would make skyhopping much more enjoyable!

nuefer quoted: "the Ephesian authorities not only executed Herostratus, but attempted to condemn him to a legacy of obscurity by forbidding mention of his name under penalty of death. However, the ancient historian Theopompus, who was not Ephesian but rather Chian, mentions the name of Herostra...

So, I've added blue lines to Orin's .gif, marking voids between rows of stars.
Is that how the different arms of The Milky Way are determined?

Woo-hoo! So, even the low res hazard avoidance camera - with a protective cover still on, mind you - can take a pretty good picture! Other than happening to catch a current "live" organism crossing the field of view, of course! (And yes, I read most of neufer's two posts about the advaned...

Kinda curios; is there any data of how far Shepherd hit that ball? Miles & miles not really a answer! :mrgreen: Orin, my good man, I'm surprised that you seem to have overlooked the fact that on The Moon optical phenomena behave differently than here on Earth, OR that the SI distance unit for &...

Continuing the focus on the scientific golf experiment Shepard conducted...

So, Johnny Carson lied during his monologue when he told us that Shepard hit "a crater in one!"?

I agree that the photo is magnificent. But I have a question. Was the meteor going left to right, or right to left? Is it possible to tell from the photo? From the trail colours? I'm guessing, (dangerously) that it traveled right to left, because it encountered the Oxygen and Nitrogen as it plunged...

Ann wrote: ↑Sun Jan 31, 2021 10:18 am

I think - mind you, I think

And therefore, you ARE!

As the Gum Nebula appears to be rather pink, I'm guessing it is the popular Raspberry flavor.
But, I'm not willing to sample it to find out.
It looks like it was stuck there by someone who was tired of chewing on it.

So, the description is misleading.
Thanks.

P.s. in regard to an earlier comment by neufer.
Phillips also makes Root Beer Schnapps.
I hope to sample some, someday...

"Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. " I'm a bit puzzled by this sentence in the description. It has been my (newbie) understanding that "heavy elements" are created not during the ignition/burning phase of t...

Case wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 11:46 am The VLA (along with Arecibo) is also known to be featured somewhat prominently in the movie Contact. (The movie Contact itself is based on Carl Sagan’s novel of the same name.)

IIRC, The VLA is also shown in the beginning of the movie "2010"

praxnex@gmail.com wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 4:37 pm Would gravity decrease time by accelerating car toward sun?

It worked for Kirk when he brought back (forward) the whales!

It looks like to me that the core of galaxy has tipped edgewise to us.

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 3:07 pm
Anyone else see the eagle dead center looking up and to the left? (EDIT: I meant left, not right!)

Do you mean this one?

And now that you know Sagittarius, you can roughly locate the place where Sag A* lurks, the 4.1 million sun massed supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy :!: Actually, this was my underlying purpose! Kindly regarding your signature comment about "ex nihilo" I respond: "B...

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 5:55 pm
Looks like the gears in an old clock; and it's about time!

Or stacks of gold coins viewed edge on?

Last night, (2020-09-16 20:30 Local) I was walking the dog, I looked up at Jupiter and Saturn, and then at the stars to their West.
For the first time in my life, I made out the "Teapot" asterism!
The feeling was like I had checked off an item on my (non-existent) "Bucket List".

Dilettante: woodworking, auto repair, electronics repair, gardening, astronomy, model railroading, collecting old woodworking tools, computers...

<<Flowers for Algernon is the title of a science fiction short story and a novel by American writer Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. The novel...

So, how does the AMIGA project know that what its measuring is due to the halo around Andromeda as opposed to the likely halo around the Milky Way through which all the light from the tell-tale quasars must travel before we can measure it? The Milky Way doesn't have a halo, because you know, humans...

"and the clarity of the observer's eyesight."

Yes, in my case, the Pleiades is a blur on a line to the West of Aldebaran and Orion's Belt.

Subaru!