Starship Asterisk*

In the APOD, it sure looks like M5 has a tail. It fooled me into thinking that it was 13P Olbers, until johnnydeep pointed it out.

markc wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 5:27 pm Wow - 100 stars per 3 cu light years!

Actually it is 100 stars per 27 cu light years.

APOD Robot wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2024 4:06 am
...100 stars could be contained in a cube just 3 light-years on a side.

So the cube is 3 by 3 by 3.

Thanks Chris.

In this picture I see little to no asymmetry in the craters that I would expect if the impactor hit at an angle other than 90 degrees to the surface. Now that I think of it, this seems to be common to most of the pictures I have seen of other cratered surfaces. Am I missing something? Or is it the n...