Starship Asterisk*

hehehe... this was just on the other night. =)
love that movie. and Wally has got to be one of my favorite photographers of ALL time.

Excellent shot....

-=A=-

Mercury as Never Seen Before http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/07oct_firstresults.htm?list71415 Oct. 7, 2008: Yesterday, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft flew past Mercury and photographed a broad swath of never-before-seen terrain. The first of more than 1,200 high-resolution images are arriving ...

like a window into another dimension... =b

I love the zoom in video. Shows some good dust cloud penetration... and we can actually see beyond obscuring dust to other emissions.

geez mon... can people not leave prints while handling the glossy photos please... dang.

=b

*handles photo by edges*

LOL


hehehehe...... thas funny. =b

=D

hehehe.... got me a nice lil' laugh from this topic. =b

At least there are more positive Petes than negative Nancys...

But you are right EMC... one day an image is non-astronomy related and the gates of hell doth open. O.o

ROFL....

these posts make me laugh. =)

Gotta have me APOD fix yo!!!
Dont ever leave me cold turkey like that again.... O.o!!!

My withdrawals are killing me... =b

*devours more astro images and feeds the craving*

Mount Lemmon SkyCenter Astronomer Takes Astronomy Picture Of The Day by Staff Writers Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 http://www.skynightly.com/reports/Mount_Lemmon_SkyCenter_Astronomer_Takes_Astronomy_Picture_Of_The_Day_999.html http://www.skynightly.com/images/witch-broom-nebula-ngc-6960-bg.jpg This ...

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080814.html http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/266602main_AFM_Scan3_516-387.jpg This color image is a three dimensional (3D) view of a digital elevation map of a sample collected by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). T...

I like how it ends: A new theory, called M-theory, takes string theory one step farther and states that the "strings" that all things are made of actually vibrate in an additional spatial dimensional, which is called the 10th dimension. It is by changing the size of this 10th spatial dimen...

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Traveling_Faster_Than_the_Speed_of_Light_999.html Two Baylor University scientists have come up with a new method to cause a spaceship to effectively travel faster than the speed of light, without breaking the laws of physics. Dr. Gerald Cleaver, associate professor...

So then the Sun is small, because it took 12 hours for the light to register as it looks in those combined exposures as Saturn eclipsed the sun for that long. So yeah, not really the same as it is on earth, but it looks cool. The moon only blocks out the sun for how long? =)-~ That's kind of what I ...

I have always wondered when they will release some 3D glasses based on the ones you use at IMAX theaters. 3D at IMAX is sooo much better than the normal red/blue type of 3D like in this APOD. When you take the glasses off at IMAX, you see a garbled mess on the screen, but when you put the glasses on...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080808.html http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0808/TSE2008_luethen800.jpg Now that is an awesome image showing the Sun's brilliance without actually blinding someone. =) Explanation: During a total solar eclipse, the Sun's extensive outer atmosphere, or corona, is an inspir...

I dont believe the Saturn total eclipse... the Sun would be too small at Saturn's distance for it to create that ring around the planet like the Sun does with the moon. Cool artist image though. But not likely.

SpaceX!!!!!

Weren't these the same people who had that rocket malfunction when trying for the X-Prize, which Burt and SpaceShip One and company won??

That name is sticking with me for some reason... something to do with too many failures. D'oh! Scotty, we miss you!

The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Chapter 1 "It's always darkest before the dawn" -Harvey Dent, Darknight =) This has got to be my favorite astronomy image. Just look at dem colors mane! And some newer images of F...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080802.html I captured the eclipse with a pinhole and making a shadow on an object when I was a kid. I never tried to make multiple pictures using something with multiple holes like a kitchen strainer though. Making a shirt with the strainer eclipse would make an interes...

That resembles a setting sun horizon. Looks like the edge of the moons surface is only allowing rays of light to flood the far horizon, so our atmosphere is doing its affects like normal as if the sun were blocked by the earth's bulk (instead its being blocked by the moon's bulk). But just a guess o...

In that above animation starting at the Milky Way and zooming out to show the superclusters of galaxies............ each dot is a galaxy???!!!! dang. That's pretty cool how it shows the shape of the galaxies around us as it pulls out from our view to the outer view of our vast region. My God, man!! ...

http://ifa.hawaii.edu/cosmowave/supervoids/ http://ifa.hawaii.edu/cosmowave/supervoids/vloidsters_de_600.png Figure credit: Granett, Neyrinck & Szapudi. Large-scale structures in tube modified from a Millennium simulation picture. This website is about our discovery that vast superclusters and s...

Direct Evidence Of Dark Energy In Supervoids And Superclusters http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/szapudi-7-08/ http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Direct_Evidence_Of_Dark_Energy_In_Supervoids_And_Superclusters_999.html A team of astronomers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astron...

LOL

*smacks you*

Now if the ISS would have just waited for friday's partial eclipse.... d'oh!! =)