Starship Asterisk*

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fly_G ... Nevada.jpg
Credit: Ken Lund

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/7118799989/

All of Earth's Water in a Single Sphere
Credit & Copyright: USGS, Woods Hole
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/2010/galle ... olume.html http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=28486 - neufer

Dione's Evander basin caught against Saturn and rings
Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / color composite by Emily Lakdawalla
Link: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-la ... 41544.html

The Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Credit: NASA, ESA, ESO, D. Lennon (ESA/STScI), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Link: http://heritage.stsci.edu/2012/01/index.html

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=28297 - bystander

NASA Dawn's Virtual Flight Over Asteroid Vesta
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Youtube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYxPw_T8Vlk
Dawn Link: http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/feature_storie ... vealed.asp

From Russia With Love Elektro-L: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/elektro.html
Source: http://www.universetoday.com/95108/from ... -of-earth/
Animated gif (huge): http://www.ntsomz.ru/img/electro_071011.gif

bystander wrote:From Russia With Love

Cool! Is this image copyrighted? If so, please indicate that in the description, if you can. This may help others to know whether they use this image on their website, Facebook feed, etc. Thanks if you can. - RJN

I didn't see any copyright in the source article on Universe Today.

Image credit: Russian Federal Space Agency / Research Center for Earth Operative Monitoring (NTS OMZ)

Star Trails and Station Modules
Link: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/ima ... 7_alt.html
Credit: Don Petit, NASA

HEIC: Edge-on Beauty (NGC 891)
Link: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1220a/
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Asterisk Cross Post: http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=28550 (bystander)

Cygnus-X: The Cool Swan Glowing in Flight
Credit: ESA/PACS/SPIRE/Martin Hennemann & Frederique Motte, Laboratoire AIM Paris-Saclay, CEA/Irfu -- CNRS/INSU -- Univ. Paris Diderot, France
Link: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA15626

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28518 - bystander

Glacier Flows in Iceland
Found: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... capes.html
Home: http://www.haarbergphoto.com/galleries/ ... gallery/58
Credit and Copyright: Erlend Haarberg
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Amateur astronomers boost ESA’s asteroid hunt
ESA Space Situational Awareness | 2012 May 14

Schools and amateurs help boost ESA's asteroid hunt
Faulkes Telescope Project | 2012 May 14

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=25690#p175618 - neufer

Expedition 31 Soyuz Launch
Credit: NASA, BIll Ingalls
License Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en
Found Link: http://www.universetoday.com/95174/expe ... lasts-off/
Home Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphot ... otostream/

IC 2944 Thackeray's Globules
Credit & Copyright: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and N.S. van der Bliek (NOAO/AURA/NSF)
Copyright Link: http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/copyright.html
Home Link: http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1101.html

Ghost of Jupiter, NGC 3242
Credit & Copyright: T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF, L. Frattare and Z. Levay/STScI/AURA/NASA
Copyright Link: http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/copyright.html
Home Link: http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1091.html

Opportunity's Eighth Anniversary View From 'Greeley Haven' (False Color)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.
Home Link: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA15282

Closest Dione Flyby
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Home Link: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA14590

Jupiter and two of its moons (and a sungrazing comet)
Credit: SOHO, Sungrazing Comets Group at NRL
Youtube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5WuOZIRWjI
Found link: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-la ... 60939.html

Annular Solar Eclipse this Weekend
NASA Science News | Dr. Tony Phillips | 2012 May 15

Annular Solar Eclipse over the USA
NASA Science News | Dr. Tony Phillips | 2012 Jan 27

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?t=28575

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA14608
Daphnis and Pan
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Posted here: http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=28552

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA15416
Andromeda in ultraviolet
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 69#p175713

http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2012/sn2010/
SN 2010jl: A Supernova Cocoon Breakthrough
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Royal Military College of Canada/P.Chandra et al); Optical: NASA/STScI

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28574

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http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2012/hgs/
Herschel Galaxy Survey: Overfed Black Holes Shut Down Galactic Star-Making
Credit: Illustration: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/R. Hurt (SSC)

http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28507

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http://www.gemini.edu/node/11815
Celestial Tapestry is Born of Uncertain Parentage
Credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA

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