Starship Asterisk*

geckzilla wrote:
I wonder why the caterpillars bothered you.

tiggs wrote:Why did you stick that ugly text "milky way " over the milky way? you ruined it

Chris Peterson wrote:

tiggs wrote:Why did you stick that ugly text "milky way " over the milky way? you ruined it

Annotated versions are seldom aesthetic. They're simply informational. That's why the main image is unannotated.

bystander wrote:

Chris Peterson wrote:

tiggs wrote:Why did you stick that ugly text "milky way " over the milky way? you ruined it

Annotated versions are seldom aesthetic. They're simply informational. That's why the main image is unannotated.

He's probably referring to the hi-res click-thru image.

You can see the unannotated image here.

Jacob Zabicky wrote:
Isn't September the start of the spring in Argentine? That could explain the ugly caterpillars on their way of becoming beautiful butterflies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonomia_obliqua wrote:
<<Lonomia obliqua (or Giant Silkworm Moth, a name also used for a wide range of other Saturniid moths) is a species of Saturniid moths from South America. It is famous for its larval form, rather than the adult moth, primarily because of the caterpillar's defense mechanism, urticating bristles that inject a potentially deadly venom. The caterpillar has been responsible for many human deaths, especially in southern Brazil. Doctors were mystified when scores of patients came in with the same symptoms. Haematoma and gangrene-like symptoms manifested, spreading throughout the body, eventually causing massive blood leakage into the brain and, in several cases, death. Each victim stated they had "just handled a bunch of leafy branches to break the trail or gather vegetation." Exploring the area, the only creature commonly found within all the incidents was the L. obliqua caterpillar. Its hair growth covers its body, and each clump of spines is able to easily puncture the skin and release toxins into the victim.>>

neufer wrote:. . . Lonomia obliqua caterpillar

geckzilla wrote:Got a pic of one of the caterpillars, Sergio? The panorama is beautiful, but I wonder why the caterpillars bothered you.

neufer wrote:

[b][size=150]Sergio encounters caterpillars.[/size][/b]

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geckzilla wrote:
I wonder why the caterpillars bothered you.

alcor wrote:A wonderful image.

Also a slightly illusory picture as the ship in the front is pointing left, toward the big ship on the sky: the constellation Argo Navis with Canopus. Nowadays you don't talk about Argo Navis as it is so big and one instead speak about the constellations Carina, Vela and Puppis.

DavidLeodis wrote:I wonder if my computer is missing some software as the item brought up through the link in the "A 360-degree interactive panoramic version of this image is also available" only brings up a video that seems to have no interactive feature. The video shows only the APOD image then at about 2 minutes 15 seconds the annotated version appears lasting to the end of the little over 4 minutes video (all through the video there is what sounds like waves crashing) . Is the video interactive for other users?

rstevenson wrote:

DavidLeodis wrote:I wonder if my computer is missing some software as the item brought up through the link in the "A 360-degree interactive panoramic version of this image is also available" only brings up a video that seems to have no interactive feature. The video shows only the APOD image then at about 2 minutes 15 seconds the annotated version appears lasting to the end of the little over 4 minutes video (all through the video there is what sounds like waves crashing) . Is the video interactive for other users?

It's just a video for me too.

Rob

DavidLeodis wrote:"A 360-degree interactive panoramic version of this image is also available" Is the video interactive for other users?

Case wrote:

DavidLeodis wrote:"A 360-degree interactive panoramic version of this image is also available" Is the video interactive for other users?

For me, it works interactive with the Firefox webbrowser, obviously Google Chrome too, and the YouTube mobile app. The desktoptop version has a four arrow circular controller, keyboard (WASD) and mouse control (grab-and-drag); on mobile the view follows the spatial orientation of the device.

rstevenson wrote:And in my case, I tested the APOD image in Firefox, Safari and Opera, each of them the latest version operating in the latest Mac OS on a recent model iMac. So whatever code the image is supposed to use for interactivity seems not to be browser specific, rather it may be OS specific -- which, if true, would be completely contrary to what the internet is about.

rstevenson wrote:And in my case, I tested the APOD image in Firefox, Safari and Opera, each of them the latest version operating in the latest Mac OS on a recent model iMac. So whatever code the image is supposed to use for interactivity seems not to be browser specific, rather it may be OS specific -- which, if true, would be completely contrary to what the internet is about.