Astronomy Picture of the Day

wonka08 · **#41** by **wonka08** » Mar 14, 2010 8:41 pm

redwhine wrote:2010 March 14 - Binary Black Hole in 3C 75

klazmon · **#42** by **klazmon** » Mar 14, 2010 10:48 pm

redwhine wrote:2010 March 13 - Centaurus A

Nice. I can see that one as a fuzzy patch in a small scope from my back yard.

redwhine · **#43** by **redwhine** » Mar 15, 2010 8:12 am

2010 March 15 - Illuminated Cloud Trails Above Greece

...it's actually a small deserted church built only last century.

Astronomy and deserted churches! :dance:

Darkchilde · **#44** by **Darkchilde** » Mar 15, 2010 10:58 am

redwhine wrote:2010 March 15 - Illuminated Cloud Trails Above Greece

...it's actually a small deserted church built only last century.

Astronomy and deserted churches!

Well, there are plenty of deserted churches around Greece. You are going around hiking or something and think that there's nothing except nature around, and suddenly you see a small church cropping up. Unfortunately, all churches are exactly the same style, the same architecture, there is nothing different. If you see one church, you've seen them all, even internally. Even Aghia Sofia in Constantinople (Istanbul) is just more of the same architecture. Boring.

Anyway, not the best of pictures this one.

redwhine · **#45** by **redwhine** » Mar 16, 2010 7:45 am

Darkchilde wrote:Well, there are plenty of deserted churches around Greece. You are going around hiking or something and think that there's nothing except nature around, and suddenly you see a small church cropping up. Unfortunately, all churches are exactly the same style, the same architecture, there is nothing different. If you see one church, you've seen them all, even internally. Even Aghia Sofia in Constantinople (Istanbul) is just more of the same architecture. Boring.

Anyway, not the best of pictures this one.

It was the adjective 'deserted' that caused me to :dance:

!

If only all churches were deserted... [Sigh]

:naughty:

You shouldn't mention architecture to me. I'll only go and start an architecture thread.

redwhine · **#46** by **redwhine** » Mar 16, 2010 7:48 am

2010 March 1 - Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona

Darkchilde · **#47** by **Darkchilde** » Mar 16, 2010 10:12 am

redwhine wrote:2010 March 1 - Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona

Now, that is a wonderful photo! My new desktop background.

redwhine · **#48** by **redwhine** » Mar 17, 2010 8:28 am

2010 March 17 - Phobos from Mars Express

redwhine · **#49** by **redwhine** » Mar 17, 2010 8:32 am

Oops!

redwhine wrote:2010 March 1 - Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona

That ^ should be "March 16". :nono:

OzzyBob · **#50** by **OzzyBob** » Mar 17, 2010 10:12 am

redwhine wrote:Oops!

redwhine wrote:2010 March 1 - Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona

That ^ should be "March 16".

It's OK - those of us that noticed are too Gentlemanly to have bought it to public attention.

newolder · **#51** by **newolder** » Mar 17, 2010 1:14 pm

This Week in Space, 12th March 2010

IMAX-3D release preview of the Hubble Space Telescope story so far...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqycNoARYv4[/youtube]

crank · **#52** by **crank** » Mar 18, 2010 6:39 am

redwhine wrote:2010 March 17 - Phobos from Mars Express

Do they have any idea what that chain of craters is? Fricking weird.

redwhine · **#53** by **redwhine** » Mar 18, 2010 8:27 am

2010 March 18 - Fermi Catalogs the Gamma-ray Sky

:naughty:

CATALOGUES! :nono:

Made of Stars · **#54** by **Made of Stars** » Mar 18, 2010 9:05 am

crank wrote:
redwhine wrote:2010 March 17 - Phobos from Mars Express

Do they have any idea what that chain of craters is? Fricking weird.

I've heard the theory that the 'stripes' on Phobos (including the string of craters) are ejecta from earlier impacts. When the moonlet hits debris, the material that's ejected from the new crater spreads out radially, but falls back to the moon, forming strings of craters. Or something like that. :grin: