Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Thank you thank you Made Of Stars, my favorite ongoing thread. How apropos to your name!


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APOD might be the coolest website ever.


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Cassini movies and stills of Saturnian moons Janus and Rhea:
more @ ciclops.org
The small moon Janus overtakes the larger moon Rhea in a dance played out before Saturn and its rings.
Observations of mutual moon-crossing events like this one, in which one moon passes close to or in front of another, help scientists refine their understanding of the orbits of Saturn's moons. This movie is a concatenation of 12 still images taken over a span of 24 minutes. The images were reprojected to a uniform view and computer interpolation was used to smooth the moons' motions between the frames. ...
more @ ciclops.org
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I'm over the moon
to see this thread appear from the void. The forum would be lacking in atmosphere
without it.
Thank you MoS.





Thank you MoS.




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So somebody update it awreddy. Do I gotta do everyting roun here?
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Today's image is of cool and exclusive stuff but is it astronomy?

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100228.html
(the link won't work tomorrow...)
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2010 March 2 - M78 and Reflecting Dust Clouds in Orion
Stunning! (Click the image to see it at full resolution.)
Stunning! (Click the image to see it at full resolution.)
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Love your work redwhine! 

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OMG It's the Balrog!!!redwhine wrote:2010 March 2 - M78 and Reflecting Dust Clouds in Orion
Stunning! (Click the image to see it at full resolution.)
“When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat.”
-George Carlin, who died 2008. Ha, now we have human centipedes running the place
-George Carlin, who died 2008. Ha, now we have human centipedes running the place