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Feb 26, 2010:

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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:
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 :doh: :grin: to see this thread appear from the void. The forum would be lacking in atmosphere :nono: without it.

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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

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Love your work redwhine! :cheers:
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redwhine wrote:2010 March 2 - M78 and Reflecting Dust Clouds in Orion

Stunning! (Click the image to see it at full resolution.)
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