Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Milky Way Over Piton de l'Eau

NASA ^ | June 25, 2012 | (see photo credit)

[SunkenCiv]

[Credit & Copyright: Luc Perrot]

[SunkenCiv]

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[samtheman]

excellent

[Happy Rain]

"BILLyoungs and BILLyoungs and BILLyoungs..."

I miss Carl.

[samtheman]

I remember Carl primarily for his strong nuclear freeze and anti-StarWars putzivity.

[the invisib1e hand]

Looks likes a photoshop fantasy.

[Happy Rain]

I bought his book “Cosmos” (the print companion to the PBS series of the same title) back in the eighties and still have it.

I know he was a bleeding heart liberal academic but he was good at making hard science interesting to the layman.

[samtheman]

I realized that and I watched his series, Cosmos, when it came out, and enjoyed it very much.

But he was deeply and severely flawed. If he were around today he would be working tirelessly to Hide The Decline.

[cripplecreek]

[fieldmarshaldj]

Wow... you know what the tidal forces would be like there ?

[the invisib1e hand]

That looks like something from Bryce 4D, an incredible app that i toyed with as a landscape designer in a past life. Adobe snatched that up so fast it made your head spin.

[samtheman]

Wow... you know what the tidal forces would be like there ?

Obviously. That's why the home planet is all desert.

:)

[cripplecreek]

Two planets discovered that orbit within 1.2 million miles of each other.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-182

[gzzimlich]

And I thought I’d seen some skies when backpacking in Caliornia’s High Sierra. Wow!

[Vaquero]

?

...monument valley BEFORE Worlds Collide?

[left that other site]

That’s a beauty!

I was so plagued by 503’s yesterday and it was messing up my FR Universe.

[cripplecreek]

Niburu approaches.

[Vaquero]

[rarestia]

Norvell does great work, but I’m a Ryan Bliss (DigitalBlasphemy.com) fan.

[blueunicorn6]

The stars were out with a vengeance. They had switchblades and chains and vowed to get even with that wormhole.