Sunday's APOD was The Fairy of the Eagle Nebula, NTTAWWT.

Previously: The Flaming Star Nebula

I can't believe the explanation for today's APOD doesn't say anything about smiley faces.


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Friday's APOD

via APOD: "For the next few days, its short tail and bright coma can be spotted with the unaided eye close to the Sun and near the horizon in both evening and morning skies."

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061213.html

"One week ago, a large solar flare from an Earth-sized sunspot produced a tsunami-type shock wave that was spectacular even for the Sun."

Today's APOD is a photo by Thierry Legault, showing the space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station transiting the sun shortly after the former undocked from the latter on 17 September ( Read more... )

Pluto is mostly brown.

I guess even stars get depressed and blow up.

A co-worker recently gifted (apparently this usage bugs Murray to no end, so let's all start using it) me a bottle of Hangar 1, so I have just made and consumed a pre-dinner martini. Bleah. It goes down ok, but it has this wooden, ester-y aftertaste.

Clearly my only recourse is to wash the taste out of my mouth with Grey Goose. Which I will go ( Read more... )

Today's APOD is the Flaming Star Nebula.